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Argonne National Laboratory: Mathematics and Computer Science Division

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/

Scaleable parallel computing, high-performance I-WAY networks, and High-Performance Computing and Music research are currently under way at this federally funded institute. Another fascinating research project is the CAVE, a ten-foot cube that provides a stereo optical, real time, virtual environment. Check out how this works!

Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms

http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel95b.html

A lengthy glossary of computer-oriented abbreviations and acronyms, updated three times a year (January, May, and September). This page takes a while to load because of its length, but its thoroughness is worth a bookmark or a printout.

Cray Research

http://www.cray.com/

If you think your desktop Pentium is powerful, check out Cray's latest desktop systems, some of which are wireless.

CS-100 The History of Computing

http://calypso.cs.uregina.ca/Lecture/

A detailed discussion of the history of computing presented in a slide show format. Find out about Charles Babbage's infamous "Difference Engine," Blaise Pascal's revolutionary "Pascaline," ENIAC, and the Altair computer. A thorough and well-designed trip through computing history.

Historic Computer Images

http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers/

Download large GIF photos of famous, early computers, such as the ENIAC, EDVAC, ORDVAC—a fascinating Web site.

IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking

http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/tcgn.html

Lists upcoming Gigabit Workshops and IEEE white papers and reports on gigabit computing. Includes links to other gigabit networking projects, researchers, and sites.

The Innovation Network

http://innovate.si.edu/

Founders of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, which have honored individuals who creatively used information technology (also known as IT) to improve humanity. Check out the Applications of Technology Information link and the Interviews link to find out how recent winners of this award used IT in their projects.

Intelligent Systems Integration Program

http://www.augusta.co.uk/isip

Joint initiative by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to encourage the use of intelligent systems in UK business. This site describes the technology transfer clubs, special interest groups, demonstration projects, and latest news of the ISIP program, which strives to incorporate these pattern-recognition agents in standard software development toolkits.

MetaCenter Computational Science Highlights

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Research/MetaScience/

Provides information in the form of text, images, sound, and animations on more than 10,000 National Science Foundation research projects. All the sites listed on this Web page have used NSF facilities to conduct research. Download computer animations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacting Jupiter, theoretical 3D models of action inside the sun, and many more fascinating images.

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

http://www.ai.mit.edu/index.html

The MIT AI lab's research ranges from learning and vision and robotics to development of new computers. Check out the Our Research link to read about projects in Machine Vision, Robotic Touch, Virtual and Enhanced Reality, and SodaBot software agents.

NASA High Performance Computing and Communications

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/hpccm/factsheets.html

This program works with American businesses and universities to accelerate the development of high-performance computing technologies for use in future NASA Earth and space missions. Find out what a teraflop is (a trillion floating point operations per second), and the size of a petabyte, which is equivalent to 2,300 years of digitized video!

North Carolina Supercomputing Center Home Page

http://www.ncsc.org/

Find out how NCSC promotes the use of super-computing at North Carolina schools. Read about their new Cray "flyer" computer, and find out more about research being conducted with their equipment.

PARC Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

http://www.parc.xerox.com/

Find out more about the 25th anniversary of the computing center that invented laser printers, graphical user interfaces, ethernet technology, and Object Oriented Programming languages. Check out personal pages of PARC researchers and employees and find out about current projects, such as nano-technology and machine vision. A prerequisite for any true technophile is to download the map to PARC's campus.

Smithsonian Computer History

http://www.si.edu/resource/tours/comphist/computer.htm

Take an online tour of this recent Smithsonian exhibit, which includes the original ENIAC computer, WWII German ENIGMA encryption devices, and high definition TV. Download a slide show of the exhibit, and read what famous scientists, such as Robert Ballard and Seymour Cray, have to say about the age of information.

Software Tools for Logistics Problem Solving

http://primal.iems.nwu.edu/~levi/tools.html

Group of researchers and students who develop software for supply chain/logistics/vehicle routing applications using geographic information systems (GIS). If you like puzzles or demo software and you're running Netscape 2.0 in Windows 95 or UNIX, click on the Software Demonstration button for an example of their software. Cool maps!

Spectral Research Technologies

http://www.tenn.com/srt/srt.html

Provides research and produces SPECTRA6 quantitative analysis systems. SPECTRA6 is utilized in data analysis of radiation from stellar sources and related thermodynamic properties. Includes contact information.

Welcome to The Computer Museum

http://www.net.org/

The largest computer museum in the U.S., based in Boston, Massachusetts, continually updates and expands this Web address with information on new exhibits, museum clubs for adults and kids, upcoming events, and behind the scenes of their most popular exhibits.