Maria Klawe

Too, too funny – how people in science see each other (HT @edyong209)

This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.

Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data - good move for scientific info #bibliography #mendeley

The annihilation of computational linguistics at King's College, London - http://bit.ly/dsCnZH scandalous behaviour #academia #uk

pdf available online

R stats package and Sweave

full papers avail. online

Science, Ethics and Innovation titles pitched at 'proverbial Guardian reader' will be free of charge on internet, with revenue sought from hard copies....The series will be the first from Bloomsbury's new venture, Bloomsbury Academic, launched late last year as part of the publisher's post-Harry Potter reinvention. Using Creative Commons licences, the intention is for titles in the imprint to be available for free online for non-commercial use, with revenue to be generated from the hard copies that will be printed via print-on-demand and short-run printing technologies.

Turing award - In 1981, Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, working in the USA, and Joseph Sifakis working independently in France, authored seminal papers that founded what has become the highly successful field of Model Checking.

yay

podcast- Chris L - DOS attacks

Harvard Commencement speech from 2007

an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study and consumption of chocolate pudding

The part I found interesting was the first detailed description of using the MapReduce model to run large-scale Expectation Maximization (EM) computations in parallel. An implementation of this on Hadoop and Amazon EC2 will let you tackle some large scale

Imagine having the citation and abstract for every paper in each of your current research areas, organized in an iTunes-like interface for rapid access, and updated automatically every day

(a 'google 101' class at uw)

International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself."

Teaching content with new tools, enthusiasm, and belief that teaching is a high calling.

ron rivest

From Inside Higher Ed, more on women in academia.

on the Blackboard e-learning patent

University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors.

allows bibtex and del uploads...

see <http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040019>

The Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education has been created by gender equity specialist Jo Sanders. Focusing primarily on information technology, the bibliography is comprehensive as of 2005.

by MALCOLM GLADWELL. The social logic of Ivy League admissions.