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...After getting his master's degree in computer science, Li became a consultant for IDD in 1994, then a financial-database company that was a subsidiary of Dow Jones. Even then, Li says, he was "intrigued with search," long before it became the hugely powerful, money-spinning machine that it is today. At IDD he developed an algorithm that ranked the popularity of various websites. He then got recruited by Infoseek, a company that had developed one of the first search engines in the mid-'90s - only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus...
...example, undergraduate use of the libraries—all of which remained open over break—was minimal, and Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis suggested that if thesis writers on campus were not using the libraries, the College’s financial resources could be redirected elsewhere...
Many Quincy House residents learned this notorious history for the first time yesterday evening at Josiah’s 238th birthday celebration in Quincy dining hall. Cake, a history lesson from House Master Lee Gehrke, and a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” colored the celebration...
...opinion, it is too late in the game for the world to come up with any diplomatic pressure directly on leaders seeing as those rulers have been allowed to enjoy the dismal silence of the international community too long and to master the art of maneuvering the political tools of democracy and full sovereignty...
Russia has been the regional master for centuries and there are few signs that it is ready to stop interfering. After unsuccessfully backing Yanukovych in the 2004 election, the Kremlin repeatedly slammed Yushchenko for his attempts to join NATO and his support of Georgia during its 2008 war with Russia. Twice Moscow has turned off the gas to Ukraine amid payment disputes, as it repeatedly tried to throw a wrench in Ukraine's Western integration...