Information Engineering

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8767.html
New book on Networks

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/26/qt/germany_s_ailing_universities
Germany’s ailing universities

http://www.flightstats.com
Flight Stats (live)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/02/cpr.cardiac.arrest/index.html
Cardiac Arrest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_roam
Right to roam

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09178/980284-298.stm
No stimulus money for Pitt and Penn State

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/is-free-free/
Is free free? About the debate between Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell

http://www.cra.org/ccc
http://www.youtube.com/computingresearch
The Computing Research Association – top videos

http://creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/maps/#The_Singles_Map
The singles map

http://plato.asu.edu/LockhartsLament.pdf
A mathematician’s lament

http://www.cccblog.org/2009/06/27/cifellows-status-report/
CIFellows Status Report

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/48692952.html
Faculty disclose outside payments: Some UW doctors get 6-figure sums from drug, medical firms

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-features-on-google-books.html
New features on Google Books

http://beta.technologyreview.com/computing/22773/
Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/16angi.html
Gut Instincts Surprising Role in Math

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/which-way-is-the-dancer-spinning/
Which way is the dancer spinning?

http://www.comdig.org/article.php?id_article=31803
Font with holes

http://programminghumor.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-programmer.html
Evolution of the programmer

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=15308838044
Il etait grilheure

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1497
The 1,000,000th English word? Not.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/03/rankings
‘Manipulating,’ Er, Influencing ‘U.S. News’

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1178
If research papers had a comments section

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847
Seminar bingo

http://www.sixwordstories.net/
Six word stories

http://www.cra.org/ccc/initiatives
Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell
1984

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism?currentPage=all
New socialism online?

http://yury.name/webguide/
Web guide

http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/
ML tutorials

http://www.usenix.org/event/wowcs08/
Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia …

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RVHIDdRKeVQ/Tetris-Turns-25
Tetris at 25

http://wave.google.com/
Google Wave

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/21/google
The Evolving Google Library

http://ergodicity.net/2008/02/11/ee-toolkit-topics/
EE Toolkit topics

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all
Googlenomics

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/2046215&from=rss
IBM patents 40-minute meetings

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-05-12-best-speeches_N.htm
Commencement speech database

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/white-house-launches-datagov-and-seeks-advice-on-transparency/
data.gov

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/fIxhyROY8z8/
Google’s employee retention algorithm

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/the-downside-of-sexy-science/
Recent evolution of scientific areas

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/21/qt/the_cost_of_letting_medical_residents_get_a_little_sleep
High costs of letting medical residents sleep more

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132972
Google adds tools to help search users dig deeper

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/abandoned-stations-new-york-subway/10924
Abandoned subway stations in NYC

http://www.csdhead.cs.cmu.edu/blog/2009/05/15/cifellows-program-for-new-computing-phds-is-launched/
http://cifellows.org
CIE fellows

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sJcb2g9lTF4/article.pl
How Google scans books

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/05/15/cannes/index.html
Cannes opens

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520097,00.html
Low Pay One of Many Difficulties Facing Regional Pilots

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/infosys-award-08/
Infosys award goes to Jon Kleinberg

http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/
Free my Phone

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22585/
Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
Wolfram Alpha

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/6208
IARPA at UMD

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/chi-0510-old-rockersmay10,0,4659107.story
Leonard Cohen’s concert

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/10/faith_based/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/feature
It’s time for Obama to listen to his mama

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23513/
E-mailaholics: how to tell if you’ve got the habit

http://www.metrolyrics.com/every-strangers-eyes-lyrics-roger-waters.html
Every Stranger’s Eyes – Roger Waters lyrics

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets
A large collection of data sets

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/04/22/feniosky-pe-mora-named-seas-dean
New Columbia SEAS Dean

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/traveltips/05/05/rental.car.fees/index.html
Rental Car Fees

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/14/christian_nation/index.html?source=rss&aim=/opinion/feature
America is not a Christian nation

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/nyregion/15columbia.html?_r=1
Columbia to Finish Section of Campus, 113 Years Later

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BFmwNNwPBCw/article.pl
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php
Wolfram Alpha

http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2009/05/chayes_on_interdisciplinarity.html
Interdisciplinarity in the age of networks

http://www.nap.edu/obama/
Pres. Obama addressing the National Academy of Sciences

http://www.csdhead.cs.cmu.edu/blog/2009/01/07/marcel-just-and-tom-mitchell-appear-on-cbs-60-minutes/
Tom Mitchell’s research on “60 minutes”

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/1715258&from=rss
Social Networking Sites Getting Risky For Recruiting

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/04/28/terry_eagleton/index.html?source=rss&aim=/books/review
Those ignorant atheists

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1893286,00.html?xid=rss-nation-cnn
Cash-Strapped State Schools Being Forced to Privatize

http://www.ur.umich.edu/0809/Apr27_09/21.php
U-M’s official response

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/04/president_obama_announces_members_of_science_and_t.php
Obama’s science and technology advisers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html
Op-Ed: End Universities as We Know Them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e22ufcqfTs
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/27jeopardy.html?_r=1&hp
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0PlPBoY3dJw/article.pl
IBM to take on “Jeopardy”

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3ZDMeFRKO7w/article.pl
Taleb

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html
‘Atlas Shrugged’ author sees resurgence

http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Results%20World%20Finals%202009
ICPC rankings

http://www.smokefree.umich.edu
No more smoking at UM

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-do-econ-phds-begin.html
Where do Econ PhDs begin?

http://www.librarything.com/work/7643
Linked – Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
http://www.librarything.com/work/675
Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(book)
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.librarything.com/work/4214814
The Logic of Life – Tim Harford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
http://www.librarything.com/work/17697
The wisdom of crowds – James Surowiecki
http://www.librarything.com/work/6382314
Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities – Ian Stewart
http://www.librarything.com/work/23826
Critical Mass – Philip Ball

http://curbed.com/archives/2009/04/06/it_happened_one_weekend_the_public_school_dilemma_coops_raising_fees_now_is_the_time_to_raise_prices.php

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1121
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1147
Recent PhD Comics

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/02/guiding.light.canceled/index.html
“Guiding Light” out after 16,000 episodes

http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php
Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives

http://andrej.com/objectivism/
Become an Objectivist in Ten Easy Steps (with illustrations)

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/03/30/harvard_encourages_dusting_off_the_classics/
Harvard encourages dusting off the classics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
List of cognitive biases (LONG!)

http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/19
Sloan Fellowships

http://www.stanford.edu/about/facts/finances.html
The Stanford budget

http://columbiaspectator.com/2009/03/30/columbia-admits-most-selective-class-overall-rate-982-percent
Columbia admits its most selective class ever

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/03/23/coates
Knowledge Overload

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TimHarford/~3/538216143/
An extract from The Logic of Life by Tim Harford

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/2008/11/16/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 Gérard) dies at 37