Monthly Archives: April 2006

Informatics capstone presentations

If you are local to Buffalo, you should come by to see the presentations from four of our graduating (if they are lucky!) Masters of Informatics students. Their presentations and defenses are this Tuesday, April 25 at 5 pm in Park Hall, room 146, on the UB North Campus. Each student will present for a [...]
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Google Scholar Juice

There is a somewhat cryptic note about how Google Scholar is now ranking results over on the Official Google Blog. It says the search engine is now ranking results in a different way, noting that: It’s not just a plain sort by date, but rather we try to rank recent papers the way researchers do, [...]
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Last stops to Buffalo

Tomorrow morning (at 4, because I am too damn cheap thrifty to spend $50 to take a cab to JFK), I am making my second to last trip out to Buffalo. I’ll be home for the weekend, and then I’m headed out next Tuesday for my last, UB-related, Buffalo trip. OK, I will probably be [...]
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Windows Live Academic Home Page

This may be old news, but have you had a chance to play with Windows Live Academic. It’s positioning itself to go toe-to-toe with Google Scholar (who has already won the naming battle). Google Scholar has become the defacto search engine for a lot of students and researchers, I think. What can Live hope to [...]
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Curbed: Funky Friday Listing: Walentas Chic?

This is the sweetest of sweet cribs: a 1300 sqft duplex in DUMBO that just went for $1.7 million–which will buy you a smallish studio in our neighborhood these days. Um, we are going to be renting until we are at least 80.
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I’m really quite nice

I’ve been avoiding the quizzy things lately, but thanks to Liz, I decided to find out just how much evilness lurks behind my pleasant exterior. You Are 88% Evil You’re the most evil person you know. The devil is even a little scared of you! How Evil Are You? Come now, 88%? That’s just silly. [...]
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Titanic II

Leaving the theater after Titanic there were more than a few predictions that Hollywood would have to make a sequel. Finally, here it is. Check out the trailer.
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