music for the deaf

Wired: My Bionic Quest for Bolero

A first-person account of a deaf person's "pursuit of the perfect audio upgrade" to allow him to enjoy music as he did before his total hearing loss. Fascinating stuff, especially for anyone who's had to think about technological fixes for their body's systems failures.

footnote on employment options

Somehow I'd received the impression that Google researchers don't publish a whole lot, and considered this a reason to be less enthusiastic about working there (in part because I'd like to leave my options open for an academic career later). Then I found this page: Papers written by Googlers

Now, one good question is how much of this was written before the respective authors started working at Google (among other things, I notice Russell and Norvig's AI text on the list, which I know has been around since before Norvig (?) started there). But it's somewhat encouraging, nonetheless.