All Things Computed

Computing Web Sites

(Updated August 24, 2000)

Architecture

• CPU Info Center
• The Dead Supercomputer Society
• Dr. Dobb's Microprocessor Center
• Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present

Artificial Intelligence

• Agents
  • List of Robots
  • Transportable Agents (at Dartmouth College)
  • The MUD Resource Collection
• CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems
• Electric Communities
• Evolutionary Computation Repository (EnCoRe) - deserves an award for sheer exuberance, as well as its many links to all things related to evolutionary computation (e.g., genetic algorithms, etc.).
• Linux AI and Alife Mini-Howto - an embarrassment of riches!
• The Live Alife Page
• MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Careers

• Ask the Headhunter - EE Times' informative questions and answers about job hunting, etc.

Companies

• The Ganssle Group - headed by Jack Ganssle of Embedded System Programming fame.
• General Magic
• Green Hills Software - Multi.
• Human Factor
• Lynx Real-Time Systems - LynxOS.
• PanelSoft - user interfaces for embedded systems.
• Real-Time Innovations, Inc. - Network Data Delivery Service (NDDS).
• Schemers Inc. - Scheme products.
• Shiva
• Tandem Computers, Inc.
• Tower Concepts, Inc. - Razor CM tool.
• Wind River Systems - VxWorks.

Education

• Anthony Aaby - excellent computer science materials (programming languages, language tutorials, software engineering, and more).
• Joseph Bergin - an excellent collection of on-line articles and papers on C++, Java, object-oriented programming, and languages.
• CS 330: Concepts of Programming Languages - lecture notes, as well as good links.
• CS PhD Comprehensive Exams - at the University of New Mexico; includes questions from previous exams.
• The Oberlin CS DRAGN Project - excellent, on-line tutorials about various computer science topics including continuations, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, etc.

History

• Commodore Computers
  • The Commodore 8-bit WWW Server
  • Commodore Knowledge Base
  • MJK's C-64 Page
  • Project Flashbaque - an attempt to bring Commodore computers back on the market.
  • Toronto PET User's Group
  • www.6502.org - "a resource for people interested in developing hardware or writing software for the 6502 microprocessor".
• the Colossal Cave Adventure page - formerly known as The XYZZY Page.
• Edsger W. Dijkstra Numbered Documents - from the Burroughs Corporation Collection at the University of Minnesota; a few of the memoranda are on-line.
• Infocom - paying "homage to the company that created some of the best computer games ever, period."
• Intel Museum
• Multics - duly venerated and documented.
• Perlisisms - Epigrams in Programming - Alan Perlis.
• The Retrocomputing Museum - has implementations of a number of old programming languages.
• UNIVAC Memories - "In 1971, John Walker figured out how to convert a multi-million dollar room-sized UNIVAC 1108 mainframe into a Morse code practice oscillator with a stand-alone, bootable operating system dedicated to that dubious application." How can you stay away?
• The Unix Heritage Society

Object-Oriented Programming

• The OO Soapbox - a wealth of links on everything OO.
• The Object-Oriented Page - a more sedate version of the above.
• C++
  • Coding Standards
    • C++ Coding Standards
    • C++ in Safety-Critical Systems
    • DART Standards Documents
    • SES C++ Coding Conventions
  • Extensions
    • CC++ - Parallel Programming Language
    • TypeAccess and CSS
  • Libraries
    • Available C++ Libraries FAQ - a comprehensive links list.
    • DS++ (Data Structures Library)
  • Standard Template Library
    • Standard Template Library - David Musser's site.
    • Mumit's STL Newbie guide
    • Standard Template Library Tutorial
    • SGI's STL Programmer's Guide
  • Tutorials
    • C++ Annotations
    • ITI Online Training Center - a wealth of tutorials on C++, Java, and others.
  • C++ Critique - Ian Joyner
  • C++ FAQs Lite - Marshall Cline.
  • The C++ Virtual Library
  • Dinkumware, Ltd. - embedded C++, on-line reference manuals.
  • DOC++ - generates HTML or LaTeX output from C/C++/Java source code.
• Eiffel
  • Eiffel Liberty - "A Web Site dedicated to Eiffel and Object Technology".
  • The Eiffel Page
  • EiffelWorld
  • ISE WWW Main Page
  • Eiffel Parallel Execution Environment (EPEE)
  • SmallEiffel - The GNU Eiffel Compiler
• Smalltalk
  • Squeak - a free, high-quality Smalltalk implementation that has been ported to Windows 95 and NT, Macintosh, most UNIX platforms, various PDAs, Acorn's RiscOS, OS/2, DOS, BeOS, and NeXT.
• Design Patterns
  • Column Without a Name
  • Introduction to Design Patterns in Delphi
  • Patterns
• Cetus - Some Links to the World of IT
• Welcome to The Object Agency, Inc.
• Object Currents
• Object-Orientation FAQ -- Title Page
• Object-Oriented Information Sources
• Object-Oriented Metrics
• Object-Oriented Technologies Ltd
• Object Warehouse
• Peanut Butter Club

Operating Systems

• Be, Inc. Home Page
• Checkpointing Resources
• Concurrent Clean
• File Systems
  • Measuring and Modeling a Distributed Filesystem
  • Spiralog File System (OpenVMS) - a log-structured file system.
• The FreeDOS Project
• Free-VMS - includes on-line VMS documentation.
• Inferno(tm) - a network operating system and programming environment from Bell Labs.
• Kerberos
  • Kerberos Installation Notes
  • Kerberos Network Authentication Service
  • Security Issues in Embedded Networking
• Linux
  • "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" - on open-source software.
  • ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) - for 8-/16-bit CPUs!
  • The K Desktop Environment
  • The LessTif Home Page
  • Linux AI and Alife Mini-Howto - an embarrassment of riches!
  • Linux Development Projects
  • SEUL - Simple End User Linux
• MIT Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group
• Other Operating Systems
• Plan 9
  • Plan 9 - the home page at Bell Labs.
  • Plan 9: The Early Papers
• Protocols
  • ASN.1
  • Data Communications Home Page (DHCP) - links to RFCs, tutorials, programming information, etc.
  • A Guide to SNMP and CMIP
  • The IL protocol
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • The NFS^TM Distributed File Service
  • OpenMP^TM: Simple, Portable, Scalable, SMP Programming API
  • RFC Archive
  • SAMBA - file system based on the Session Message Block (SMB) protocol.
  • Service Location Protocol (SLP)
  • SOCKS - network proxy server protocol.
• ReactOS - a free OS in the process of development that will be compatible with Windows NT.
• Real-Time
  • Embedded Cygnus Operating System (eCos)
  • EPICS Home Page
  • Home of HiDEOS
  • RTIP API Functions
• Solaris
  • Local Customization For a Sun Workstation
  • Solaris 2.5 Software
  • Solaris 2 FAQ
  • Solaris 2 Porting FAQ
• The Single UNIX® Specification, Version 2 - full documentation from The Open Group.
• Sprite
• the UNIX Reference Desk - a great collection of links to all things UNIX!
• The UNIX versus NT Organization
• Virtually UN*X!
• WebOS

People

• Bell Labs
  • Al Aho
  • Jon Bentley
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Rob Pike
  • Dennis M. Ritchie
  • Ken Thompson
• Brad Appleton - software engineering materials and links.
• Jim Blandy - Guile.
• Hans-J. Boehm - garbage-in, garbage-out?
• Marshall Brain
• Nicolas Pascal Boghossian
• Christopher B. Browne
• Timothy A. Budd - LEDA, OOP, etc.
• Skip Carter
• Allan Clarke - good links to OO and C++ sites.
• Elliott Coates - Robert Martin's nemesis?
• Andrew Cooke
• Middle of Nowhere - Brad Cox of Objective-C fame.
• Milo's Home Page - John DiCamillo.
• Bill Foote - Java, JOVIAL, and hockey.
• Markus Freericks
• Matthew Fuchs - Scheme, CPS, and GUIs.
• Marty Hall - JHU/APL professor and expert in AI, Lisp, and WWW development.
• Paul Hudak - Haskell and functional programming.
• Bryce Jacobs' Programming Wisdom Center
• Ian Joyner - of C++ Critique fame.
• Ted Kaehler - Squeak!
• Jak Kirman - STL tutorial.
• Rahul Kumar
• Cameron Laird - another Renaissance man!
• Don Lancaster's GURU'S LAIR - of The TTY Cookbook fame.
• Bruce Lewis - WWW development tools.
• Steve McConnell - author of Code Complete.
• Rob McMullen's Web Page - a great collection of humorous quotes.
• Robert Martin - OOA/OOD/OOP guru.
• Mike Meyer
• David R. Musser - of generic programming fame, along with Alexander Stepanov.
• Erik Naggum
• Rich Neitzel - of NCAR/VxWorks fame.
• Peter Norvig - AI, Lisp, and a Java IFAQ.
• Arlet Ottens - computer scientist.
• John Ousterhout - Tcl, Tk, and log-structured file systems!
• Theo Pavlidis - pattern recognition and windowing systems.
• Bernd Paysan - comp.arch guru.
• Eric Raymond - open-source software, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", ...
• Mark Roseman - Tcl/Tk applications.
• Hugh Sasse - Machine Vision Research Group; lots of great links.
• Olin Shivers - Scheme, ML, ...
• Peter da Silva - an aficionado of Amigas, though not of VMS.
• Lincoln Stein - web development and genome informatics guru.
• W. Richard Stevens - the late network guru.
• George Stockman - my CSC 220 professor.
• Monnica Terwilliger - PARSEC compiler.
• Joe VanAndel - NCAR, VxWorks, Tcl/Tk, C++ ...
• Melinda Varian - VM guru and historian.
• Gerald M. Weinberg - Dare you ask?
• Claes Wikström - Erlang.
• Warren Young - good quotes and good links, software and otherwise.
• Ed Yourdon - If you have to ask ...
• Jamie Zawinski - last, but not least!

Programming

• Duff's Device - by Tom Duff.
• Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Raw IP Networking FAQ - and related material.
  • UNIX Programming FAQs
  • UNIX Socket FAQ
  • The Well-Tempered UNIX Application
• LAN Team Tutorial (POC) Notes - class notes on topics ranging from AppleTalk to IP to Perl to RPC to SNMP to Unix network and system programming.
• MS-DOS TCP/IP Programming
• Programming in C - by Rob Pike.
• Programming POSIX Threads - Scott Dybiec's excellent resources.
• Tangent's Programming Page - includes Warren Young's Endpoint communications library.

Programming Languages

• Ada
  • Ada 95 Quality and Style - "Guidelines for Professional Programmers".
  • Ada Resources - EPFL Software Engineering Laboratory.
  • SIGAda WWW
• C
  • C Resources
  • C Source Code Metrics
• Concurrent/Distributed Programming Languages
  • Joyce/Linda
  • Obliq
  • Phantom
• Embedded/Scripting Languages (see Tcl/Tk below)
  • CorbaScript
  • Guile's Unofficial Home Page
  • Klm - Lisp-based scripts for Motif GUIs.
  • Patterns for Scripted Applications - formerly "Tcl Programming Idioms".
  • Python
  • Rebol - a "messaging language designed for networks and the Internet". On first impression, Rebol (Relative Expression-Based Object Language) appears to be kind of like a functional version of Perl.
• Forth
  • Compilers and Interpreters
    • FICL (Forth-Inspired Command Language) - an embeddable Forth written in ANSI C.
    • F-PC - "the best freeware version of the FORTH programming language for the IBM PC".
    • pForth -a public-domain ANS Forth written in ANSI C and ported to many platforms.
    • Pocket Forth - for the Macintosh.
  • Forth Information on Taygeta - including a compiler list.
  • Forth Interest Group (FIG)
  • Space-Related Applications of Forth
• Fortran
  • Fortran 90 Tutorials and Links - by Bo Einarsson.
• Functional Languages (see Lisp below)
  • The Abyss of Functional Languages - an assortment of links.
  • Erlang
  • Typed Erlang
  • Functional Programming
  • Haskell
  • Real-World Applications of Functional Programming
  • ML
    • Caml
    • A Gentle Introduction to ML - by Andrew Cumming.
    • Moscow ML - a lightweight implementation of ML.
    • Standard ML of New Jersey
• Java
  • Cafe au Lait Java FAQs, News, and Resources
  • Concurrent Programming in Java - Doug Lea.
  • Java/CORBA Working Group
  • Gamelan - "The Official Directory for Java".
  • HORB (Distributed Java)
  • HotJava (Sun) - HotJava browser and the Java language.
  • HotJava (UNC)
  • Java Developer Connection
  • Java-based Molecular Biology Work Bench
  • JavaSoft
    • Java Platform Documentation - Local
    • The Java Tutorial - Local
  • NewMonics Inc. - home of PERC, a real-time dialect of Java.
  • Professor Sullivan's Learning Java Page - a wealth of links.
  • Thinking in Java - Bruce Eckel's excellent book on-line.
• Lisp
  • Applications of Functional Programming - primarily Lisp and Scheme applications.
  • The Association of Lisp Users - an excellent collection of information and links.
  • Franz Inc. - good Lisp materials and links.
  • Interpreting Lisp - a downloadable book.
  • An Introduction to Common Lisp - a mis-titled, but large and well-organized, collection of links to on-line Lisp resources.
  • Scheme
    • BRL - Scheme-based CGI.
    • Elk: Scheme-based Extension Language Kit
    • MzScheme - a top-flight, embeddable Scheme interpreter.
    • Revised(4) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme - the bibiliography has links to the proper, 2-column PostScript version of the report.
    • Scheme in a Grid (SIAG) - a spreadsheet in Scheme.
    • The Scheme Programming Language
    • The Scheme Underground
    • SCM
    • SIOD: Scheme in One Defun
    • STk - Scheme-based Tk.
• Tcl/Tk
  • Ajuba Solutions - the official Tcl/Tk site. (Formerly Scriptics)
  • Donal K. Fellows's Tcl Archive - great stuff!
  • NEOSOFT Tcl Entry Point
  • NIST Identifier Collaboration Service
  • Project GIMME
  • Tcl/Tk Information
  • The Tcl'ers Wiki - a collaborative effort by many and an excellent source of Tcl/Tk information.
  • Visual Tcl
  • Wafe - A Programming Environment for X Toolkit Based Applications
  • Zveno's Tcl/XML Tools
• Advanced Programming Languages - Jose Emilio Labra Gayo's well-organized collection of links covering a broad range of material, including language theory, language implementation, functional programming, logic programming, hybrid languages, and other areas of research.
• Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
• The Collection Programming Language
• comp.compilers Archive
• Garbage Collection FAQ
• Inform 6: A Design System for Interactive Fiction
• Language Research
• Learning PROLOG
• Leda Project, Timothy Budd, Oregon State University
• Pike® - an interpreted, extended C-like language.
• Programming Language Exploration
• Programming and Computational Languages - an organized collection of many computing-related links.
• Joe Tilley's Links to Programming Language Tutorials
• Visual Prolog - a freeware version is available.
• Review of Existing Languages

Publications

• Bookstores
  • Bookpool - discount computer and technical books.
  • Fatbrain.com - technical and professional books.
  • Library of Computer and Information Sciences, Newbridge Communications, Inc. Booksonline
  • ReadMe.Doc: Discount Computer Books
• Linux
  • LinuxFocus - an excellent on-line magazine - available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish translations ... with other languages on the way.
  • Linux Format
  • Linux Gazette
  • Linux Journal
  • Linux Magazine
  • Maximum Linux
• Magazines
  • Dr. Dobb's Journal
  • Embedded Systems Programming
  • Inter@ctive Week
  • Java Developer's Journal
  • Software Development
  • Unix Review
• On-line Magazines
  • CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering
  • Intranet Design Magazine - interesting articles.
  • JavaWorld
  • The Motif Developer: The Online Magazine for X and Motif Developers
  • WebServer OnLine Magazine
  • XML.com
• IBM Technical Journals - the IBM Journal of Research and Development and the IBM Systems Journal.
• osOpinion - Open Source opinions.

Research Sites

• Cardiff Computer Science Information Service
• CEDAR
• CEBAF On Line Data Acquisition
• D-Lib (Digital Library)
• The HENSA Archives - funded by JISC
• Logtalk
• Nexus - multi-threaded communications library.
• OSM Lab
• Directory of /pub/ptolemy/papers
• Government
  • Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
  • Neural Networks at Pacific Northwest Laboratory
• Industry
  • Xerox PARC PubWeb Server
• Specialized
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming - Gregor Kiczales et al.
  • Database Systems & Logic Programming
  • Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) Projects
  • Fox Project Publications - advanced software systems and ML.
  • home wURLds: the Lucid//Intensional Logic Homepage
• Universities
  • University of Illinois, Programming Languages Group - good links.
  • University of Maryland Computer Science Department - my alma mater.
• StatLib---1993 Graphics Exposition

Software

• Applications
  • Ghostscript, Ghostview, and GSview
  • i.Scribe - E-mail client.
  • Pegasus Mail
  • Phoenix Mail
  • SLRN - an NNTP-based newsreader.
• GNU, not UNIX
  • GNU Bead Project Portal
  • GNU Coding Standards - Table of Contents
  • Manuals - complete Emacs manuals online.
  • Manuals for Software Packages
  • Gnu Software Manuals
  • GNU Software Map (GSM)
  • Various Software Manuals - at University of Maryland.
• Configuration
  • Eidelon File System Standard
• Libraries
  • A Garbage Collector for C and C++ - the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector.
  • LIBFTP - an FTP library by Oleg Orel.
  • Nana - "a free library providing improved support for assertion checking and logging in C and C++".
  • SoftFloat - software implementation of IEEE floating point arithmetic.
• Networking
  • Unix Socket Programming FAQ
  • Windows and TCP/IP for Internet Access - an excellent paper on the Winsock API.
• Where can I get it?
  • Brad Beck's Pointers
  • fReT Software - small is beautiful!
  • Washington University Data Archive
• ACME Laboratories
• Anonymous FTP FAQ
• CERA -- Embedded, Real-Time, DSP, Programmer's Net Info
• The Cygwin Project - "a free WIN32 porting layer for UNIX applications".
• NIST/CHISSA Unravel Demonstration
• E-Mail Web Resources
• Genscript
• Graphics Programs and Utilities FAQ
• Welcome to iMatix
• Information Sharing Protocol
• Jumbo!
• Software Doctor - programming tips, etc.
• Software Sharing Resource Library
• Threads!
• USENET FAQs by Newsgroup
• VxHacks Repository - for VxWorks.
• Wily (Unix emulation of Plan 9's Acme Editor)

Software Engineering

• ASSET
• Computing Dictionary
• Cutter Information Corp.
• Database Systems Laboratory, Univ of Massachusetts
• ERCB: Electronic Review of Computer Books
• HAKMEM
• Software Engineering Book of Knowledge
• Software Engineering Defined!?!
• Software Productivity Research - Capers Jones.
• Software Program Managers Network
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
• The Year 2000 Information Center
• Links
  • Carleton CSGS Research Resources
  • S.E. Resource List
• Metrics
  • Software Metrics Research Laboratory
• Organizations
  • ACM - The First Society in Computing
    • Collected Algorithms
    • Previous ACM Classics of the Month
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • IEEE
  • The Open Group
  • Software Research Institute - software quality.
  • Usenix Association
• Workshops
  • Second Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Real-Time Systems
  • Workshop on Scheme: Some familiar algorithms

X Window System

• EuroBridge Widget Set
• Graphics File Formats
• MW3: Motif on the World Wide Web
• Open Software Foundation (OSF)
• Technical X Window System and Motif WWW Sites - more than 700 links!
• The X Advisor
• X Consortium