More on Wordpress themes
Via wpmudev, I run into a huge pack of themes for Wordpress. Kumara Sastry also have a nice collection of his favorites.
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GE498-ECI, Lecture 11: Summarize and drill: Helping to avoid cognitive overload
This lecture covered the basic of how to identify relevant topics and extract summaries out of a conversation. This lecture is based on the paper “Delineating Topic and Discussant Transitions in Online Collaborative Environments” by Yasui, N.I., Llorà, X., and Goldberg, D.E.. You may find the PDF of the paper here.
GE498-ECI, Lecture 10: Innovation and visual concept maps
This lecture covered how to visualizes concepts on an ongoing conversation. The lecture was based on the paper about using interactive genetic algorithms to tune the KeyGraph algorithm for a given document. The paper was published in the First European Workshop on Chance Discovery, EWCD 2004 (Valencia, Spain). The paper may be found here (PDF, 0.7Mb) and the presentation slides here (PDF, 0.5Mb)—or see below.
Paul Borgeson poetry contest at UIUC
There is a poetry contest at UIUC in honor of Paul Borgeson (former UIUC decesed faculty). You still have time to turn your poem in till April 6th. It is never to late to have fun.
Interesting compilation of Firefox add-ons
Kumara Sastry has an interesting blog post about add-ons for Mozilla Firefox.