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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 [E3]

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

Information Theory and Coding


Languages

The Language List
Dictionary of Programming Languages

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

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

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