Technology, Military, and Computer Science
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“AI Topics is geared to readers new to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Provided by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a society of AI researchers and professionals, the site is intended as a "springboard" to provide readable and scientifically accurate information, with sources and concepts to explore further. Thus, the coverage is selective and includes material from both academic and reputable popular publications, dating from the early 1980s. The AI in the News section is updated daily.” -- Choice |
| Army Heritage Collection Online | The digitized collection of US Army Historical and Education Center. |
| Ars Technica |
"Ars Technica is an online news and information resource covering a variety of intersections between technology and culture. Visually, this site looks similar to other popular online computer journals. But Ars Technica provides balanced attention to a number of topics in sections titled Business IT, Apple, Gaming, Hardware, Gears & Gadgets, and Law & Disorder. More importantly, Ars Technica is a social networking space, fully allowing an interactive dialogue to occur between its readers as they express their reactions to content presented in the articles." -- Choice |
| BYTE.com: A Brief History of Programming Languages |
"The history under review is a Web-posted article previously published in the September 1995 issue of Byte magazine. An annotated list of programming languages is arranged by year, from 1946 to 1996, with brief descriptions. The scope of the entries vary, but they may include the date and circumstances of the first appearance of a language, its creators, what the name stands for, and if the language is an offshoot of an earlier language. Comprehensive coverage is not provided. Important languages that were available during the period but that are missing from the history are SQL, Perl, Python, and Java. The history is very useful as a source for quick facts about the major programming languages born prior to 1996; in 1946, modeling chess was the first application, though the manual for the language, Plankalkul, was not published until 1972." -- Choice |
| Center for Responsible Nanotechnology |
"The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), founded in 2002, has as its mission "to: 1) raise awareness of the benefits, the dangers, and the possibilities for responsible use of advanced nanotechnology; 2) expedite a thorough examination of the environmental, humanitarian, economic, military, political, social, medical, and ethical implications of molecular manufacturing; and 3) assist in the creation and implementation of wise, comprehensive, and balanced plans for responsible worldwide use of this transformative technology." – Choice |
| Center for Women & Information Technology. |
“The Web site of the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, includes in the Resources section various listings of print and online resources relevant to women's studies. Most notable is Jo Sanders's comprehensive (as of 2005), extensively annotated "Bibliography on Gender and Technology in Education," which contains nearly 700 entries and is searchable.” – Choice |
| CiteSeer.IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library. | "CiteSeer is a digital library/search engine that focuses mainly on computer and information science literature. Developed at the NEC Research Institute by Steve Lawrence, Lee Giles, and Kurt Bollacker, CiteSeer is now hosted by Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology. This digital library, which currently searches over 730,000 documents, aims to "improve the dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge." -- Choice |
| Core77.com | “An online magazine exploring the nature and content of contemporary industrial design, Core77.com is a useful supersite as well designed as its subject matter.” -- Choice |
| Defense Technical Information Center | The DTCI serves the services the information and technical needs of the military. A useful resource within which to view the publicly accessible collections and display or download scientific and technical information. |
| Energy Information Administration. |
“Anyone wishing to learn just about anything concerning the energy industry, past, present, and future, need look no further than this US government site. Its scope is broad, providing a wealth of information to audiences ranging from schoolchildren to researchers.” – Choice |
| Energy Information Administration: Country Analysis Briefs |
“This authoritative, exceptional resource offers researchers and policy makers worldwide a product of superior quality to examine global and local energy use and outlooks. The site is well designed and easy to use. Visitors can access Country Analysis Briefs by selecting from the nine initial clickable regions on the main visual map and then choosing from 85 subregions.” – Choice |
| engAPPLETS. |
“This Web page was a project funded by the National Science Foundation and developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech). The principle investigators were William Devenport, Rakesh Kapania, Kamal Rojiani, and Kusum Singh. These applets are designed for beginning engineering or physics students taking statics or dynamics.” – Choice |
| Ethics in Computing. |
“This Web site is a compendium of documents, essays, news reports, and links to other sites, organized loosely into eight areas: basics, commerce, social-justice issues, computer abuse, intellectual property, speech issues, privacy, and risks. Simple index pages subdivide the areas into 10-25 topics arranged alphabetically. Each topic is a link to an index of articles and Web sites, grouped into about five subtopics. Formal codes of ethics adopted by several professional computing organizations are referenced in the Basics: Codes of Ethics topic.” – Choice |
| Exploring the Nanoworld |
"A product of the Interdisciplinary Education Group of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Exploring the Nanoworld works to enhance both college-level and public understanding of science and engineering by demonstrating the potential of nanotechnology and advanced materials. Topics covered include LEDs, ferrofluid, nanoscale devices, computers/memory, and carbon nanotubes, among others." -- Choice |
| Federal Aviation Administration. |
"This well-maintained, easy-to-use site offers more than a dozen topical headings that lead information-seekers to relevant links. Links and headings are well arranged, both functionally and aesthetically. On the top right are access points such as FAA Home, About FAA, and Jobs. Seven tabs across the top lead to information of interest to aviators, e.g., Aircraft, Airports & Air Traffic, Data &Statistics, Education, and Regulations & Policies." -- Choice |
| HowStuffWorks. |
“Founded by Marshall Brain (formerly, North Carolina State) in 1998, HowStuffWorks offers explanations on "how the world actually works."” – Choice |
| IEEE History Center. |
“The IEEE History Center is a relatively small entity (fewer than ten staff, including three PhD historians and four graduate research assistants) housed at Rutgers University. The Web site contains an eclectic mix of components available free to the user.” – Choice |
| Google Military Science Directory | The main index for information on Military matters both historical and current. Easily browsable and searchable. |
| Learn the Net: The Internet Owner's Manual | “Topics include everything from using the site to mastering the basics, surfing the Web, e-mailing, Web publishing, etc. There is a great interactive tutorial, "How Search Engines Work." Date of last update is noted in the tutorials. "This Week on Learn the Net" offers features such as "Today's Top Tech Headlines" and cool tools. Ads are clearly marked. The site is available in Spanish and French as well as in English.” – Choice |
| Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center | The Muir S. Fairchild Research and Information Center is the Library for the Air University located on the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force base. |
| The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation | “The Lemelson Center was founded in 1995 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH). Its up-to-date Web site is very thorough in scope and easy to navigate; the freely provided information is clearly displayed and very credible. The center's mission is to "document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation" and to encourage creativity and preserve/increase access to records and artifacts.” – Choice |
| Molecular Expressions Optical Microscopy Primer: Museum of Microscopy | “Museum of Microscopy, part of Davidson's larger online primer, is produced by the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a joint venture of Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Organized chronologically, the virtual museum covers the 16th through 20th centuries. The site includes images of over 250 microscopes, brief descriptions of each, and discussions of significant styles and makers during each era.” – Choice |
| The Molecule of the Month | “Molecule of the Month (MOTM) is quicker and easier to reach since the last time this Web site was visited by this reviewer (CH, Apr'00, 37-4512). Either Netscape 6.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 is required and works fine. MOTM features a new molecule every month, usually a substance of current, recent, or renewed interest. As such, its scope understandably is limited to a specialty site.” – Choice |
| NASA Technical Reports Server | “The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) site is aesthetically appealing; the layout, use of color, and white space add visual appeal and encourage viewers to consider its content. The somewhat small font size is not easily increased by changing a browser setting. The home page offers Term Search for entering keywords and Navigation Search for locating material by, e.g., publication year or subject.” – Choice |
| National Academy of Engineering (NAE) | "The NAE site is self-described as the portal for all engineering activities at the National Academy of Engineering. Accordingly, the site is an eclectic selection of publications that focus on the academy's research activities, reports pertaining to current topics of investigation, and information on challenges to engineering education." -- Choice |
| National Center for Appropriate Technology. | "Going against the grain of big government/big business, NCAT's Web site is a shining example of taxes spent appropriately. Its mission is "helping people by championing small-scale, local, and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources." Jefferson would have loved this program and its attendant site offering promotional advice for small, less complex, renewability-oriented endeavors that are simple, energy conserving, and focused on having communities build, understand, and maintain projects themselves." -- Choice |
| Naval Historical Center | “The official US Navy historical web site, offering articles, bibliographies, links to other resources, and information about the NHC and its services. An excellent starting point for researching American naval history. Browsable by topic.” |
| Netlib. | "The Netlib Web site is a no-nonsense repository of free numerical, statistical, and parallel computing software. The site also maintains a list of conferences that may interest mathematicians and computer scientists. To find software and papers, Browse and Search functions are offered. Services provided at Netlib are a conference database, a Java version of Linpack Benchmark, Numerical Analysis Net (NA-Net) and NA digest, and a performance database server." -- Choice |
| NTIS (National Technical Information Service) | “If the federal government in any capacity is funding research in the sciences, engineering, technology, or business, broadly defined, the US Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) will be the reliable source for finding the bibliographic citations for the interim and final reports. The online NTIS is a tremendously rich source for research that ideally will, in an expanded form, end up as conference papers, peer-reviewed journal articles, or even books.” – Choice |
| Oxford Internet Institute. | "The Oxford Internet Institute hosts over 50 archived Webcasts of speakers, events, and conference sessions on Internet-related research and education intended to shape policy and practice. Speakers include Tim Berners-Lee, Ben Shneiderman, Jimmy Wales, Jenny Preece, and other Internet thinkers and doers on issues of regulation, information preservation, privacy, collaboration, and many other hot topics in new media circles." -- Choice |
| Public STINET (Scientific and Technical Information Network). | “The public portal of the Defense Technical Information Center http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/index.html, Public STINET allows free access to unclassified defense-related information published by the US government.” – Choice |
| Timelinescience: One Thousand Years of Scientific Thought. |
“Timelinescience contains a list of scientific achievements between the years 1000 and 2000, as well as brief articles, student activities, and teacher notes for several major topics of the past millennium.” – Choice |
| TechXtra in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing | "Very few freely available Web resources are ubiquitous among libraries' links to useful Web sites. The award-winning EEVL (CH, Jul'02, 39-6440) is one such site, giving access to engineering- and technology-related Web resources, especially "deep" or "invisible" content not easily retrievable through Web search engines. TechXtra builds on EEVL to provide expanded access to "grey literature," the biggest category of resources lacking comprehensive indexing by commercial information vendors and Web search engines. TechXtra provides access to article citations and full text, Web sites, dissertations, industry news, job announcements, technical reports, e-prints, newsletters, and more." -- Choice |
| Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability | “Horton is a pro at developing readily navigable Web sites, and a gifted teacher. This reviewer remembers her Web Style Guide (1999; coauthored with Patrick Lynch) being passed around Web circles when design issues were beginning to fill many workday hours for academic librarians. Horton writes as a compassionate educator who understands the design innocence of most of her readers: "For Web sites to be functional, their content must be accessible and their functions operable--these are basic requirements. When we consider these requirements within the context of a universal Web, with its diversity of users and access technologies, several fundamental principles emerge to guide our efforts toward universal usability."” – Choice |
| US Army Center for Military History | The department of the US Military directly concerned with recording and preserving the history of the US Military. Good source for research. |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
“The US Food and Drug Administration's mission is to protect and advance public health by assuring the safety of food, medical devices, and medicine, and to provide health- and product-related information to the public. This broad mission is reflected in a sprawling Web site that contains information aimed at consumers, educators and students, and medical and industry professionals. For students, educators, and consumers, the site's search engine, A-Z List, and well-organized site map adequately point the way to authoritative, useful resources. The Hot Topics section covers current health-related issues of interest to undergraduates, such as gene therapy, medical marijuana, hurricanes, and cell phone safety. FDA & You, an online newsletter for health educators and students, includes sample lesson plans, articles, and links to outside resources.” – Choice |
| Viruslist.com. | “Kaspersky Lab, a security software vendor headquartered in Moscow and a producer of Internet security products, hosts the Virus Encyclopedia on this site. Eugene Kaspersky, an information security researcher, cofounded the lab in 1997. Computer viruses were first detected in the early 1970s with the discovery of the Creeper virus on ARPANET. Research into self-reproducing automata began in the 1940s and 1950s when John von Neumann and Lionel Penrose published their works. Viruses, trojans, worms, and hacker utilities are grouped under the collective name "malware." The encyclopedia presents a history of malware from the beginning to 2003. The history is a fascinating read. The encyclopedia describes each type of malware--quite a variety exist, and with colorful names! E-mail and instant messenger worms, boot sector and macro viruses, trojan droppers and clickers, flooders and nukers are just a few covered.” – Choice |
| The XML Toolkit. | "This ongoing electronic project, with additional segments forthcoming, is published by the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) (Univ. at Albany, SUNY). XML code contributes to the responsiveness of Web site management that most governmental agencies need. An earlier CTG project, Web Site Management Using XML: A Testbed Project, offers in-depth analysis and guidelines for managing e-government Web sites." -- Choice |
| Yahoo Military History Directory | “The main index for Military web pages listed in Yahoo. A number of different categories are listed, of both historical and commercial interest. Like all Yahoo collections, this one is both browsable and searchable." |
| The Year 1000: A Legacy of Science & Technology |
“This online exhibition is a useful introductory history of science and technology. The source is the Linda Hall Library, an independent public library of science, engineering, and technology located in Missouri, serving academic and business clients internationally.” – Choice |
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