Dan Fay
Director - Earth, Energy, and Environment
Microsoft External Research
My Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay
eScience Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/eScience
Microsoft and the Envrionment - www.microsoft.com/environment
Blog Postings
- Bing’s Best Images as desktop background
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:50:00 GMT - External Research Team Blog started
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:23:59 GMT - The Fourth Paradigm Book – now available on Amazon – Paperback and Kindle
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:34:26 GMT - Data needs to be Discoverable, Accessible, and Consumable
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:14:34 GMT - FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools by SAP Web 2.0
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:50:19 GMT
Publications
- Alexander S. Szalay, Gordon Bell, Jan Vandenberg, Alainna Wonders, Randal Burns, Dan Fay, Jim Heasley, Tony Hey, Maria Nieto-SantiSteban, Ani Thakar, Catharine van Ingen, and Richard Wilton, GrayWulf: Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing, no. MSR-TR-2008-187, 15 September 2008
Computational Sciences Publications
- Fisher J. and Harel D., On Statecharts for Biology, in Symbolic Systems Biology: Theory and Methods, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010
- Luc Moreau, Ben Clifford, Juliana Freire, Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Joe Futrelle, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Simon Miles, Paolo Missier, Jim Myers, Yogesh Simmhan, Eric Stephan, and Jan Van den Bussche, The Open Provenance Model - Core Specification (v1.1), in Future Generation Computer Systems (Submitted), Elsevier , 2010
- Yogesh Simmhan, Catharine van Ingen, Girish Subramanian, and Jie Li, Bridging the Gap between the Cloud and an eScience Application Platform, no. MSR-TR-2009-2021, 15 November 2009
- Girish Subramanian and Yogesh Simmhan, Tools for Genome Haplotyping in the Windows Azure Cloud, in Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Microsoft Research, 16 October 2009
- Yogesh Simmhan, Roger Barga, Catharine van Ingen, Ed Lazowska, and Alex Szalay, Building the Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench for Data Management in the Cloud, in International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP), IEEE, 11 October 2009
- Matthew J. Smith, Jens D. M. Rademacher, and Jonathan A. Sherratt, Absolute stability of wavetrains can explain spatiotemporal dynamics in reaction-diffusion systems of lambda-omega type, in SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, 8(3), 1136-1159, 27 August 2009
- Jonathan A. Sherratt, Matthew J. Smith, and Jens D.M. Rademacher, Locating the transition from periodic oscillations to spatiotemporal chaos in the wake of invasion, in Proceedings of that National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(27), pp. 10890-10895, 7 July 2009
- Bin Cao, Beth Plale, Girish Subramanian, Ed Robertson, and Yogesh Simmhan, Provenance Information Model of Karma Version 3, in International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF), Congress on Services - I, IEEE, July 2009
- Noel McGough, Richard Wilford, Lucy Garrett, and Matthew Smith, Georgian Bulb Quota, no. MSR-TR-2009-77, 30 June 2009
- Tamara N. Romanuk, Yun Zhou, Ulrich Brose, Eric L. Berlow, Richard J. Williams, and Neo D. Martinez, Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1524, pp. 1743-1754, June 2009
WWT Data Blog
- Prelinimary SDK documentation now available
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:39:00 GMT - WorldWide Telescope Escapes to the web!
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:20:00 GMT - Tips and Tricks II
Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:43:37 GMT - SkyView Queries
Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:02:23 GMT - WWT Academic Development Kit
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:39:58 GMT

Some of my favorite papers
- Jim Gray, Distributed Computing Economics, no. MSR-TR-2003-24, March 2003
- Jim Gray, Wyman Chong, Tom Barclay, Alex Szalay, and Jan Vandenberg, TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for Backup, Archiving, and Data Exchange, no. MSR-TR-2002-54, May 2002
- Tom Barclay, Jim Gray, Eric Strand, Steve Ekblad, and Jeffrey Richter, TerraService.NET: An Introduction to Web Services, no. MSR-TR-2002-53, June 2002
- Jim Gray, The Revolution in Database Architecture, no. MSR-TR-2004-31, March 2004
- Katherine Everitt, Meredith Ringel Morris, A.J. Brush, and Andrew Wilson, DocuDesk: An Interactive Surface for Creating and Rehydrating Many-to-Many Linkages among Paper and Digital Documents., in Proceedings of IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces 2008, IEEE Computer Society, October 2008
- Jacob Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Andrew Wilson, User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing, in Proceedings of CHI 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009



