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
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:39:17 GMT - Amazon Web Services support Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:11:45 GMT - Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:29:02 GMT - Project Gemini – Videos available
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:35:05 GMT - TIME - WorldWideTelescope one of 50 Best Websites 2009
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:29:15 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
- 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, 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), IEEE, July 2009
- Noel McGough, Richard Wilford, Lucy Garrett, and Matthew Smith, Georgian Bulb Quota, no. MSR-TR-2009-77, 30 June 2009
- Jennifer A. Dunne and Richard J. Williams, Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1524, pp. 1711-1723, 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
- Luca Cardelli, Emmanuelle Caron, Philippa Gardner, Ozan Kahramanogullari, and Andrew Phillips, A Process Model of Rho GTP-binding Proteins, in Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier , 18 May 2009
- Matthew J. Smith, Sandra Telfer, Eva R. Kallio, Sarah Burthe, Alex R. Cook, Xavier Lambin, and Michael Begon, Host-pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(19), pp. 7905-7909, 12 May 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



