Computer Science

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."- E. W. Dijkstr

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Farmers' Almanac, 1978

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier." - Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." - Jeff Pesis

Search

Computer Science Bibliography at U. Trier -- Bibliography search for several CS journals, conferences, books & series by author, title and more.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies at U. Karlsruhe -- The collection currently contains more than 1.2 million references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports
Cornell Computer Science Technical Report Collection -- collection of Computer science technical reports from number of participating institutions
Directory of Computing Science Journals at Simon Fisher U.
HomePageSearch -- Search for Personal Home Pages of Computer Scientists at U.Trier.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science WWW-Database at at U. Karlsruhe -- Bibliographical database covering the literature from volume 500 to current volumes.
NCSTRL Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library -- (pronounced "ancestral") is a worldwide, distributed digital library of computer science technical reports from educational institutions.
Online CS Techreports -- A listing with links to sites around the world that have online computer science technical reports.
Virtual Technical Reports Center, The -- EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web.

Dictionaries & Glossaries

BABEL : A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology
FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Instant Web - Online Computing Dictionary
NetLingo - The Internet Dictionary -- thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web.
TechEncyclopedia -- More than 14,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
Webopedia -- Online Computer Dictionary and Search for Internet Terms and Technical Support.

Books, Lectures, Tutorials and Notes

Collection of Lecture Notes Surveys and Papers
Computer Science Books at Brooks/Cole
- Computer Science Courses
- Computer Science Series
Computer Science Teaching Center -- A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.

Links

Australian Computer Science Academics Personal Database
Chronology of Personal Computers
Computer Almanac -- Interesting & useful numbers about Computers.
Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques -- Useful for computer graphics programmers who want to learn the basics of computer animation programming.
Computer Science Education Links at Louisiana State U.
Computer Science: A guide to selected resources on the Internet -- Listing of annotated resources relating to computer science. Subheadings include meta sites, academic departments and institutes, algorithm collections, bibliographies, electronic journals, employment, and programming languages, courses, and tutorials.
Computer Science Courses on the World Wide Web -- List of computing courses available via the Web.
Computer Science Departments across the web
Computer Museum History Center -- Collection of computer related artifacts, documents, film, and photographs in the world.
Computing Research News Online -- Online version of the Computing Research Association newsletter, which is distributed five times a year to researchers and decision makers in academia, government and industry.
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of New South Wales, Australia
Eprints.org -- dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving.
Guide to Computer Science Internet Resources -- Includes academic departments and institutes, algorithms, associations, bibliographies and technical reports, dictionaries and programming languages, and courses and tutorials.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Internet Guide to Engineering, Maths and Computing (EMC) Hub -- Collaborative service providing quick access to quality Internet resources in engineering, mathematics, and computing for the UK academic community.
Imperial College's list of CS departments
Museum of HP Calculators
Language List --A list and description of all known computer programming languages.
NASA High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC)
NCSA - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Oxford Computing Lab Publications
Research Groups for Mathematical Logic, Philosophical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science -- Sweden.
Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet by Steven S. Seiden (pdf) -- commonly used formulas and other useful information for computer scientists.
Theoretical Computer Science Virtual Address Book -- lists URLs of theoretical computer scientists around the world.
Top 100 Computer Magazines
Top 500 of supercomputers in the world.

Tools

Calculators On-Line Center: Engineering: Electrical & Computer
Compilers & Interpreters --Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters. This catalog lists links to freely available software for language tools, including compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, important libraries, and assemblers.

Languages

ACCU: The Association of C & C++ Users -- is a non-profit organization devoted to professionalism at all levels in C, C++, Java and Python. This Web site has a categorized directory of related links and other resources and book reviews.
Bench++ -- Contains a suite of benchmarks designed to measure the performance of the code generated by C++ compilers.
Fortran Library -- provides a large number of routines to perform standard non-numeric coding tasks for scientists & engineers; it also includes some routines for numeric tasks.
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ -- A self-paced course to learn object-oriented programming. Concepts are presented using the C++ programming language, but the course is not intended to learn C++ in all its details.
Pascal Programming -- An interactive introduction to the Pascal programming language that covers the basics of learning to program, data types, declarations, arrays, functions, records, pointers, enumerated & set types, and file handling.

Theoretical Computer Science

ACM SIGACT -- ACM's special interest group for Theoretical Computer Science.
Analysis Of Algorithms Home Page -- An initiative of attendees of the 1997 Dagstuhl seminar, these pages provide research papers, a bulletin board, and links to researchers and other resources in the field. The focus is on average case and probabilistic analysis.
An Introduction to the Theory of Computation -- An online text aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Chapters include Finite-Memory Programs, Recursive Finite-Domain Programs, General Programs, Resource Bounded Computation, Probabilistic Computation, and Parallel Computation.
Aria Technology Group -- Deals with the physics of non traditional computing methods.
Average-Case Complexity Forum -- Provides an overview, including surveys and a bibliography, of recent work on average-case complexity analysis.
CAC-NET/FoCM-NET -- Archives and membership information of an electronic forum for researchers in Continuous Algorithms and Complexity and in Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
Comp.Theory FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions on Theoretical Computer Science from the comp.theory newsgroup.
Computability and Complexity in Analysis Network -- CCA Net aims to provide a central location for collecting information useful to researchers working in the field.
Contributions of Theoretical Computer Science -- A 1996 statement by the SIGACT Long Term Planning Committee on the importance of theoretical computer science to other fields.
Foundations of Computational Mathematics -- A group which sponsors regular meetings on the relationships between mathematical analysis, topology, geometry and algebra and the computational process.
Information-Based Complexity Home Page -- Provides information on computational complexity problems in the presence of partial or contaminated information and links to researchers in this field.
ITALICS: Innovations in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences -- An electronic journal targeting academics within the Information and Computer Science communities. Full text articles and submission guidelines for authors are available.
SIGACT News Theory Calendar -- A calendar of upcoming theoretical computer science events and a list of recently released books in the field.
Theoretical Computation on the Web -- A directory of resources related to theoretical computer science from Stanford University.
The Types Forum -- Archives and subscription information for this moderated mailing list which focuses on semantical, categorical, operational, and proof theoretical topics relating to type theory.
Theory of Computation -- Lecture notes for an undergraduate class taught by Leonid Levin at UC Berkeley.

Groups

MIT LCS Theory of Computation Group -- Research areas include algorithms, complexity theory, computation and biology, cryptography and information security, distributed systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, semantics, and supercomputing technologies.
DIMACS -- Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers, New Jersey.
Stanford CS Theory -- Research includes sequential and parallel algorithms, computational problems in databases, computational geometry, design and analysis of programs and programming languages, and combinatorial, logical, and algebraic mathematics.
Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science -- Research areas include artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization, computability and complexity, and constructive algorithmics.
CERCS: Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems at Georgia Tech -- one of the largest experimental systems programs in the U.S.
CERFACS: European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation -- One of the world's leading research institutes, working on efficient algorithms for solving large-scale scientific problems. This involves the evaluation and development of tools which exploit high-performance serial, vector, and parallel computers.
Alate: Research Group in Algorithms -- Performs research in algorithms: applied, theoretical, experimental, for serial or parallel computers. Applications areas include statistics, discrete mathematics and simulation.
Institute for Theoretical Computer Science -- ETH, Zurich. The members are active in teaching and research in topics including design and analysis of algorithms, in particular in graph theory and computational geometry; data structures, in particular for spatial data; computability and complexity; information security and cryptography; and parallel computation.
ICS Theory Group -- University of California, Irvine. Research centers on the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures as well as computational complexity.
Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Waterloo -- Research areas include design and analysis of algorithms, models of computation, and computational complexity.
Theory Group: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science -- Part of the Turku Centre for Computer Science, this group performs research in formal languages, automata, complexity theory, combinatorics on words, semigroups, universal algebras, term rewriting, concurrency and parallelism, cryptography and data security.

Cryptology

Cryptography and Information Security Group at Harvard
Vince Cate's Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk Page -- For those interested in cryptography and its political ramifications, programming data encryption software, anonymity on the net, creation of digital cash and Internet banking, crypto-oriented activism, etc.

Societies and Associations

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Computer Society of Pakistan
Computing Research Association (CRA) -- is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.
- Ph.D Granting CS Departments US & Canada
Information Technology Association of America
International Association for Computer Information Systems
International Webmasters Association

Conferences

Upcoming Compiler and Parallel Computing Conferences

Systems

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