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Academics are hampered by their ability to process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data in their research. Microsoft unveiled a cloud-based data analysis and processing framework called Project Daytona today in order to help address this problem. Daytona is a tool kit that allows scientists to run a variety of analytics and machine-learning algorithms [...]
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Ars Technica reports, that the owner of a patent that provides a means to place store information on a map is finding resistance from both Google and Microsoft. Geotag, the current patent owner of a patent that was purchased for $119 million has sued more than 400 companies that utilize such functionality with both Google [...]
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Researchers have harnessed Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing framework to create a custom cloud repository for MODIS satellite imagery. MODISAzure provides a repository for images, reprojection and harmonization of images, on-demand execution of algorithms that generate scientific variables, an automated means to process and provide infographics to analyze scientific results, and the ability to deliver [...]
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Mashups have been around a long time, and seem simple enough to those of us in the know, but I was having trouble describing the concept in conversation with my Mom. Maps as a base layer for additional details is part of the equation, but it’s so much more than that. I finally had to [...]
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The Microsoft Hohm site has recently added a tool that automatically calculates average home energy costs at individual addresses. Users simply enter in their address and Zip code, and get a map of their Hohm Score of average energy use. The tool allows you to compare your home to others in the neighborhood or perhaps [...]
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In a meeting today with DigitalGlobe, there was a reminder of their partnership with Microsoft on the Clear30 program that was launched this past October. The companies are using Microsoft’s Vexcel UltraCam digital aerial camera to collect 30-cm aerial imagery of the entire contiguous United States and Western Europe. This huge high-resolution imagery collection project [...]
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Fusion Core, the mapping system that combines Microsoft’s SharePoint Server with ESRI’s ArcGIS Server, is at the center of the security system developed for Super Bowl XLIV. The system brings together various data streams into one system and allows users to exchange documents, information and alerts. The system, called Project Dolphin, enables multi-agency collaboration for [...]
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There’s an interesting and timely post in the online magazine On Windows that details a partnership between Microsoft and ESRI to create a Fusion Center, which aims to help first responders share real-time data, collaborate, and display information visually on interactive Bing maps and SharePoint-based tools. The solution addresses the need to make sense of [...]
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