Great talks
'You've got to find what you love'
�C Steve Jobs
You and your research �C Richard
Hamming
Multimedia research
TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation
Machine learning & Statistics
MatlabArsenal -- a machine learning wrapper by my colleague Rong
MILL �C a multi-instance learning package I implemented
Libsvm �C SVM package
Fastfit Matlab toolbox �C many functions needed for statistics, by Tom Minka
Lighspeed Matlab toolbox �C fast re-implementation of basic Matlab functions, also by Tom Minka
Matrix algebra for statistics �C useful for folks working on equations, by Tom Minka again
ANN: A Library for Approximate Nearest
Neighbor Searching
Auton Lab Software �C a lot of efficient ML algorithms, including K-means, KNN, etc
Bayesian Logistic Regression Software
Coding
Peter Norvig��s site �C a lot of technical articles from Google Research��s director
Algorithm tutorials at Topcoder
Introduction to STL �C I learned STL from this
Practical Guide to STL �C another good introduction to STL
SGI reference for STL �C clearer reference than MSDN
Blueshoes �C great sites on PHP and Jscript components
Text & NLP tools
CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit
Lemur Project �C IR and LM tool
MXPOST �C a POS tagger
Computer Vision &
Math Package
Introduction
to programming with OpenCV �C a fast introduction
Misc
StatCounter �C tool for website pageload and visitors statistics