Computer Science Web Resources

 

General

Computer Science Directory

Computer Science Directory offers information on seven computers science topics: artificial intelligence, security, operating systems, CAD and CAM, programming, hacking, and mathematics.

Dictionary of Computing

Oxford Reference Online Computer Science Dictionary 

Dictionary of the Internet

Oxford Reference Online Internet Dictionary 

FOLDOC

Free Online Dictionary of Computing provides definitions for computer and computer science terms.

Google Computer Science Web Directory

TechEncylopedia

Over 20,000 computer science and IT terms

Virginia Tech Intro

Webopedia

Online dictionary of computer and computer science terms

WhatIs

Online dictiornary of computer and computer science terms

CiteSeer

Search Computer and Information Science Papers

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

This links to the browse section of this web site, which is very useful for beginning a search on computer science in a number of listed areas.

Computer and Internet Dictionaries

Babylon is a commerical site that provides definitions for a wide range of computer science and computer related terms.

 

 

Basic Computer Science Courses, Lectures, and Tutorials 

 

AcademicEarth

Introduction to Computer Science I includes 32 video lectures, affiliated with a professor/educational institution.

Animations to Assist Learning Some Key Computer Science Topics

The Virginia Tech Computer Science Department page is a great teaching/learning site thatuses animation to discuss topics like alogrithms, data structures, programming languages, etc.   

Computer Aided Instruction Project

Lecture notes on Java, QBasic, and other programming languages

Computer Science 1

Several meetings of an introductory/freshman computer science course have been uploaded to the web by the faculty at UCLA.

Ethics in Computing

A page from North Carolina State University that discusses some provacative questions concerning computer science ethics in commerce, privacy, intellectual property, and other areas. It mainly links to other websites, but offers a lot of information to explore.

Linktionary

Browse topics at this site for computer related terms, general use.

Open Directory

The Open Directory computer science section offers an arrangement scheme organized by people, conferences, publications, and subject areas of computer science.

Open Source Initiative

This web site talks about the benefits of non-proprietary software and offers some free versions of operating software that substitute for Microsoft Windows and other platforms.

Scirus

A scientific research tool that searches for journal content, the "most comprehensive" of its kind on the web according to their web site.  

Scitopics

The Scitopics page on Computer Science provides full text to computer science articles.  

Scitopia

Searches science related literature

Virginia Tech Intro to Computer Science

This web site relies on course notes and PowerPoint presentations as its starts from scratch and develops the basics of computer science

WikiBooks on Computer Science

Open source content by Wikibooks for computer science subjects such as general topics (i.e. algorithms), theory, programs and others.   

 

 

Topics in Computer Science History

 

Chronology of Personal Computers

A timeline of developments in the personal computer world

Programmers At Work

Programmers At Work shares the video and/or text for interviews with 19 individuals who made major contributions to the field of computer science. These interviews occurred in the 1980s, an especially exciting period of innovation as computer science was still a nascent, burgeoning discipline.

The History of Computing

Maintained by the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech

Internet History Resource Centre

More general than the other links, this site provides an excellent biography of the internet.

MouseSite

This site highlights some of the groundbreaking developments in computers.

The Virtual Museum of Computing

This site may seem like a mish-mash of links regarding computer history and important pioneers. However, these links are selective, organized into major categories, and lead to substantive information.

Living Internet

A tour of the internet

 

 

Academic Papers

Computing Research Repository

Sponsored by ACM, this site offers free access to .pdf files of academic papers on computer science topics. Scroll toward the end of the home page to search by "subject class" on topics like artificial intelligence, computers science and game theory, datastructures and algorithms, databases, etc. 

 

 

Data Mining

Knowledge Discovery

Some great editors have collaborated to create an extensive compilation of web sources related to data mining.