Princeton University Computer Science Department

Computer Science 111 Computers and Computing Jaswinder Pal Singh

Spring 2005

The information age

• The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.

Software

• Firefox Browser -- very good alternative to Microsoft's IE
• Download.com Great place to download Shareware Software

Search Engines

• Google
• Microsoft Search
• Amazon's A9 Search -- searches insides books as well.
• Yahoo!

Reference/News

• Google News -- Automated aggregation of around 4000+ news sites.
• Explore Britannica Online - Princeton only
• Princeton University Library
• Wikipedia -- Encyclopedia made entirely of user contributions.
• Yahoo's Phone Search - Look up phone numbers all over the US
• CNN
• Weather - Weather.com's 10 Day Forcast

Princeton Links

• Princeton University Homepage
• Princeton CS Department Homepage
• Dormnet - Plug your room computer into the Net