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Jure Leskovec Jure Leskovec is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He is the chief scientist at Pinterest.
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Pinterest Pinterest is a web and mobile application startup that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly utilizing images and on a shorter scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp.
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Tekla Labs Tekla Labs (TeklaLabs.org) is a non-profit organization of researchers, educators and hobbyists committed to developing do it yourself (DIY) science infrastructure. Tekla Labs objective is to "enable scientists to construct their own high quality lab equipment using readily available, off the shelf items." The organization was founded in 2010 in Berkeley, California by postdoctoral and graduate student researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Tekla Labs has been featured in numerous publications, including in MAKE, TechHive, Nature.com Blogs, New Scientist, and SciDev.Net.
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Centre for Public Opinion Research Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej (CBOS) (Centre for Public Opinion Research) is an opinion polling institute in Poland, based in Warsaw. Originally established in communist Poland in 1982, it has operated as a non-profit public foundation created by a special law since 1997 ("Ustawy o fundacji Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej z dn. 20 lutego 1997 r., Dz.U. nr 30, poz. 163"). Its statutory purpose is to provide data on the population's opinion regarding political and social issues. Major Polish newspapers and news magazines, such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, and Polityka, regularly commission CBOS to conduct polls. Apart from its public function, CBOS also conducts commercial market research to help finance its operations.
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MaYoMo MaYoMo was a user-generated news site for mobile citizen journalism. MaYoMo.com, short for "Map Your Moments", was officially launched in October 2009. The site was owned by MaYoMo B.V., which is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Clickworkers ClickWorkers is a small NASA experimental project that uses public volunteers (nicknamed "clickworkers" on the site) for scientific tasks. Clickworkers are able to work when, and for however long they choose, doing routine analysis that would normally require months of work by scientists or graduate students. The web site and database were created and maintained by one engineer, Bob Kanefsky, and advised by two scientists, Nadine Barlow and Virginia Gulick. The pilot study was sponsored by the NASA Ames Director's Discretionary Fund.
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ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a website which provides subscription-based access to a large database of scientific and medical research. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic journals and 34,000 e-books. The journals are grouped into four main sections: "Physical Sciences and Engineering", "Life Sciences", "Health Sciences", and "Social Sciences and Humanities". Article abstracts are freely available, but access to their full texts (in PDF and, for newer publications, also HTML) generally require a subscription or pay-per-view purchase.
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Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec Mieczysław Albert Maria Krąpiec OP (born May 25, 1921 in Berezowica Mała near Ternopil, dead May 8, 2008 in Lublin) – a Polish Roman Catholic priest, philosopher (thomist), theologian, humanist and social scientist, the rector of Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski (1970-1983), the founder of the Lublin Philosophical School, the initiator and president of the scientific committee of "Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii".
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AgileBio AgileBio is a laboratory information management systems (LIMS) company headquartered in Paris, France, focusing on open source technology. It was founded on June 1, 2002 by the virologist Pierre Rodrigues. The company's best-known product is LabCollector, a program that creates a lab intranet for centralized data management and collaboration. Other AgileBio brands include Barcode Discount and Storage Accessories.
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Jumo Jumo was a social network service and website launched on November 30, 2010, to index charities so that people can find and evaluate them. Jumo was founded by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. On August 17, 2011 he announced Jumo was merging with the GOOD organization, providing a social engagement platform to complement their magazine content.
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Mike Masnick Michael "Mike" Masnick (born December 8, 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur . He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog that focuses on technology news and tech-related issues. Masnick is also the founder and CEO of the company Floor64 and a contributor at "BusinessWeek"' s Business Exchange.
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ChessBase ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates servers for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing. Databases organise data from prior games; engines provide analyses of games and perfect play in some endgames.
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Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences (in Slovak "Slovenská akadémia vied", or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestablished in 1953.
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TESCAN TESCAN, a.s. is a Czech Republic company founded in 1991 by several R&D and service engineers from a former and now non-existing company, Tesla Brno. Its headquarters is located in Brno, Czech Republic, moreover Brno is considered as traditional city where electron microscopy was and now still is located.
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Gábor Hraskó Gábor Hraskó (born 26 August 1963) is a Hungarian science communicator and skeptic, well-known within the Hungarian and international movement as the president of the Hungarian Skeptic Society and chairman of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations. He is a member of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists, author of the ""X-Aknák"" popular science blog, and was co-editor and co-host of the television series of the same name. Hraskó is a scientific and technical consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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DeSmogBlog The DeSmogBlog, founded in January 2006, is a blog that focuses on topics related to global warming. DeSmogBlog opposes what it describes as "a well-funded and highly organized public relations campaign" that it says is "poisoning" the climate change debate. The site was co-founded by James Hoggan, president of a public relations firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Science Daily Science Daily is an American website that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
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SemiAccurate SemiAccurate (S|A in short) is a U.S.-based technology-news and -opinion web site, founded in 2009 by Charlie Demerjian after his departure from "The Inquirer". The site lists as its contributors: Charlie Demerjian (the site's founder), Thomas Ryan and Leo Yim.
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DermAtlas DermAtlas is an open access web site devoted to dermatology that is hosted by Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Bernard A. Cohen and Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann. Its goal is to build a large high quality dermatologic atlas, a database of images of skin conditions, and it encourages its users to submit their dermatology images and links for inclusion.
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Rita Katz Rita Katz (born in Basra, Iraq, 1963) is a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC.
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Edutopia Edutopia is a website published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). Founded in 1991 by filmmaker George Lucas and venture capitalist Steve Arnold, the Foundation "celebrates and encourages innovation" in K-12 schools.
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YugaTech YugaTech is a technology website based in the Philippines. It was founded and is owned by blogger Abe Olandres (better known by his username "Yuga"). The site is the longest running technology news & reviews website in the country, starting back in 2002 with its domain, and refocusing on technology in 2005. It is currently the Philippines' number one Technology News & Reviews Website in terms of traffic and Alexa Page Ranking.