eScience @ Microsoft

What’s an Albedo? (And Why You Should Care)

Here’s a really good article on KQED’s Climate Watch on Albedo and why it’s important in a warming...

Author: eScience Date: 05/05/2010

Is Open Data Protocol (OData) the way to expose Scientific Data?

Lately I’ve been looking at OData – the Open Data Protocol and have been wondering if this is the...

Author: eScience Date: 04/27/2010

Folding@Home on Azure – Distributed Computing

Here’s a good way to get up to speed on WindowsAzure and contribute to a worldwide distributed...

Author: eScience Date: 04/25/2010

WWT Fisheye and spherical mirror projection

In the latest WWT release put out on Tax Day (April 15th) – one of the features that was included...

Author: eScience Date: 04/23/2010

Memories for life – SenseCam available

It’s great to see that the technology behind the SenseCam work out of MSR Cambridge is now available...

Author: eScience Date: 04/23/2010

More Goodies into Windows HPC – cycle stealing, VS2010, Excel 2010, Linux Interop

The article from HPCwire on  Microsoft Injects More Goodies into Windows HPC highlights some of...

Author: eScience Date: 04/09/2010

TechNet Creates Silverlight Application as Clearinghouse for Technology Resources

I’m a sucker for good technology and really useful  interfaces and applications – I just saw...

Author: eScience Date: 04/07/2010

Bing Earth Day Photo Contest for US Students due April 11th

I hadn’t seen the Bing Earth Day Photo Contest till today…there are some really good prizes for both...

Author: eScience Date: 04/06/2010

Chem4Word : Introducing Chemistry Add-in for Word

For those interested in adding chemical symbols to documents – checkout the Chem4Word project, you...

Author: eScience Date: 04/01/2010

Cloud Computing for Science - AzureMODIS: Accelerating the Pace of Environmental Research

They just published an overview of the great collaboration going in the AzureMODIS project with UC...

Author: eScience Date: 03/30/2010

Bing’s Best Images as desktop background

I do look forward to seeing the daily image Bing has as background on the search page – and was...

Author: eScience Date: 01/18/2010

External Research Team Blog started

The Microsoft Research External Research group has started a blog – the initial post is from Tony...

Author: eScience Date: 01/12/2010

The Fourth Paradigm Book – now available on Amazon – Paperback and Kindle

In addition to downloading the Fourth Paradigm book for free from the Microsoft Research website –...

Author: eScience Date: 01/06/2010

Data needs to be Discoverable, Accessible, and Consumable

While the Data Deluge is upon on the scientific communities, how to manage and share the scientific...

Author: eScience Date: 12/15/2009

FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools by SAP Web 2.0

Very cool integration of Twitter and PowerPoint – good way to have interactive presentations…could...

Author: eScience Date: 12/15/2009

First Annual U.S. Computer Science Education Week

The United States House of Representatives has designated December 6–12 as National Computer Science...

Author: eScience Date: 12/07/2009

TAU – perf tuning for HPC

TAU, the performance tuning OSS software for HPC on Linux has been successfully made available to...

Author: eScience Date: 11/25/2009

Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC

Now what computational scientist wouldn’t want one of these under their desk.  I like the...

Author: eScience Date: 11/12/2009

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm:...

Author: eScience Date: 10/16/2009

Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset

Now that AWS is supporting SDSS, there is probably useful integration between the Worldwide...

Author: eScience Date: 09/29/2009

Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society

Bill Gail has written a thoroughly thought provoking piece Achieving Climate Sustainability in the...

Author: eScience Date: 09/25/2009

Project Gemini – Videos available

I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to...

Author: eScience Date: 08/26/2009

TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009

TIME magazine has the WorldWide Telescope WebClient (Silverlight) on their list of 50 Best Websites...

Author: eScience Date: 08/24/2009

Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”

When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini”, I was blown away by the technology and...

Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009

Mysterious object being built in garage

Deep in one of the garages on campus – I ran across this project being built…a modern Stonehenge?...

Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009

Instant Search - The Real Live Search Bing API experiment

If you’d like to see instant results while you’re typing in your search query try out “The Real Live...

Author: eScience Date: 08/21/2009

SciScope app and code available for download

Earlier today the code behind the SciScope site was made available at SciScope.CodePlex.com. ...

Author: eScience Date: 07/15/2009

Project Tuva: Richard Feynman is now available to all.

Project Tuva, an enhanced video player showcasing Richard Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures is...

Author: eScience Date: 07/15/2009

Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download

Project Trident CTP is now available for download.  Project Trident is a scientific workflow...

Author: eScience Date: 07/14/2009

Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009

For the past two days at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, we hare hosted a Environment and...

Author: eScience Date: 07/14/2009

Preview the upcoming Eclipse of the Sun in WWT

On July 22nd there will be a total eclipse of the Sun that will last for over 6 mins that is visible...

Author: eScience Date: 07/06/2009

eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers

The 2009 eScience Workshop will be held at the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon...

Author: eScience Date: 07/06/2009

A “Search Taste Test” – do you really know the difference?

Michael Kordahi created a way to see how Bing search results compare to the other big search players...

Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009

Adding quarters to the innovation machine

I really enjoyed Dan Reed’s latest posting - HPC: Making a Small Fortune - and the need for real...

Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009

New drop of NodeXL available

There’s a new drop (v 1.0.1.86) of NodeXL Excel template available.  Cross Posted from Dan...

Author: eScience Date: 06/09/2009

Bing Trucks

I’ve been seeing the Bing Trucks around town – take a look if you haven’t seen them Cross Posted...

Author: eScience Date: 06/05/2009

Citizen Science Impact: Hanny’s Voorwerp and the Galaxy Zoo

If you ever wonder what how normal citizens can have an impact in science – take a listen to the...

Author: eScience Date: 05/21/2009

WIndows netbook runs on AA batteries

Just saw this posting on WindowsForDevices.com for the the Gecko EduBook that will be available in...

Author: eScience Date: 05/12/2009

Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload

Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters – it brings together HPC clusters and...

Author: eScience Date: 05/08/2009

Math and equations in Office

One of the most hidden features in Word 2007 is the equation editor – it allows you to input...

Author: eScience Date: 05/08/2009

Out of this World - NASA - International Space Station Photosynth collections

NASA released some out of the world Photosynth collections today – highlighting the International...

Author: eScience Date: 05/07/2009

new CloudApp(): Azure™ Developer Challenge

The Azure folks have setup the new CloudApp() challenge – I’d like to see some Science apps created...

Author: eScience Date: 05/05/2009

Windows 7 Federated Search Providers

I just updated two of my machines to Windows 7 RC and one of the neatest features is the ability to...

Author: eScience Date: 05/04/2009

“Cophenhagen” – a user experience concept video

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

Author: eScience Date: 04/17/2009

Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom

Just tried out the DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – it’s pretty amazing – brings together Azure,...

Author: eScience Date: 04/16/2009

100 hours of Astronomy at Galaxy Zoo – Join in

As part of IYA - Galaxy Zoo is working on 1 million classification clicks in 100 hours – ends on...

Author: eScience Date: 04/02/2009

SharePoint Designer Available for Free

Since I utilize SharePoint Designer allot for editing internal SharePoint sites…this is a really...

Author: eScience Date: 04/02/2009

WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight

Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been...

Author: eScience Date: 03/25/2009

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