http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2008/
The use of computers in scientific research creates challenges even as it expands the realm of the possible. Many of these challenges are common across research disciplines and areas of endeavor. Insights gained in one area of science can act as a catalyst for change and accelerate discovery in many others.
This cross-disciplinary workshop will bring together scientists from diverse research disciplines and give them the opportunity to share their experiences of how computing is shaping their work. The goal is to discover new insights into facilitating scientific discovery. The focus will be on discussion of the computing technologies that enable scalable solutions that address scientific grand challenges. The event is being held in conjunction with the Fourth Annual IEEE eScience Conference.
Workshop Theme: Accelerating Time to Scientific Discovery
The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop invites 1-2 page position papers from all areas of eScience and e-Research including:
- Computational enablement of scientific research in life sciences, biomedical computing, environment, energy, and other scientific grand challenges
- Knowledge discovery and merging datasets
- Large-scale scientific data analysis, mining, and visualization
- High-performance computing in science
- Dissemination of scientific literature/results, the curation, finding and sharing of data
- Scientific sensors, data-gathering tools and technologies
- Collaboration/workflow tools and technologies
- The role of semantics and ontologies in scientific discovery
Papers submitted should be 3 pages maximum, 10pt. font or larger, double-spaced, in either Microsoft Word or PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed.
A final program of selected submissions will be published and distributed to all attendees. For every accepted paper/poster at least one of the authors must register and attend the Microsoft eScience workshop (IEEE eScience conference attendance is optional). Papers selected for presentation will be included in a DVD sent to attendees following the workshop. A signed release form is required for all presenters so that we may freely distribute the workshop materials.
- Paper submission opens: July 1st, 2008
- Paper submission closes: August 15th, 2008 (noon, PDT)
- Reviewer deadline: September 15th, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: October, 2008
- eScience Workshop: December 7-9th, 2008
- IEEE eScience Conference: December 7-12th, 2008
MSDN - Academic Alliance (MSDN AA) Program is the easiest and most inexpensive way for students and faculty in the technology and design fields to get the latest Microsoft software they need. MSDN AA is a per department license and any student registered to take a course in the STEM-D (Science, technology, Engineering, Math and Design) is eligible to install on their personal computer, any/all software available in MSDN AA, for non-commercial use. They do NOT have to remove the software from their personal computer when they complete the course or even when they graduate.
Additionally, the software can be loaded on any number of instructional and research computer in the STEM-D department.
If you want to know whether your STEM-D department subscribes to MSDN AA, you can
- Navigate to the MSDNAA web site (http://www.msdnaa.net) and click the School Member Search link, found within the Students subsection.
- Choose US, enter your city and state, and Click Find Schools.
- Check the list for your school's name. If your school's name does not appear in the list, double-check that the city you entered matches that of the school's address.
Once you find your school listed, contact your school or department to get all the MSDN AA Microsoft software for Free.
Instructions for Downloading ISO images of the Software products, burning ISO images, mounting and installing is explained in the attached document.
Another set of instruction for installing from ISO image are provided at http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/offline.aspx
The article on "The declining value of a college degree" by Greg IP in today's The Wall Street Journal notes that a college dress is not a stepping stone to guaranteed success but a necessity in this globalized world where the college dress is now comoditized. "What employers want from workers nowadays is more narrow, more abstract and less easily learned in college." the rise of technology has created a need for further differentiation and even cohorts of the same graduating class can give them selves a leg up on demands of employers by
- Engaging in an out-of-class project
The advantage of this is that a student can pursue this in the area of their interest and over the entire length of their education. It shows initiative out-of-class and passion for an area that may align with an employer's interest.
Get free software from DreamSpark offering to all students at https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/
- Taking part in student competitions
Especially those that are industry sponsored and involve group-work. As a bonus there is an opportunity meet other contestants from other countries and also earn cash prizes in the process.
See Imagine Cup as an example at http://imaginecup.com/.
Can earn money while learning industry relevant skills and expertise. However, is dependent on finding such internship and may not be in the area of your eventual job.
Show case your skills by volunteering for the local non-profits. This is especially true if you have technology skills as many non-profits need help with their web sites, etc.
Just take an initiative that works for you that can enhance your resume, differentiate you from your cohorts and gain you valuable skills in the process. Taking part in an out-of-class activity in itself adds tremendous value and while the rewards may not be apparent immediately, the learnings can be of tremendous value. besides your experience in a project can help you guide the job-interview into something you are more familiar with and give you a leg-up.
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NGO Connection is an online resource for non-profit groups around the world that provides resources to help advance the causes of the NGOs. See http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/communityinvestment/ngo/en/us/default.mspx for more information about
- Getting free and discounted software
- Access to low cost personal computers and other hardware products
- learning about software support resources and other grant benefits
- getting training material and information about obtaining certification
NGO Connection provides technology resources, knowledge sharing, community building and real-life examples to assist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) so they can use technology more efficiently to achieve their goals as well as to encourage networking and coordination of NGO resources across the world.
"Whether a non-profit group is searching for access to software or interested in networking opportunities with other organizations working on similar projects or looking to engage with Microsoft and other partners on key initiatives, NGO Connection offers all the resources that they need to achieve their goals," said Pamela Passman, corporate vice president of global corporate affairs at Microsoft.
OR how to use XNA on a Remote Desktop / using Terminal Services
...to develop and run game?
Remote desktop does not support Direct3D, so you cannot run any XNA framework game that way on A VPC or using Term
inal Services.
The error you will receive is the following exception when using Terminal Services (remote desktop as well):
System.ArgumentException: The adapter does not map to a valid monitor screen.
Parameter name: adapter
A new mini game, Robot Game is available on the the XNA Creators Club web site for download to Creators Club Premium Members only.
The Robot Game Kit is a complete mini game for XNA Game Studio. The project comes ready to compile and run, and it's easy to customize with a little bit of C# programming. You are also free to use the source code as the basis for your own XNA Game Studio game projects, and to share your work with others.
Robot Game is a three-dimensional robot combat game that demonstrates the following components:
- Advanced graphics using shaders and post-processing effects
- Advanced particle system
- Collision detection, 3D positional sound, input, and screens management
- Single-player mode and split-screen two-player versus mode
- Customizable game elements, such as robots, weapons, and items
For more information:
News Item: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/news/robotgameavailable
Game Details, Video, Screenshots and download: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/minigame/robotgame
Forum discussion, other screenshots: http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/13265.aspx
Robot Game was developed by Zepetto, a South Korean game development company. Previously released titles include Vulcanus and several games for mobile platforms.
Event title: DEVELOPER TECHNICAL CHAT WITH MARK RUSSINOVICH ON WINDOWS VISTA
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Meeting title: Developer Technical Chat with Mark Russinovich on Windows Vista
Meeting time: 6/19/2008 10:00 AM (PDT)
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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO BEFORE THE WEBCAST:
To attend our upcoming Web conference you will need:
1. A computer with access to the Internet to view the visual portion of the event.
2. A functioning sound card and speakers or headphones for your PC.
3. Windows Media Player 9 (WMP 9).
4. A compatible computer configuration. To test your computer:
a. Click on the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6776123
Thursday, June 19th – 1:00 PM Eastern Time
In this one-hour session on Windows Vista with Mark Russinovich, you will have the opportunity to hear from him on Performance, Security, Driver Issues and other topics you have seen in the press. Additionally, Mark will be answering your questions about Windows Vista.
Date: Thursday, June 19th
Time: 10:00–11:00 AM Pacific Time
Please click here to register or follow the link: https://www112.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=bdtms7pn5bkxc3s7
The beta version of Producer for PowerPoint 2007 is now available to customers on Microsoft's Connect site!
The producer add-in is being released due to the popular request for the update from the Academia for a version compatible with PowerPoint 2007, Windows Vista, and IE7.
Producer 2007 is a free add-in which enables PowerPoint 2007 users to capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging rich media presentations that can be viewed in a web browser.
The Producer 2007 installer download, FAQs, and help resources are available on the Connect site for the Producer 2007 beta site on Connect. To access the beta site on Connect, follow these instructions:
- Click here to jump to the Connect site or type http://www.connect.microsoft.com in your web browser.
- Click Sign In. Enter your Windows Live ID and password, and click Sign In again.
- If you don't have a Windows Live ID, click here to sign up for one.
- If you have not used the Connect site before, a registration screen will display. Click any of the Register links and enter the requested details.
- Choose one of these options and follow the steps:
- If this is your first time accessing the Connect site:
- Click the Connection Directory tab, and then click Office in the Categories list in the left-hand navigation pane.
- Scroll through the list of available Connections and locate the Producer for PowerPoint 2007 Beta. You may want to change the Sort By criteria to list by Connection Name (A-Z) to locate it more quickly.
- When you have found the link for the Producer beta, click the Apply Now link on the right. Clicking this link will jump to the Producer 2007 beta site.
- If you are returning to the Connect site:
- Click the Your Dashboard tab, locate the link for the Producer for PowerPoint 2007 Beta site, and click it.
- In the Producer for PowerPoint 2007 Beta site:
- Review the FAQs and Links on the site for helpful information about Producer and this beta.
- Click the Downloads link in the left-hand navigation pane to download and install Producer 2007.
- Click the Feedback link in the left-hand navigation pane to report any issues and provide feedback to Microsoft.
A great resource for building Great technical Communities is the book "The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities"
It comes highly receommended for all user groups as a leadership resource, especially for new User Group leads
http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Building-Technical-Communities-Guides/dp/1932577327/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1212673255&sr=11-1
This was provided in one of the Codezone shipments, and provides great information on building community, including tips on how to get sponsorships.
June 12, 2008 in Cincinnati, OH Register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032377056&Culture=en-US
Join Microsoft and Pluralsight for a technical walkthrough of windows and web technologies, demonstration of the technologies' capabilities, and show of the tools and techniques used to provide truly next-generation user experience in Windows and web client applications.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- WPF allows rich client applications to take full advantage of the graphical capabilities of a modern PC. Its powerful and flexible programming model integrates support for flexible layout, high-quality text, resolution-independent graphics, animation, video and 3D. While it is designed to exploit the full capabilities of today's high-performance graphics cards, it offers high-level abstractions that offer great power to the developer for less development effort than ever before.
Microsoft Silverlight -- Silverlight is the Microsoft's latest technology for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including video, audio, animation, and graphics for the Web and beyond. Utilizing a subset of XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language)-based Windows Presentation Foundation technology, Silverlight enables the creation of content and applications that run within multiple browsers and across multiple operating systems (Windows and Macintosh) with a standard programming model.
Speaker from Pluralsight: Mike Henderson is an instructor for Pluralsight specializing in the .NET framework, WPF, and Silverlight. He also works as an independent consultant (operating as DotEverything, LLC -- http://doteverything.net), providing design, system engineering, and technology migration in WPF and Silverlight along with additional expertise in Windows kernel mode development and reverse engineering.
Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider and home to many of the top authorities on .NET today. Pluralsight instructors can be seen speaking at the top conferences, writing for the leading journals, and delivering professional training classes on .NET topics to companies around the world. http://www.pluralsight.com
Date and location: Thursday, June 12, 2008- 9:00AM - 12:00 PM
Microsoft Mason Office - (Cincinnati)
4605 Duke Drive, Suite 800
Mason OH 45040
Register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032377056&Culture=en-US
The cross-disciplinary 2008 Microsoft eScience workshop being held in partnership with Indiana University at the University Place Conference Center & Hotel at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis is expected bring together scientists from different research disciplines to share their research and experiences of how computing is shaping their work and to provide new insights into facilitating scientific discovery. The focus of this workshop, being held in conjunction with the Fourth Annual IEEE eScience Conference, is on discussion of the computing technologies that enable scalable solutions to scientific grand challenges.
The theme this year is “Accelerating time to discovery” and the organizers are looking for brief 1-2 page position papers from academics that are developing tools and technologies that facilitate scientific research. Also new this year will be some tutorials on Microsoft technologies that we believe can assist academics.
The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop invites contributions from all areas of eScience and e-Research including:
- Computational enablement of scientific research in life sciences, biomedical computing, environment, energy, and other areas of scientific grand challenges
- Knowledge discovery and merging datasets
- Large-scale science data analysis, mining, and visualization
- High-performance computing in science
- Dissemination of scientific literature/results, the curation of data, and the finding/sharing of research
- Scientific sensors and data-gathering tools and technologies
- Collaboration and workflow tools and technologies
The Program Committee:
Previous Workshop Outcomes
Last years’ eScience workshop at The Renaissance Computing Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina attracted approximately 260 eScience researchers. Over 50 presentations and 100 posters showcased computational facilitation of reference disciplines as diverse as astronomy, malaria, and the use of GPUs for scientific computation (http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2007/). Feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive, and the event also served as a venue for Microsoft groups to meet with researchers and discuss future collaborations.
Email esci2008@microsoft.com for additional information.
Free tutorials on .NET framework for learning web programming. At http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/, you will find the ASP.NET QuickStart tutorials to get you started on building web-based applications using ASP.NET 2.0. There is also a Class browser for .NET 2.0 class library at http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/util/classbrowser.aspx
The ASP.NET Web Services QuickStart Tutorials is a set of client and server samples that are short and easy to understand.
The How do I series includes a 'Common Tasks QuickStart Tutorial' that hekps you find the answers to the programming questions in a simple and useful manner at http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/howto/
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope-bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
The public beta of Worldwide telescope is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org and get empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.
- follow a guided tour of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country.
- enjoy seamless panning and zooming (use the + - keys) around the night sky, planets, and image environments.
- View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago.
- Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way.
Note that the WWT requires DirectX 9.0c even when you already have DirectX 10 installed on my Vista box. The reason is that DirectX has a subcomponent (D3DX) that gets revved more often than DX itself. So, when people ask for DX 9.0c, they really mean DX 9.0c and D3DX rev 35 (for example). That's why you keep seeing the DX installer over and over again when you install a new DX app.
Now that the revving of D3DX has slowed down, these installers should be further and fewer apart (you roughly get one install per rev of D3DX).
