Information Engineering

http://www.chitanka.info/
Super sayt za literatura

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/visualcomplexity/~3/7uvcWPi-XXI/project.cfm
Maps of the Paris and London metros

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TX7WzIg57b0/article.pl
MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access

http://rfe.org/
Resources for economists

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z8TZ8iqXRn0/article.pl
3-D CAPTCHAS

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/25/gmail.labs.email/index.html
5-second delay to change your mind before sending email?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/COMP202/annotated_np.html
NP complete problems

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print
The big takeover

http://www.clevercommute.com/
NY-area commute

http://racked.com/archives/2009/03/23/discontinued_virgin.php
Virgin music stores closing (Times Square and Union Square)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1244
The Simpsons - linguistic humor

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/03/19/natasha_richardson/index.html?source=rss&aim=/ent/feature
Natasha Richardson

http://www.librev.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=497&Itemid=9
Uchilishtno chetivo - SASHT

http://www.librev.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=502&Itemid=26
Chastni i dqrjavni uchilishta

http://www.csdhead.cs.cmu.edu/blog/2009/03/18/what-makes-a-top-10-cs-department/
What makes a top 10 CS department

http://ivl.slis.indiana.edu/km/movies/2008-talas-connected.mov
http://gephi.org/2008/how-kevin-bacon-cured-cancer
The science of networks - movie

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5273
FIDE postpones Anand-Topalov WCh match to 2010

http://www.salon.com/news/brand_graveyard/feature/2009/03/12/virgin/index.html
Virgin music stores shutting down

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/arts/07grad.html
Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/03/06/watchmen/index1.html
Salon on Watchmen

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090309/full/458135a.html
Web usage data outline map of knowledge

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez9-2009mar09,0,5704183.column
About the strength of weak ties, again

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2009/02/27/askthepilot311/index.html
What makes a plane stay in the air, anyway?

http://www.brooklynrevealed.com/
Brooklyn revealed

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/05/ep.secrets.doctors/index.html
10 ’secrets’ you shouldn’t keep from your doctor

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/04/uninsured.epidemic.obama/index.html
Number of uninsured rises a lot

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/harvard-private-equity-and-the-education-bubble/
Harvard, Private Equity and the Education Bubble

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/02/caving_into_bullies_aka_here_w.html
Lessing on Kindle’s new options…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/arts/design/02heights.html
Two stories about colleges - liberal arts and one more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJrs1WtdhNM&feature=related
Charles Aznavour and Katia Aznavour

http://www.kenken.com/play_console.html
http://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/
Kenken etc.

http://www.economist.com/diversions/
Diversions from the Economist

http://www.iusozluk.net/t/tavla
Tabla

http://poetry.hit.bg/iordanov_p.html
Nedyalko Yordanov

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101679.html
Topalov-Kamsky result

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/business/worldbusiness/24euro.html
As It Falters, Eastern Europe Raises Risks

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/education/18college.html
Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
“You and your research” by Richard Hamming

http://curbed.com/archives/2009/02/02/three_brief_notes_on_nyts_spreadofstarbucks_maps.php
Three Brief Notes on NYT’s Spread-of-Starbucks Maps

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13051301&source=features_box_main
Where workers take most sick days

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-29-n18.html
Download Albertines Google Search History

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/21/explainer.oscars.history/index.html
Academy Awards through the years

http://research.yahoo.com/ksc
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/washington-post-to-end-book-world-as-stand-alone-section/
Washington Post to End Book World as Stand-Alone Section

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eugene/Naclo/article.txt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQ7gPuZ3Qw&feature=related
The Nutcracker - Covent Garden

http://arxivblog.com/?p=1123
How Google’s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/the-last-professor/?em
Stanley Fish - “The Last Professor”

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/fellows-2008
ACM fellows announced

http://mhasegawa.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/calvin-trillin-toasts-obama/
Poem about Obama

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aCtsfHhEr9W0&refer=uk
United-Chelsea

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/golden.globe.list/index.html
Golden Globe winners

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/08/political.football/index.html
BCS is a political football in 2009

http://apperceptual.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/how-to-maximize-citations/
How to maximize citations

http://www.flexagon.net/
Flexagon portal

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/1/3.full
PNAS gives back copyright to authors

http://www.slate.com/id/2206973
Who Checks the Spell-Checkers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhorn.html?ref=opinion
The End of the Financial World as We Know It
By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/CyKN/~3/501301274/the_z2k9_problem.php
Z2K

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373
Paul Graham on cities

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/12/29/he_creates_ways_of_seeing_information/
About “mathmetician” Martin Wattenberg

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12851150
The best young economists

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081205/COMMENTARY/812059997/1023
The best films of 2008 (Roger Ebert)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/books/31sali.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=salinger&st=cse
Still Paging Mr. Salinger

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F23%2F2321242&from=rss
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F23%2F1831225&from=rss
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/realestate/commercial/31michigan.html
A Rust Belt Oasis, the University of Michigan Is Spending Billions to Grow

http://www.newsweek.com/id/176809
Lessig: reboot the FCC

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html?em
Friedman: reboot America

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12795471
A very European hero - story about Tintin in the Economist

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/change.htm
Universal grade change form

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Genomap01.jpg
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html?card=mm021
Human haplogroup K

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2008/12/24/best_movies_2008/index.html
Best movies of 2008 - Salon

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html?pagewanted=all
If You Liked This, Youre Sure to Love That

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=938
http://snowclones.org/
http://rosaparksofblogs.blogspot.com/
Fun language networks on the Language Log

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6895
U-M to buy Pfizer’s former Ann Arbor property

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/16/pf/credit_card_rules/index.htm?postversion=2008121609
Credit card rules

http://www.nihmaps.org/
NIH Maps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlanSTeRfjQ&feature=related
Connected Promo

http://www.ridgefieldsymphony.org/youth/leadership.html
Petko Dimitrov

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/Press_stop_torture_music.htm
Torture music

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html
Strangers May Cheer You Up, Study Says

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/05/googling-security-bo.html
Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google

http://www.imchess.com/2008/12/week-1-december-2008-live-chess-ratings.html
latest ELO ratings

http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=83347_0_24_0_C
New towers in China

http://gizmodo.com/5101308/amazon-iphone-app-lets-you-buy-anything-you-take-a-picture-of
Cool app

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/05/atheists.christmas/index.html
Atheist sign stolen

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=367
Wanted: Better Wikipedia coverage of theoretical computer science

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/28/1515216&from=rss
Cyberchondria

http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/
The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (by James Boyle)

http://tantek.com/log/2008/02.html#d19t2359
http://tantek.pbwiki.com/CommunicationProtocols
http://lifehacker.com/343665/get-things-done-over-the-phone-with-jott
Email use protocols, etc.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2008/11/24/obama-girls-opt-for-a-posh-private-school.html
Obama girls opt for a posh private school

http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2008/11/20/worlds-best-colleges-and-universities-top-200.html
New US News & WR rankings - world universities

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/22/stopping_google/
Google-related stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html
The netflix challenge

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xRrvc8CZPQ8/article.pl
Google SearchWiki

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23novelties.html?emc=eta1
SearchTogether

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bulgarianscienceproblems/message/3408
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/322/5905/1183.pdf
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/322/5905/1184.pdf
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bulgarianscienceproblems/message/3417
Science in Romania

http://www.chessdom.com/kamsky-topalov-sofia
The Kamsky-Topalov match

http://www.dresden2008.de/
The Chess olympiad

http://www.europeana.eu/
European digital library (planned?)

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=946910
Entitled students expect better grades for effort: study

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081117/full/news.2008.1235.html
The multi-million dollar 1000 Genomes project is set to be finished in a year

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94GNJTO0.htm
College payday: presidents’ salaries up last year

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/13/worldmapper/index.html
Mapping out a new world order

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/technology/internet/14voice.html
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)

http://www.maa.org/maa%20reviews/9301.html
New series of Martin Gardner’s books

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582?tid=relatedcl
How He Did It

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165189/page/1
Advice from seven Nobel laureates on fixing the economy

http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=145615&srcpos=5
Vreme Razdelno…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/health/research/06cancer.html
New cancer findings

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/books/06crichton.html
RIP: Michael Crichton

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/new-jersey/02streetnj.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Summit, NJ

http://www.usb-bg.org/Bg/Natzio_Strategia_za_razvitie_na_NI_proekt.pdf
Eto novata strategiya na MON (Ot Preslav)

http://www.monitor.bg/opinions/article?sid=&aid=175673&cid=50&eid=1513
reakciya

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/28/detroit.mayor.sentenced/index.html
Detroit’s mayor to go to jail

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/27/europe/union.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/29/opinion/edlet.php
Bulgaria risks becoming EU cautionary tale

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/10/innumeracy_on_parade.php
Innumeracy on parade

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/full/455884a.html
Philosophy of science: Theories of almost everything
P.-M. Binder

http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=568692
Starbucks in BG

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/10/23/mass_transit_america/index.html
Mass transit rebirth?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
Applying to Grad. school in CS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUPsfYJONrU
Disney copyright law

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25666/25666.txt
The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid
Morskoto vqlche na Mayn Rid

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge262.html
Edge 262 October 22, 2008
including TWO BIG THINGS HAPPENING IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
(A Talk By Daniel Kahneman)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security
Airport security?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/08/lessons-from-abroad/
About BG - good stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/world/europe/16bulgaria.html
About BG - bad stuff

http://capital.bg/show.php?storyid=562839
Do Chicago i nazad v nova versiya

http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Google Search as of 2001

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/news/economy/nobel_prize.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008101309
Krugman wins Nobel economics prize

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/nyregion/13fairs.html
Street fairs

http://www.dr1.com/forums/general-stuff/37598-need-baby-names-girl.html
Where Dominican names come from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad%27s_movie_spoofs
List of “Mad Magazine” movie spoofs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/france
Guillaume Depardieu (son of G�rard) dies at 37

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4910798.ece
The top 100 universities in the world

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081008/full/455715a.html
http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu/
http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu/duplicate/?update_type__exact=0&other_type__exact=0&duplication_type__id__exact=2&comment_type__exact=0&o=7&MedLabel__exact=0&MedIssue__exact=0&ot=desc&share_author__exact=0
Deja Vu: a Database of Highly Similar and Duplicate Citations*

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FrenchForBeginners
French for Beginners

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/10/07/kids.cough.meds.ap/index.html
Drug makers: No cough or cold meds for kids under 4

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
Space elevator

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/citizenship.test/index.html
The new US citizenship test

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/music/29wana.html
Amid Shoes and Jewels, a Mighty, Mighty Sound

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20205803,00.html
Paul Newman’s most memorable roles

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/
The global perspective on the election

http://gizmodo.com/5055160/24-hour-air-traffic-around-the-world-blows-minds-eyeballs?autoplay=true
24 Hour Air Traffic Around the World Blows Minds, Eyeballs

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html
Got an idea to help the world? Here’s $10 million

http://www.theoremoftheday.org/Theorems.html
Theorem of the day

http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/09/17/stanford-frees-cs-robotics-courses/
Free courses in CS from Stanford

http://www.otzvuk.com
Otzvuk

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/15/obit.wright.ap/index.html
Pink Floyd keyboardist Wright dies

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/09/08/21300/
The CEO of Linguistics

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2008-09-07/200809071220812476296.html
Interview with Grigor Dimitrov

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/09/07/bolduan.fixing.dc.schools.cnn
88% of D.C.’s 8th graders can’t read

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157514
Land Of Big Science

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/F0s-S2056ng/article.pl
The Electronic Bastille

http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1838944,00.html
LPGA policy under justified criticism

http://cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html
A graduate school survival guide

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ucaV66N9eRk/article.pl
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/almost-everyone.html#posts
Forgot your password? may be weakest link

http://wordle.net/create
Wordle

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The 2009 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad has been announced. It will be on February 4, 2009 and March 11, 2009. Check http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu for details.

http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/11/computer-science-enrollments-the-real-news/
Computer Science Enrollments

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6643
Bluffing Could Be Common in Prediction Markets, Study Shows

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/11/newfac
Confidence Gap for New Profs

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/opinion/10thu3.html?ref=opinion
The Government and Your Laptop

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08comp.html
Herculean Device for Molecular Mysteries

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11614183
The crowd within

http://www3.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/
Old Norse

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/index.html
Early Indo-European online

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAN0129249520080701
Microsoft buys Powerset

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1026
The F-1 visa process, explained

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html
The supercollider

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19092/53/
Russians more likely to say Yo Yandex than Go Google

http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/
The new CACM

http://presidentialwatch08.com/index.php/map/
The political blogs, 2008

http://mihd.net
http://www.mediafire.com
http://www.sharebigfile.com
Services to share files

http://hulu.com
http://veox.com
Services to watch movies

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/08/06/citysense.html
Where the Wild Things Are: Computer Science Professors Breakthrough Maps the Cool Quest

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory
(controversial)
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
Comments:
http://earningmyturns.blogspot.com/2008/06/end-of-theory-data-deluge-makes.html
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataMining/~3/322319201/theory—meta-post.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html
No Babies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Idiocracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29digi.html
Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA
Abba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4smlQlWhHM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3u3fTG70Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlxyoPNaFI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbdPUiih020&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb8KKyenSY&feature=related
Ennio Morricone clips

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/05/university_of_michigan_to_hire_1.html?goback=%2Ehom
University of Michigan to hire 25 junior faculty

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/16/270/print.html
How will Barack Obama get to 270?

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/14/mooney/index.html
Have we fallen behind our parents?

http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1454243&from=rss
4-d Rubik cube

http://www.mefferts.com/
Puzzle store

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-translate-adds-10-new-languages.html
http://translate.google.bg/translate_t
Google Translate Adds 10 new languages

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataMining/~3/288445391/powerset-launch.html
Powerset launches

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401645&c=1
ISI to start indexing conference proceeedings?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/291629842/article.pl
Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/14/fahrenheit.sequel.ap/index.html
Moore plans ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ sequel

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/health/research/06dise.html
Redefining Disease, Genes and All

http://www.hulu.com
http://www.joost.com
Online access to TV shows

http://videolectures.net
(link from Vlado)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen
Buesingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campione_d%27Italia
Campione d’Italia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_friend_connect.html
Google Friend Finder

http://apps.facebook.com/manyeyes
ManyEyes from IBM Research

http://nexus.ludios.net
Nexus

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Wikileaks

http://www.slate.com/id/2190284/entry/0/
So You Want To Be a Scientologist

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12hate.html
American Exception: Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/06/11/life.expectancy.ap/index.html
U.S. life expectancy still trails 30 countries

http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/2008/06/scientific-citations.html
Scientific Citations

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/
Super Crunchers

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/international/06-08InfoInTheWorld.asp
Groundbreaking University of California, San Diego Research Study to
Measure “How Much Information” is in the World

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
Trace your lineage genetically

http://sites.google.com/a/lml.bas.bg/statnlp/Home
http://www.maxmind.com/download/worldcities/
Database of world cities

http://goosh.org/
Web based Google shell

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080529/full/news.2008.864.html?s=news_rss
Computer model knows what you’re thinking

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/21/bologna
Wake-Up Call for American Higher Ed
(about the “Bologna Process”)

http://www.goinglobal.com/newsletter/may08_us_opt.asp
Extension of OPT

http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/courses/stat295.2005/evobayes.jpg
The evolution of Bayesian models

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/science/22smoke.html
Study Finds Big Social Factor in Quitting Smoking

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/26/cannes_wrap/index.html
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/27/10_out_of_cannes/index.html
Cannes 2008

http://jetlagged.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/the-airport-security-follies/
The Airport Security Follies

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obituaries/notable-obits-2007.html
Notable obits, 2007

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/198541004/article.pl
Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/19/btsc.tuchman.roadsideprayer/index.html?iref=topnews
About I-35

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/nyregion/20columbia.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/city-council-approves-columbia-expansion-plan/
Columbia Expansion Gets Green Light

http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2007/12/comments_on_computational_soci.html
Conference on Computational Social Science

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction/
Social Action software

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/10/1953206&from=rss
http://www.slate.com/id/2179393/
Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian’s Worst Nightmare

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-01-03-n84.html
Google chains

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/bound-for-academic-glory/
Bound For Academic Glory?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-taylor3jan03,0,2812372.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
A sequel with the same ending (about the writers strike)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/books/06cohenintro.html
Borges and the Foreseeable Future

https://networkx.lanl.gov/wiki
High productivity software for complex networks

http://www.iacat.uiuc.edu/news/08/0103Illinois.html
Illinois advanced computing Institute funds first three projects:
Synergistic Research on Parallel Programming for Petascale Applications
Next-Generation Acceleration Systems for Advanced Science and Engineering Applications
Cultural Informatics

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/01/21/080121fa_fact_collins
Friend Game: Behind the online hoax that led to a girl’s suicide

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/21/film.razzies.ap/index.html
The Razzies

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/12/2007_idiot_of_the_year_nominee.html
Idiot of the year nominees

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/oscar.complete.list/index.html
Complete list of Academy Award nominees

http://www.queensbp.org/content_web/map_boundaries.htm
Map of Queens neighborhoods

http://www.tebreitenbach.com/proverbidioms.htm
Really cool!

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10279823
Making a hash of it

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
Growing up online

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.topic.generator.html
Essay Topic Generator

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/man_braves_freezing_weather_to
Man Braves Freezing Weather To Cross Parking Lot

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/realestate/28comm.html
Extreme commuting

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html
Is the tipping point toast?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2007-01-23-fractions_N.htm
Professor: Fractions should be scrapped

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/01/double.dipping.ap/index.html
Beware the bowl: Double dipping spreads bacteria

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5788/824
An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/ff_secretlife_1602
The secret life of a blog

http://www.askapatient.com/
Don’t ask the doctors; ask their patients

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/technology/04soft.html
Microsoft Adds Research Lab in East as Others Cut Back

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/education/25endowments.html
Senate Looking at Endowments as Tuition Rises

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/business/26prep.html
AGE OF RICHES; Elite Prep Schools, College-Size Endowments

http://www.nysun.com/article/70489
Brearley Tops Survey of Private Schools

http://belobog.si.umich.edu/clair/anthology/aclsearch.cgi
Movies in Development Hell

http://www.winterblast.com
Detroit Winterblast

http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/
Keith Devlin’s home page

http://www.maa.org/news/columns.html
Cool math columns

http://www.maa.org/mathtourist/mathtourist_11_15_07.html
Random Walks to Football Rankings

http://www.cogito.org/Interviews/InterviewsDetail.aspx?ContentID=16901
http://www.cogito.org/Articles/ArticleDetail.aspx?ContentID=14461
Interviews related to ILO 2007

http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals/default.htm
ICPC 2007 finalists (100 teams)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/books/12publ.html
At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/13/openaccess
Harvard Opts In to ‘Opt Out’ Plan

http://chronicle.com/news/article/3943/harvard-faculty-adopts-open-access-requirement
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement

http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/fun/grammar-and-the-sentence
The parsing song

http://www.morphthing.com/random
Morphing images

http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/
Art that makes an impact

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/books/14dumb.html
Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSaYnQD7EpY
Shostakovich - Waltz 2 From Jazz Suite 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/books/19robbe-grillet.html
Alain Robbe-Grillet dies

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html
Most popular social network sites per country and region

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/02/25/religion.survey.ap/index.html
Survey: Americans switching faiths, dropping out

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/24/oscar.complete.list/index.html
List of Oscar winners

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20223/
Between Friends
Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the “social graph.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/nyregion/27cnd-stonybrook.html
$60 Million Gift for Stony Brook

http://www.edge.org/q2007/q08_index.html
The Edge Annual Question 2007
WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/11/google-carr-computing-tech-enter-cx_ag_0111computing.html
When Google Grows Up

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18056504/truth_or_terrorism_the_real_story_behind_five_years_of_high_alerts/print
Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18137343/the_fear_factory
The Fear Factory

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/full/451639a.html
Computational science: A hard statistical view
Bart Selman

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2256955,00.asp
The state of machine translation

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/05/ask.makeover/index.html
Ask.com gets a makeover, lays off 40

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/06/no-shirt-no-shoes-no-service/
http://s.wsj.net/article/SB120425031647901841.html?mod=most_viewed_leisure24
http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/bauerlein/stop-pushing-yourself
The Ivory Tower Leans Left, but Why?
(+ follow ups)

http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
Real-time flight delays (FAA site)

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/45/17599
Novelty and collective attention by Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman

http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm
The biggest users of H-1 visas

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=apfnctfiPQPk&refer=us
Berkeley Raises $1.1 Billion to Keep Professors From Ivy League

http://www.darpa.mil/body/news/2007/hasc3-13-08.pdf
Future projects to be funded by DARPA

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/14/1425247&from=rss
Physics Journal May Reconsider Wikipedia Ban

http://indiapost.com/article/immigration/2310/
Bill Gates slams H-1B visa cap

http://www.core.edu.au/rankings/Conference%20Ranking%20Main.html
FINAL 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences

http://spectrum.ieee.org/radio?id=2518
Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/03/19/obit.clarke.ap/index.html
Sci-fi guru Clarke to have secular funeral

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-israel-math-riddle,0,1509032,print.story
Math problem solved after 40 years.

http://www.scivee.tv/
Make your research known (Youtube-like web site for scientific research)

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017841009789079614384%3Akq2rufyow_0
Search engine for Computational linguistics

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1724522,00.html
Don’t text and walk

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor
had an opportunity few brain
scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a
massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip
away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and
remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains
define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/arts/design/23ouro.html
Nice Tower! Whos Your Architect?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/arts/design/21atla.html
What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/257767517/article.pl
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_curator
Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.

http://www.brijit.com/

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/257341014/new_face_recognition

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/24/1959201&from=rss
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070324.wrgoogle24/BNStory/Technology/home
Google’s latest headache

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/22/1314253&from=rss
Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050071
It’s the Network, Stupid: Why Everything in Medicine Is Connected

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/28/cuba.cellphones.ap/index.html
Ordinary Cubans gain access to cell service

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/who-wins-nsf-graduate-fellowships-15771.html
NSF fellowships

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/com/search/

http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/PDFs/Linguistics.pdf

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/31/opinion/edbakoy.php
The idiot of the week

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/04/03/ST2007040303977.html
AP Language, Computer Courses Cut

http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000668.html
Reports of AP CS’ Demise are Greatly Exaggerated

http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/
Math Horizons

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/techspecial/09store.html
In Storing 1s and 0s, the Question Is $

http://stp.clarku.edu/simulations/
Java Simulations for Statistical and Thermal Physics

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
Google Web search features

http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6019
People Who Read This Article Also Read…

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/16/minerva
A Pentagon Olive Branch to Academe

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/business/media/14link.html
He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/02/evangelicals.ap/index.html
‘An Evangelical Manifesto’ criticizes politics of faith

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Echazelle/pubs/algorithm.html
The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science (highfalutin essay by Bernard Chazelle)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/24/close.call.ap/index.html
Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2007/04/advice_for_the_tenure_track.php
Advice for the tenure track

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/277162889/article.pl
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Are C and C++ losing ground?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/26/atheist.soldier.ap/index.html
Atheist soldier claims harassment

http://news.cs.cmu.edu/Releases/demo/334.html
Carnegie Mellon Algorithm Identifies Top 100 Blogs for News

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=821
Negation Field

http://zhongwen.com/
Chinese characters and culture

http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/jcr06/centrality/index.htm
Centrality measures of 7611 journals

Results and problem sets are here:
http://www.namclo.org.

No changes in 2006 to my top 30 list.

Look at this map of Paris
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/travel/24hours.html
printed in the Dec. 24 issue of the New York Times.

The Champs-Elysées is shown in the wrong place (what is labeled as
“Champs-Elysées” is actually Avenue de Friedland/Boulevard Haussmann).
The Champs-Elysées is the avenue that links Place de l’Etoile to Place
de la Concorde.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/12/22/travel/escapes/22hour_map.html

Compare with this map:

http://www.frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg-2006/62_thebestofparisin1day.jpg

or this one:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=paris,+france&ll=48.873861,2.294898&spn=0.006007,0.020548&t=h&hl=en

One can only wonder about the reason for this blunder by the New
York Times - perhaps trying to foil the discovery of the Holy Grail

Update (Dec. 30) The NYT web site has been updated with a corrected map showing the Champs-Elysées in the right place.

Here is a suggestion. If you send a homework assignment or a resume as
an attachment, please consider that the person receiving it (an
instructor or potential employer) is likely to get such submissions
from other people as well. If you name your submission “HW1.tar.gz” or
“resume.pdf”, chances are that your recipient will have other files
with the same name. It is much better to name your file with some
identifying information about yourself, e.g., your name or user id, e.g., “HW1-CS499-johnson.tar.gz” or “Alice.Smith.resume.pdf”.

According to http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72473 and http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72419,
the EU wants the pronunciation of EURO in Bulgarian to be made
consistent with the latinized pronunciation (”euro”) instead of the
currently adopted “evro”. What’s next? Change Sofia’s spelling to
Sophia and Bulgaria’s pronunciation in Bulgarian to “bulgaria”?

The ACL wiki is now reality. A large portion of the existing ACL Universe will be folded into the Wiki and the “Universe” will likely disappear

According to CNET, Netflix is offering $1M if you manage to improve their movie recommendation system.

I hope that many other organizations announce such contests.

More links:

http://hunch.net/?p=231
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/31168783/article.pl
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/radar/rss10/~3/31208774/netflixs_personalization_conte_1.html

I have tried to prepare a list of topics that members of CLAIR will find useful. Any comments are welcome.

Google has decided to open a lab in Ann Arbor. Two of the main directions of work will be targeted ads and library scanning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/technology/11google.html
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-35/115259956475940.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/business-9/1152621861309560.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060710/NEWS99/307100004/1122
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-18/11527152409090.xml&coll=2
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006607120342
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-18/115444325633730.xml&coll=2

Rada Mihalcea and I recently organized a tutorial and a workshop on Graph-based methods for NLP (and IR) at HLT-NAACL 2006 in Brooklyn.

Wow! Less than a year since Google hired Franz Och, they seem to be doing really great in Machine Translation:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0602/p13s02-stct.html