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Bookmarks: Search Engines, Resources

General-purpose search engines

http://www.google.com - Google works well both for general purpose searches and for more research oriented ones. It almost became the standard search engine for the net

http://dmoz.org/ - ODP (Open Directory Project) is a open categorical search engine

Scientific literature and citations

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ - CiteSeer (aka Nec ResearchIndex) is a digital library of scientific literature

http://cora.whizbang.com/ - CORA is a computer science research paper search engine

http://xxx.lanl.gov/ - ArXiv.org e-print archive, also a scientific paper repository with search engine

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ - IEEE Xplore: IEEE publications online. You must pay for access

Dictionaries, encyclopediae

FAQ

http://www.faqs.org/ - The Internet FAQ archive. Also gathers FAQ of Usenet groups, so you have FAQs on almost everything in human knowledge

Computers

http://www.webopedia.com - IT encyclopedia. Entry level on-fly definitions for most of IT buzzword

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/ - Free Online Dictionary Of Computing; many terms, also logic and mathematics

Philosophy

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ - the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/ - the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Useful for mathematical logic

Languages

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/bib/bookshelf.html - Claus Reinke's virtual bookshelf. A big collection of papers on many theoretical aspects related to programming languages (category, rewriting, reflection, Lisp to name few)

Courses

Diverse

http://murl.microsoft.com/ - Multi-University/Research Laboratory seminars

Japanese

http://physics.uwyo.edu/~brent/jal/jal-home.htm - Reiko-Chan course on Japanese for Anime Lovers. With sections on Hiragana and Katakana

http://www.joyo96.org/ - The Japanese Learning Dojo. Affiliated with the Japanese Ministry of the Education. Fundamentals of hiragana, katakana and kanji

http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~central/ - A course of Japanese

http://www.allusion.net/bard/ - A homepage with some interesting stuff on Japan

Other

http://www.fs-on-line.com - Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian state railroad company)

http://www.dictionary.com - English dictionary. A translator from/to several languages is also available

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ - WordNet, something more than a dictionary... at least they say. It can be used online, or downloaded

http://www.xe.com - Currency conversion

http://weather.yahoo.com - Worldwide weather

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ - Time server; Useful to quickly solve timezone issues

http://www.abebooks.com/ - A store for used, secondhand, rare, out-of-print books

http://scout.wisc.edu/ - Archive of online resources for educators, researchers, etc

Work

Scientific and Technological Research

http://www.cordis.lu/improving/home.html - Human Potential Programme supports formation and movement of researches in the EU

http://www4.in.tum.de/ - Software and System Engineering at Technische Universität München. They organize the "Marktoberdorf Summer School". See under the "misc" section for the school programme and online subscription

http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/ - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ - Yonezawa Laboratory. Many research works, notably on computational reflection (now finished)

http://prog.vub.ac.be/ - PROG laboratory at Vrije University. They work on interesting topics on reflection, programming languages, components, reuse and contracts. A LOT of VERY interesting papers

Summer schools

http://www.disi.unige.it/dottorato/SCUOLE/ - List of summer schools

See Marktoberdorf above.

Software (working and not) and algorithms

http://www.gnupg.org - Gnu Privacy Guard

http://www.swox.com/gmp/ - Gnu MP is a library for infinite precision arithmetics

http://www.jam-software.com/software.html - Several freeware for Windows, ExcelToLatex

http://www.gzilla.com - Armadillo (once Gzilla) proposed as a browser for Gnome, now seemingly defunct

http://ulli.linuxbox.com/fiasco - Fiasco is a fractal codec which claims performance comparable to that of wavelets. Do not confuse with the omonymous OS

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ - Antiword: a free MS Word document reader

http://pzcommunications.com/ - Audio and video stuff

Resources

http://www.emailman.com/ - Everything for email: conversion tools, clients, standards, etc

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/ - Shareware Music Machine: Huge list of (more or less) shareware musical software

Emulators

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ - Emulators for ancient computers (mostly PDP)

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ - BOCHS is an emulator of Intel-based computers, licensed under LGPL and multiplatform (even not PC)

http://www.maconlinux.org/ - Maconlinux is an Macintosh emulator

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86 - Plex86 is a free substitute for VMWare. Seems halted due to many troubles, now hosted by Savannah

Multimedia

http://www.xmms.org - X MultiMedia System, a multimedia player for X

http://www.geocities.com/simplelance/download.htm - SIMPLE is a nice mp3 encoder

Music Software

http://www.arts-project.org - aRts is a project which aims at defining an analog realtime synthesizer system. Thought for KDE it evolved to be independent on the environment and on QT

http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/freebirth/ - FreeBirth: a free Rebirth clone for Linux

http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond/ - LilyPond is a music typesetter, producing beautiful notation from a description file

TeX, LaTeX, etc

http://www.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/ - Tips on using Emacs for LaTeX under Windows

http://www.miktex.org/ - MiKTeX is the best TeX distribution for Windows

http://www.tug.org/ - The Tex User Group (TUG). Everything. Also the teTeX distribution, common on Unices

http://prosper.sourceforge.net/ - Prosper is a LaTeX class to make beautiful slides in PDF. Requires the seminar and pstricks class

http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/bec2/bmcd/pdf/ - Prosper needs ps2pdf (pdflatex and dvipdf do not work), but sometimes the standard configuration of LaTeX and dvips yield crappy pdf with broken bitmap fonts on mathematical formulas. Here some tips to have all vector fonts in your pdf with ps2pdf

Emacs

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ - Emacs homepage at GNU

http://www.emacswiki.org/ - The Emacs Wiki

Software engineering tools

http://www.tigris.org/ - Open source community aimed at building a suite of tools for SE. Among the projects: subversion, replacing CVS for CM, scarab, an issue tracking system similar to Bugzilla, and ArgoUML, a tool for modelling aimed at replacing Rose

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