I have decided to compile some of the information I often get asked about by students on one page. The links below are grouped in several categories and are meant to help a translator or linguist to get all the information one needs for work, research, education, and employment.
Online translators and dictionaries
Dictionary.com (exhaustive online dictionary of English)
Urban Dictionary (a large lexicon of slang, colloquial, and regional English)
Recruitment sites
Translators Pub: freelance translator job portal (free and paid subscription available)
Careerjet Job search engine (Russian and English versions available)
LinguistList job search portal for linguists
AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) job search portal
H-Net Job Guide (Humanities job portal for linguists, philologists, historians, etc.)
Monster job portal (any position in any discipline)
Programs, departments, online courses, and other educational resources
Degree programs in Translation
The Monterey Institute of International Studies (Monterey, California) Four separate Master's Degree programs in:
Translation & Localization Management
Translation and Interpretation
Free Online Humanities and Sciences courses
Coursera (Computer Science, Medicine, Social Studies, and Economics & Finance; certificates available)
Udacity (Computer Science, Cryptography, and Artificial Intelligence; certificates available)
MIT Open CourseWare (a very large database of lecture and seminar courses taught at MIT)
The Khan Academy (over 3200 educational videos on any subject from history to physics)
Open source toolkits, corpora, and databases for linguists and computational linguists
Natural Language Toolkit (an extensive Natural Language Processing platform, in Python; book available online)
Linguistic Data Consortium (large repository of text and speech databases, lexicons, recent projects, and jobs)
Corpus of Contemporary American English (the largest freely available corpus of English, 425 million words)
American Rhetoric (over 5000 exemplary speeches, presidential addresses, interviews, debates, etc.)
Wordnet (large English lexicon with syntactic and semantic features, including synonyms)
FrameNet (large index of semantic relations, roles and script-like structures of English)
Open source software for Natural Language Processing
Stanford NLP Group software (POS tagger, parser, Named Entity Recognizer, Word Segmenter, Classifier, Tokenizer)
KWIC (concordance, word frequency and collocation tool for Windows)
Talks, conferences, videos, and lectures worth watching
MIT Symposium, "Brains, Minds, and Machines" (May 2011)
"Computers Versus Common Sense", Douglas Lenat's talk at Google Tech, 2006
"Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics". MIT Public Debate: Ray Kurzweil, David Gelernter, and Rodney A. Brooks
"Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Human Mind" talk by Marvin Minsky, MIT
"How to Speak", Lecture by Patrick Henry Winston of MIT at Harvard University
"Advances in Modeling Neocortex and Its Impact on Machine Intelligence". Lecture by Jeff Hawkins at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
"The Four Horsemen", an incredibly articulate two-hour discussion on Religion between Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. September 2007 (Part 1, Part 2)