Paul Heckbert's Collection of Interesting Web Links
Here are some links that I've found interesting.
I've tested most of them.
Table of contents:
bibs |
web |
directories |
people |
projects |
papers & software |
conferences |
doc |
universities |
newspapers |
travel |
publishers |
misc |
Pittsburgh |
CMU
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Computer Science Bibliography
main site, Germany.
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arXiv of physics, math, CS papers
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New Zealand Digital Library's Computer Science technical reports index,
index to thousands of (postscript!) technical reports worldwide,
but as of 12/02 they're missing most of CMU's CS tech. reports
- not a good sign
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JSTOR,
old journals on line
(link works from participating university computers only)
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Graphbib,
SIGGRAPH's Computer Graphics bibliography
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table of contents for Computer Graphics journal
- Ian Ashdown's bibliography on
radiosity.
He also has a bibliography on
color image quantization.
To locate it, try google.
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Jules Bloomenthal's bibliography on
implicit surfaces
- Jim Arvo's bibliography on
transport,
(heat transfer, scattering theory, illumination, etc)
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Tralvex Yeap's
Radiosity Abstracts/Bibliography/Papers Library
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Frank Crow's collection on graphics hardware,
Thomas Monk's history of PC graphics hardware,
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graphics file formats,
raster image, video, 3-D models
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Computational Geometry bibliography
and other compgeom stuff
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Computer Vision bibliography
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Computational Geometry bibliography
and
some info about it
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Bibliography on approximation by
Eric Grosse
(
PS version)
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Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
web encyclopedia (modestly named, eh?),
and his book
Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
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US Patent database |
US Patents
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Bounty Quest,
match up people who want to shoot down patents with those who can
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Computer Graphics Links,
by Steve Hollasch
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comp.graphics FAQ by John Grieggs
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Amara Graps' science links,
(astronomy, numerical methods, ...)
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List of virtual libraries on the WWW
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International Children's Digital Library,
books online
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Library of Congress
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University of California Library catalog,
Melvyl
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Stanford University Library catalog
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CMU library
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Firstsearch bibliography (password required)
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Community of Science researcher/funding database
(only works from member institutions)
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
large encyclopedia on line
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Math history
from the Swarthmore
Internet Mathematics Library
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findarticles.com online magazine & journal articles
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Google,
web search program,
good at weeding out junk (ranks by popularity)
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Altavista
web search program -- probably the best database.
advanced search
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Vivisimo,
a clustering web search program
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Manjara,
a clustering web search program
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HomePageSearch,
search for web pages of computer scientists
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Northern Light,
web search program
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All The Web,
fast search
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reverse telephone search,
get name from phone number
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Searchbug,
find people or business by name, phone number, address, email;
search US govt. publications & newspapers;
comparison shopping;
airplane flight data
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calendar
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http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/refsrch.htm - DIED!
reference tools,
address lookup, quotations, acronyms, dictionary, calendar,
area code from address, speech synthesis...
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area code list
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ixquick
web search;
runs yahoo, altavista, and others
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Metacrawler
web search; runs Altavista, Infoseek, Lycos, and others
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Ask Jeeves,
runs other web search programs,
adds a glossy coating
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reference.com -
do searches periodically - cool!
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New York Times Navigator,
links to web search programs, reference info, other good stuff
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Links2Go,
topical index, flat
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Yahoo,
topical index, hierarchical.
people search
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Snap,
seems to be a Yahoo clone.
See their Product Finder
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Infoseek Ultraseek
web search program -- slower than Altavista, but also a big database
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AnyWho reverse lookup
from phone number
- Lycos
web search program, good phone database
- Hotbot
fast web search program (formerly Inktomi), does word search (no context)
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Google Groups Search (USENET),
(formerly Deja News)
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Survey Central,
surveys on every topic imaginable
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Askmehelpdesk.com,
you ask questions, "experts" answer them
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Switchboard (find people - database mostly from US telephone white pages)
- WhoWhere
email address or phone number from name
(small phone database)
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Ahoy,
search for personal web pages and email addresses
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Four11 white pages (find people on the Web - database mostly from USENET)
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ditto.com,
search for pictures
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Sharon Burks,
makes CS dept run at Carnegie Mellon
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Takeo Igarashi,
CMU, visiting from Japan; nice user interface ideas
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Greg Ward (Larson),
author of RADIANCE renderer
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Joe Warren,
Rice University,
subdivision surfaces, wavelets
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Jon Webb,
Diamondback Systems,
Reston VA
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Adrian Bowyer,
U. of Bath, UK,
solid modeling
- Steven Boker,
Dept of Psych, Notre Dame U
- Craig Reynolds, Sony
- Andrew Johnson, CMU
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Jim Arvo,
Caltech
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Tom Sederberg, Brigham Young U.
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Jules Bloomenthal,
Unchained Geometry,
Seattle.
personal web site.
- Paul Haeberli's journal
Grafica Obscura, SGI
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Stephen Harrison,
Reading MA,
Ibelong,
worked on Altavista
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Drew Olbrich
see Phlegm, Ray-Traced Sphere, Thing in a Jar, Tricorder
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Ephraim Cohen's HEXATRON (java hacks)
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Peter Shirley, Utah (has list of CG labs)
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Charlie Gunn, mathematician & graphics whiz &
high school math teacher
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Nina Amenta, U. of Texas, Austin,
(formerly at Geometry Center, Minneapolis)
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Don Mitchell, Microsoft
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Seth Teller, MIT
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Leonard McMillan, MIT
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MIT Media Lab / Architecture Machine Group Alumni
(requires password)
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SGI employees
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Susan R. Heckbert, my sister.
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Veit Elser, physicist, high school friend of mine.
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Jim Austin,
blacksmith & high school friend of mine.
(more pix)
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Russell Wilcox,
laser engineer, video artist,
& high school friend of mine.
Phaeton Communications.
Tetrahedron laser sculpture.
from Burning Man 99,
Beaming Man laser sculpture
from Burning Man 00.
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Will Welch, Inktomi, SF
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(formerly Bridget Johnson-Heckbert),
my ex-wife,
ASE Edge
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium, Computer Graphics Research Group
(Willems, Bekaert et al)
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Microsoft Research graphics group
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U of British Columbia, Imager computer graphics lab
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Stanford U, computer graphics
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U of Washington, Grail project (Curless et al)
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MIT Erotic Computation Group
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A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry, Geometry Center, Minneapolis
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Cornell U, computer graphics
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Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
(some map hounds in Sioux Falls).
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ASCII graphics (a great hack!):
Star Wars animation ,
ASCII Quake
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Implicit Surface info from John Hart & Jules Bloomenthal
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Gomes and Velho's
book on image processing for computer graphics
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Peter Cheeseman,
NASA Ames, Bayesian methods, classification and surface reconstruction
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Michal Irani,
Weizmann Institute, Israel,
computer vision and image processing
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Apple's Quicktime VR
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IBM's Interaction Accelerator (multiresolution stuff
by Rossignac & Borrel)
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netlib, big collection of software (lots of FORTRAN)
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vtk: The Visualization Toolkit
by Schroeder, Martin, and Lorensen at GE.
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David Eberly,
lots of software for fitting, geometry, linear systems, etc.
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Beware of VIDEA!,
an amusing and troubling account of a bogus conference,
reported by Purgathofer, Groeller, and Feda of the U of Vienna.
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Computational Geometry software directory by Nina Amenta.
- David Eppstein's collections of
geometry problems and
applied computational geometry
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subdivision of polyhedra to generate a sphere,
very cool
- Very cool
images of polyhedra
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Application Challenges to Computational Geometry report,
(argues that computational geometry needs to become more applied),
and discussion, including some of my comments.
- Ian Ashdown's papers, books, and bibs:
radiosity papers,
computer graphics papers.
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CMU SCS software collection
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A collaborative, electronic textbook on scientific computing,
(its top level)
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Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks
for Iterative Methods,
book
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SIGGRAPH org.,
SIGGRAPH 02,
digital campfire.
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SIGGRAPH papers online:
97 ,
98 ,
99 ,
00 ,
01 ,
02 .
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SIGGRAPH proceedings from ACM Digital Library,
(PDF of articles from 1991 onward, but sometimes scanned,
sometimes without color figures)
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Eurographics org. ,
Eurographics '97 Conf. ,
Eurographics Workshop on Rendering ,
EWR99 ,
Eurographics Workshops ,
'99 Workshop on Graphics Hardware
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Visualization 2001
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ASME Design Automation Conference,
Pittsburgh, Sept 01.
ASME guidelines
(look for DETC2001)
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IMA Workshop on Computer Graphics,
May 01
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Implicit Surfaces 99,
Bordeaux France Sept 99
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Workshop on Rendering, Perception, and Measurement
papers,
Ithaca NY, 1998
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Seminars in Dagstuhl Germany
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Visualization 98
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Mesh Generation Conferences & Journals
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list of online graphics papers and journals,
collected by Fredo Durand.
Others
here,
here,
or
here.
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computational geometry conferences,
list by Joe Mitchell
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IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications journal (papers online)
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (papers online)
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ACM Transactions on Graphics,
has links to software, other stuff
Past Conferences
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New York Times
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BBC
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Yahoo most-emailed news
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Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting,
media watchdog
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Daypop Top 40,
popular weblogger sites
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memepool,
collection of web links from people all over, on all topics
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The Onion
(satire)
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smirkingchimp.com and
gwbush.com,
political commentary
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Whitehouse.org
(political satire)
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Romanesko's Obscure Store - weird stuff
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MyPittsburghLIVE
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Slashdot,
news for nerds
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Digital Silence
computer graphics / hardware / game news
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San Jose Mercury News, good for Silicon Valley news
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CNet News.com,
computer news
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Burt Wolf,
on travel, food
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Annals of Improbable Research
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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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SIAM,
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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A. K. Peters
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Cambridge University Press
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Addison Wesley Longman
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Eurographics-Springer book series
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newtextlistings.com,
get list of new textbooks given university and course number
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Shopping Agents (especially technical books,
but also non-tech books, clothes, etc.)
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Fatbrain,
San Jose, CA,
formerly Computer Literacy
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Varsitybooks.com,
on-line textbook store
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Books.com, on-line bookstore
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efollet,
new & used college textbooks
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Barnes & Noble, bookstore
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Amazon.com, on-line bookstore
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Border's Books
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Border's and others
use
Harvest Booksearch (1-800-563-1222)
for out-of-print book search
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Thesaurus & Dictionary
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Some jobs and scholarships in computer graphics
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history of computer graphics chip companies
from Salon,
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Paul's private links
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Science Made Stupid,
by Tom Weller,
incredibly funny
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Calvin Trillin's political poems,
right on!
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anti-tobacco political activists
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fandango,
purchase movie tickets (USA) through web
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gasbuddy.com,
comparison shop for gasoline prices, in US and Canada
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CDNOW,
listen to music CD excerpts
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eComplaints.com or
PlanetFeedback.com,
consumer complaints about companies
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Institute for Applied Autonomy,
Graffiti Writer - spray paint cans on an RC car!
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Software Bugs
(death and disaster from missing comma, bad float-int conversion, etc).
See also
this
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Movie Review Query Engine,
multiple reviews of thousands of movies,
previews of current movies
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visualizations of the Internet
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model trains, my collection of links
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nice fonts
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How Microsoft stifled
Intel's work on signal processing and graphics
software and attempted to leash Apple's Quicktime (paragraphs 94-110).
From Microsoft Trial Findings of Fact,
Nov. 1999.
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annoyances.org,
discussion of annoyances of Microsoft software,
and workarounds
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Image Resize Bug in Microsoft Photo Editor
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JPL Mars Pathfinder pix ,
JPL space pictures ,
DEC's Mars Pathfinder mirror site
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USGS remote sensing of earth
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The Exploratorium
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Zip code lookup (type address, get zip)
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Send a fax from web or email
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Tiger Map Data of US,
from Census Bureau
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Street maps of US & Canada,
type an address & see a map.
mapquest
has aerial photos, too
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driving directions in the US from
tripquest.com
or
vicinity.com,
- Song lyrics, CD database, audio samples
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Acronym Collection .
with lots of obscure ones
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Anagram Generator
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how to get let less junk mail, junk phone calls, junk email
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Uncommercials
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Telemarketer tormenting techniques
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Bill Nye the Science Guy:
fancy graphics version,
text version.
Kids TV show.
PBS broadcast schedule,
other broadcast schedule.
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info on travel to Europe, particularly Lyon, FR
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current Seattle traffic map
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A
history of computer graphics
from the book "Becoming a Computer Animator" by Michael Morrison.
More
history from Sun's web pages
about Ivan Sutherland.
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info on travel to Europe
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Willow Glen High School class of '76, San Jose, CA.
("Reunion Hall" database),
geocities database.
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Willow Glen Elementary School,
Willow Glen Middle School,
(formerly Markham Junior High),
Willow Glen High School,
where I went
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English idioms
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hypertext dictionary ,
language translation
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current Pittsburgh weather
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WYEP radio live stream
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movies currently playing in Pittsburgh.
Yahoo's index
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directory of pittsburgh businesses and attractions
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Jewish Community Center,
Squirrel Hill
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Allegheny County real estate assessments,
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concert listing from
pollstar.com
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TV:
WQED 13 (pbs),
KDKA 2 (cbs),
WTAE 4 (abc),
WPXI 11 (nbc) -
sched,
WPGH 53 (fox),
transmitter info
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Swing Dancing
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bars and nightlife
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Geek Night,
beer parties
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A Pinch of Pittsburgh,
brief, good guide to restaurants & sights
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Kid Stuff
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Edgewood:
Mellor Library ,
Recreation
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Heads Together Video & DVD,
videotape rental (forget Blockbuster!)
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Western Pennsylvania MENSA
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phone numbers of Pittsburgh businesses
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Pittsburgh SIGGRAPH chapter
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City of Pittsburgh info index, parks, maps, lots of other stuff
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Outdoors:
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Outside Adventures
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Western Pennsylvania Field Institute
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Pennsylvania Swimming Holes
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biking:
bike rides in Pittsburgh ,
Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh,
Montour Trail south of Pittsburgh,
Western PA Wheelmen ,
Allegheny Trails Alliance (rails-to-trails),
rails-to-trails in SW PA ,
Pgh city bicycling plan ,
mtn biking ,
The Great Ride ,
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jogging:
The Great Race
30 Sep 2001,
results
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skiing:
Pennsylvania ski conditions,
West Virginia ski conditions,
Laurel Ridge State Park cross country,
Pennsylvania Cross Country Skier's Association,
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http://www.regentsquare.com/,
Nine Mile Run Project, Run Around The Square,
Frick Park & Nine Mile Run maps ,
Summerset at Frick Park (a.k.a. Slag Heap Village)
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Pittsburgh practical info: maps, recycling, weather,
bus schedules
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current Pittsburgh traffic conditions
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Pittsburgh restaurants
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Indian restaurants
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VASC seminar
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CMU Computer Science
printers
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DSL at CMU
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CSD speaker's club
(my login page)
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floor plans of CMU buildings
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College of Fine Arts events calendar
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CMU Universal Library project
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Andrew Clusters
(computers for primarily for CMU undergrads)
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map of CMU campus (Doherty Hall is (1), Wean is (2)),
PDF map of CMU (slow, but good detail),
parking map,
other maps of CMU,
maps of Pittsburgh and CMU.
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Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC),
VASC seminars
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CMU CS faculty resources
(this link probably won't work well for you if you're not CS faculty)
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Robotics Institute Survival Guide
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CMU staff directory,
(requires CMU Andrew id)
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Blue Cross / Blue Shield health insurance provider directory
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"Tartan Trust" purchasing card
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Faculty Senate,
faculty handbook
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CMU Intercultural Communication Center,
helps international students learn English
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financial summaries ,
Oracle financial reports 1,
Oracle financial reports 2,
SCS Facilities costing reports,
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schedule of classes
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CMU registrar's grades database (only for faculty)
Paul Heckbert's page
