I found some useful academic tools developed by Microsoft, I want to share it with you. Maybe you know about them but anyway it worth paying visit once in a while:
- Call For Papers (with filtering ability): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/CFP
- Academic Scholar Search (with ability to search person name, try Aapo Hyvarinen for instance): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
- Academic Map (e.g. earch for Kyoto University and Computer Science): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/AcademicMap
- Organization Comparison: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Comparison?entitytype=7&id1=568&id2=11883&topDomainId=2
- Publication Graphs (genealogy graph, co-publication, …): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#693530
- Co-author Path (relation between two researcher in publishing): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#693530&3381887
- Paper Citation Profile (who is inspired by your paper): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/PaperCitationGraph#142067
- Knowledge Domain Trend (pay attention to computer science!): http://academic.research.microsoft.com/DomainTrend