Accelerating scientific insight into global environmental systems
Galaxy Zoo and WorldWide Telescope Integrate
Galaxy Zoo users can now fly from galaxy to galaxy through the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (WWT). On September 2, 2009, Galaxy Zoo and WWT simultaneously released updates enabling the integration of the two tools. The Galaxy Zoo online astronomical citizen science project invites the public to help classify photographs of more than a million galaxies. It is estimated that as few as 10,000 to 20,000 volunteers could complete, in one month, work that would take researchers years to finish.
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Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2009
Features Earth, Energy, and Environment Presentations
In July 2009, the tenth Microsoft Research Faculty Summit brought together more than 400 thought leaders to reflect on how computing disciplines open new opportunities for research and development. Topics ranged from carbon implications of land use to how IT can help manage and predict water availability. View the presentations...
Collaboration Initiatives and Projects
- Visualizing and Experiencing Data
Providing unique experiences to reduce time to insight and knowledge through visualizing data and information. - Accessible and Consumable Data
Ensuring that remote and local sensing data is easily accessible and consumable in a scientist’s domain. - WorldWide Telescope Academic Program
Facilitating and enhancing collaboration for WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's online virtual telescope that allows researchers to explore the universe.
Reports and Resources
- Resources in the Research Community:
- Resources from Microsoft:
- SensorMap
- MSDN Webcast: Virtual Earth for Developers (Level 200)
- WorldWide Telescope Academic Program
- Computational Science Tools
- Database, HPC,and Cloud Services for Scientists
- Managing Scientific Workflows
- Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit from Microsoft Research
- Software and Tools for Computational Science
- More Advanced Research Tools and Services...
- Microsoft Research Projects:
About the Earth, Energy, and Environment Theme and Projects
Earth, Energy, and Environment collaboration projects in Microsoft's External Research division focus on work to advance the development and adoption of technologies for scientific visualization and data management, especially for accelerating insight in environmental and earth sciences.
Earth, Energy, and Environment Topics
Conferences and Workshops
- Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
July 13–14, 2009, Redmond, WA, United States - Microsoft Open Repositories Conference
May 18–21, 2009, Atlanta, GA, United States - More conferences...
