Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Scaleable parallel computing, high-performance I-WAY networks, and High-Performance Computing and Music research are currently under way at this federally funded institute. Another fascinating research project is the CAVE, a ten-foot cube that provides a stereo optical, real time, virtual environment. Check out how this works!
Collects bookmarks about computer science, mathematics, computer firms, technical reports in these fields, bibliographies, and more.
Hosted by the University of Chicago’s Computer Science department, this site has several years’ worth of back issues of the journal. Subscribe to the journal from the site, or go right to the articles. The site has a special area for discussing the articles online.
A lengthy glossary of computer-oriented abbreviations and acronyms, updated three times a year (January, May, and September). This page takes a while to load because of its length, but its thoroughness is worth a bookmark or a printout.
Computer programmer Richard Suchoza put up this site to help students with undergrad-level CS questions. Submit your contact information, deadline, and a brief summary of your problem and Richard promises that someone will reply with loose guidelines for solving your problem in the time allotted.
Covers digital image processing and related areas. Includes the areas of multichannel and color image processing, parallel image processing, medical signal processing, ultrasonic image processing and storage, fast algorithms and architectures for digital filtering and image processing, morphological image analysis.
Provides computing services to the institutes of the Academy and other users.
Getting information from a variety of sources, this site claims over 750,000 references to computer science articles from publications all over the world. A few of the categories include compiler technology, parallel processing, and logic programming. This site boasts over 2.2 million hits in the last three years.
One of four supercomputing centers funded by the National Science Foundation. This center experiments with powerful parallel processing structures in a number of disciplines, including aerospace engineering, economics, epidemology, physics, and visualization.
If you think your desktop Pentium is powerful, check out Cray’s latest desktop systems, some of which are wireless.
A detailed discussion of the history of computing presented in a slide show format. Find out about Charles Babbage’s infamous “Difference Engine,” Blaise Pascal’s revolutionary “Pascaline,” ENIAC, and the Altair computer. A thorough and well-designed trip through computing history.
Join the Dartmouth gang as they try to develop systems that improve the performance of applications that have limited bandwidth capacity. Find information on specific projects, the people involved, recent publications, and how it could affect you.
Hosted by the Computer Science department of the UK’s University of Birmingham, this site is devoted to furthering the study of data mining—the potentially useful extraction of previously unknown information from data. Read papers, check bibliographic sites, and contribute your own research findings to the site.
Focuses on improving the way science is taught and learned by bringing the power of advanced workstation technology to introductory science students in both major and general education classes. Details some of EDP’s projects and offers links to interactive demonstrations.
Merges art, computers, and science in electronic visualization. Contains visualization projects, as well as student home pages that display visualizations.
Provides information about Europe’s movement toward improving the competitiveness of the European software industry. Includes training information, a list of upcoming events, and new improvements to their server.
Part of the Georgia Institute of Technology site, the GVU strives to make the union of people and computers more harmonious. Specific disciplines include animation, virtual reality, cognition, Internet tools, and many more. The site also discusses the new graduate program in Human Computer Interaction.
Download large GIF photos of famous, early computers, such as the ENIAC, EDVAC, ORDVAC—a fascinating Web site.
Sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the Human Genome Project is a 15-year study begun in 1990 with the goal of discovering and documenting all 60,000–80,000 human genes. Scientists and students from 18 coutries are contributing to the research. This site contains all sorts of information on the topic, from a status timeline to funding information.
Part of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, this institute has the goals of creating technology that people can successfully interact with and teach that skill to others. Find out about current research projects as well as information on undergraduate and masters degrees.
Part of IBM’s site, this is the online home of the IBM Journal of Research and Development and the IBM Systems Journal. Read dozens of back issues on topics such as proximal probe microscopies, optical lithography, and scalable parallel computing.
Lists upcoming Gigabit Workshops and IEEE white papers and reports on gigabit computing. Includes links to other gigabit networking projects, researchers, and sites.
Founders of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, which have honored individuals who creatively used information technology (also known as IT) to improve humanity. Check out the Applications of Technology Information link and the Interviews link to find out how recent winners of this award used IT in their projects.
Joint initiative by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to encourage the use of intelligent systems in UK business. This site describes the technology transfer clubs, special interest groups, demonstration projects, and latest news of the ISIP program, which strives to incorporate these pattern-recognition agents in standard software development toolkits.
Supports X-Division’s mission by developing state-of-the-art computational tools to investigate and solve complex problems in radiation hydrodynamics and transport. Applies these tools to problems that are important to the nation’s security and well-being.
Provides information in the form of text, images, sound, and animations on more than 10,000 National Science Foundation research projects. All the sites listed on this Web page have used NSF facilities to conduct research. Download computer animations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacting Jupiter, theoretical 3D models of action inside the sun, and many more fascinating images.
This Australian site is hosted by the University of Technology, Sydney. The Mind Switch project is based on the research of two UTS faculty, and revolves around the fact that a particular brain signal increases when a person’s eyes shut for more than a second. What are the practical applications for this knowledge? Find out here.
The MIT AI lab’s research ranges from learning and vision and robotics to development of new computers. Check out the Our Research link to read about projects in Machine Vision, Robotic Touch, Virtual and Enhanced Reality, and SodaBot software agents.
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Just one of MIT Press’s journal categories, the science and technology section contains such journals as Computational Linguistics, the International Journal of Robotics Research, and Videre: A Journal of Computer Vision Research. Find links to each journal’s Web site, find out about submitting papers, and get subscription information about the paper versions.
This program works with American businesses and universities to accelerate the development of high-performance computing technologies for use in future NASA Earth and space missions. Find out what a teraflop is (a trillion floating point operations per second), and the size of a petabyte, which is equivalent to 2,300 years of digitized video!
This site contains software simulators for eight neural network architectures. The simulators are in ANSI C and are available in such categories as pattern recognition and time-series forecasting.
Find out how NCSC promotes the use of super-computing at North Carolina schools. Read about their new Cray “flyer” computer, and find out more about research being conducted with their equipment.
Find out more about the 25th anniversary of the computing center that invented laser printers, graphical user interfaces, ethernet technology, and Object Oriented Programming languages. Check out personal pages of PARC researchers and employees and find out about current projects, such as nano-technology and machine vision. A prerequisite for any true technophile is to download the map to PARC’s campus.
If you study pattern matching, you need to visit this site. It contains an alphabetical reference of the top students and scientists engaged in the field right now (most are linked to their home pages), as well as a bibliography of books and journals, software resources, newsgroups, and mailing lists.
National Science Foundation Research Center. Online version of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)’s annual publication. Features current research in various fields, written at a nonspecialist level.
National laboratory for computational science and engineering established in 1985. Advances research and promotes United States economic competitiveness with state-of-the-art computational tools. Features a variety of collaborative research and educational programs, high-performance computational and visualization tools, and a nationally recognized staff.
Take an online tour of this recent Smithsonian exhibit, which includes the original ENIAC computer, WWII German ENIGMA encryption devices, and high definition TV. Download a slide show of the exhibit, and read what famous scientists, such as Robert Ballard and Seymour Cray, have to say about the age of information.
Group of researchers and students who develop software for supply chain/logistics/vehicle routing applications using geographic information systems (GIS). If you like puzzles or demo software and you’re running Netscape 2.0 in Windows 95 or UNIX, click the Software Demonstration button for an example of their software. Cool maps!
SUNY Computer Science grad student David Miller has developed a complex solution to a complex problem—’80s brainteaser Rubik’s Cube. Find out how he did it without using conventional algorithms. The strangest thing is, Miller still claims he can’t solve the cube, but his program can.
Provides research and produces SPECTRA6 quantitative analysis systems. SPECTRA6 is utilized in data analysis of radiation from stellar sources and related thermodynamic properties. Includes contact information.
Get a futuristic perspective from the folks that brought you Java. See what Sun is up to regarding collaborative research with universities, speech recognition, and more.
Researches and develops massively parallel optoelectronic computer systems using the optimal utilization of microelectronic and photonic technologies. Pursues a plan of research that spans the areas of optoelectronic materials and devices, diffractive and micro-optics, nonlinear optics, optical storage technologies, parallel computing algorithms and archi-tectures, including database and neural systems, computer modeling, and optoelectronic packaging.
The largest computer museum in the U.S., based in Boston, Massachusetts, continually updates and expands this Web address with information on new exhibits, museum clubs for adults and kids, upcoming events, and behind the scenes of their most popular exhibits.
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