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2014 6

  1. Trouble with Excel 2013 PowerPivot or PowerView - add-ins are not available in Ribbon view?
  2. TED2014–Virtual Reality in Space
  3. Windows Azure training for researchers–Now available online
  4. Science in the Cloud: Building cloud virtual machines for research
  5. “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” E-Book
  6. Cloud Design Patterns now available

2013 8

  1. Data Science in a Box using IPython–up and running on Azure with LinuxVM
  2. Behind the WorldWide Telescope Theater at SXSW
  3. Two Big Telescopes in Austin for SXSW and one Big Screen
  4. Connecting the Science dots at TechFest 2013
  5. More Excel 2013 Goodies - Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office
  6. A tool for Data Science - Microsoft "Data Explorer" Preview for Excel now available
  7. Start PowerPivot in Excel 2013 add-in
  8. Astronomy to go: UW readies new portable planetarium | Powered by Worldwide Telescope

2012 13

  1. AGU 2012–Environment and large displays are fun
  2. Big Compute comes to Windows Azure (via HPC Pack 2012)
  3. Build 2012 on Channel 9–great streaming info
  4. Fully data-constrained terrestrial carbon model - view and comment on the paper
  5. Continuing a Commitment to Carbon Disclosure
  6. Rename file extension with PowerShell
  7. Presenting around the world
  8. Windows Azure and SQL DB materials–curriculum and development
  9. Layerscape Tour: Malowane niebo–Beautiful
  10. Fun with Cliplets–Video and Pics
  11. OData–Open Data Technical Committee Proposed to OASIS for standardization
  12. PSH5X–A Windows PowerShell module for HDF5
  13. Smart Buildings pilot at Microsoft–energy analytics

2011 19

  1. Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th)
  2. "Data Explorer"– Clean, Mashup, and Publish your Science Data
  3. WorldWide Telescope and Kinect on really big screen at SC11
  4. Develop with Python in Visual Studio, connect with Kinect and Excel
  5. The Fourth Paradigm book now available in Portuguese
  6. Big Data and LINQ in CACM
  7. .NET Bio: the new name for Microsoft Biology Foundation and now open source
  8. PDFs on Docs.com
  9. Back from time off…more fun to come
  10. Pushing Data into WWT - via Excel and LCapi
  11. AstroViz 2011 Workshop–June 4 & 5
  12. Geospatial data support in OData–Strawman proposal
  13. BI Labs and Fuzzy Match for Excel
  14. Celebrating an Out-of-This-World Earth Day guest post on Microsoft Research Connections Blog
  15. Finding Hubble in the WorldWide Telescope
  16. WWT and Kinect Demo at MIX–the universe at your fingertips.
  17. OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010
  18. New update of Microsoft ICE– Cool video to panorama feature
  19. Free Microsoft Biology Framework Workshop at RENCI in North Carolina April 19-20

2010 27

  1. Holiday Card–Seasons Greeting
  2. Climate Prediction Leverages Home Computers for Weather At Home
  3. SC 2010: WinHPC Server links to the Cloud & breaks Petaflop Barrier
  4. Snapdragon–different way to explore Flickr
  5. Looking at Optimal Big Ten realignment using operations research and Microsoft Solver Foundation
  6. Overview of the New Windows Live Essentials: Windows Live Photo Gallery
  7. Relationship between Climate and the “breathing of the biosphere”
  8. King of Bing Maps Challenge - Contest Information
  9. TeraPixel–Largest, Smoothest Image in the World
  10. New WorldWide Telescope Release–includes Martian experience WWT|Mars
  11. WEI Share: Share your Windows 7 Experience Index
  12. Research in the Brazilian Rainforest
  13. More Cat’s Eye Nebula – via Bing and WWT
  14. Happy 2nd Birthday WorldWide Telescope
  15. What’s an Albedo? (And Why You Should Care)
  16. Is Open Data Protocol (OData) the way to expose Scientific Data?
  17. Folding@Home on Azure – Distributed Computing
  18. WWT Fisheye and spherical mirror projection
  19. Memories for life – SenseCam available
  20. More Goodies into Windows HPC – cycle stealing, VS2010, Excel 2010, Linux Interop
  21. TechNet Creates Silverlight Application as Clearinghouse for Technology Resources
  22. Bing Earth Day Photo Contest for US Students due April 11th
  23. Chem4Word : Introducing Chemistry Add-in for Word
  24. Cloud Computing for Science - AzureMODIS: Accelerating the Pace of Environmental Research
  25. Bing’s Best Images as desktop background
  26. External Research Team Blog started
  27. The Fourth Paradigm Book – now available on Amazon – Paperback and Kindle

2009 46

  1. Data needs to be Discoverable, Accessible, and Consumable
  2. FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools by SAP Web 2.0
  3. First Annual U.S. Computer Science Education Week
  4. TAU – perf tuning for HPC
  5. Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC
  6. The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
  7. Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
  8. Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society
  9. Project Gemini – Videos available
  10. TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
  11. Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
  12. Mysterious object being built in garage
  13. Instant Search - The Real Live Search Bing API experiment
  14. SciScope app and code available for download
  15. Project Tuva: Richard Feynman is now available to all.
  16. Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench available for download
  17. Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009
  18. Preview the upcoming Eclipse of the Sun in WWT
  19. eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers
  20. A “Search Taste Test” – do you really know the difference?
  21. Adding quarters to the innovation machine
  22. New drop of NodeXL available
  23. Bing Trucks
  24. Citizen Science Impact: Hanny’s Voorwerp and the Galaxy Zoo
  25. WIndows netbook runs on AA batteries
  26. Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
  27. Math and equations in Office
  28. Out of this World - NASA - International Space Station Photosynth collections
  29. new CloudApp(): Azure™ Developer Challenge
  30. Windows 7 Federated Search Providers
  31. “Cophenhagen” – a user experience concept video
  32. Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom
  33. 100 hours of Astronomy at Galaxy Zoo – Join in
  34. SharePoint Designer Available for Free
  35. WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
  36. MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
  37. WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
  38. Microsoft Research TechFest 2009
  39. Using Flickr for Astronomy – and viewing in WWT
  40. eclipse4SL: Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight
  41. The Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D
  42. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
  43. Science Images in Photosynth
  44. Swearing-in Ceremony on the Web
  45. NodeXL for viewing and analyzing network graphs is available again (formally .NetMap)
  46. So you don’t think you can Sing?

2008 93

  1. Photosynth in Silverlight
  2. eScience Conference in Pictures
  3. Document Interop – OpenXML to HTML
  4. Carole Goble receives 1st Jim Gray eScience award
  5. eScience Unconference
  6. InfoMesa Project – Whiteboard for your data
  7. Interesting Papers from MSR – Nov 2008
  8. eScience 2008 Unconference Signup
  9. GrayWulf (on SQL Server) wins SC’08 Storage Challenge
  10. Thank-you Fargo!!!
  11. WALL•E's Universe in WorldWide Telescope
  12. Windows HPC Server 2008 cracks Top 10 in Top 500 list
  13. HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Academic Program
  14. Fun with Blog Maps – Oh North Dakota where are you?
  15. University of Washington eScience Institute Rollout Event
  16. Electric Vehicle Conversion Project
  17. Virtual Earth in full view
  18. .NetMap @ Harvard
  19. PDC watch remotely – Great News
  20. DataDepot – Blogging, Visualize, and Engage with your Data
  21. Blogging in Real Ink – electronic notebook?
  22. Asus Windows CE PND sports heads-up display
  23. HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
  24. Touchless
  25. Science News to justify half a bar of chocolate per week - lowers risk of heart disease
  26. Image Composite Editor (ICE) available for download
  27. Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast
  28. Science Cribsheets from SEED Magazine
  29. My Clown Club Card
  30. Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
  31. F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
  32. New drop of .NetMap available
  33. Accessible Research blog
  34. OLAP and Scientific Data
  35. Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
  36. The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop at IUPUI – Registration Open
  37. pptPlex from OfficeLabs – making PowerPoint fun again
  38. Live Mesh Video
  39. Sphere Project - A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
  40. SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Released
  41. "How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
  42. How the WorldWide Telescope works
  43. Making Sense of Data Overload: An Innovative Approach to Progressive Data Analysis
  44. Fun Images
  45. .NetMap - Released - visualize your Networks (Social, etc) from Excel
  46. Very Cool: make Xbox games, make money
  47. NOAA – 2009 Climate Program Announcement
  48. Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
  49. WorldWide Telescope on Microsoft.com
  50. SCIENCE Article: An Earth Systems Science Agency?
  51. NGO - Nonprofit Connection
  52. Deep Photo at MS Pro Photo Summit
  53. The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data
  54. Environmental Science related activities
  55. WorldWide Telescope is a powerful educational tool — a way of telling compelling stories about the Universe.
  56. National Geographic and Stonehenge in Photosynth
  57. DeepEarth - VE and Silverlight Deep Zoom
  58. HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
  59. NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac OS Now Available
  60. Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
  61. PHP Support in Expression Web 2
  62. WWT - Eclipse
  63. WorldWide Telescope - you haven't seen it?
  64. Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment (SAGE) for Windows now available
  65. The World Wide Telescope: A new view of the night sky
  66. Popfly Introduces Game Creator Alpha
  67. Microsoft Releases Speech Recognition Macros for Windows Vista
  68. Create Your Own E-Learning
  69. Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
  70. 4th IEEE Intl. Conference on e-Science, 2008 and Microsoft eScience Workshop
  71. Virtual Earth Data Center now powered by Wind
  72. Kit3D - a 3D graphics engine for Microsoft Silverlight
  73. Word for scientific publishing
  74. [Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
  75. Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
  76. Bird's Eye in 3D - Photosynth like
  77. 2008 Frontiers of Cancer Nanotechnology Symposium
  78. Open Source at Microsoft
  79. TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
  80. Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
  81. PubMed Central Article Authoring Add-in
  82. What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope?
  83. [Paper] Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
  84. TechREACH - Middle School program to increase interest in STEM
  85. Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}
  86. TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
  87. Silverlight-based cycle stealing
  88. Parallel Computing Developer Center
  89. Windows HPC Server 2008 - 1 day training
  90. Bill's Last Day Video
  91. Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
  92. January update to Science @ Microsoft
  93. MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing

2007 78

  1. Dinner with a View
  2. Moved into new MSR building
  3. Microsoft Research SenseCam
  4. Supercomputing 07
  5. eScience group on Facebook
  6. MapCruncher Beta for Microsoft Virtual Earth
  7. PopFly open to Public Beta
  8. Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 - March 3-6, 2008
  9. Excel 2007 Web Data Add-In
  10. HD View updates - now supports FireFox
  11. MSR Learning Assessment Toolkit
  12. C#UNG - C# Universal Network/Graph System
  13. Silverlight Apps
  14. Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment
  15. Code Camp 8 Registration: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
  16. Windows Live Folders now Windows Live SkyDrive
  17. Debugging MPI on Windows
  18. Photosynth - NASA Shuttle
  19. RESTful architecture of Microsoft Robotics Studio « Jon Udell
  20. Dual Boot CCS and Linux Whitepaper
  21. Abstracts extension for eScience Workshop
  22. SQL Server 2008 info
  23. [Wired] Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
  24. Data Mining Virtual Hands-on Lab Now Available!
  25. Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more!
  26. Virtual Earth / Live Maps: beautiful 3D images of Niagara Falls
  27. Galaxy Zoo - Help classify a million galaxies
  28. Matlab to OneNote
  29. Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback in Community Computing Projects
  30. Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics
  31. 2007 eScience Workshop at RENCI registration is open
  32. HIV related papers
  33. Microsoft code name "Acropolis"
  34. Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Under the Hood
  35. Virtual Earth MapCruncher new release
  36. Zero Gravity - ltbennett.com
  37. Windows-Based Supercomputers Make Top 500 List
  38. Behind the Code with Catharine van Ingen
  39. Microsoft Research Releases Tools to Help Science Progress Toward an AIDS Vaccine
  40. Nature info on Live.com
  41. SecPAL v1.1 Now Available
  42. Social Bookmarking Tags for Windows Live Writer
  43. Summer Faculty Workshops in 'Modern Software Development with Microsoft .NET"
  44. Delivering End-to-End High-Productivity Computing
  45. Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Math 3.0
  46. Golden Age of Scientific Computing Video
  47. Virtual Labs - giving away a Camera
  48. MSR Asirra: A Human Interactive Proof
  49. [Paper] Bioconjugated quantum dots for multiplexed and quantitative immunohistochemistry
  50. Microsoft SharedView Beta
  51. Family.Show from Vertigo
  52. [Paper] How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps
  53. HD View Utilities 1.1 Released
  54. Dynameomics - Protein folds by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  55. MSR Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit updated
  56. Virtual Earth video
  57. 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI
  58. LinuxInsider: Security: Microsoft Invites Collaboration With Grid Computing Research
  59. Silverlight available
  60. [Data Service] Microsoft Project Codename "Astoria"
  61. Zoomatron-NOAA Charts, MapCruncher, and Virtual Earth
  62. Word 2007 - Citations, Bibliography, and Equation Editor
  63. Future Personal Rapid Transit system on MS Campus?
  64. MSDN Nuggets
  65. i-Society 2007. Call for eScience and e-Health papers
  66. SensorMap & Toolkit Tutorial
  67. Equation Number in Office 2007 - macros
  68. BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation CTP available
  69. MS eScience & Berkeley Water Center
  70. SecPAL Preview Release for Microsoft .NET
  71. Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 (Excel & Visio)
  72. Microsoft Research uses CCS to search for HIV targets
  73. HPC Basic Profile Overview
  74. Use Live Search to support Children's Hospital
  75. AJAX : The final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
  76. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Your PCs forecast climate future
  77. SQL Server Starter Data Schema
  78. Technology Review: The Year in Infotech and MSR SenseWeb

2006 75

  1. Wikipedia Explorer beta
  2. SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 CTP
  3. The BioTeam Delivers Informatics Solution on Microsoft CCS
  4. Open XML Formats : Ecma Standard 376 – Office Open XML formats
  5. DigiPede talk on Concurrent SW Dev at .NET Dev Event Redmond
  6. Mundie: Science as a Web Service
  7. Shibboleth and ADFS Interoperability – this is now a reality!
  8. Books.Live.com is Live
  9. F# 1.1.13 now available
  10. WPF/E(codename) CTP available for download
  11. Windows Live Search Beta for mobile
  12. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Available for Download
  13. HPC Leaders Demonstrate Interoperability Using OGF Specs
  14. Behind the scene w/ Murray Sargent: Math in Office : LineServices
  15. SharePoint: Cross-browser authoring
  16. Sim Water at UC Berkeley using OLAP cubes
  17. MSR Synthetic-Biology Request for Proposals
  18. Data Mining for the rest of us...
  19. 3D maps w/ Local.live.com - very cool
  20. Novell and MS - OpenXML in OpenOffice
  21. industryStream - For Health and Life Sciences
  22. New drop of XNA available
  23. Microsoft Enhances Interoperability With Open Virtualization Format: virtualization format software freely available to all.
  24. SQL Server Hosting Toolkit... Launched !
  25. Managed MPI Wrapper
  26. Port 25 : Developer Resources for Open Source Software on Vista
  27. GridFTP and GRAM for the .NET Framework
  28. ConferenceXP Developers Workshop 2006 - Nov 2-3
  29. Webcast: Windows Compute Cluster Job Scheduler
  30. Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) for Science
  31. Data Mining for the rest of us
  32. Domain-Specific Language Tools V1 in VS SDK
  33. Grid Security and SecPAL
  34. Digipede has a new release
  35. Microsoft Open Specification Promise
  36. Microsoft AJAX and the roadmap!
  37. F# -- the 3 minute guide
  38. Windows Live Writer Beta
  39. SQL Server Web Tools
  40. Interesting articles and links - 8/14/2006
  41. ConferenceXP 4.0 beta available
  42. eScience Workshop 2006 – Call for Presentations
  43. MS eScience Workshop 2006 – Hold the date
  44. Office Open XML formats – No license needed
  45. Windows Academic Program Announced
  46. MSR Sense Toolkit to publish sensor data to SenseWeb
  47. Lang .NET 2006 Symposium (July 31-Aug 2)
  48. SharePoint Info
  49. Open XML File Format – create a Word 2007 doc from scratch
  50. Technical Computing is hiring – looking for Senior Program Manager/Architect
  51. MSR Group Shot - download
  52. [Article] Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real
  53. Smart Client Software Factory – Patterns and Practice
  54. Word 2007 - Academic features: citation & bibliography tools
  55. Scripting for Compute Cluster Server
  56. Develop w/o Borders Challenge
  57. Microsoft Virtual PC is now free
  58. Workflows in Sharepoint 2007
  59. MSN Messenger® Invasion of the Robots Contest
  60. Security and Directory Services for UNIX Guide Released
  61. Interesting articles and links 7/7/06
  62. NCSA Windows Cluster Flexes Muscle into Top500
  63. Microsoft Community Bar
  64. Interesting Posts on MSDN
  65. Interesting Software and Articles - 6/16/06
  66. Paper - "Leveraging Windows Workflow Foundation for Scientific Workflows in Wind Tunnel Applications"
  67. Windows Compute Cluster Server Community site launched
  68. eScience Workshop Talks and MSR Talks available on the Research Channel
  69. 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel
  70. Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 - Announcement: Community Preview Release 4 Now Available
  71. www.asp.net
  72. Windows Communication Foundation
  73. Virtual Labs Available for WCF, Web Services and BizTalk
  74. Windows Live Academic Search launched
  75. New Year - New Opportunity

2005 30

  1. Biodiversity Informatics Visualization - EcoLens
  2. NASA World Wind
  3. Ubiquitous Bio-information Computing - Web Service
  4. GeneNotes
  5. Out and About with OneNote Mobile
  6. Designing for Usability in e-Science Workshop
  7. MSR Tech Reports of interest
  8. SciFlow 2006 - IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications
  9. SQL Server Data Mining Newsletter
  10. Giano simulator download available
  11. Collaboration Notebook Project on .NET Rocks
  12. MSR eScience Workshop - Webcasts available
  13. SDSC Introduces the Collaboration Notebook for Community Technical Review
  14. MSR eScience Workshop Agenda
  15. Windows Workflow Foundation annouced
  16. Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Solution: Beta 1 Available Now
  17. MSR eScience Workshop - Call for Presentations
  18. MSR eScience RFP - Smart Clients for eScience
  19. Hacking the Immune System
  20. Faculty Summit Session webcasts and slides
  21. Microsoft Research Faculty Summit - eScience RFP
  22. Digipede Ships Grid Computing Software for Microsoft Windows
  23. Windows Bioinformatics Applications Server - Cornell Theory Center
  24. Free E-Learning Online Training for SQL and VS
  25. International Symposium on Web Services for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  26. MSR annouces New Faculty Fellowship Program Inaugural Class
  27. GaTech visit
  28. eScience travels this week
  29. TerraServer web services - a Mathematica example
  30. New Workshop - Introduction to Web Services for Clusters Workshop

2004 9

  1. 3D Journal on TabletPC
  2. Paper - TerraServer Bricks – A High Availability Cluster Alternative
  3. Paint.NET - cool student project
  4. Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data
  5. Supercomputer 2004
  6. Why use Databases in Science? paper
  7. “love SOAP campaign”
  8. Cool .NET CF app
  9. Grid on .NET - OGSI.Net code