John MacCuish will present two talks at the ACS Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition, which will take place March 21-25, 2010, in San Francisco, CA.

The first talk is 106 – Fragment database analysis using molecular shape fingerprints. Authors are John D. MacCuish; Norah E. MacCuish, Dr.; Michael Hawrylycz, Dr.; and Mitch Chapman. It is scheduled for Wednesday, March 24, at 8:40 AM.

John will also be presenting 346- Quasi-Monte Carlo integration for the fast and effective generation of molecular shape fingerprints at 2:30PM on Wednesday, March 24. Authors are John D. MacCuish; Norah E. MacCuish, Dr.; Michael Hawrylycz, Dr.; and Mitch Chapman.

John MacCuish, President of Mesa Analytics & Computing, Inc. will present at the upcoming Ignite New Mexico. The presentation titled “Interactive Maps: from h1n1 swine flu to solar power” will take place at the Santa Fe Complex , Tuesday, September 15th at 6:00 p.m.

Mesa Analytics has created a prototype solar installation site analysis tool.

Although it’s a very rough draft, the web application lets users pan and zoom a global map which depicts average annual solar insolation levels together with terrain smoothness.

Users who have installed the Google Earth web browser plugin may also view zoomed regions using Google Earth, to learn more about local terrain.

Mesa envisions extending this prototype to present additional quantitative data, such as seasonal extremes of sun elevation angle and average hours of unobstructed sunlight per day. We would also like to extend the site to make it easier to identify existing buildings, roads, power transmission lines, and political boundaries.

Please check it out and send us your comments and suggestions.