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A guiide to selected resources on the Internet

by Michael Knee

T here's little doubt that computers have tions, conferences, em- had a major effect on nearly every as- ployment resources, fel- pect of our lives-at work, at home. and in lowships and grants. between. Computers have transformed soci- news, organizations, pius etv wvoridwide and changed the way people projects ancd. programs. work, communicate, and play. The PC on Access: http://tap.mills. your desk, lap, or palm represents centuries edu". of progress in computing devices from count- * Artificial Intelli- ing pebbies and knotted strings to the aba- gence. A XVWY'W Virtual Library site contain- culs and adding machines. ing iinks to research sites and projects, Computer scientists and engineers design newsgroups. programming languages, lout- and buildi. cotmaputers and associated technolo- nals bibliographies, interactive demonstra- gies, including the hardware, softw are, and tions, and conmercial sites and products. operating systems. Computer science also Access.: http:v//ww-..cs.reading.ac,uk'peopie / encompasses theoretical and mathematical dwc:!'a;.html. aspects, sucn as the design and anarlysis of * Artificial Intelligence Resources. An algorithms, performance studies of systems Artificial Intelligence Internet resources list- and components, and reiiability studies. Com- ing containing linkLs to bibliographies, books. puter scientists seek to answer the fundamen- companies, conferences, employment oppor- tal question, What can. be automated? tunities, journals, newsgroups, publishers, re- Computer scientists were early users of pcxsitories and resources lists, research groups. the Internet. and there are numerous Web societies and organizations, and software re- sites related to computer science and com- positories and directories. Access. http:.K/ai.iit. puting. This is a selected guide to some otI nrc.ca" ai point.htm. the more useful resources, * Complexity On-line. An information service about complex systems providing Metasiteslstarting points access to books, journals, bibliographies, tU- *The Ada Project (TAP). Named in torials, software, and riewsgroups. Access; honor of Ada Lovelace, TAP is a clearing- http:./complex. csu.edu.au./complex/. house for information and resources related * Computational Geometry Pages. A to women in computing. It inclutides publica- metasite providing access to W`eb-based and

Michael Knee isphysical, rnathematicaL and computer sciences bibliographer at the UniversityatAlbany, SUNVScience Library e-mail: knee@albanyed;

C&RL News * June 2001 / 609 print resources dealing wvith computational related fields in scientific computing. tcce.ss: geometry- inciuding links to research groups, http:/.7www. mathcomn.com' corpdir/ forums, bibliographies. job announcements, techinfo.mclir scifaq'. books, journals, and softw,vare resources. 4c- * A Software Engineering Resource cess. httrs '.' comigeom cs.uiuc edu-ieffe/' List A hSting of pointers tc; softfw are engmeenng comrpgeonl. archives, rescarch sites, confetrences, and other - Concurrent Systemis. A WWW Vi7rtual relateci rnetasiAtes. 1cc.ss. ht.pP:7, w svsel it.. Library sitc containing pomntcrs to informa- nrc.ca,'favs,. tion3 orn concurrent I paraiele ' systerms. includ- * Theoretical Computer Science on the ing electronic repositories. research groups Web. This site eonta;ns linms tinpapers and and centers. research projects. toois, neet- sites of interest to the theory commmunit', it ings. and journals Access: http./.'w.afm.. includes organizations. journalN. t onterenices, shu acuk/ concurrent;. bibiiographies. lecture notes, sofrxs'are. reposi- * Formal Methods. A ',WWXTWVirtual Li-- tories. new sgroups. and mrailing lists. Access brary site contamning links to infornmaLion on htt?:''rcobotics.stanford eciu;-sureshn theory;) fornmal methods. including announcements. theorn-homne.4ht.ni introductonl a r-i les, publications 1:bibiiognt- * The Virtual Museum of Computing. pliies, txak-.s. journals, and coHlections of tech- This WAWW Virtual i.ibrar. site is a c 'lection nical reports 5. individu al notations. Methods. of XXWcbsites connected to the histo;r o' comn- and tools, mecetings. projects. conmpanies, or- puting. it also lists online i.n}tli)uter-Iased ganizations. newsgroups and mailing lists. exhibits. Access: htt?: pal7mpsest.stanford. plus a wins w.i Access: http:., Wv;A.afn. edu, icom.vlImp. on'lpuJting.lhtmll. shu ac.uko' * WW'W Computer Architecture Home * The Genetic Progranmming Notebook. Page. A Web site that pronvicles access to com- An extensive collection of links to intorma- puter architecture research gurops -esearch- tion on genetic programtning, genetic algo- ers, conterences. tools. sin-Iulatonrs. bench- ritrns. artificial intcliigencc. ev olutionarv- marks `ioks, online publications .organiza- computation. and robotics. It inclucdes access tions, and newsgroups. A.ccess http:.. xwvs-x. to bibliographies. books, software. pc, pie. cs.-,viscOo -cu/arch'vsvs-v, groups. journa!s. conferences. courses. tuto- r.als and nevw s. Access: n-ttp'.:-vwwv. Academic departments and genetic -`Ogramming.com. institutes * Logic Programming. As part of the * Computer Science Departments WXWW Virtual Library. Logic Programnmning Across the Web. A listing with ilnks to Web contains links to general repositc)ries, Prolog. and gopher servers of academic com-puter ss indowv systemn interfaces, other logic. pro- science departments around the world Ac- gramm-ning syste.ns, -neetings and bcooks. cess http triiondnarv cs.has erforCi. Cu - Access. httsp:,.s-wvvw.afm.sbu.ac.ok,'logic- Departments.ntmn. prog'. * Graduate Assistantship Directory * Resources for Programming Lan- (GAD). 'GAD)' is a pubihcation of the Asso- guage Research. A collection of links to re- ciation for Comnputing Machiner-', it pro-Jiues sources for research int programm-.ning lan- iformation on graduate programs in tom- gusage tneonr. design. irmplemnentanion and puting. inclucring ciegrees offered arid spe- relalec areas. This sire also includes language cialties numbers of facult- and stuident. fac- overt iews s with access to ianguage-specific ult- irnterest areas, computet equipment axail- sltes, bibliographies. puhiications, andl con- able types and am.oCunts of financial aid as ail- ferences. Access. hap: wwss .cs.cni.edu. fs able to cualiied stucients. ancd adniissionf.s re- cs.cmu.edu. use-r.,nmeone,w eb language- (utreltents and applicatiocn deadlines Access: research. htnr' H. http: /i'xsswwacm.crg'gad. * Scientific Computing FAQ: S.C., Nu- * Institutes. Centers. and Laboratories. merical Analysis. and Associated Fields A worldw-vide list of compuier science insti- Resouirce Guiide. This m-letasite lists and links tutes, centers. and lah-oratories Access. to resources, such as electronic resources and http '.'osrc.coc.ic.a .ukn bySubiecn:Computing' softw are cata-logs fo:r nu-merical analvsis and3 O(verview .htrinsinst.

610 . C&RL News n June 2001 * Supercomputing Centers and Paral- The subscription-based ACM Digital Library lel Computing. A list: of institutions from contains full text of articles and papers from IEEE's ParaScope site involved in high-per- all of itus journals, magazines, and proceed- formance computing and parallel computing. ings: nonsubscribers can view tables of con- Access: http:i/'comriputer.org/parascope/'#par- tents and abstracts, Access: http:/info.acm.orig,. allel. - IEEE Computer Society. Founded in 1947, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's Algorithm collections oldest and largest (98,000 imembers) profes- * Collected Algorithns (CALGO) of the sional association of people in computing. The Association for Computing Machinery site contains a full range of information about (ACM). CALGO contains software associated conferences, standards, publications, activities. with papers published in the ACM Transac- education, certification, and employment. The [ions on Mi1athematical Software and other subscription-based Digital Library includes full ACM journals. The software is refereed for text of articles frorm its transactions and maga- ornginalitv. accuracy. robustness, complete- zines, and papers from selected proceedings: ness, portability, and lasting value. The site nonsubscribers can view tables of contents and begins with algorithm number 49 (issued in abstracts. Acces.s: http://www.computer.orgI'. 1975). however, there are several earlier algc- * Resources of Scholarly Societies: rithms. Access: http:,'iwww.acm.org/calgo/. Comptuter Science. This listing is part of the * The Stoniy Brook Algorithm Reposi- Scholarly Societies Project, sponsored by the tory. Based on his book 71Te Algorithm De- Ulniversity of Waterloo Library. It provides ac- sign M4anual. Steven S. Skiena has mounted cess to Web sites maintained by and for schol- this site containing a collection of algorithm arly computer science societies around the implementations for maore than 70 of the most: world. Access: http://-Ww.scholarlv-societies. fundamental problems in cormbinatorial al- org,compsci_soc.html. gorithms. Access: http: /!ww .cs.sunysn.eduo, * Society for Induhstrial and Applied -algorith,'. Mathematics (SIAM). A group of professionals formed SIAM in 1952 to advance the ap- Associations, organizations, and plication of mathematics to science and in- societies dustry. SIAM members are computer scien- * American Association for Artificial tists. mathemiaticians, engineers, statisticians, intelligence (AAA). The AA.A, founded in and engineers. This site includes information 1979. is a scientific society devoted to ad- aboait their publications, conferences, meet- vancing the scientific understanding of the ings, and subscription access to SIAM's online rnechanisms unclerlying thought and intelli- journals. Access: http:..'/v/wwvw.siam.org'. gent behavior and their embodiment in ma- chnes. The site contains information on arti- Bibliographieslpre-printsttechnical ficia' intelligence, AAAI publications (books, reports journals, conference proceedings, and tech- * The Collection of Comrputer Science nical papers), conference, workshop. and Bibliographies. This database is a collec- svmposia informnation, and membership ben- tion of records frorm nearly 1,400. bibllogra- efits Access: http:/.'vvww.aaai.orgi. phies, covering most areas of computer sci- * Association for Computing Machin- ence. I'he records contain references to jour- ery (ACM). Billing itself as '"the first society nal articles: conference papers and techni- in computing." the ACM is the world's first cal reports. The collection. Vw.hich is updated educational and scientific computing society. monthly, may be searched bv author title, Founded in 1947. its Mem- journal, conference. or words anywhere in bership currently totals more the recordl; it's also possible to limit the search than 80,000 computing pro- by publication type and 'ear. Access: fessionals and students http:i'/liinxnx- 'w.ira.uka.de,/bibliography/'. worldwide. The site includes * CogPrints Electronic Archive: Com- information about ACM ac- puter Science. An electronic archive contain- tivities, services, conferences, ing pre-refereed preprints and published pa- publications, and policies. pers that are pertinent to the study of cogni-

C&RL News a June 20011 611 tion. Access; http://.cogprints.soton.ac.uk- Access: http: '/www.cs.cmu.edu, afs,'cs cmu, vievw-comp.htmi. edu,'user/iblvthe!Mosaic/cs-reports.html * Computer Science Technical Reports PrePRINT Network. Developed by the Archive Sites. A listing of academic and re- U.S. Department of Energy, the PrePRINT search institutions around the world that dis- Network furnishes access to electronic pre- tribute online computer science technical prints available from academic institutions, re- reports. Access: http://www>-v- .eccc.uni-trier.de; search iaboratories, and individual authors. The eccc,'info,'ftp,sites.html. PrePRINT Alerts feature allow,s users to cre- * The Computing Research Repository ate personal profiles that will then notnfy the (CoRR). Sponsored through a partnership of the user as new informnatiorn is added. ACM. the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and Access: http.// osti gov.preprints' Networked Computer Science Technical Ref- computertech.html. erence Library ('NCSTRL). CoRR seeks to be * ResearchIndex. Produced at the NEC the single repository to which researchers Research Institute, Researchindex is a datab'ase fromn the whole field of computer science will containing citations to journal articles, confer- submit reports as a means of rapid dissemi- ence papers. and technical reports in computer nation of research results. The database is and allied sciences. in addition 'toa lis. of docu- searchable by a combination of autchor, title, ments, an author or subtect search automati- keyword. journal, subject class, and report calky generates the search context and a list of number; or it iay' be perused by subject class. related documents. The autonomous citation Access. http:. :xxx.ianl.gov 'archive /cs/'intro. indexing feature executes a citation search simii- html. lar to Science Citation Indeex. Many of the cita- * Electronic Colloquium on Computa- tions are linkecd to the full text. Access tional Complexity (ECCC). ECCC provides http .'/citeseer.nj.nec.co0Mr links to research reports, monographs, lec- * Virtual Technical Reports Center. Ar- ture notes, survev reports. and theses deal- ranged alphabetically by institutilon, the Cen- ing with computational complexity. Access: ter lists sites around the world that proviide http: www .eccc uni-trierde 'eccc ' access to th-e full text of their technical re- * The Hypertext Bibliography Project. ports. preprints, reprints. dissertations. the- Thn-, bibliography is comprised of bibliogra- ses, or research reports. Access ihttp.'k7%/w . phies from key computer science journals, ib.umd.edu "UT'MCP/.EN(GINITechReports/,V\ir- and IEEE, A0CM, and SlIAM symposia. The tual-TeciReporns.ltml. entire bibliography or individual journals rmiay be searched by author. title, or abstract key- Calculators words. There is also an attempt being made - Calculators On-Line Center: Engi- to c reate a 'citation index" stmilar to Science neering: Electrical & Computer. As a part Citation Indtex Access: http:J;theory. liEn Martindale's "The Reference Desk," corr- ics.mit,edu/ -dmjones/hbp.'. puter scienitists and students w-ill find links to - Networked Computer Science Tech- calculators fromi the basic to, the comnplex. nical Reports Library (NCSTRL). NCSTRL Access: http t'www-sci lib uci.cdu.H5&r is a collection of research ReiCaiculators ±iA .htm'i 2=i. .. reports andl papers from.1 institutions awarding doctoral Compilers and interpreters degrees in computer sci- - Catalog of Free Compilers and Inter- ence or engineering, and preters. This catalog lists links to freely available some industrial and govern- software for language t(x)ls. including compiler-, nment research labxoratories. compiler generators, interpreters, translators ima- NCSTRL may be searched by portant lihrarres, andt assemblers. Access: author, title, or kew-ord in abstract: or browsed hetpv/wwwio .idiomz.conVfrree-cornpilers.' by vear. author, or institution. Access httn:,'.cs- tr cs.cornekedu. Dictionaries and encyclopedias * On-line CS Techreports. A listing with * BABEL A glossary of comlputei-cinented links to sites around the world that have abbreviations and acronyms. Access. online computer science technical reports. http://www.cs.tut.fJ,tIt/stufitfmisc, habei.htI.M

612 J C&RL News 3 June 2001 * Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data * Directory of Computing Science Communications Terms. Written by Journals. A listing of more than 500 com- Mitchell Shnier and published by O'Reilly & puter science journals arranged alphabetically Associates, this comprehensive dictionary by title with a title keyword index. Each jour- provides complete descriptions of complex nal listed contains links to its Web page, table terms. Access: http://,w W.ora.com/reference/ of contents. abstracts. and full text (for sub- dictionary/. scribers). Access: http:,i//elib.cs.sfu.ca/Collec- - Online Dictionary of Computing. A tions/CMPT/cs-journals/. searchable dictionary of acronyms, program- * The ElectronicJournal of Combina- ming languages, tools, architectures, operat- torics. A fully refereed electronic joyurnal that ing systems, neMtrorking, theory, mathemat- publishes papers in all branches of discrete ics. telecoms, institutions, companies, mathematics, including combinatorics. graph projects, products. and history. Access: theory, and discrete algorithms. Access: http:;v/'www .instantweb. co m./foldoc/! http://www.combinatorics.org/. * The Language List. A list and descrip- * Electronic Transactions on Artificial tion of all known computer programming Intelligence (ETAI). ETAI is more than a con- languages. Access: http://cui.unige.ch/cgi-bin/ v entional journal gone electronic. It is also a langlist,'. medium for scientific communication and a * Webopedia. Online Computer Dictio- forumL for exchange of scientific results, in- nary for Internet Ternis and Technical formation about current events, and debate Support. An online dictionary of computer- and about recently published research results. Ac- Internet-related terms. Access: http:.'/V,-w. cess: http://'Tww.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/. pcwiebopaedia.comn. * Free Scholarly Electronic Journals- Computers/IM. An annotated webliography in Issues in Science and Technoliogv.1 Librarianssbhi covering free scholarly com- I puting journals. Access: http:/,/vwww.iibrarv. ucsb.edu/istl/00-fall/internet-b.htrnl#comp. * Whatis. An encyclopedia of informa- * Top 100 Computer Magazines. This tion technology; it includes a comprehensive site provides a listing with links lo the top listing of every file format in the world. Ac- 100 computer (software, network, and mi- cess: http:.// whatis.techtarget.comI. croprocessor) Web magazines. The magazines are ranked by "Web influence" and can be Electronic journals displaved alphabetically by title or by rank. This section concentrates on electronic jour- Access: http:/,/wwv.internetvallev.com. nals and magazines that are freely accessible topl 00nmag.html. on the Web and Web sites that list computing and computer science periodicals. As de- Employment scribed above. access to the e-journals fronm * ACM Career Opportunities. A listing professional associations like ACM and IEEE of job opportunities, mostly in academic insti- requires a subscription. Commiiercial publish- tutions, Nvhich have appeared as advertise- ers such as Elsevier, Springer, and W'iley also ments in ACM publications. Access: provide subscription-based access to the elec- htjp:/,'Jww .acm.org',cacm.'careeropps/. tronic versions of their journals. EBSCO Aca- * Developers.Net. A comprehensive demic Search, Expanded Academic ASAP. and employment site for software professionals other fee-based, full-text journal aggregators that provides access to numerous developer's provide access to numerous computing jour- jobs across the lnited States, Access: nals and magazines. http://www.developers .net,'. * Computer ScienceJournals. Arranged alphabeticaily by publisher and title, this is a no-nonsense guide to the tables of contents of selected computer science journals. Ac- cess: http://w,v.informatik.uni-trier.de/-iey' I "-d#e4 db/'journals/.

C&RL News O June 2001 613 * IEEE Careers for Electrical Engi- * CODE Visual Parallel Programming neers & Computer Scientists. The IEEE System. Computationally Oriented Displav student career Web sitte is an excellent ca- Environment (CODE., is a visual parallel pro- reer resource it includes information on gram that allows users to chlange a sequen- finding a jolb, career planning, salaries. and tial program into a parallel one. The soft- an employer database. Access: http://w,vvw. ware must be downloaded and installed on ieee.org organzatiuonsJeab,/studentcareers.htm. a UNIX svstem. Access: http:t'ww-.cs. utexas.edu,'users,code,'. Meetings and conferences * Computer Vision Handbook- The pur- - Meeting/Conference Announcement pose of this handbook is to outline impor- Lists: Computer Science. Compiled by the tant ideas and techniques used in computer Un'versity of Waterloo Scholarly Societies vision andi to furnish references to books, Project, this site links to informnation on up- papers. and Web sites containing additional coming meetings anci conferences. Access: information. Access: htty..vwww.cs.hmc.edu http:. ' / w-.scholarly-societies .org;meetings. -tfleck'computer-v ision-handtxx)o.' ihtmi4CONfPU.ERSCl. * Designing and Building Parallel Pro- grams. This is the online version of the Programming languages, courses, Addison-Wesley text Designingand BuiZding and tutorials ParallelProgramns by Ian Foster. The site in- This section lists Web sites, courses, and tu- tegrates the contents of the '0ook with a col- toriais dealing with programming languages lection of public domain parallel sofftware and other computing topics. concepts, or toots and a set of links to other information technology. Prograrnmers' Oasis is listed first on paraltel and distributed computing. Ac- because it provides access to numerous pro- cess http: H .-in-unix.mcs.anl.gov'dbpp:. gramming language VX'el sites. courses, and v The Fortran Library. The Fortran Li- tutorials that are otherwise not listed here. brarv contains a collection of general pur- * Programmer's Oasis.. This site contains pose Fortran 90 routines that can be used to 'inks to programming language NXWebsites, sinplify the development of programs with courses, and tutorials with informiationi on coni3- a tsatch-style input,/output interface. Most of pilers and translators. newsgroups, organiza- the routines can he used to perforr stan- tiOnS and standards, 'Windowsfamnily prograrm- dard non-numeric coding tasks. Access. ming, aigorithms and data struc-ures, news. http:/.,'wwwR.pni.govx'berc/ ',ib/ and other sites of interest to programmers. * A Gentle introduction to HaskelL The Access http:'/www.netti.fi'-simos'oasis,. goal of this tutorial is to provide ai-i introduc- * All BASIC Code Archives. The archives tion to the Haskell programming language are a comprehensive collection of BASIC Code for a programmer who has experience with for the various B&ASIC languages, covering all at least one other functional language. Ac- operating svstem-is, but focusing on DOS and cess: http:,'/J>>fsww.haske'l.org!/tutorial,'. Windows. 'nere are source code packets avail- - The GP TutoriaL A basic tutorial on ge- able for QuickBasic. PowerBasic, VisualBasic, netic programming. Access. http/ww'w.\W LibertyBasic, AS!C, Rapid-Q, ancl XBasic. Ac- geneticprogranaimying.cf,.l'Tfutorial. cess:. http:' wi '.basicguru.coi i 'abc' * Help-Site Comnputer Manuals. Help- * The Art of Assembly Language Pro- Site contains links to computer-related sup- gramniing. This is an in-depth tutorial orn Dort documents and sites. including FAQ lists. assembly language programming in PDF for- tutoriais, manuals, andl official or unofficial mat. A\ccess to the 25 chapters and three ap- support sites. Aiccess: http:/'/help-site.con.', pendices is provided by a thorough table of * Learn C/C++ Todav. After furnishmg contents and index. Access: http:/,'wvebster. some background and tools required for C cs. ucr.edu/Page asm,'ArtofAssemnbly/pdf/ and C++. this site lists several tutorials avail- AoAPDF.ht-nl. able on the Web. Access: htrp:,'-www. * C Programming. This site is an introduc- cvberdierr..comrnvtn/Vearn.html. ton,v C tutorial: it includes an online test and sa nple * Linux Documentation Project (LDP). programming probiems. Access: httpt'math. LDP provides access to Linux guides (book nmu.ediu/'programmrning,/c'cstart.htni. length) HOV,TOs 'documents on specific

614 / C&RL News a June2001 subjects). FAQs (questions with answrers), man technical tips. Access: http:/'searchvh. pages (help with individual commands). and techtarget.com/'. the "Linux Gazette" (a magazine with tips and * ITE System; Topic, Task, & Test. The tricks); Access http:, /www. lInuxdoc.org/` TT' Systemt includes topics (background e MSDN Online. Microsoft Developers readings). tasks (activities for practice). and Network provides a bounty of technical in- tests (mnultiple choice and interactively formation, sample code, documentation, tech- graded) for begitners who want to learn how nical articles, and reference guides for de- to write programs in the C++ language. Ac- velopers using Microsoft tools, products, and ce..ss: http: ;,'clio.mit:.cstt.edu.au.'rrr'.stdcpp/. technologies. it also contains standards and * UNIXhelp for Users. This site contains release information, as well as samples, helpful information for users of the 11UNIX downloads, and tutorials. Access: http:, 'msdn. operating systemn. It is organized by tasks, com- microsoft comi'default asp. mands, concepts, and utilities, and includes a * -Niumerical Recipe Books On-Line. searchable glossary. Access. http:!.'cypress. The site provides access to the complete text mcsr.olermiss.edu/unixhelp." of the followving Nuumerical Recipes book from * Word Lecure HaIl-Computer Science. Cambridge I niversitv Press: Numerical: Reci- The World Lecture Iliall has an extensive lising pes in 7'he A7.rt of Scientific Conmputing. Nuf- of comiiputing and computer science courses. mnercal Recipes ;n Fortran 77: 7The Arl oJ Sci- Acces,. http:,'/www.utexas.eduiwvorld lectume/cs' etalic Computing, and NumericalRecipes in Fortran90: TheArtoqfParallel Scientfilc Com- Note puting. Aiccess: http:,//lib-www.lanl.gov/'nu- 1. Michael Fosmire and Elizabeth Young. merica,/. "Free Scholarly Electronic journals: An An- * searchVB.com. searchVB.com is a notated 9i;ebliography," Issues in Science and technology speci.ic search engine for Vi- Technology Librarianshikp 28 (Fall 2000), sual Basic (VB). It provides access to VB http:,'./www.library.ucsb.edu,istl/00-fall. Wleb sites, news, products, services, and internet.html (20 November 2000) -

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