Web links

A collection of pointers to other Web resources related to course material.

Not all of these links are extremely relevant, nor is the quality uniformly excellent, but generally they seem to be good places to go to see more about material we cover in class.

Further disclaimer: I (Dr. Bob) have not checked through these links to be sure they are still relevant to the latest edition of the course (or even still "live"), but thought they might be interesting anyway.

Foundations
History of computers
More on decidability
Recursion
Towers of Hanoi
Relating Hanoi and Sierpinski
A link about self-reference
Bell's kite
Internet
An Internet history
Another Internet history
Internet programming on Unix
Cryptography
A cryptogram solver
Algorithms
Graph algorithms (like Floyd's all-pairs-shortest-paths algorithm (Section 19.3))
Karatsuba comparison
Other topics
Ray-tracing
A DLX assembler
About NP
Generally useful links
Yahoo
Excite
AltaVista
Generally useless links
Dilbert (for more talented artistry than in lecture)
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
Robin Hood