PiCloud

Link: http://www.picloud.com/

Intro:

PiCloud is a cloud-computing platform that integrates into the Python Programming Language. It enables you to leverage the computing power of Amazon Web Services without having to manage, maintain, or configure virtual servers.

PiCloud integrates seamlessly into your existing code base through a custom Python library,cloud. To offload the execution of a function to our servers, all you must do is pass your desired function into the cloud library. PiCloud will run the function on its high-performance cluster. As you run more functions, our cluster auto-scales to meet your computational needs. Getting on the cloud has never been this easy!

PiCloud improves the full cycle of software development and deployment. Every function run on PiCloud has its resource usage monitored, performance analyzed, and errors traced. This data is further aggregated across all your functions to give you a bird's eye view of your service. PiCloud enables you to develop faster, easier, and smarter.

Visualizer for Natural Language Processing

http://code.google.com/p/whatswrong/

An excellent tool for multi-purpose visualization in NLP.

Visual News Readers

Newsmap: http://newsmap.jp. An article about it at here.
Pulse: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pulse-free-visual-display-rss-news-reader-ipad/

Spectra: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/index.html

AlchemyAPI - Transforming Text into Knowledge

http://www.alchemyapi.com

AlchemyAPI is a series of products of Alchemy company applied for knowledge extraction from text. The name "Alchemy" may make a confusion with Alchemy Open Source AI developed by University of Washington.

It is quite intersting to see how language technologies are used for real applications.

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Managing news

Link: http://www.managingnews.com/

A must-read book on C programming

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

R.I.P Dennis M. Ritchie

Senna - NLP toolbox from NEC-Labs

http://ml.nec-labs.com/senna/

SENNA is a software distributed under a non-commercial license, which outputs a host of Natural Language Processing (NLP) predictions: part-of-speech (POS) tags, chunking (CHK), name entity recognition (NER) and semantic role labeling (SRL).