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New York Times: “Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload. Last week they formed a nonprofit group to study the problem, publicize it and devise ways to help workers theirs and others cope with the digital deluge.”
Financing Americas Infrastructure – Putting Global Capital to Work, by Douglas Rediker, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, New America Foundation “Americas basic infrastructure is outdated, worn, and in some cases, failing. Most experts agree that it is inadequate for meeting the demands of the 21st-century global economy. If we are to remain competitive, we must invest in capital …
“This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. This “is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from …
Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns [Published Version], MC Gonzalez, CA Hidalgo, A-L Barabasi. Nature (2008) 453: 779-782. “Despite their importance for urban planning, traffic forecasting and the spread of biological and mobile viruses, our understanding of the basic laws governing human motion remains limited owing to the lack of tools to monitor the time-resolved location …
Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America, Andrea Sarzynski, Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program, Marilyn A. Brown, Professor, School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology, Frank Southworth, Principal Research Scientist, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology – The Brookings Institution. “Americas carbon footprint is expanding. With a growing population …
Time: “The global food and fuel crisis is resulting in more than just people going hungry. Rising grain and gas prices, as well as the closure of American slaughterhouses, have contributed to a virtual stampede of horses being abandoned some starving and turned loose into the deserts and plains of the West to …
Cancer Scientists Lament Funding, by Marilyn Chase: “Leading U.S. cancer scientists say that five years of flat federal funding of cancer research is threatening to undo major strides made against the disease. Nancy Davidson, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, said researchers had experienced a $500 million decline in real spending during “the …
Nonprofit Group To Add Its Rankings To Crowded Field, By Anna Wilde Mathews: “The nonprofit Consumers Union is launching a new hospital-ratings service, adding to the growing competition to provide online consumer information about health care. The effort by the publisher of the popular Consumer Reports magazine is a gamble that the credibility of the …
News release: “Food Safety Research Consortium (FSRC) researchers today released a new report that calls for sweeping changes in the way food safety information is collected and shared. The report, Harnessing Knowledge to Ensure Food Safety: Opportunities to Improve the Nations Food Safety Information Infrastructure, was written by Michael Taylor (The George Washington University) and …
Microsoft Live Search Blog: “Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that we …
“The Center’s Shadow Government project investigated a few federal advisory committees, part of a vast maze of committees, tasked with influencing federal government agencies on a variety of safety and policy issues, often done under secretive conditions with little public accountability…At least 900 committees, boards, commissions, councils and panels give advice to federal agencies and …
Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies. SUBJECT: Designation and Sharing of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), May 21, 2008. “This memorandum (a) adopts, defines, and institutes “Controlled Unclassified Information” (CUI) as the single, categorical designation henceforth throughout the executive branch for all information within the scope of that definition, which includes most information …
