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
- Data Science in a Box using IPython–up and running on Azure with LinuxVM
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:46:01 GMT - Behind the WorldWide Telescope Theater at SXSW
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:40:33 GMT - Two Big Telescopes in Austin for SXSW and one Big Screen
Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:46:46 GMT - Connecting the Science dots at TechFest 2013
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:53:14 GMT - More Excel 2013 Goodies - Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office
Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:14:57 GMT
Publications
- Zhipeng Gui, Chaowei Yang, Jizhe Xia, Jing Li, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Min Sun, Yan Xu, and Daniel Fay, A visualization-enhanced graphical user interface for geospatial resource discovery, in Annals of GIS, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-13, Taylor & Francis, 23 April 2013
- 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
- Zhipeng Gui, Chaowei Yang, Jizhe Xia, Jing Li, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Min Sun, Yan Xu, and Daniel Fay, A visualization-enhanced graphical user interface for geospatial resource discovery, in Annals of GIS, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-13, Taylor & Francis, 23 April 2013
- Cory Merow, John A. Silander, and Matthew J. Smith, A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species' distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter, in Ecography, Wiley, April 2013
- Maurizio Sajeva, Claudio Augugliaro, Matthew Smith, and Elisabetta Oddo, Regulating Internet Trade in CITES Species, in Conservation Biology, Wiley, 8 February 2013
- Mindy M. Syfert, Matthew J. Smith, and David A. Coomes, The effects of sampling bias and model complexity on the predictive performance of MaxEnt species distribution models , in PLOS One, vol. 8, no. 2, PLoS, February 2013
- M. J. Smith, D. W. Purves, M. C. Vanderwel, V. Lyutsarev, and S. Emmott, The climate dependence of the terrestrial carbon cycle, including parameter and structural uncertainties, in Biogeosciences, vol. 10, pp. 583-606, European Geosciences Union, 29 January 2013
- Drew W Purves, Jorn P W Scharlemann, Mike Harfoot, Tim Newbold, Derek Tittensor, Jon Hutton, and Stephen Emmott, Time to Model All Life on Earth, in Nature, vol. 493, no. 7432, pp. 295-297, Nature Publishing Group, 17 January 2013
- Raul Garcia-Valdes, Miguel A Zavala, Migueal B Araujo, and Drew W Purves, Chasing a moving target: projecting climate change-induced shifts in non-equilibrial tree species distributions, in Journal of Ecology, British Ecological Society, January 2013
- Alberto Carignano, Ye Yuan, Neil Dalchau, Alex AR Webb, and Jorge M Goncalves, Understanding and predicting biological networks using linear system identification, in Systems and Synthetic Biology: A Systematic Approach (In press), Springer, 2013
- Mark C Vanderwel, David A Coomes, and Drew W Purves, Quantifying variation in forest disturbance, and its effects on aboveground biomass dynamics, across the eastern United States, in Global Change Biology, Wiley, January 2013
- Joppa, L.N., Williams, and R, Modeling the Building Blocks of Biodiversity, in PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. e56277, 2013
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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
