http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/this-years-godel-prize.html
The 2007 Godel Prize goes to Alexander Razborov and Steven Rudich for
their paper, "Natural Proofs" (JCSS Vol 55. No. 1, 1997).
http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/2007/05/eu_and_us_final.html
EU and US finally ink Open Skies agreement
http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2007/05/open_skies_and_academia.php
open skies and academia
http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/?p=217
The Black Swan: extreme and high impact uncertainty
New book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of "Fooled by Randomness")
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/index.html
Free first chapters of books (from the NY Times)
http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2007/05/17/krislov
Upwardly Mobile Academic: Marvin Krislov
Oberlin College's next president, Marvin Krislov, ...
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/117388188/article.pl
Google Expands to 'Universal' Search
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2007/05/i_spent_thursda.html
The future of Search
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/google-to-launch-cross-language-search-engine
Google to launch cross-lingual search engine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/opinion/22watts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The Politics of Eurovision (By Duncan Watts)
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/opinion/23friedman.html
"Laughing and Crying" (Column by Thomas Friedman)
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/kilkki/
A practical model for analyzing long tails (by Kalevi Kilkki)
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/05/25/cannes_9/index.html
Some cool films from Cannes
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/119430942/article.pl
Another genius idea from Luis von Ahn: Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Amazon mechanical Turk
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