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TECHNOLOGY
The Internet represents one of the most complex technological constructions ever created. As a network of networks, it involves the interplay of many computing, data communications, and software technologies. These resources are starting points for learning more about these technologies.
Computing
- ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (http://www.acm.org)
- Computer Top: the top computer information resources on the Web (http://www.december.com/web/top/computer.html)
- CPU Center: central processing unit (CPU) information, includes press announcements, papers, machine information, by Tom Burd (http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/)
- CS-MetaCenter: National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html)
- HPCC-NSE: High Performance Computing and Communication (USA) National Coordinating office, National Software Exchange (http://www.netlib.org/nse/home.html)
- HPC-Southampton: University of Southampton High Performance Computing Centre (http://cs1.soton.ac.uk)
- HPCWire: The High-Performance Computing news and information service, covering workstations through supercomputers (http://hpcwire.ans.net/HPCwire.html)
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
- Ohio Supercomputer: a state-funded computing resource, provides high-performance computing to scientists and engineers at Ohio colleges, universities, and companies (http://www.osc.edu/welcome.html)
- NCSA-USA: National (USA) Center for Supercomputing Applications (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/NCSAHome.html)
- NMCCSE-USA: United States National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html)
- NPAC-Syracuse: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Home Page, at Syracuse University, New York (http://minerva.npac.syr.edu/home.html)
- Pitt SCC: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (http://pscinfo.psc.edu)
- RICIS-Houston: Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems (http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov)
- SDSC: San Diego Supercomputer Center (http://gopher.sdsc.edu/Home.html)
- SEI-CMU: Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.sei.cmu.edu)
- Software Top: the top archives of shareware and freeware on the Web (http://www.december.com/web/top/software.html)
- WWW-VL Computing: the WWW Virtual Library entry for computing (http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/bySubject/Computing/Overview.html)
Computer science information is well-represented online. In this section, I list major sources of information for computing, computer science, high performance computing, and software information sources.
Criticism
- Tech. Determinism: A resource page on technological determinism, by Dr. Daniel Chandler (http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/tecdet.html)
- Tech. Determism/CMCM: a special issue of Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine examining attitudes about the potenency of technology (http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/feb/toc.html)
Developing
- NIMT-Ireland: National Institute for Management Technology, Ireland (http://www.nimt.rtc-cork.ie/nimt.htm)
- NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA (http://www.nist.gov)
- NSF-USA: National Science Foundation, USA (http://www.nsf.gov)
- NTTC-USA: National Technology Transfer Center, USA (http://iridium.nttc.edu/nttc.html)
Human Interaction
- ACM/SIGCHI: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computers and Human Interaction (http://www.acm.org/sigchi/)
- HCIBIB: The HCI Bilbiography Project, references to literature on human-computer interaction, including hypertext/hypermedia (http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/CHCIbib)
- HCI Index/deGraaff: Human-Computer Interaction Index (http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/hci/)
- HCI Launching Pad: Human-Computer Interaction resources and pointers, by Keith Instone (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/HCI/)
- HCI Resources: information related to Human-Computer Interaction (http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/)
- HCS: Center for Human-Computer studies, at Uppsala University, Sweden (http://www.cmd.uu.se)
- HITL: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, the University of Washington, includes information on the Virtual Worlds Society and the Virtual Worlds Consortium (http://www.hitl.washington.edu)
- Ubicomp: Ubiquitous Computing--computing and communications available everywhere to help people communicate and get information, information from Mark Weiser of XEROX PARC (http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html)
These resources deal with the area of human-computer interaction (HCI).
Multimedia
- Audio
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Audio WWW VL: Entry from WWW Virtual Library for Audio (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html)
------ Organizations and other information
- CERL: The CERL Sound Group (U of IL) (http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu)
- Clips: Sites with audio clips (http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~jmyers/other-sounds.html)
- CMC-Interpersonal-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between people, like Internet phones (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal-audio.html)
- CMC-Group-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between a group of people; audio conferencing (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group-audio.html)
- CMC-Mass-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass-audio.html)
- Internet Multicasting WWW: Home page for the Internet Multicasting Service (http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/radio/radio.html)
- IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive (http://www.iuma.com)
- MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface (http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/index.html)
- Multicast Backbone: live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet (ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt)
- Music Resources: a collection of information about musicians, groups, compusers, performance, research, genres, and journals and magazines about music; extensive collection of links organized into categories (http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/)
- Mbone FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) (http://www.mediadesign.co.at/newmedia/more/mbone-faq.html)
------ Major Collections
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Audio WWW VL: Entry from WWW Virtual Library for Audio (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html)
- Graphics
- ACM/SIGGRAPH: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics (http://www.siggraph.org)
- CGU-Manchester: The Computer Graphics Unit - Research at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom (http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/CGU-research.html)
- GVU-GA Tech: Georgia Institute of Technology's Graphics, Visualization, + Usability Center (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/gvutop.html)
- Scientific Visualization: Annotated Scientific Visualization URL Bibliography (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Visualization/annotatedURLs.html)
- Thant's: animation index, descriptions of computer-generated animations (http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/thant/thant.html)
- Multi
- ACM/SIGMM: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia Systems (http://www.acm.org/sigmm/)
- Digital Reality: produced by Gemini Consulting's Communications, Computers, Consumer Electronics and Content (C4) Practice. It is designed as a resource and community for people interested in C4 industries and how digitization, connectivity and globalization are changing the way businesses work. (http://digital.gemconsult.com)
- Mulimedia Collection: The Vancouver (Candada) Film School's collection of links to technologies about film, multimedia, animation, and editing (http://www.multimedia.edu)
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Multimedia Index: Multimedia Information Sources, by Simon Gibbs; an extensive, carefully selected list of multimedia information sources; frequently updated and organized by category; covers links on just about everything having to do with multimedia (http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/)
------ Organizations and other information
- CDM-NYU: New York University (NYU) Center for Digital Multimedia, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology, sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation (http://found.cs.nyu.edu)
- ICME-RPI: The International Center for Multimedia in Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (http://ciue.rpi.edu/icme/)
- IMA: International Multimedia Association (http://www.ima.org)
- Macromedia: multimedia information and design (http://www.macromedia.com)
- MCRL-Ottawa: Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa (http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca)
- Media Lab-MIT: MIT Media Lab Home Page (http://www.media.mit.edu)
- MICE: Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/)
- Multimedia formats: Multimedia file formats on the Internet, by Allison Zhang (http://www.lib.rochester.edu/multimed/contents.htm)
- Multimedia Lab BU: Multimedia Laboratory at Boston University (http://hulk.bu.edu)
- Multimediator: guide to multimedia associations, books, magazines, Internet resources, and employment. Multimediator also features original articles about the art and business of multimedia and the Canadian Developers Directory, the Internet's most extensive list of Canadian companies developing interactive multimedia content (http://www.ideaguy.com)
- Rob's Multimedia Lab: a collection of archives and informaiton about graphics, sound, and movies on the Net (http://www.acm.uiuc.edu:80/rml)
------ Major Collections
- Hypermedia
- ACM/SIGLINK: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Hypertext/Hypermedia; includes an excellent section on links to further resources (http://www.acm.org/siglink/)
- Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think, article from July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly about hypertext (http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/)
- Electronic Labyrinth: an exploration and discussion of hypertext terminology and the history and meaning of hypertext (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0276.html)
- Hypertext systems: An Overview of Hypertext and IR systems and applications (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Products/Overview.html)
- HTML Station: a collection of information, about hypertext markup language (http://www.december.com/html/)
- Hypertext terms: glossary of terms from the WWW project, from CERN (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Terms.html)
- Web Development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and promotion. Key practices and online resources are given for each process. (http://www.december.com/web/develop.html)
The Web is used to deliver information in a wide range of data formats. The resources in this section cover the technical, research, and academic issues of multimedia.
Virtual
- VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language (http://www.vrml.org)
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VRMLTech: directory of VRML files on the Internet (http://www.vrmltech.com)
------ Other information
- MIT Media Lab: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu)
- MIT TNS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group (http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/tns-www-home.html)
- VR Testbed: Open Virtual Reality Testbed Home Page (http://www.nist.gov/itl/div878/ovrt/OVRThome.html)
------ Major Collections
Networks
- Access and connectivity
- Connecting to Internet: What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi16.txt)
- Assistive technology: alternative methods of access to the Internet. For example, methods of access for blind, disabled, or physically challenged users. (http://www.alaska.net/~ckayaker/)
- GNET Archive: bring the net to lesser-developed nations and poorer parts of the world (ftp://dhvx20.csudh.edu/global_net/)
- XX-MISSING-RELOCATE Inet-Access FAQ: how to become an Internet service provider, an extremely detailed guide to procedures, equipment, hooking to the Net, agreements, software, fees, technical issues, marketing, legal issues, resources, by David H Dennis (http://amazing.cinenet.net/internet/faq.html)
- Internet Access Guide: Access Guide to introducing.the.internet, by Ellen Hoffman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/introducing.the.internet/access.guide)
- Internet Access: Individual access to Internet, by James Milles (ftp://sluaxa.slu.edu/pub/millesjg/internet.access)
- Internet Modem: Internet service providers in the US accessible through dial-up connections from a personal computer, by Genevieve Engel (ftp://dla.ucop.edu/pub/internet/dial-access)
- Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
- NIXPUB: Public/Open Access UNIX, by Bux Technical Services (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.bbs/Nixpub_Posting_(Long))
- Network Startup: NSF-sponsored Network Startup Resource Center (ftp://ftp.psg.com/README)
- PSGnet/RAINet: networking in the developing world, low-cost networking tools, computer networking in general (gopher://gopher.psg.com)
- RAIN: Regional Alliance for Information Networking (http://www.rain.org)
- Registering on the Net: Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration Service, by S. Williamson (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1400.txt)
These documents will help with gaining or finding out about access to networks.
- Administration
- Domain Administration: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1033.txt)
- Domain Name Rights: represents the interests and views of entrepreneurs, small businesses and individuals on the Internet. The DNRC works for equitable, consistent and responsible domain name policies from international governmental organizations, the National Science Foundation, Network Solutions, Inc., and all entities who control portions of the Internet. (http://www.domain-name.org)
- Domain Name Survey: an attempt to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System (http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html)
- Domain Names: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1034.txt)
- Host managers: (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1173.txt)
- Internet Servers: Building Internet Servers, a collection of information and links from Charm Net (http://www.charm.net/~cyber/)
- SNMP: simple network management protocol project group, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands (http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl)
- Networking
- Amateur Radio Packet: connects between Amateur Radio Packet (digital data stream) network and the Internet (ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/hamradio/faq/packet.faq)
- Andrew Consortium: a portable set of applications that runs under X11 (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/web/andrew-home.html)
- ATM forum: worldwide organization, aimed at promoting Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) within the industry and the end user community (http://www.atmforum.com)
- Cell Relay: cell-relay or broadband technologies (ATM/DQDB/SONET, etc.) including research papers, standards, product information, mailing list archives, and events (http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/)
- Concise: database about networks, networking tools and projects (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/CONCISE/UserGuide/Overview.html)
- Ethernet page: resources related to the Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area network system, by Charles Spurgeon (http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet-home.html)
- FidoNet News: archives of the newsgroup comp.org.fidonet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.org.fidonet/)
- GOSIP: Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (ftp://%FILE/rfc1169.txt)
- IBM's collection: networking information, protocols, standards (ftp://networking.raleigh.ibm.com/pub)
- International Connect: International Connectivity Table, by Larry Landweber (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/connectivity_table/)
- Internet Country Codes: FAQ about country codes (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/country-codes)
- Internet Domain Names: Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1394.txt)
- Internet Protocols: listings of working groups and information about protocols--applications, Internet, next generation, network management, operational requirements, routing, security, and much more (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/Internet.html)
- Internet Root Domain: lists of Internet hosts (ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/)
- InterNetwork Mail: methods of sending mail from one network to another, by John Chew and Scott Yanoff (ftp://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide)
- Intranet: a network connecting an affiliated set of clients using standard Internet protocols, esp. tcp/ip and http, links from the IntraNet Journal (http://www.brill.com/intranet/links.html)
- Intro TCP/IP: describes the Internet protocols (ftp://nic.merit.edu/introducing.the.internet/intro.to.ip)
- IP address resolver: : mail resolve@widener.edu Body: "site SITE NAME"
- ISDN: the Combinet, Inc. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) deployment database (telnet://isdn@bbs.combinet.com) Login as : isdn
- ISDN info/Kegel: ISDN Page, a collection of pointers resources about Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), including standards and discussions, providers, vendors, products, by Dan Kegel (http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/)
- ISDN info/Pac Bell+ATT: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) from Pacific Bell and American Telephone and Telegraph (http://www.pacbell.com/isdn/isdn_home.html)
- Minitel: French service for online communication (http://www.minitel.fr)
- Network Research sites: a list of network researching sites (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/onr.html)
- Personal IP: PPP, MS-Windows and other information and links about connecting with Internet protocols, from Charm Net (http://www.charm.net/ppp.html)
- PCLT: PC Lube and Tune; informative introductory material on PC hardware, networks, and newer operating systems (http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm)
- Wireless: The Wireless Opportunities Coalition, a group of organizations and companies seeking to expand wireless communications development, manufacturing, and use (http://wireless.policy.net/wireless/wireless.html)
------ Other Information
- Security
- Business Security: Security for Businesses on the Internet, by Marianne Mueller (http://www.catalog.com/mrm/security.html)
- CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team; focal point for computer security concerns of Internet users; includes pointers to advisories and other information (http://www.cert.org)
- CERT-DFN: Computer Emergency Response Team for the German Research Network (http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/)
- Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk: Vince Cate's Cryptorebel and Cypherpunk page (http://www.offshore.com.ai/security/)
- CIS: Collaborative Internet Security Project, the multi-agency effort to try to come up with some common grounds for establishing better security for federal information resources connected to the Internet (http://www.fnc.gov/cis_page.html)
- First: Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (http://www.first.org)
- NIST Security: US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse (http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov)
- RSA: information on many cryptographic related topics (http://www.rsa.com)
- SAIC: Science Applications International Corp, computer security (http://mls.saic.com/mls.security.text.html)
- Security index: Computer and Network Security Reference Index, by Rodney Campbell (http://www.telstra.com.au/info/security.html)
- SHEN: A Security Scheme for the World Wide Web (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Shen/ref/shen.html)
- Site Security: Site Security Handbook, FYI 8, guidance on how to deal with security issues in the Internet, eds. Holbrook, Reynolds (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi8.txt)
- Statistics and Demographics
- Cyberatlas: a collection of information about Internet statistics and demographics; includes detailed analysis of demographic surveys; for example, looking at A. C. Neilsen's work on Internet demographics; includes quick facts such as registered domains; in general, fairly thorough and easy to use; well worth a stop to see what the current trends are in Internet technology use (http://www.cyberatlas.com)
- GVU's WWW User Surveys: Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center is a research center affiliated with Georgia Institute of Technology's (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) College of Computing; these surveys characterize Web users according to general demographics, Web/Internet use, purchasing behavior, and other characteristics; five surveys have been conducted since 1994 (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/)
- Internet Domain Survey: tells about hosts on the Internet and the domain name system; includes an index to related sites (http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/top.html)
- Internet Growth: charts showing the Internet's past and projected growth, by Texas Internet Consulting (ftp://tic.com/matrix/growth/internet/)
- Internet Growth/Lottor: Internet Growth (1981-1991) (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1296.txt)
- NSFnet stats/GVU Center: the US National Science Foundation backbone for the Internet is gone, but Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center NSFNET Backbone Statistics Page contains graphs of statistics; interesting look at how the Internet grew up until April 1995 (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html)
- Maps
- ARPAnet Map: an index of Interface Message Processors on the ARPAnet (circa 1986) (http://web.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/arpanet/arpanet.html)
- Cyberatlas: a collection of charts of the online world (http://www.december.com/web/text/cyberatlas.html)
- Cyberspace Geography: resources about mapping the online world (http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html)
- Internet Maps (Many): (ftp://ftp.uu.net/inet/maps/)
- Internet Maps (NSFNET): (ftp://nic.merit.edu/maps/)
- Internet Maps (SuraNet): (ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/maps/)
- Internet/Matrix: maps from MIDS (Matrix Information and Directory Services) (gopher://gopher.tic.com/11/matrix/maps/matrix)
- Internet Topology-Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/Network_Topology/)
- USENET Maps: Maps of Usenet news feeds/backbones (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/maps/)
- UUCP Maps: Unix-Unix Copy Protocol Map Data (gopher://agate.berkeley.edu:4324/1uumaps)
- WWW Resource Maps: The Virtual Tourist, a collection of maps from all over the world to help you locate Internet sites and resources (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)
Networks are the basis for online communication. This section gives you links to resources to help you get a picture of how people access and use networks for communication.
Telecommunications
- ATP-LLNL: Advanced Telecommunications Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www-atp.llnl.gov/atp/)
- Computer + Communications: InfoBahn, Global Information Infrastructure, Telecommunications, large resource collection of companies, media, organizations, programs and projects, standards, and usenet groups and FAQs (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
- Computing + Telecom: World-Wide Web Virtual Library entry for Communications and Telecommunications (http://www.analysys.co.uk/commslib.htm)
- CTR-Columbia U: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) (http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/CUCTR_Home.html)
- ITC: International Telecommunications Center--telecommunications, data communications and networking; includes archives, information, software, product and employment information, sponsored by telematrix.com (http://www.telematrix.com)
- Tele/Communications: Information Sources about Communications and Telecommunications (http://www.telstra.com.au/info/communications.html)
- Telecom Information Resources: technical, economic, public policy, and social aspects of telecommunications including voice, data, video, wired, wireless, cable TV, and satellite, are included. (http://www.ipps.lsa.umich.edu/telecom-info.html)
- US-FCC: Federal Communications Commission (USA) (http://www.fcc.gov)
- US-ITS: Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, USA government research and engineering laboratory (http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/its.html)
- US-NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (USA) (http://www.ntia.doc.gov)
- WilTel Library: Telecommunications Library, telecom business and technology, sponsored by WilTel Network Services (http://www.wiltel.com/library/library.html)