Resources for
Labs 1 Through 10
2001, A Space Odyssey An archive of information about the movie written by Arthur C. Clarke, and featuring the HAL 9000 computer.
Abacus Applet A java-implementation of a working Abacus, and information on how to use one.
Adobe Magazine Archive (magazine has been discontinued) Online articles on design, typesetting, and imagesmithing.
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Top features of the most widely used graphics publishing software.
Ada Lovelace Notes Ada Lovelace's notes on her translation of Menebrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Alan Turing Comprehensive Comprehensive Alan Turing Page.
Alan Turing Page Comprehensive Alan Turing resource.
Alan Turing's biography Seven pages of biographical information.
Alta Vista Search Engine by Digital Equipment Corp.
An Intellectual Property Primer Survey of intellectual property laws.
Atanasoff-Berry Computer Description of the very first electronic digital (single purpose) computer.
Automatic Teller Machine-phobia An article from Georgia Tech on how training of older people can reduce their fear of ubiquitous new technologies, such as ATMs.
Babbage by Schaffer: Pt. 3 - Calculating engines and their intelligence.
Bare Bones Guide to HTML Excellent reference for intermediate HTML authors.
Beginner's HTML At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, home of Mosaic browsers, a beginner's guide to coding in HTML.
Brief History of Computer Technology Brief sketch of the development of digital, electronic computers, part of a larger Web-book on computational
science; sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
Brief History of the Internet From the Internet Society.
Case Western Reserve U. Tutorial Award winning HTML tutorial.
Charles Babbage Biography with pictures.
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) The Babbage difference engine.
Charles Babbage Institute Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing.
Chatterbots, Tinymuds, and the Turing Test Paper about the Loebner Prize (AI) competition.
Chipping Away at VLSI Design An article on the history of chip design, and large scale integrated circuits.
Chronology of Computer History Detailed timeline of international computing history. See also, the file museum.htm at this same URL. Sponsored by the Historical Computer Society.
Chronology of Digital Computing Machines What was the first computer, and who built it?
Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers Collection of product announcements and magazine articles.
Civil Liberties ACLU page on Internet censorship.
CNet News Service A news service that will let you customize your interests and send you weekly email with headlines.
ColorCenter The absolute best color scheme tool available.
Communications Decency Act - 1996 Full text of the 1996 CDA ruling.
Composing Good HTML A treatise by E. Tilton.
Computer History Timeline A list of historical events in the evolution of computers, starting with the invention of the abacus.
Copyright Website Lots of copyright information for the WWW.
Corel Homepage Corel software company manufactures Wordperfect word processing software, Quatro Pro spreadsheet software, and a wide variety of graphics software.
Creating HTML: A Simple Guide A simple, concise guide to writing HTML documents.
DejaNews Search Searches news items and newsgroups.
Disney's Fantasia The tale of the sorcerer's apprentice is given fantastic form in this classic Disney animated film. See clips and sound bytes here.
DropStuff Drag and drop stuff/unstuff utility.
Excite Search Engine Excite home.
Expert Systems at Penn State The Penn State Agricultural Department has a number of experimental expert systems for agricultural management for you to try out.
Federal Networking Council Official government definition of the Internet.
Font Abuse! Sarcastic example of using inline images for font control.
Galaxy Search Engine by Trade Wave Corp. A search engine and catalog of subjects.
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present Comprehensive information about many microprocessors.
Good Hypertext Writing Musings on good text style in Web pages by Jutta Degener.
HAL's Legacy A 25th anniversary celebration and book about the movie 2001, and the legacy of Arthur C. Clarke's vision of the future of computing through HAL 9000.
Hamilton College The cool college where Rick and Stu weave their magic web
Hexidecimal Color Chart A must know for people who want to keep their graphics and web-backgrounds from dithering.
Historic Computer Images A collection of high resolution scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive.
History of Alan Turing From "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
History of Computers: Notes Computers: From the Past to the Present - a series of lecture notes from Michelle Hoyle at University of Regina, Canada. Uses Frames.
History of Computing For the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC, IEEE celebrated by putting up this detailed history from the 1600's on.
History of the Net The View from Internet Valley.
HTML Bad Style Page Good explanation of why bad HTML is bad.
HyperStand New Media magazine online: tools, reviews, tips
InfoSeek Net Search InfoSeek home. Also a starting point for browsing "cool" sites.
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship of the Internet Information on the issues of intellectual freedom, free speech, and censorhip of the Internet.
The Interactive Factory A cool and groovy place where educational multimedia comes to life.
Internet Caucus A group of US legislators trying to protect the Internet.
Internet History From the Discovery Channel.
J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing A collection of materials related to the history of computing.
JM Web JavaScript Collection Working viewable examples with copyable code.
Kasparov v. DeepBlue Page Comprehensive information on the rematch, and more, sponsored by IBM.
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) The Father of Modern Computers - long article on Zuse and the Z-family of computers.
Konrad Zuse's work Zuse's own discussion of the Z-family of computers.
Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects Thinking ahead about Internet legislation.
Lotus 1-2-3 Spec sheet for the very popular spreadsheet.
Lycos Search Engine Lycos home. Now a commercial search engine: created at Carnegie Mellon University.
Machine That Changed The World Outline of the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series.
Managing the Virtual Commons Sociological view of cyberspace.
Mark/Space Virtual Reality Colorful site of VR information, glossary, and links.
Micro History History of the microcomputer revolution by Frank Delaney at the Washington State University.
Microsoft Excel 97 Product brochure for the newest version of Excel spreadsheet software.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Why IE is better than Netscape Navigator 3.0... for the moment.
Don't be Cowed by the MOO
Information and pointers to educational Multi-User Domains (Dungeons) and other virtual environments.
MUD Catalog Kent State Department of Education lists all the MOOs/MUDs that are fit to print.
Multimedia Graphics Listing Maintained by Maricopa college, this is a vast resource of images for you to browse.
NCSA HTML Primer The heavily requested NCSA beginner's guide to HTML.
NetLingo A dictionary of the Internet language.
Netscape's DevEdge Online A developer's dream site, with documentation on HTML, JavaScript, and a host of other Netscape technologies.
Netscape Guide to HTML A listing of on and off-site resources for style and composition of HTML documents.
Netscape's JavaScript A description of this scripting language from the developers, and pointers to the reference guide and some examples.
Netscape Navigator 3.0 Standards and features of the Netscape browser version 3.0.
Newspage A customizable news service.
Odyssey Science Center A summary of the devices leading to the development of the modern computer.
PBS Internet timeline From the PBS series Life on the Internet.
PC Therapist By a three-time Loebner winner.
Pictures from Computing History Photo archive from David Wessels of James Cook University.
PKZip The original zip/unzip
utility.
Privacy Pages Source for Internet privacy issues.
QuickTime VR An overview of Apple's QuickTime VR surround-view moviemaking technology.
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi Comprehensive guide to all HTML commands and methods.
Slide Rule - Historic Old manufacturers information on a slide rule.
Slide Rule on the WWW The Amazing WWW Slide Rule lets you calculate logs online.
Stuffit Expander Most widely used Mac stuff/unstuff utility.
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics From the Computer Ethics Institute.
Texas Instruments History History of the early TI calculators.
Tips, Tricks, How-to, and Beyond Great source for HTML basics and insightful tips.
Tools for Thought By Howard Rheingold: Ch. 2 - The First Programmer Was a Lady.
Turing Institute Home Page Links, pictures, etcetera.
US Army History of Computing Information Documents from the home of the ENIAC: The U. S. Army Research Lab.
Virtual Museum of Computing Wonderful listings of computing history, computing resources, images, etc.
Virtual Reality Lab at UM University of Michigan site concentrating on VR.
Visual Basic Microsoft's VB site.
Volume Controls in Cyberspace? First Amendment questions about the Internet.
VRML Authoring Tools List of Virtual Reality Machine Language tools, and a language description. One of the most way-out applications we know of.
Webcrawler Search engine originally from U. Colorado.
Webmaster's Reference How-to articles on all aspects of WWW publishing.
WebTV Magnavox's WebTV site.
WinZip Windows 3.1 and 95 graphical zip/unzip utility.
Women & Computers From Ada and the Difference Engine to Sandra Bullock in *The Net*.
World Wide Web Consortium Home of the WWW Project, as started and continued by T. Berners-Lee.
World Wide Web Primer Written by N. Torkington in New Zealand, this primer talks about the origins of the Web and explains protocols, networking, etc.
WWW Frequently Asked Questions Written by T. Boutell and Boutell Com., Inc.: everything you always wanted to know about the Web (in multiple languages yet) but were afraid to know.
Yahoo Web Search and Directory Cataloged and searchable listings from Yahoo, an outgrowth of the Stanford Web cataloging project.
Yale Web Style Guide Combines traditional editorial approaches to documents with technical authoring skills.
ZipIt Homepage Unzip utility for the Macintosh.
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