eScience @ Microsoft : Video

Project Tuva: Richard Feynman is now available to all.

eScience — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:15:31 GMT

Project Tuva, an enhanced video player showcasing Richard Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures is available for all to try out. It’s the way I’d like to view talks and related information – check it out. Not only does it allow for web links, images, but it also integrates with the WorldWide Telescope control to help augment the example Feynman uses in the gravitational talk. Currently only the first lecture in the series “Law of Gravitation – an Example of Physical Law” utilizes all the annotations/links, but the do all have the transcripts, so you can search on something like “particles” and see where it is mentioned in all the different videos, and then jump directly to the location.

Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web

Lecture series by celebrated physics professor Richard Feynman is now available to all.

REDMOND, Wash. — July 14, 2009 — Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, today launched a Web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates. Gates privately purchased the rights to the seven lectures in the series, called “The Character of Physical Law,” to make them widely available to the public for free with the hope that they will help get kids excited about physics and science.

The historic lectures and related content can be seen at http://research.microsoft.com/tuva. The name “Tuva” was chosen because of Feynman’s lifelong fascination with the small Russian republic of Tuva, located in the heart of Asia.

Feynman was one of the most popular scientists of the 20th century, equally regarded for his scientific insights as well as his ability to convey his enthusiasm for science through his lectures and writings. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 and was also known for his quirky sense of humor and eccentric and wide-ranging interests.

“No one was more adept at making science fun and interesting than Richard Feynman,” said Gates. “More than 20 years after first seeing them, these are still some of the best science lectures I’ve heard. Feynman worked hard during his life to popularize science, so I’m sure he’d be thrilled that now anyone, anywhere in the world, can just click a button and experience his lectures.”

Curtis Wong, a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, enhanced the experience of viewing the lectures by integrating the historic video with a Microsoft Silverlight-based video player that allows viewers to search the lectures for references to particular subjects, take notes that are synchronized to the video, and click on hyperlinks to related Web content, among other customized operations.

“There is a lot of public interest in building innovative educational resources online,” Wong said. “This is an opportunity to take some existing educational content and utilize software and the wealth of resources available on the Web to create a richer learning experience. And because people can annotate the lectures with their own comments and links to related resources, I expect this experience to become richer and richer over time.”

Microsoft Research has been exploring video annotation for many years and chose to publish the Feynman “Messenger” lectures with a new enhanced video player. Neither Microsoft nor the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were involved in the acquisition of the rights to the lectures.

Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web: Lecture series by celebrated physics professor Richard Feynman is now available to all.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Michael Jackson Memorial Concert Live in HD on the Web

eScience — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:14:10 GMT

Just heard that the Michael Jackson Memorial concert will be broadcast live in HD over the Web. They will be using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight, the technology that delivered on-demand video for the 2008 Sumer Olympics on NBCOlympics.com.

Michael Jackson Memorial Concert | Sympatico / MSN inMusic

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

“Cophenhagen” – a user experience concept video

eScience — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:46:25 GMT

Just saw some of these great UI concept ideas by Cullen Dudas’ on istartedsomething and it’s a fun watch.

Also – some some footage that shows off some of the previous Windows launches.

Copenhagen User Experience from Copenhagen Concept on Vimeo.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Virtual Earth in full view

eScience — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:01:25 GMT

Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience. I would like to see how WorldWide Telescope would look on this display…

PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth
Multi-channel Virtual Earth
Description
This video shows a multi-channel version of the Virtual Earth control running on a custom curved screen that provides a 180 degree horizontal field of view. The screen is created using eight high-end full 1080p projectors with a professional warping and blending system. The code is a modified version of a sample project with a custom camera class to properly adjust the FOV and camera offset for each projector and some code to synchronize the camera position across the network. The system is being controlled with a wireless Xbox 360 controller.

PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth | briankel | Channel 9

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Live Mesh Video

eScience — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:37:07 GMT

I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps

gets the vision across. Beyond file syncing – I just tested out distributing a .NET 3rd party app using Live Mesh and the app runs flawlessly. So I could install an app on one machine and have it available to run on any of my machines on the mesh. So the “Click Once” deployment for distributing out an app is really interesting.

More info -

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display

eScience — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:07:41 GMT

Today at the MSR Faculty Summit – I was able to play with the Sphere Project, and it’s a real unique way to interact with information/data. It makes you think what data could be place in a system like this and how to interact with it. We’ll be playing with it more and are interested in ideas on how to enable environmental projects with this system…

[Cnet]Academics to get a glimpse of Microsoft's Sphere

Video submitted to UIST '08 conference (wmv 30MB)

Sphere: A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display

Sphere is an interactive spherical display prototype that uses custom optics hardware as well as computer vision and graphics software to enable interaction on a spherical surface.

Sphere Project

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth

eScience — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:35:45 GMT

Video showing Stonehenge in Photosynth off the National Geographic Magazine site - Stonehenge Photosynth: 3-D Exploration

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

DeepEarth - VE and Silverlight Deep Zoom

eScience — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:09:17 GMT

Just ran across he DeepEarth OpenSource community project on CodePlex - bringing SilverLight 2 Deep Zoom to Virtual Earth - it pans and zooms really smooth. Test it out or check out the video

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight

eScience — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:01:45 GMT

I was pointed to this on CodePlex - interesting to think how it could be used to enable Science Apps to display their data in 3D. Check out the samples at http://www.markdawson.org/Kit3D

Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight - Home

Kit3D is a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight. There is a JavaScript version that runs on the 1.0 bits of Silvelright, however moving forward the engine will be maintained in C#. The library has been refactored to match the System.Windows.Media.Media3D namespace so that it closely matches development for WPF3D syntax (saves me creating documentation :-) )
For some examples of the library in action, see http://www.markdawson.org/Kit3D

Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight - Home

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Word for scientific publishing

eScience — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:55:41 GMT

Here's an interview Jon Udell did w/ Pablo Fernicola about the Word Addin for Scientific publishing.

Word for scientific publishing

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft. He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration, search, and content discovery in the future.
In this interview, Pablo explains how a new add-in for Word, now available as a technical preview, helps authors and publishers of scientific articles work more effectively with one another, and with online archives like PubMed Central.

Word for scientific publishing | Jon Udell | Perspectives

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope

eScience — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:00:48 GMT

I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope

Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it's the technology that made Robert Scoble cry.)

Download this TEDTalk in high-def (recommended!) >>

More on the WorldWide Telescope >>

TED | Talks | Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope (video)

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Bill's Last Day Video

eScience — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:50:56 GMT

In case you didn't get to see the video of Bill's Last day from CES...here's a link to it on Soapbox - the cameo's are great....

Bill's Last Day

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Behind the Code with Catharine van Ingen

eScience — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:52:43 GMT

Here's more details on one of the folks involved w/ the MS eScience & Berkeley Water Center project...

Behind the Code with van Ingen
Catharine van Ingen, a former Berkeley “hippie chick” turned software architect, discusses her craft and experiences in this interview, airing on Channel 9.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Virtual Earth video

eScience — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:48:16 GMT

Very cool video of 3D Virtual Earth

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)