Science

ScholarLynk is a new tool for scientists and other researchers which Microsoft Research is unveiling this week at ECDL, the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. The project has roots in Lewis Shepherd’s 2008 project called “Research Desktop” which combined…

The latest version of Windows HPC Server offers the signature advantages of a Windows operating system such as ease of use, advanced professional development tools, and unparalleled binary compatibility. However, the migration of applications to a Windows platform can be a learning experience for…

The Windows operating systems are well known for binary compatibility, and this extends to high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In this webcast, we explain how on Windows the same Message Passing Interface (MPI) executable can run on a workstation or across a large cluster without having…

OK, well…not exactly. But the popular game console is making its contribution to medical science these days. Dr Simon Scarle, a researcher in the University of Warwick’s WMG Digital Laboratory, wanted to study cardiac arrhythmias using simulations which typically involve booking time on a dedicated…

Sweet! Brandon just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while –the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. And for even more Mars…

Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft.  He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the  transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration,…

In this screencast, Pablo Fernicola demonstrates the technical preview of a new scientific publishing add-in for Word. The add-in enables reading and writing of XML-based documents in the archival format used by the National Library of Medicine.

In this podcast, MSR researcher Catharine van Ingen and Berkeley micrometeorologist Dennis Baldocchi talk with Jon Udell about their collaboration on www.fluxdata.org, a SharePoint portal to a scientific data server. The server contains carbon-dioxide flux data gathered from a worldwide network…

Scientists at the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore, India have been working on a project since 2005 that is would enable engineers to build a user interface for the illiterate. Because many people in the world, and 50% in India, cannot read or write, a new type of UI is needed for them. For these…

Space exploration is a hot topic (again) that has even seen a large amount of attention in the Presidential campaign. Whether or not you believe there is life on other planets is not the issue. What matters is - can HUMANS be the life on other planets in years to come? One group that is…