Tsinghua University came in at 45th place, as the third-highest ranked university in Asia. Peking University took the 57th place in the rankings. Zhejiang University took 67th place in its first appearance in the top 100.
As fall arrived and school began, D'Aloisio felt immense pressure to deliver for his backers. He needed to whip his algorithm into better shape, so he contracted a team of Israeli coders who specialize in natural language processing. Searching on Google, he found and hired a retired professor living in Thailand who'd written seminal books on the topic. 'He became our main scientist,' says D'Aloisio. 'He now works at Yahoo! in the Sunnyvale office.'
ESCP欧洲商学院(ESCP Europe)和美国麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院(MIT Sloan School of Management)也表现不错。两所学院的排名均上升5位，分别位居第三和第五。
This compared to a decade ago when there were six Asian cities, 10 European cities and four US cities in the top 20 of the list that calculates living costs in 131 cities in 93 countries and is used by companies for costings when relocating staff.
3. 丹·韦斯(Dan Weiss)，《14》，Pi Recordings。《14》的内容如此丰富，整张专辑的作曲由鼓手丹·韦斯一手包办：细节丰富的室内乐，前卫的啸叫，新音乐无词人声与北印度音乐。相比这个宏大的音乐参照系，更令人印象深刻的是，韦斯集结了12名同行乐手，把所有音乐元素融汇为流畅的整体。