CS109 Web Pages

Sat Aug 31 19:09:40 EDT 2002

These web pages appealed to me for some reason or another. Your mileage may vary.

Sites that explain things:

  • good descriptions of all kinds of stuff, including lots of computer-related material
  • dictionary of computer terms
  • short definitions and pointers for terms
  • MP3 info
  • interesting kid's-level presentation of error detection

    Hardware:

  • Details about this year's computer offering for incoming freshmen
  • Intel Museum: lots of info about how chips are made
  • photomicrograph of piece of a chip

    Security, privacy and other perils:

  • info about cookies and other privacy concerns
  • what do they know about you?
  • privacy, etc., from American Civil Liberties Union
  • Federal Election Commission: who gave how much to who?
  • the Risks Digest

    Society:

  • What should learned people know about computing?
  • original Vannevar Bush article "as we may think", Atlantic Monthly, 1945
  • Martin Greenberger 1964 article "the computers of tomorrow" that follows
  • James Fallows 1982 article "living with a computer" about early personal computing

    Miscellaneous:

  • the great internet mersenne prime search
  • the real story of ping; also has much info on early computers, especially eniac
  • what time is it?
  • internet statistics
  • arguably the world's smallest web server
  • Interface Hall of Shame: appalling bad design, like we see everywhere