- Today’s International Lighthouse Day!
- Signatures of small-world and scale-free properties in large computer programs (paper via Håkan Kjellerstrand)
- Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution (paper via Håkan Kjellerstrand)
- The Armenian alphabet (invented in ~400 AD, loosely modeled on the Greek alphabet, possibly influenced by the Assyrian script)
- Nobel Symposium: String Theory and Cosmology (Stephen Hawking, Aula Magna 19/8)
- Google Search: infanoid
- A Robot that Learns to Communicate with Human Caregivers (a PDF on “infanoids”)