Friday, September 18, 2009

Big academic publishers (areas inc Computer Science)

Elsevier
Springer
Wiley: Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley InterScience, Wiley-IEEE Press
Oxford University Press
McGraw-Hill
Cambridge University Press
Prentice Hall
CRC Press Inc.
Academic Press
VCH
IOS Press
IGI Global
Inderscience

Sunday, September 13, 2009

UK universities league table

1 Oxford
2 Cambridge
3 Imperial College
4 London School of Economics
5 Durham
6 Warwick
7 St Andrews
8 University College London
9 Bath
10 York
11 Edinburgh
12 Lancaster
13 Southampton
13 Aston
15 SOAS
16 Bristol
17 King's College London
18 Loughborough
19 Nottingham
19 Exeter
20 Leicester
22 Royal Holloway
23 Newcastle
24 Sheffield
25 Sussex
26 Glasgow
27 Birmingham
28 Leeds
28 Manchester
30 Essex
31 Surrey
32 East Anglia
33 Queens - Belfast
34 Liverpool
35 Reading
36 Cardiff
37 Goldsmiths College
38 Kent
39 Heriot-Watt
40 Strathclyde
41 Brunel
42 Keele
43 Queen Mary
44 City
44 Stirling
46 Hertfordshire
47 Nottingham Trent
48 Robert Gordon
49 Ulster
49 Aberdeen
51 Dundee
52 Hull
53 Oxford Brookes
54 Bournemouth
55 Aberystwyth
56 Swansea
57 Bradford
58 Northumbria
59 Birmingham City
60 University of the Arts - London
61 West of England - Bristol
62 Portsmouth
63 Brighton
63 Bangor
65 De Montfort
65 UWIC - Cardiff
67 Chichester
68 Sheffield Hallam
69 Winchester
70 University for the Creative Arts
71 Gloucestershire
72 Edinburgh Napier
72 Bedfordshire
74 Glasgow Caledonian
75 Plymouth
76 Salford
77 Lampeter
78 Lincoln
79 Central Lancashire
80 Staffordshire
81 Kingston
82 Manchester Metropolitan
82 Bath Spa
84 Huddersfield
85 Coventry
86 Queen Margaret
87 Roehampton
88 Middlesex
89 Westminster
90 Chester
90 Glamorgan
91 York St John
92 Teesside
93 Sunderland
95 Abertay Dundee
96 Worcester
97 Leeds Metropolitan
98 Derby
98 Thames Valley
98 University of Wales - Newport
101 Glyndwr
102 Wolverhampton
103 Buckinghamshire New
104 Liverpool John Moores
104 Northampton
106 East London
107 Canterbury Christ Church
108 Cumbria
109 Edge Hill
110 Southampton Solent
111 Greenwich
112 Bolton
113 London South Bank

US universities league table

Tier 1 & 2

1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
3 Yale University New Haven, CT
4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA
4 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
8 Columbia University New York, NY
8 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
10 Duke University Durham, NC
11 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
12 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
12 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
14 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
15 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
16 Brown University Providence, RI
17 Emory University Atlanta, GA
17 Rice University Houston, TX
17 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
20 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
21 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
22 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
23 Georgetown University Washington, DC
24 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
24 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
26 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
27 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
28 Tufts University Medford, MA
28 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
28 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC
31 Brandeis University Waltham, MA
32 New York University New York, NY
33 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA
34 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
35 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
35 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
35 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA
35 University of Rochester Rochester, NY
39 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
39 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI
41 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
42 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
42 University of California--Davis Davis, CA
42 University of California--Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
42 University of Washington Seattle, WA
46 University of California--Irvine Irvine, CA
47 Pennsylvania State University--University Park University Park, PA
47 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
47 University of Texas--Austin Austin, TX
50 Tulane University New Orleans, LA
50 University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
52 Yeshiva University New York, NY
53 George Washington University Washington, DC
53 Ohio State University--Columbus Columbus, OH
53 University of Maryland--College Park College Park, MD
56 Boston University Boston, MA
56 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
58 Pepperdine University Malibu, CA
58 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
58 University of Georgia Athens, GA
61 Clemson University Clemson, SC
61 Fordham University New York, NY
61 Purdue University--West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
61 Texas A&M University--College Station College Station, TX
61 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
66 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ
66 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
68 Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX
68 University of Delaware Newark, DE
68 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA
71 Brigham Young University--Provo Provo, UT
71 Indiana University--Bloomington Bloomington, IN
71 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
71 University of California--Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA
71 University of Iowa Iowa City, IA
71 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
77 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO
77 Miami University--Oxford Oxford, OH
77 University of Colorado--Boulder Boulder, CO
80 Baylor University Waco, TX
80 Northeastern University Boston, MA
80 SUNY--Binghamton Binghamton, NY
80 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY
84 American University Washington, DC
84 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
84 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ
84 University of Denver Denver, CO
88 Auburn University Auburn University, AL
88 Clark University Worcester, MA
88 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA
88 Iowa State University Ames, IA
88 North Carolina State University--Raleigh Raleigh, NC
88 St. Louis University St. Louis, MO
88 University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK
88 University of Vermont Burlington, VT
96 Howard University Washington, DC
96 SUNY--Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
96 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL
96 University of California--Riverside Riverside, CA
96 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS
96 University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lincoln, NE
102 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
102 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
102 University of Missouri Columbia, MO
102 University of Oklahoma Norman, OK
106 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL
106 University of Massachusetts--Amherst Amherst, MA
106 University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
106 Washington State University Pullman, WA
110 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX
110 University of Dayton Dayton, OH
110 University of New Hampshire Durham, NH
110 University of San Diego San Diego, CA
110 University of South Carolina--Columbia Columbia, SC
115 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ
115 Ohio University Athens, OH
115 University of Oregon Eugene, OR
115 University of the Pacific Stockton, CA
119 Clarkson University Potsdam, NY
119 Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL
121 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
121 Catholic University of America Washington, DC
121 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI
121 University at Buffalo--SUNY Buffalo, NY
121 University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA
126 Samford University Birmingham, AL
126 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
128 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO
128 Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA
128 Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA
128 Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO
128 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR
128 University of Kentucky Lexington, KY
Unranked, Union Institute and University Cincinnati, OH
Unranked, Wilmington University New Castle, DE

Tier 3

Adelphi University Garden City, NY
Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI
Azusa Pacific University Azusa, CA
Ball State University Muncie, IN
Biola University La Mirada, CA
Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH
DePaul University Chicago, IL
Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL
George Fox University Newberg, OR
George Mason University Fairfax, VA
Hofstra University Hempstead, NY
Illinois State University Normal, IL
Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
Kent State University Kent, OH
Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA
Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS
Montana State University Bozeman, MT
New School New York, NY
North Dakota State University Fargo, ND
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK
Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA
Oregon State University Corvallis, OR
Pace University New York, NY
Pacific University Forest Grove, OR
Polytechnic Institute of New York University Brooklyn, NY
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--Newark Newark, NJ
San Diego State University San Diego, CA
Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ
South Carolina State University Orangeburg, SC
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale Carbondale, IL
St. John's University Queens, NY
St. Mary's University of Minnesota Winona, MN
Temple University Philadelphia, PA
Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX
University at Albany--SUNY Albany, NY
University of Alabama--Birmingham Birmingham, AL
University of Alabama--Huntsville Huntsville, AL
University of Central Florida Orlando, FL
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
University of Hartford West Hartford, CT
University of Hawaii--Manoa Honolulu, HI
University of Idaho Moscow, ID
University of Illinois--Chicago Chicago, IL
University of La Verne La Verne, CA
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
University of Maine Orono, ME
University of Maryland--Baltimore County Baltimore, MD
University of Massachusetts--Lowell Lowell, MA
University of Mississippi University, MS
University of Missouri--Kansas City Kansas City, MO
University of Montana Missoula, MT
University of Nevada--Reno Reno, NV
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
University of North Carolina--Greensboro Greensboro, NC
University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND
University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI
University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD
University of South Florida Tampa, FL
University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN
University of Texas--Dallas Richardson, TX
University of Wyoming Laramie, WY
Utah State University Logan, UT
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV
Widener University Chester, PA

Tier 4

Barry University Miami Shores, FL
Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI
Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA
Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH
East Carolina University Greenville, NC
East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN
Florida A&M University Tallahassee, FL
Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL
Florida International University Miami, FL
Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA
Georgia State University Atlanta, GA
Golden Gate University San Francisco, CA
Idaho State University Pocatello, ID
Immaculata University Immaculata, PA
Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA
Indiana University-Purdue University--Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN
Jackson State University Jackson, MS
Long Island University--C.W. Post Campus Brookville, NY
Morgan State University Baltimore, MD
New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM
North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC
Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL
Nova Southeastern University Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Oakland University Rochester, MI
Oral Roberts University Tulsa, OK
Portland State University Portland, OR
Regent University Virginia Beach, VA
South Dakota State University Brookings, SD
Spalding University Louisville, KY
Tennessee State University Nashville, TN
Texas A&M University--Commerce Commerce, TX
Texas A&M University--Kingsville Kingsville, TX
Texas Woman's University Denton, TX
Trevecca Nazarene University Nashville, TN
Trinity International University Deerfield, IL
University of Akron Akron, OH
University of Alaska--Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK
University of Arkansas--Little Rock Little Rock, AR
University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT
University of Colorado--Denver Denver, CO
University of Houston Houston, TX
University of Louisiana--Lafayette Lafayette, LA
University of Massachusetts--Boston Boston, MA
University of Memphis Memphis, TN
University of Missouri--St. Louis St. Louis, MO
University of Nevada--Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV
University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA
University of North Carolina--Charlotte Charlotte, NC
University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO
University of North Texas Denton, TX
University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS
University of Texas--Arlington Arlington, TX
University of Texas--El Paso El Paso, TX
University of Toledo Toledo, OH
University of West Florida Pensacola, FL
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI
Wayne State University Detroit, MI
Wichita State University Wichita, KS
Wright State University Dayton, OH

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Cage dwellers

cage dwellers in Hongkong, the city's poorest inhabitants who pay roughly $170 per month to live in 18-square-foot wire cages.

Loneliness

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