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Research collaboration stories
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Latin American Researchers Use Data to Raise Awareness, Protect Species Latin America contains a diverse cross-section of the world’s flora and fauna and is home to many endangered species. A new tool presents the opportunity for researchers and citizen scientists to help preservation efforts. Read more... |
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Eco-Testing a Building Before It Is Even Built New civil engineering tools that take advantage of the power of cloud computing on Windows Azure have the potential to reduce the time and cost of energy-efficient building by allowing in-depth simulations of a building’s performance during the design phase. Read more... |
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Fire App Fights Wildfires with Data The wildfire management application uses Bing Maps, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Azure to calculate and visualize the risk of wildfire ignition and to simulate fire propagation in the Greek island of Lesvos. Read more... |
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FaST-LMM and Windows Azure Accelerate Genetics Research Today, researchers can collect, store, and analyze tremendous volumes of data; however, technological and storage limitations can severely impede the speed at which they can analyze these data. Read more... |
