• Interview in Dutch national newspaper NRC-Handelsblad, W&O section, of September 8, 2007, in Dutch.
• About Automatic meaning discovery using Google, to extract meaning of words from Google's index, in A search for meaning, New Scientist, 29 January 2005, p.21, by Duncan Graham-Rowe. See also discussion in Slashdot--- News for nerds, Stuff that matters, and a Dutch Radio interview Taalonderzoek met Google (sound file), Nederland 1, March 8, 2005, in the talkshow Tros Radio online.
• Not so recent: About music classification Software to unzip identity of unknown composers, New Scientist, 12 April 2003, by Hazel Muir. see for local copy here. This work is also reported by Software sorts tunes, Technology Research News, April 23/30, 2003, by Kimberly Patch , see for local copy here; also Classer musiques, langues, images, textes et genomes, Pour La Science, 317(March 2004), 98--103, by Jean-Paul Delahaye , (Pour la Science = Edition francaise de Scientific American); for the full article see a local copy here The same method and software implementation by my associate Rudi Cilibrasi was used to classify the sequenced SARS virus within a day it was publicly available in relation to potential similar virii. A similar tree appeared later in the New England Journal of Medicine. Determination of internet worms, viruses, and intruder attack traffic analysis, using same method and software by Stephanie Wehner in download; see also Heise Security.
• You can do it too! The software used for the above items can be downloaded from the CompLearn homepage at http://www.complearn.org/. This is open source software. Try also the on-line Google Demo.

The following is an incomplete list, containing only items brought under my attention.

• General Interview in NRC-Handelsblad, W&O section, of September 8, 2007. in Dutch.
• About Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google
  • A search for meaning, New Scientist, 29 January 2005, p.21, by Duncan Graham-Rowe.
  • Discussion in Slashdot--- News for nerds, Stuff that matters, From January 29, 2005.
  • Computer ergooglen die Bedeutung von Worten, Florian Rötzer, Heise online, Telepolis, 27 January, 2005.
  • Google: ключ к искусственному интеллекту? PRESS обозрение - Интернет газета, January 29, 2005.
  • 應用科學：Google與詞義辨識的人工智能化, Sciscape 新聞[Feb 12, 2005]. Zt： 使用Google找出一个词的意义与用法, 送交者: Latino2 于 2005-2-14, 12:02:13:
  • 中山大學West BBS-西子灣站/ 分類佈告/ mr96 / 使用Google找出一個字詞, Fri Feb 18, 2005.
  • The normalized Google distance, In: Google Blogscoped, January 27, 2005. Further reported and analyzed in hundreds of web pages, weblogs, etc (search for "Vitanyi Google").
  • In the Netherlands:
    • Google helpt computer snappen, De Volkskrant, zaterdag 12 februari 2005 (157 woorden, pagina K5).
    • Radio interview Taalonderzoek met Google (sound file), Nederland 1, March 8, 2005, in the talkshow Tros Radio online.
• About Clustering by Compression and Algorithmic Music Clustering
  • Software to unzip identity of unknown composers, New Scientist, 12 April 2003, by Hazel Muir; see for local copy here. This is about our music clustering work reported in R. Cilibrasi, R. de Wolf, P. Vitanyi, Algorithmic clustering of music, Computer Music Journal, To appear. This work is also reported by
  • Software sorts tunes, Technology Research News, April 23/30, 2003, by Kimberly Patch , see for local copy here. Also in Unzipping composers and musical style, by Fred "zAmboni" Locklear, Ars Technica 4/10/2003
  • In France Classer musiques, langues, images, textes et genomes, Pour La Science, 317(March 2004), 98--103, by Jean-Paul Delahaye , (Pour la Science = Edition francaise de Scientific American); for the full article see a local copy here
  • In the Netherlands:
    • `Noem het maar automatische intelligentie', Automatiseringsgids, 17 september, 2004, by Rolf Zaal.
    • De afstand tussen Haendel en Hendrix, by Rob van den Berg, NRC-Handelsblad, O&W Bijlage, April 26, 2003; and
    • Zip-programma ontmaskert componist, Intermediair, April 24, 2003.
  • In Russia by Izvestia newspaper;
  • In Italy by Neural: revista di cultura dei nuova media .hactivism .emusic .new media art no 20, glu 2003;
  • In Europe Research Consortium News by ERCIM News No. 54, July 2003
  • In Mexico by Cerebral Dynamics Bulletin;
  • in Australia by ABC Radio in Newcastle;
  • in Germany by Deutschland Funk, April 28, 2003.
  • In Austria by Kurier Zeitung, May 6, 2003
  • Determination of internet worms and viruses using same method and software by Stephanie Wehner see Heise Security.
• About our work on Kolmogorov complexity in general, and its relation with computational learning, see
  • La complexite mesuree, Pour La Science (French edition of "Scientific American"), No. 314, December 2003, by Jean-Paul Delahaye.
• Click here for the our biological and linguistic phylogeny work related to the work referred to in:
  • "De genen van de kettingbrief", by Martijn van Calmthout, in De Volkskrant, Sat. 21 June, 2003, Wetenschap 5W.
  • "Chain letters and evolutionary histories", by C.H. Bennett, M. Li, B. Ma, in Scientific American, June 2003, 64--69.
  • Nature, Science Update, Jan. 29, 2002 with local copy , and
  • Wired News story "Digging Deep Into Compression", Feb. 6, 2002 and local copy is related work on new methods to construct evolutionary trees, and compression.
• Click here for the Heilbronn triangles & Shellsort work referred to in
  • New Scientist of November 6, 1999, pp 44-47: "On a Roll" by Dana Mackenzie;
  • access-restricted NewScientist Archives. or local copy
  • See access-restricted NewScientist archives or local copy for letters from readers on this article.
  • Die Zeit of April 13, 2000 (#16), p. 40: "Geometrisch Eingekreist" by Wolfgang Blum-- or a local copy
  • Courrier International of December 23, 1999 -- January 5, 2000 (#41), p. 477-478: "Le hasard ne joue pas aux de's", par Dana Mackenzie (translation NS article).
• Some older reports in Dutch Newspapers/Magazines:
  • NRC-Handelsblad: ``Rekenen met atomen'', door Dirk van Delft, W&O Bijlage January 4, 1996 (about our group's work on quantum computing).
  • Intermagazine: ``Report: De computer-anarchisten'', door Pauline van de Ven, Issue 1/2 January/February, 1985 (about the people at CWI creating and using internet).
  • NRC-Handelsblad: ``De opkomst van computernetwerken; een leven zonder netwerk is ondenkbaar'', door Pauline van de Ven, Mens&Bedrijf Supplement, September 26, 1984 (about the rise of computer networks, and in particular CWI's role in it).