Selected Internet Resources - Computers
and Computing
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ACM-W: ACM's Committee on Women
in Computing
http://women.acm.org/
This site "celebrates, informs and supports
women in computing, and works with the ACM-W community of computer
scientists, educators, employers and policy makers to improve working
and learning environments for women."
ACM Digital
Library
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Digital Library (DL) is a vast collection of citations from ACM
journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Searching
is free; however one needs to have a subscription to access the
online full text or the advanced searching option.
The
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
"This is a collection of bibliographies of
scientific literature in computer science from various sources,
covering most aspects of computer science. The bibliographies are
updated monthly from their original locations such that you'll always
find the most recent versions here."
Computer
Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing
Research (CRA-W)
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/index.html
(CRA-W) is an action oriented organization dedicated to increasing
the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering
(CSE) research and education at all levels.
The Computer
History Museum in Mountain View California
http://www.computerhistory.org/
This site provides online resources for the computer
history researcher. It includes a timeline of computer technology,
an artifact database, a document archive, and online exhibits.
Computer
Use and Ownership: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/computer.html
This Web site contains links to U.S. Census publications
on computer ownership from 1984 to present. Internet usage reports
began in 1997.
Computing Research Repository
http://arxiv.org/corr/home
Search, browse and download computer science papers
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: Information Technology: Computers
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/techhistory.htm
Of special interest to computer history researchers
is the sections on Computer History and the Chip Collection. Computer
History includes items from the Information Technology Exhibit at
the National Museum of American History, and digitalized reference
material related to the exhibit. An example is the 1946 press release
on the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer) and
an interview of J. Presper Eckert, its co-inventor. The Chip Collection
includes reference to the Museum's chip collection as well as links
to personalities, patents, and pictures.
EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines - Computing
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/eese/eese-comp.html
"Search the content of over 60 freely available full-text
computing ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic
journals,
professional and trade publications, and society journals are covered.
All sites are also listed in the EEVL catalogue of Internet Resources."
FOLDOC (Free On-line
Dictionary of Computing)
http://www.foldoc.org/
"FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms,
jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems,
networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms,
electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history,
in fact anything to do with computing." Edited by Denis Howe.
HCI Bibliography
http://www.hcibib.org/
Database of over 33,000 records covering human computer interaction,
a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation
of interactive computing systems for human use and their interaction
with the field of computer science.
History
of Supercomputing
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ssi-expo/history.html
The Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Web site presents a timeline of the history of supercomputing.
The timeline is from the IT2 Expo, which was held May 18, 1999.
IEEE Annals
of the History of Computing: IEEE Computer Society
http://www.computer.org/annals/
The IEEE Computer Society provides, free of charge,
selected articles from the Annals of the History of Computing. Access
to the full collection requires a subscription or an E-account.
The digital archives go back to 1979. Researchers may purchase articles
from the full collection.
History
of Computing Information: US Army Research Lab
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/
This Web site, by Mike Muuss ( U.S. Army Research
Lab), contains links to documents on the history of the ENIAC, EDVAC,
ORDVAC, and BRLESC. Related Web links are also included.
Time
line of Computing History: IEEE Computer Society
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_computer/computer/timeline/timeline.pdf
This timeline, from the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, traces the evolution
of computer and computing technology. The timeline is sixty-eight
pages long, and includes graphics.
Triumph of the
Nerds: PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/
This is a companion Web site for the PBS television
special, "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires."
It contains information about the history of computing, the biographies
of computer pioneers, and the transcript from the television program.
Turing Digital
Archives
http://www.turingarchive.org/
Turing is noted for his work in mathematics, computer
theory and artificial intelligence. This digital archive contains
mostly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing
from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's
College Cambridge.
The Virtual
Museum of Computing (VMOC)
http://vmoc.museophile.org/
The Virtual Museum of Computing provides an “eclectic
collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the
history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available
both locally and around the world.” Examples include biographies
of computer pioneers, corporate histories, and online computer museums
and exhibits. To navigate the Web site, use the links under the
“Galleries” heading. Or, you may scroll down the page
and browse through the links. |