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Social Networking and Open Access
The PLoS ONE service seems to be an interesting one. It’s a community-based approach to reviewing scientific reviews. Social networking is going to play a key role in the future of scientific research, study, exploration, search, collaboration, reporting of results,…
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Wikipedia 3D Explorer and Social Networking
I just read about the Wikipedia 3D Explorer over at Dan’s blog. It’s sweet and the type of visualization I want us to be able to do for social networks for science. It’s built on WPF and I think it’s another example…
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Mark McKeown is blogging
I was exploring the blogosphere this morning and I discovered that Mark is (finally!) blogging 🙂 Subscribed of course. If you want to hear about how HTTP and the REST principles are used in building Grid applications, this is a…
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"Architecture Astronauts"
This was pointed out to me few months ago and it has been sitting in my mailbox since then. It was written in 2001 but I think it will always apply.
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66,795 pushups and situps? Hmmm…
This is a fun challenge by Dan but I already have my own for the new year… get ready for a full marathon. I need to get ready for the Vancouver half-marathon; I’ve set myself the challenge of doing it…
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Decoupling the data from its presentation
If you have been following the development of the Windows Presendation Foundation, you’ve probably already heard about the New York Times reader, which has been around for a while. I am using it to read the New York Times and…
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Tony Hey is interviewed by Richard Poynder
Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Technical Computing and also my manager :-), was recently interviewed by Richard Poynder. You can read about Tony‘s start as a physicist, his move to Computing Science, the UK e-Science program, about science…
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Hans Rosling and gapminder
I was pointed to Hans Rosling‘s talk over at TED talks (RSS feed available). An excellent presentation by Prof. Rosling, which I highly recommend. It seems that Google has picked up on his work already. Here are the links: Gapminder (mentioned…
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State machines for the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework
Patric has been doing some awesome work on introducing support for SSDL contracts, the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework in particular, to Windows Communication Foundation. Now Patric has a blog; go subscribe! In a recent message to the SSDL mailing list,…
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Environmental Sciences
In my new role in Microsoft‘s Technical Computing group I get to work with scientists from all disciplines, which is very cool. I am particularly looking forward, though, to working with environmental scientists. Yesterday, Roger Barga, fellow Technical Computing Architect,…
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Vancouver Half Marathon
My ultimate goal is to do a full marathon in around a year’s time. In preparing for that, I am going to do 2-3 more half-marathons. I just registered myself for the Vancouver Half Marathon in May. I am going…
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"Amateur"
I guess I am late in seeing this video (1.5 million other people have seen it already). I think it’s highly creative and very artistic.
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XNA Game Studio Express Released!
This is great news. I am looking forward to playing with it. To download the released product for Windows, head over to: http://msdn.com/xna/gse/. Full story.
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SOAP – "The S stands for Simple"
I guess I am always playing catch-up with blog posts these days. Anyway, I just read this one about SOAP and I think it’s brilliant. Interesting comments as well 🙂 Unfortunately, it’s soooo true 🙁
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Swivel – "YouTube for Data"
I was pointed to this post about Swivel, a new company aiming to collect the world’s data. Their business model? The service allows you to correlate data freely. The data you upload is available to everyone. But if you want…