Associations, Organizations
and Societies
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Begun in 1979 this site contains information about the Association, membership, and
publications.
- ACM, The First Society in Computing
The homepage of ACM, the Association for Computing links to its chapter, conference and
events, membership, press releases, and publications.
- American Computer Scientists Association
- Association de Tecnicas de Informatica
Spanish association for computing professionals.
- Association for Women in Computing
- Australian Computer Society
- Center for the Application of Information
Technology
- Center for Scientific Computing
While the primary language of this site is Finnish an English version is available.
- Center for Women & Information Technology
- Charles Babbage Institute
Located at the University of Minnesota, the Charles Babbage Institute emphasizes the
importance "of the history of information technology and information processing and their
impact on society.
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Computing Research Association
Comprised of over 180 North American academic departments of computer science, computer
engineering, lab and government facilities this association's mission is to strengthen
research and education in computer science as well as expanding opportunities for women
and minorities.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dedicated to the protecting rights and promoting freedom in the electronic frontier.
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established to focus
public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First
Amendment, and constitutional values.
- ICCA - Independent Computer Consultants Association
- IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer society provides technical information and services to computing
professionals throughout the world.
- International Computer Science
Institute
Associated with the University of California, Berkeley the Institute focuses on Internet research
including Internet architecture, open-source routing, network security, and human language technology.
- Information Technology Research Center
- Institute for Information Technology,
National Research Council of Canada
- International Society for Computers and Their
Applications
- Super Computing Science Consortium
- USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association
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Employment
- Academe This Week
Job postings provided as a service by The Chronical of Higher Education".
- ACM Career Line
Provides personalized assistance for ACM members; also offers a series of helpful articles
on locating employment.
- CareerBuilder.com
This site lists 180,000+ job openings that are never more than one month old.
- CareerJet.com
- Career Magazine
The job database connected with Career Magazine contains over 10,000 job postings.
- Programming Jobs at Code-Jobs.com
- Computer Jobs
Search by date listed, level of skill required, computer language or post your resume.
Exhaustive and current (updated hourly).
- Career Shop
A meta search engine for positions.
- COSN Career Center
The Consortium for School Networking (COSN) maintains this online resource designed to help job
seekers and employers in the education technology community find each other. The site is
free for job seekers, offering them features such as job search control, online applications, resumé
posting, and RSS capability.
- Database Jobs.com
- Developers.net
- DICE - High Tech Jobs Online
This site has thousands of high tech permanent, contract, and consulting jobs nationwide
for programmers, hardware/software engineers, system administrators and web developers.
- Hot Jobs.com
- Job-Search-Engine
An employment meta-search engine. Users can select up to 10 job sites to search
simultaneously.
- Job Search USA
- Job Web
- Monster Jobs on the Web
- Net-Temps
Listings of thousands of temporary to full-time jobs in many fields.
- ORAsearch
A job search engine for Oracle professionals.
- Software Jobs Home Page
- Tech-Centric
- United Nations Employment Opportunities
- Visual Basic Jobs.com
- Wall Street Career Journal
- Web Programming Jobs.com
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Hardware Engineering
General
- Chip Directory
Need a pinout for a particular chip? Chip Directory has that information in its
numerically and functionally ordered chip lists.
- The Computer
Comes Home: a history of personal computing
- Contextual Computing Group
This site from George Tech College of Computingfocuses on the field of contextually-aware,
wearable computing systems.
- Digital Logic
A very good overview of digital logic for electrical or computer engineering students.
- Edinburgh
Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) - Computer Hardware
- IBM Research
Includes a searchable database.
- ExpressCard
The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, has developed a new standard for
removable PC cards (PCMIA). This site has a great deal of information on the ExpressCard,
including physical dimensions, performance characteristics, and other specifications.
- Hardware Central
This site features opinions, reports, and product reviews on numerous computer related
products.
- IBM Almaden Research Center
The Almaden Research Center conducts research in the areas of: Computer science software,
computer science storage systems, science and technology, services research and WebFountain.
- Magnetic Core Memory
Principles
Magnetic RAM (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory storage system similar to Flash memory except that
it uses less power and switches faster. The website, maintained by a researcher from the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, provides some basic information
on magnetic memory and binary notation, as well as sections on: the Principle of the Magnetic
Memory, The Rectangular Hysterisis Loop, A Magnetic Memory Element, Arrangement of Magnetic
Core Memories, Relation between the Decimal and Binary Codes, How Numbers Are Stored in a
Memory, How a Binary-Coded Decimal Digit is 'written in,' How a Digit is 'read out,' and a Complete
Wiring Diagram of a Matrix Plane.
- Maximum Hardware
Created by Michael Verstichelen, an engineering student at McGill University (Montreal,
Canada), this site provides up-to-date information on computer hardware performance.
- Museum of Computer History
- Old-Computers.com
- SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
SPEC devlopes standardized benchmarks used to measure and compare different computer systems.
This site contains downloadable benchmarks and a large database of test results.
- Systems Research at
Harvard
This website features Systems Research at Harvard University. Projects described focus on
distributed computing, sensor networks, file systems, and systems integration.
- Top 500 Supercomputer Sites
Updated twice a year this site shows the trends in high-performance computing.
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Journals and Newsgroups
Journals and Newsgroups listed here are general in nature or cover a
broad range of topics. Additional entries may be found under specfic topics, e.g. Operating
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Miscellaneous Sites
- Brief History of Programming Languages
This timeline covers innovations in languages used for programming computers from 1946-1995.
Entries include the development of FORTRAN (mathematical FORmula TRANslating system) in 1957,
COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) created in 1959, Bill Gates and Paul Allen's version of
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) in 1975, and more.
- Center for Women and Information Technology
The Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), located at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County, was named "the best resource on women and technology on the
Web" by ABCNews.com. The center's primary goal is to promote women's involvement in the
IT industry. CWIT's Web site provides a wealth of information for women, ranging from
learning the basics of computers to IT training and certification.
- CNET
Need help getting started with your PC? Looking for developers tips, downloadable
software, sources for memory chips, software, peripherals? Look no more! CNET is the place
to begin your search.
- Computer Science
Bibliography Collection Database
Site maintained by Alf-Christian Achilles a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of
Karlsruhe in Germany.
- Computer Vision
Test images, FTP & Gopher archives, source code, newsgroups, conferences and
publications can be found on this site.
- Developer.com
This comprehensive site contains a wealth of references (over 150 full-text books online),
tools, tutorials, scripts, programs, etc. regarding ActiveX, ASP, C/C++, CGI, HTML/DHTML,
Java/Javascript, Perl, Visual Basic, XML and many more.
- Digital Bibliography & Library Project DBLP
Provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
- EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering,
Mathematics, and Computing
- Ethics in computing
Dr. Edward F. Gehringer, associate professor in the Department of Eelectrical and Computer
Engineering at North Carolina State University maintains this site. Included in this site are
materials on anonymity, chain letters, cybersquatting, vaporware, anticompetetive practices, and
encryption exportation.
- EventSeer
Searchable library of computer science events. It currently indexes calls for papers (CFPs),
proposals, demos, posters, participation, etc. for conferences, journals, books, and tutorials.
- Font Pool
Launched in January 1996 Font Pool offers over 1,000 freeware and shareware true-type
fonts for all major platforms.
- Guide to the Web's Best Technical Support
Sites
Here you'll find guides to the very best sites on the web all independently reviewed and
rated.
- InformIT
InformIT is an online community and technical solutions source. This site has
comprehensive information about computer hardware, OS configuration, programming &
development, software, networking, and much more.
- Innovations@Georgia Tech
Interesting news stories of developments at Georgia Tech such as "wearable computers",
"eye on adaptive computing", etc.
- IT Conversations: New Ideas Through
Your Headphones
Contains dozens of compelling interviews, discussions, and heated debates with a number of
fascinating individuals. Some of the themes addressed by these sessions include social
innovation, technology development, and global security.
- Martindale's The Reference Desk
An incredible resource containing dictionaries (generic and specific), calculators (16,000+), maps,
translators and a whole lot more. This site is hosted by the Univ of California-Irvine Library.
- Multilingual Web
at ACF
New York University's Academic Computing Facility (ACF) provides a wealth of links to
worldwide multilingual computing resources.
- Online Coverters
A great site linking to other sources for online programs that will convert document, graphic, audio,
and video files from one format to another. Check out Zamzar.
- Really Big.com
This "complete resource for all Web builders" offers CGI/Java scripts, clipart,
buttons and icons. There are over 3,000 resources available from this site as well as
1000+ links to help you to build and maintain your Web site.
- ResearchIndex (NECI Scientific Literature Digital
Library)
Contains over 5 million citations and over 400,000 documents.
- Review Booth
This site contains links to over 5,300 hardware and software product reviews from well
known sources.
- Software Technologies
A developers resource for resources and tutorials on C++, Corba, Java, Javabeans, Scripts,
Server/Client development, Web development, and XML.
- Techtutorials.net
TechTutorials is the Internet's only search engine solely dedicated to providing links
that "point" directly to the free tutorials and whitepapers across a broad
spectrum of computer related topics.
- Typetester
This site allows you to see what Mac's and Windows' operating system's defaults are for your chosen
fonts, and how those fonts would look like if you change the different defaults.
- The Universal Troubleshooting Process
The Universal Troubleshooting Process (UTP) is an abbreviated version of the book
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist by Steve Litt. UTP
consists of ten steps designed to help modern workers diagnose the system in question
and ultimately repair it. The process is very general and can be applied to virtually
any well-defined system.
- World
Lecture Hall: Computer Science
Links to course materials developed by faculty worldwide.
- Yahoo: Computer Science
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Operating Systems
Inferno
- Inferno Is this the new
"Unix of the 21st Century"? Originally created by Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs
(also creators of C++ and Unix)Inferno offers a general way to access local and remote
resources. This new Operating System is portable across many platforms it runs on Linux,
Solaris, and Windows 95/NT. This site maintained by Vita Nuova has links for general
information, FAQs, downloads and more.
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- BLinux Documentation and Development Project
A site for blind Linux programmers. Also available in Japanese.
- Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
LDP's goal is to provide good reliable documentation for the Linux Operating System. Some
of the documentation has been translated into other languages (see !english links). The
guides, howto's, and man pages can be searched using the Excite Search Engine.
- Linux Journal
Full text is available online for past featured articles.
- Linux Online
Looking for a local user's group? Vendor sources? The latest books? Conference schedules?
All of this information is available at Linux Online.
- Linux Printing.org
Solve printing problems, find drivers, and more.
- Linux Weekly News
- Linux World
This new online magazine is aimed at computer professionals. It offers links to breaking
news and Linux resources as well as original articles.
- Loads of Linux Links (LoLL)
- MkLinux
This site will be of interest to MacIntosh users. MkLinux was developed in cooperation
with Apple computer.
- Programmer's Heaven
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