Cpsc 461 - Copyright © 2002 Katrin Becker Last Modified June 18, 2002 03:39 PM

Cpsc 461 Off-Site Links...
Please let me know of any sites that are no longer accessible, and feel free to suggest additions.

University Computing Services (AIX, Macs, & PCs):

General University Computing Services Notes - including AIX stuff and use PCs (Mac & IBM)
Internet Access from Home - dail-up, etc.

General Interest:

On-Line Dictionary of Computer Terms
Alan Turing 1912-1954
Dr. Dobb's Journal (some good stuff)
Donald Knuth's HomePage
ACM Programming Problem Bank Site (Thanks to H.Hartanto)

Fun Stuff

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
The Polyglot List
The Quine Page (self-reproducing code)
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Acme Klein Bottle
Darwin Awards Official Home Page
http://www.22minutes.com/
Computer Stupidities
Science Made Stupid
The Journal Of Irreproducible Results
HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research
Cool Stick-Man Animation

Algorithms:

http://www.cs.hope/edu/~alganim/ccaa/site.html (animations)

Anatomy & Architecture:

Processor Information - information and specs on the latest processors

CRC:

cyclic redundancy checks

Data Compression:

The Data Compression Library - Adaptive Huffman Coding
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/cs/CC/365/mark/squeeze/AdaptiveHuff.html
Debra Lelewer & Daniel Hirschberg's Data Compression Notes (U.C.Irvine)
Mark Drew's Adaptive Huffman Applet (Simon Fraser)
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Algorithms/Compression
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~holowcza/present/compress
http://www.sr3.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~arimura/compression_links.html
http://www.internz.com/compression-pointers.html
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/compression-faq/part1/faq.html

GIF & LZW Compression:

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Visualization/contrib/cs490-94to95/yijou/myproj.html

DEFLATE (used by PNG):

ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/rfc-deflate.html

Data Mining:

Introduction to Data Mining
The Data Mine - Data Mining and KDD information
The Top Ten Data Mining Questions
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Dining Philosophers:

Table Manners
Example: John Heath, Cpsc, Univ. of Southern Maine
Example 2: Sun Microsystems

File Formats:

File Format Standards and more...

http://www.ora.com/centers/gff/gff-faq/index.htm
http://raiden.goice.co.jp/member/mo/formats/

Graphics File Formats:

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/
This one has LOTS: http://www.wotsit.org/
http://macinfo.ccs.queensu.ca/Mark/formats/Graphics.html
http://www.octobernet.com/~brian/graphics/image.formats.html

PNG:

http://www.libpng.org./pub/png
Portable Network Graphics

JPEG:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg-faq/part1/faq.html

Multimedia Files:

http://viswis.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/
QuickTime: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/quicktime.html
MPEG: check the WOTSIT site, it has the ISO standards for Systems (266K document), Video (242K), and Audio (157K)

Audio Formats:

AIFF: http://raiden.goice.co.jp/member/mo/formats/aiff.html

Gaming:

Gamasutra (web magazine for games developers)
Game Developers Conference
Electronic Entertainment Expo [E 3]

Information Theory:

A Mathematical Theory of Communication Shannon's Famous Paper
Claude Shannon
A Short Course in Information Theory
Entropy on the World Wide Web

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Information Theory and Coding

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Languages

The Language List
Dictionary of Programming Languages

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Java

New DHTML and JavaScripts for free. Huge selection. Download menus, scrollers, tickers, dynamic animations, image tricks, utilities, games
FolderTree JavaScript menu utility: DHTML and non-DHTML http://www.essence.co.uk/essence/
Applet Resources
Deprecated Methods in the 1.1 AWT
The Java Tutorial: Trail Map

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C++

Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations
GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Books Authored by John R. Hubbard
Programming in C and C++

Secondary Storage Devices:

GENERAL: Storage Basics , Hard Drives
DISK: Western Digital , Quantum , Seagate, Travan / Imation (SuperDisk, PD), Iomega (Jaz / Zip), Storage Dimensions (RAID) Compaq (LS120)
TAPE: Quantum (DLT), Hewlett-Packard , Travan / Imation (QIC Tape, Pereos Tape), Exabyte ( DAT), Datasonix (Pereos)
OPTICAL: Hitachi , Maxell , Creative Technology (CD-R), Travan / Imation , (PD), Ioptics (ORAM)

Sorting / Searching:

http://www.css.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html (including heapsort)
A-star Pathfinder Algorithm
Some Search Algorithms
The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
Alphasort - A Cache-Sensitive Parallel External Sort [pdf]

Statistics and other Math:

Business Statistics: Revealing Facts from Figures

URL for this site is: http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/Business-stat/opre504.htm

Nonparametric Statistics
Training in Finance, Data Mining and Business Intelligence
Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers
Ian Craw's Notes on Algorithms Including Random Numbers

Storage Area Networks:

http://www.san.com,
general info,

TREES:

BSP Trees
Understanding BSP Trees

UNIX:

UNIX Book List - short list of UNIX books with some commentary
UNIX Introduction - several links with information for beginning Unix users
UNIX Reference Desk - More links to UNIX references

Copyright © 2002 Katrin Becker 1998-2002 Last Modified June 18, 2002 03:39 PM