Transcript Microsoft Research Alex D. Wade

| Director—Scholarly Communication
Agenda
• Microsoft Research
• Use of the Cloud for Academic Research
• Software and Services
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WorldWide Telescope
Layerscape
Microsoft Academic Search
ChronoZoom
Microsoft Research
• Expand the state of the art in each of the areas
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in which we do research
Rapidly transfer innovative technologies into
Microsoft products
Ensure that Microsoft products have a future
http://research.microsoft.com/
http://research.microsoft.com/connections/
4 GEPS2011
Research Accelerators
Publishing
Scientific
Computing
Research
Management
Discovery and
Exploration
http://research.microsoft.com/accelerators
Data-Intensive Research
Acquisition &
modelling
Archiving and
preserving
Data
Dissemination
& sharing
Collaboration
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visualisation
Analysis &
data mining
Research Management
Foster a flexible, extensible, and cost-effective environment
to support research and innovation. Institutions work to
establish collaborative research programs and centers and
help researchers secure funding while also providing an
array of administrative resources and infrastructure.
Scenarios
Using the Cloud in Academic Research
Azure Cloud Research Engagements
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Signed agreements with NSF, European Commission, Japan, Australia, Taiwan and
China
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83 projects in 12 countries and expect 10 more in China.
Learning how Azure can be used in research
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Research domains include biology, medicine, physics, sociology, anthropology, geology,
oceanography, genetics, data analytics, computer science and more
Greece
USA
France
Japan
Australia
University of the
Aegean
The University of
Washington Laboratory
INRIA
Kyoto University
University of Adelaide
Let Scientists Be Scientists
Most scientists do not want to be system administrators
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They want to focus on Science
They use standard tools
- Excel, R, Matlab
- Programming = modifying a
script
But they need more power to
handle the growing data load
They want to share experiments
with collaborators
SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
Launched
February 2008
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
Earth Mode allows users to view a 3D model of the Earth, with a default data set with near
global coverage and resolution down to sub-meter in high-population centers. Unlike most Earth
viewers, WorldWide Telescope supports many different map projections including Mercator,
Equirectangular and TOAST. There are also map layers for seasonal, night, streets, hybrid and
science oriented MODIS imagery. The new layer manger can be used to add data visualization
on the Earth or other planets.
http://www.layerscape.org/
http://www.layerscape.org/
What you need to remember…
• Layerscape is a website for publishing, sharing/finding and
visualizing geo-specific data
• Built on top of Worldwide Telescope (WWT) as the
visualization engine [Windows rich client]
• It is a free service—hosted on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering
• Not just flat maps
– Powerful, interactive “experience engine”
– Easy to build tours
– Developing communities around data
MAS – Background
• EntityCube
– http://entitycube.research.microsoft.com
Explore over 38 million publications
http://academic.research.microsoft.com
MSR Academic Search data comes from open
access repositories, publishers, and web crawls
– Currently ~38 M papers across 16 domains
– More to come…
Who are we working with
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Allen Press
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics
American Medical Association
American Psychological Association
Annual Reviews
arXiv
Association for Computing Machinery
Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Begell House
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
BioMed Central
BioOne
BMJ
Brill
Cambridge University Press
Central & Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)
CERN Document Server
CiteSeer
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
CrossRef
Digital.CSIC
Elsevier
Emerald Group Publishing
HighWire
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Humanities Text Initiative
IADIS
IEEE
IGI Global
Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
InTech
Intellect
IOP Publishing, Inc.
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Journal@rchive
JSTOR
Karger AG
M.E. Sharpe
Mary Ann Liebert
MedKnow
MetaPress
MIT Press
National Institute of Informatics
National Science Foundation
Nature Publishing Group
NDLTD
OCLC
Oxford University Press
PNAS
PolicyArchive
Project Euclid
Project Muse
Public Knowledge Project
Public Library of Science
Publishing Technology Plc.
PubMed
Qscience
RACO
RePEc
Royal Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Medicine
Sage
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Springer
Taylor & Francis
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
University of Chicago Press
VGTU Press
Alerts
Papers
Edit
publication
Export
Links to fulltext
Citation History
and Context
References &
Citing Papers
Alerts
Top …
Usage History
keyword
Definitions
Embed
Author
network
author
Citing Papers
Compare
Domain
Trends
organization
big history
with
big data
http://www.chronozoomproject.org/
Humanities
Sciences
Call to Action
[email protected]
What you need to remember about ChronoZoom
http://www.chronozoomproject.org/
• Infinite zoom interface that allows users to navigate quickly through multiple
rich media sources, sifting though astounding amounts of embedded data in a
variety of different formats
– Big-Data multi-media mash-up of video (YouTube, Vimeo); PDF; scanned
documents; photos; maps; charts/figures; live documents, etc.
– Coming soon – an open authoring platform
• Limited, trusted partners now
• Opening up to curated sets in V1.0
• Broad public access in ~1 year
• Facilitates learning across traditionally separate silos
– Simultaneous learning, across time, across geographies, and spanning domains
– Opportunity to glean new insights
– In the near future, more powerful tools for permitting comparative research
• Enhances discovery: create bookmarks, build tours, powerful search
– Upload your content into private Chronozoom spaces – for individuals, domains,
families, organization, etc.
• A free web service (all HTML5), as well as an open source project managed
through the Outercurve Foundation at http://chronozoom.codeplex.com.
Thank you!
@alexwade
Alex D. Wade
Microsoft Research | Connections
[email protected]
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