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Our wonderful interns
Earlier this week I organized a BBQ gathering at my place for the great interns working with us this summer. I’ve been working with interns in two separate projects… Datacenter-related in collaboration with James Hamilton and Dan Reed‘s Data Center Futures team; “Semantics Summer of Fun” together with Evelyne Viegas. We’ve been very lucky with…
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Stunning visualization from the BBC
Paul Watson sent me a link to this short clip showing really stunning visualizations. I wonder whether we could reuse the technology for scientific data.
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F# for Scientists
I saw Tony Hey earlier this week holding the “F# for Scientists” book so I had to check it out. Very very cool! I love it that F# is being productized and will be soon in the hands of developers. I’ve been following its evolution and rise to a product for two years now.
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“3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science”
While at the Faculty Summit, I talked with Ian Foster again who pointed me to the 3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computing Science. It looks very interesting and relevant to some of the work we are doing in MSR‘s External Research.
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Lee on Channel 8
In the first of a series of videos related to our recent announcements in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle space, Lee Dirks talks on Channel 8. Fun!!! 🙂
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Research Output Repository Platform
Yes, I know the name is boring. We have a better name but we weren’t able to secure it internationally in time for Faculty Summit. Anyway… “Research Output Repository Platform” will have to be for now. I talked about our efforts around the platform few months ago. Age of Semantics post (general post… setting the…
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Creative Commons Addin for Office 2007
When I joined Technical Computing, now part of External Research, we wanted to create an ecosystem of tools and services to support researchers worldwide. Today we announced the results of some of our efforts; there is still more going on. A tool that was discussed was the Creative Commons addin for Microsoft Office XP/2003. We…
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Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
Lee Dirks has been leading our efforts in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle. It’s been an absolutely pleasure working with Lee since he joined Technical Computing, which has now been integrated with External Research in Microsoft Research. He’s been a great leader and I am so happy to see his vision on how to better support…
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.NetMap available on CodePlex
.NetMap start a series of announcements by our group today. Marc Smith and his team have done a great job at delivering a network visualization plugin for Excel; and it’s open source. NetMap is a pair of applications for viewing network graphs, along with a set of .NET Framework 2.0 class libraries that can be…
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Open Web Foundation
Google, BBC, Facebook, and other big names sponsor the “Open Web Foundation”. They are ignoring W3C and OASIS! Ok… you have to pay to participate in those organizations. But IETF???? Dare Obasanjo has some more detailed commentary on the announcement. Nevertheless, this is going to be a great organization to monitor. With such Web heavyweights…