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Computer Science : A Guide to Selected Resources on the Internet
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By Michael Knee, Physical, Mathematical, and Computer Science Bibliographer, University of Albana, SUNY, Science Library

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The Ada Project (TAP)
Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science
"Designed to serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing...TAP includes information on conferences, projects, discussion groups and organizations, fellowships and grants, notable women in Computer Science, and other electronically accessible information sites. TAP also maintains a substantive bibliography of references."

ASIC Design for Signal Processing
"ASIC is an acronym for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. It refers to the technology that many chip designers, including Lucent, use for the physical creation of their chips. This project focuses heavily on the creation of such a design, which will be incorporated as part of one of Bell Lab's future research chips."
By Geoff Knagge

AVEL - Australasian Virtual Engineering Library - (dead link)
"The Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) is your portal to quality Australasian engineering & information technology (IT) resources. These include quality websites, conference announcements, jobs & employment listing and full-text papers. The resources are selected and reviewed by experts to help you find quality engineering and IT websites quickly."

California Institute of Technology - Center for Advanced Computing Research

Center for Democracy & Technology

  • Encryption Issues
    Sections include: Legislation ; U.S. Policy ; Court Cases ; Milestones ; Take Action ; Resources.

Columbia University - Columbia Natural Language Processing Group

The Computer Vision Homepage
"The emphasis of the Computer Vision Homepage is on computer vision research rather than on commercial products."
Maintained by Daniel Huber, Carnegie Mellon University

DesktopLinux.com
"...is exclusively devoted to the use of Linux as an end-user desktop operating system for personal and business purposes. This site features news, opinions, HOWTOs, FAQs, product previews/reviews, product listings, a discussion forum, and links to other web resources, all focused on using -- or learning to use -- Linux as a desktop operating system."

Digital Logic
Sections include: Digital ; Logic Families ; Analog ; Optics ; Computers ; Semicondutors.
By Ken Bigelow

EE/CS Mother Site
"The EE/CS Mother Site includes a number of links to a wide range of  EE and CS pages."

Evaluation of Face Recognition Algorithms
"This web site is maintained as a resource for all researchers developing face recognition algorithms. It provides a standard set of well known algorithms and established experimental protocols. The goal is to provide a firm statistical basis for drawing conclusions about the relative performance of different algorithms. This helps further our understanding of traditional methods such as Eigenfaces. It also provides a basis for testing if and when novel algorithms are better."
Sections Include: Algorithms ; Data ; Experiments ; Project ; Papers ; Related ; News.
By Ross Beveridge and Bruce Draper, Colorado State University

The Garbage Collection Page
"...page is a comprehensive resource for automatic dynamic memory management a.k.a garbage collection. As well as links to my book on garbage collection and my online, searchable memory management bibliography (over 1,900 entries), it includes links to other garbage collection resources such as software and conference proceedings."
By Richard Jones, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kent at Canterbury

Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
"A honeypot is an information system resource whose value lies in unauthorized or illicit use of that resource."
Sections include: Whitepapers & Resources ; Solutions ; Maillist ; Research Organizations ; Conferences and Presentations ; FAQ ; The Book.

IBM Research

  • Blue Gene / Blue Gene/L
    "IBM and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will jointly design a new supercomputer in the Blue Gene family. Called Blue Gene/L, the machine will be at least 15 times faster, 15 times more power efficient and consume about 50 times less space per computation than today's fastest supercomputers."

IEEE Computer Society
"With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organization of computer professionals...The Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Information Warfare Site (IWS)
"...is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations."
Sections include: Computer Security ; Hacking & Cracking ; Military Affairs ; Critical Infrastructure ; Information Operations ; Psychological Operations ; Crime & Espionage ; Intelligence ; RMA & C4I ; E-Commerce ; Legal Aspects ; Terrorism.

KFTF: Keeping Found Things Found
"Our current research project focuses on the KFTF problem in the context of World Wide Web use. Follow-on projects will look at variations of the KFTF problem as these occur for email, electronic files and paper files
- A Project of the Information School at the University of Washington.

LearnTCPIP.com
"A TCP/IP and Networking Protocols Education Series"
By Charles C. Botsford

Michigan State University - Biometrics Research
Sections include: Overview ; People ; Projects ; Publications ; Useful Links.

Microelectronics 101: The Basics of Chip Making
Sections include: Chips: Making Semiconductors ; Interconnect: Packaging Semiconductors ; Technology Breakthroughs.
- IBM

MIT Media Lab

NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
"Topics are: authentication, common criteria, emerging technologies, encryption and keys, incident handling, security objects, testing, and virus information.

nug30 is solved !!
The MetaNEOS Project
"We are pleased to announce the exact solution of the nug30 quadratic assignment problem (QAP). nug30 has long been considered an outstanding open challenge problem in the optimization literature."

Optimization Technology Center
"One of the central projects is NEOS - the Network Enabled Optimization System. NEOS consists of the NEOS Guide, a comprehensive guide to optimization models, algorithms and software, and the NEOS Server, which is capable of solving optimization problems automatically over the Internet."
Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University

Perfectly Scientific, Inc.
"PSI is making available the following technical papers in various formats such as .ps and .pdf, free of charge. Implementations of many of the algorithms described are available in our software releases. The papers will be found in various states of development, meaning: Published (and therefore peer-reviewed) ; Pending publication (in peer-review process) ; Current research drafts, not yet peer-reviewed."

A Programmers Heaven
"This site is dedicated to programmers all over the world. Our main goal is to provide a complete start-off for programming related web surfing and file downloading ... Choose from almost 9579 files and 2633 links that we have!"

RADIANT
Research And Development In Advanced Network Technologies
"Our objective is simple: to help develop the networking technology of the future."
Research Focus: High-Performance Networking ; Monitoring and Measurement ; Cyber Security ; Network Architecture ; Robust Systems and Networks.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory

Robotics Education Project
"...is dedicated to encouraging people to become involved in science and engineering, particularly robotics. REP works to capture the educational potential of NASA's robotics missions by supporting educational robotics competitions and events, facilitating robotics curriculum enhancements at all educational levels, and maintaining a web site clearinghouse of robotics education information."
- NASA

Robotics Institute
 "The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks...part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University."

The Scientific Web (English or German)
"...presents an overview over all scientific programs out of the categories of chemistry, mathematics, statistics, optimization, data acquisitions and others..."
By Stefan Steinhaus

The Semiconductor Subway
"...provides links to all manner of semiconductor and microsystems related information, including fabrication facilities, research activities, standards work, etc."

Sourcebank
The Search Engine for Developers
"...provides the freshest and most comprehensive set of resources available to the software development community. Unlike conventional Web sites, Sourcebank offers tools that can be personalized and variously utilized according to needs of individual end-users."

Stanford University - Concurrent VLSI Architecture (CVA) Group
"The CVA Group investigates methods for applying VLSI technology to information processing problems. Ongoing projects address issues in parallel computer architecture, parallel computer software, interconnection networks, special purpose processor design, high speed electrical signalling, and VLSI design."

Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
"Committed to providing swift, global responses to computer virus threats, proactively researching and developing technologies that eliminate such threats and educating the public on safe computing practices."

U.S. Dept. of Energy - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Dept. of Energy / University of California Laboratory

  • ASCI at Livermore
    Advanced Simulation and Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

University of California, Berkeley - Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

  • Ptolemy Project
    Heterogeneous Modeling and Design
    "The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying principle in the project is the use of well-defined models of computation that govern the interaction between components."
    • Soft Walls
      Preventing the Use of Commercial Aircraft as Weapons
      "Many things changed on September 11, 2001. Among them, civilian aircraft became potential enemy weapons systems, and air traffic control changed from a civilian problem to a military one. This project studies technological responses that are practical and implementable and go a long way towards ameliorating the risk of a repeat. The basic approach is to modify the avionics control system on the aircraft to limit the space into which an aircraft can fly."

University of California, Berkeley - The ALPHA Laboratory
"...is a center for research in automated manufacturing and robotics. Our aim is to develop efficient algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing and Grasping. We are also active in research in Collaborative Filtering, Internet Telerobotics and Computational Physiology."

University of Colorado at Boulder - Optoelectronic Computing Center
"Our goal is to be a national resource in high performance computing systems, focused on free-space optical interconnects, special purpose optical processors, and computer peripheral technology including head-mounted displays and optical memories."

University of New Hampshire - Research Computing Center

USENIX - The Advanced Computing Systems Association

WWW Virtual Library: Computing
Information categorized by subject including Specialized Fields, Departments, Institutes, Vendors, Particular Systems, and Conferences and Exhibitions.

Zone-H.org
IT Security Information Network
Sections include: Advisories ; Download Area ; Digital Crimes ; Stay Tuned ; Passive Public Area ; Active Public Area.

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