Experimental Software Engineering Group

1. In the Neighborhood--University of Maryland
2. Internet and Web
   • WWW and Internet related documentation and help sites
   • WWW Jump Stations and Indices
   • Search Engines and Internet Tools
3. Organizations' WWW Sites
   • Companies
   • Government
   • Laboratories
   • Universities
   • Other Organizations
4. Collections by Research Areas and Topics
   • Database Research
   • Logic Programming
5. Publications: Journals, Magazines, E-Zines, and other Literary works
6. Information Sites
   • Job Search Information
   • Natural Languages
   • Weather maps and forecasts
   • Miscellaneous Information sites
7. Virtual Places: Cafes, Galleries, Museums, Travel, and Places
8. Washington, D.C.

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In the Neighborhood

• University of Maryland System
  • University of Maryland, College Park
    • CfAR: Center for Automation Research
      • DIMUND: Document Image Understanding Information Server
    • Computer Science Department at UMCP
    • UMIACS: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
      • CLIP: Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab
    • The Institute for Systems Research
    • Terrapin Home Page
      Page with many good links to places and things of general local interest.
    • W3EAX: University of Maryland Amateur Radio Association

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WWW and Internet related documentation and help sites

• Conferences in Hypertext and Networking
  WWW conference information.
• HTML Specifications
  Documentation on the HyperText Mark-up Language. At CERN.
• JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
  A good style guide for designing WWW pages.
  Maintained by the Oneworld Company.
• WWW Protocol specifications
  Tells what the WWW protocol is. Useful if one wants to write a WWW server. At CERN.
• Zen and the Art of the Internet
  A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, by Brendan P. Kehoe
  This is a fairly nice beginner's overview of the Internet and what it has to offer.

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WWW Jump Stations and Indices

• Indices at CERN
  • World-Wide Web Servers
    An index listing of organizations by country (and state).
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
    An index listing by topics.
• Internet Resources Metamap
  Supported by the Software Development Group out of NCSA at UIUC.
  A graphical guide to the WWW.
• EINet Galaxy WWW listings by topic. Also has a search engine.
  Provided by EINet, a commercial provider of network communcation and information services.
• Global Network Navigator
  A commercial index to interesting Internet and WWW issues.
  Warning: hyper-slow loading! Too many pictures in their index page.
• Special Internet Connections
  A list of miscellaneous Internet services supported by Scott Yanoff.
• A Comprehensive HTTP Site List
  An automatically updated list of WWW HTTP home pages.
  Run by mkgray@mit.edu.
  Useful only for a last attempt search for something. The information is fairly raw.
• The Mother-of-all BBS
  A hierarchical listing of various services. Supported at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
  Warning: slow loading!
• Yahoo: A Guide to WWW
  A WWW database of links arranged in a hierarchy. Maintained at Stanford.

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Search Engines and Internet Tools

• CUI Search Engine
  Generates a WWW home page based on search results.
  Once upon a time called Jughead.
• Internet Tools Summary
  A comprehensive index to Internet tools.
  Provided by RPI.
  • Netfind via telnet
  • Veronica via gopher
• WWW talks back --- text2speech generator

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Government

• Government Agency WWW Servers
  A good alphabetized index to government WWW sites.
• United States Government Gophers (gopher space)
• Recent Supreme Court decisions
• United Nations resolutions and relevant information (gopher space)
• The White House

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Companies

• IBM Almaden Research Center
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
  This is an excellent entry point into the impressive Japanese corner of WWW.
  Pages are also available in Japanese, but one must have a Japanese compatible browser to view them.
• Research Triangle Institute
  In the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina.

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Laboratories

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval---CIIR
  An academic/industry consortium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  They are doing research on intelligent information retrieval.
• DIMACS: Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.
  DIMACS is a joint project funded by the NSF and affiliated with Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Bell Labs, and BellCore.
• NIST's WWW Home Page
  National Institute for Standards and Technology
  • NIST(gopher space)
    
• Space Telescope Science Institute
  The people who take care of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  They are located in Baltimore.

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Universities

• American Universities
  An index to many universities' home pages.
  Maintained by Mike Conlon at the University of Florida.
• College and University Home Pages
  Maintained by Christina DeMello (cdemello@mit.edu).
  Extensive list of universities' home pages world-wide.
  List is alphabetized, and is idexed by letter.

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Other Organizations

• ACM - The First Society in Computing
  • ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
    
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Publications: Journals, Magazines, E-Zines, and other Literary works

• Academic Journals
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week
  • CMU listing of on-line CS-related journals
  • The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
    Maintained at Georgia Tech. Articles can be downloaded.
  • Complexity International
    An electronic journal of complex systems research.
• Literary
  • The Electronic Newsstand(tm)(gopher space)
    Archives and excerpts from commercial magazines.
    • Magazine listings, alphabetical
      • AI Expert
      • The New Yorker
      • The Washington Quarterly
      • The New Republic
  • Atomic Books
    A progressive book store in downtown Baltimore.
  • The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling
  • Mother Jones
  • The Princeton Review
  • Stayfree
    A Chapel Hill, NC, e-zine about the local music scene.
  • The UCI Bookstore
    This is a university bookstore actually on-line.
    University of California, Irvine
  • Verbiage
    A literary e-zine, edited by Thomas Boutell.
    One may also submit pieces of short fiction to them.
  • Wired
• Cartoons
  • Daily fix of Dilbert
    Copyrighted. (So, no, you can't legally keep copies.) Provided by GNN. Yesterday's Dilbert strip. Sends a GIF.
• Guides
  • MIT Guide to Lock Picking
  • The Bible search gateway

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Database Research

• Cooperative Answering
  • Research in Cooperative Database Systems at the University of Erlangen.
• Digital Libraries
  • Digital Libraries and Xerox
• KDD: Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Knowledge Discovery Mine
    Nice overview page of this research area maintained by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Chris Matheus at GTE. Links to various groups doing such research.
  • The Data Mine
    A good index to the field maintained by Andy Pryke at Birmingham University (UK).
• ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
  
• Glimpse Bibliographies on Databases
  Compiled by Alf-Christian Achilles of the University of Karlsruhe.
  A huge collection of bibtex citations for papers on databases.
• University Research Groups
  • Simon Fraser University: School of Computing Science
    • DBLearn: Knowledge Knowledge Discovery in Databases
    • Database Research News
  • Database Research Group at Heriot-Watt University.

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Logic Programming

• The WWW Virtual Library: Logic Programming
• The LP Newsletter Archive
• Logic Programming Page at the Department of Computing at Imperial College.
  Also indexes other LP archives and such.
• Logic Programming at T.J. Watson Research Center
• The Prolog Language
  • The Prolog Management Group
  • FAQ: Prolog Implementations
    Posted monthly. Maintained at Ohio State.

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Natural Languages

• The Language Page
  Miscellaneous links to resources on natural languages.
  Maintained by Tyler Jones at Willamette.
  • English-German and German-English dictionary
    Maintained at the Univeristy of Passau.
• Japanese/English, English/Japanese Dictionary Gateway
  By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl at CMU.
  Warning: hyper-slow if you are not using a kanji-compatible WWW client!

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Miscellaneous Information sites

• Information for Graduate Students in Computer Science
  Sponsored by UMBC. Nice links to information about CS departments, admissions, documents about being a grad student in CS, etc.
• Internet Multicasting Service
  Internet radio. A list of various audio-programs, e.g., speaches, addresses, etc.
• The Free-Nets Home Page
  Courtesy of Peter Scott at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries.
  List of free-net services around the US and Canada.
• Hypertext front-end to the rec.arts.movies database
  At Cardiff UK. This link is to the mirror at Mississippi State University.
• PGP
  alt.security.pgp FAQ, hypertext version.
  PGP = Pretty Good Public-key encryption.
• Search CIA World Factbook 1993 (WAIS)
• SkyView image retrieval facility
  NASA.
• Taxing Times 1994
  Has tax forms, etc., on-line.
• WHO's On-line
  A project to create and maintain distributed databases of WHO's on Internet and the WWW. People can be accessed by interests, profession, and name.

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Virtual Places: Cafes, Galleries, Museums, Travel, and Places

• Cafes
  • The Electronic Cafe
    This cafe is under construction. The idea is nice.
• Galleries and Museums
  • ARTHOLE
    The gallery's curator is Harlan Wallach at MCS.
    Has links to other museums on-line.
  • The Electric Gallery
    A gallery of naive and primitive art.
    Paintings are for sale.
  • Exploratorium Home Page
    The Exploratorium in San Francisco, a hands-on science and technology museum.
  • Le WebLouvre
    The Louvre in Paris, on-line.
    Also offers a nice walking tour of Paris.
  • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Travel
  • Atlanta TRAVELINK Inc. Home page
  • The Virtual Tourist---World
  • A Tourist Expedition to Antartica
• Places
  • Triangle Online
    Propaganda and information about the Research Triangle area (Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh) of North Carolina.

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Weather maps and forecasts

• Current Weather Maps & Movies
  By the Michigan State University's Unix Computing Group.
  • Current weather conditions
    Pretty picture of continental USA of current weather conditions.
    Map is clickable for current weather conditions at that spot.
• Monthly Temperature Anomalies
  From NOAA. World map showing regional temperature anomalies.
  Provides forms to parameterize the map.
• Weather & global monitoring
  Maintained by the Australian National University.
  Good index for world-wide weather satellite images.

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Job Search Information

• Meta-Indices
  • Galaxy: Employment Opportunities and Resume Postings
  • On-line Job Services
    Meta-index to job announcement pages on Internet.
    Maintained at Stanford.
  • Texas A&M Job Link
    Created and maintained by Hal Mueller. A good meta-index into university on-line job announcement sites.
• Academic Position Network (gopher space)
  Has a number of diverse academic job advertisements. Not so useful for a focused search.
• ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
  
  • ACM SIGMOD's Database Jobs Listings
    Great list, but small.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week
• Computing Research Association
  • CRA's Index of Academic Jobs in Computer Science
    Seems to be nearly complete for academic jobs available in computer science.
• Yahoo: A Guide to WWW
  • Jobs in Business

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Washington, D.C.

• Folk Concert listing
• About Town (gopher space)
  Courtesy of GWU

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