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Computer Science Library Collection: The University of Chicago computer science collection is located primarily in Eckhart Library (Eckhart Hall 217). The collection includes research level monographs and journals in theoretical computer science, including mathematical aspects of computing, computational complexity, algorithms, logic, and the use of computers to solve mathematical and scientific problems. Because of space considerations, most low-use materials have been transferred to The John Crerar Library. The transfers include all materials in popular computing, most pre-1980 monographs, and most inactive journals. Most popular computing materials are located in The John Crerar Library or The Joseph Regenstein Library. |
Databases / Abstracts / Indexes
- Computer and Control Abstracts. London: IEE.
Print: TJ212.C751 -- Crerar Library Stacks (1969 - 1996)
Electronic: INSPEC (1969 to date) - Indexes journals conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.
- ACM Guide to Computing Litertaure. New York: ACM.
Print: QA76.A1C761 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection (1977-1996)
Electronic: ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature - Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports in computer science.
- Engineering Index. New York: Engineering Index, Inc.
Print: T1.E46 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection (1906 - 1997)
Electronic: Compendex (1990 to date) - Indexes journals, conferences and reports in all areas of applied science and engineering.
- Mathematical Reviews. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
Print: Z6653.M42 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection (1940 to date)
Electronic: MathSciNet (1940 to date) - Indexes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and some computer science.
- Consult the 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification
- Search the Journals Database to find information about journals and serials indexed by Mathematical Reviews. Search by abbreviated title, full title, title keywords, or ISSN.
- View the Abbreviations of Names of Serials, a pdf file of Mathematical Reviews serial abbreviations.
- Computing Reviews. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
Print: QA76.A1C76 -- Eckhart Library Refernce Collection (1960 to date)
Electronic: Computing Reviews (1985 to date) - Contains reviews of books, conference proceedings, and selected journal articles, arranged by the ACM Computing Classification System.
- Science Citation Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
Print: AI3.S41 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection (1965-1997)
Electronic: Web of Science/Science Citation Index (1945 to date) - Includes records from Science Citation Index and CompuMath Citation Index. Indexes citations (references) in journal articles and books.
- Current Contents. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific
Information.
Electronic: Current Contents Connect (current 3 years) - Lists tables of contents for over 6500 journals, in all areas of the scienees. Includes bibliographic data for each article, and includes abstracts for about 85% of the articles. Search by journal title, article title, authors, keywords, and corporate source. Personal profiles may be set up which are executed as desired to discover when new articles of interest are published in specific journals in the requested subject area.
- U of C Library Catalog. Chicago: University of Chicago Library.
Electronic: Library Catalog - Covers the holdings of books, journals (print and online), and other formats in all of the libraries at the University of Chicago.
Comprehensive Computer Science Internet Sites
- WWW Virtual Library: Computing
- Lists computing web sites arranged in subject categories.
- Virtual Computer Library
- Provides links to a wide range of computing web sites. Includes a "What's New" section.
- Yahoo: Computer Science
- Catlog of computer science web sites organized by category. Includes search function.
Handbooks and Tables
- The Comptuer Science and Engineering Handbook. Editor-in-chief, Allen B. Tucker, Jr. CRC Press, 1997.
Print: QA76.C573150 1997 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Designed to "provide a single substantive and comprehensive reference for practicing computer scientitst and engineers, as well as other professionals with strong computing interests". Information is organized in subject sections and chapters, which include definitions lists and references. Published in cooperation with the ACM.
- Computer Almanac - Interesting and Useful Numbers About Computers
- A useful "collection of numbers relevant to computers". Entries are organized in broad subject categories and include references.
- Martindale's Calculators On-line Center
- Provides links to a wide range of online calculators, arranged in broad subject categories.
- ACM Collected Algorithms
- All algorithms numbered 493 and above, as well as a few earlier ones, may be downloaded from this server. Organized by algorithm number. The print version is available: QA76.95.A87 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology. Edited by Phillip A. Laplante. CRC Press, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.D5258 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Provides brief definitions for computer science terms.
- The Computer Glossary. Alan Freedman. 9th edition. AMACOM, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.F733 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Defines more then 6,000 terms in computer science. Includes illustrations and cross references.
- Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Edited by Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly and David Hemmendinger. 4th edition. Grove's Dictionaries, 2003.
Print: QA76.15.E48 2003 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Contains 623 articles which are arranged alphabetically within nine broad categories: Hardware, Computer Systems, Information and Data, Software, Mathematics of Computing, Theory of Computation, Methodologies, Applications, and Computing Milieux. Articles are signed and provide bibliographies and website listings for obtaining additional information on a subject. Includes name and subject indexes.
- The Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Alan Freedman. 9th edition. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.F732 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Defines "every important computer concept, term and buzzword used in the world of computers from micro to mainframe".
- Elsevier's Dictionary of Computer Science and Mathematics in English, German, French and Russian. Compiled by K. Peeva and B. Delijska. Elsevier, 1995.
Print: QA76.15.D443130 1995 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection - Lists English comptuer science terms and provides German, French and Russian equivalents.
- Elsevier's Dictionary of Computer Graphics in English, German, French and Russian. Compiled by P. Manoilov, G. Manoilov and B. Delijska. Elsevier, 2000.
Print: T385.M35 2000 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection - Lists English computer graphics terms and provides German, French and Russian equivalents.
- Dictionary of Computing. Edited by Valerie Illingworth. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Print: QA76.15.D526 1996 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection
Electronic: Dictionary of Computing - Provides brief definitions for 6000 computing terms.
- Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
- A searchable dictionary of "acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing". Contains over 13,000 definitions.
- Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
- Produced by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), this dictionary provides definitions in algorithms, algorithmic techniques, and data structures. Also includes a list of "terms with definitions which have links to implementations with source code" and a category/subject index.
- BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Irving Kind's massive glossary contains hundreds of computer related acronyms. Updated three times per year.
- Webopedia
- Defines terms in computer and internet technology.
Bibliographies and Full-Text Resources
- BibFinder: A Computer Science Bibliography Mediator
- This computer science bibliography search engine simultaneously searches the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (CSB), the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, the ACM Digital Library, ACM Guide, Network Bibliography, ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, CiteSeer, and Google.
- The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Contains over 1 million references in approximately 1400 bibliographies, which are arranged in subject categories. Over 16,000 references contain cross references to citing or cited publications and about 100,000 references contain links to full-text.
- CiteSeer
- This uniquely designed digital library contains full-text computer science articles, plus their citations, arranged in subject categories and searchable by author and keyword. Now contains over 5 million pages and 4 million citations. Utilizes "Autonomous Citation Indexing", which "automates the construction of citation indexes". Sponsored by the NEC Research Institute.
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- The Digital and Bibliography Library Project "provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings". It can be searched by author and title or browsed by conference, journal, and broad subject. Entries often provide links to the full text.
Technical Reports / Preprints
- Technical Reports -- The University of Chicago Department of Computer Science
- Searchable list of technical reports organized by report number.
- CoRR (Computing Research Repository)
- The computer science subset of the LANL archive of technical reports. Reports are classified using the 1998 ACM Computing Classification System, organized by subject, and searchable. Sponsored by ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library).
- Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL)
- Indexes computer science technical reports that are stored in different sites worldwide.
- On-line CS Techreports
- A searchable index of technical reports from approximately 400 sites worldwide. From Carnegie-Mellon.
- E-print Network: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences
- Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, this site lists academic institutions, research laboratories, and individual authors that make their electronic preprints available online. The E-print Alerts feature allows users to create personal profiles which will then notify the user as new information is added.
- Virtual Technical Reports Center
- Lists institutions around the world that provide abstracts or full-text of technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports.
Professional Societies and Organizations.
- ACM -- Association for Computing Machinery
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- AMS -- American Mathematical Society
- Association for Women in Computing
- British Computer Society
- Computing Research Association
- IEE -- Institution of Electrical Engineers
- IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IEEE Computer Society
- IFIP -- International Federation for Information Processing
- Internet Society
- SIAM -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Computer Science
- Links to websites of scholarly societies in Computer Science
Departments, Institutes, and Centers
- University of Chicago Department of Computer Science
- Argonne National Laboratory. Mathematics and Computer Science Division
- DIMACS - The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
- MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- National Science Foundation - Computer and Information Sciences
- National Science Foundation - Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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- Computer Science Departments Across The Web
- Lists web and gopher servers for computer science departments worldwide.
- Computers: Computer Science: Research Institutes
- Lists U.S. and international research centers. From the Open Directory Project.
History / People / Biography
- The History of Computing
- Charles Babbage Institue - Center for the History of Information Technology
- The Institue, an historical archives and research center at the University of Minnesota, is "dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society". The collections are searchable; the site also provides Finding Aids for the Manuscript and Archive Collections. ALSO SEE their Other Resources page, which provides bibliographies in the history of computing and links to relevant web sites.
- The Computer Museum History Center
- Offers searchable collection of artifacts, people, events, etc. Includes an annotated and searchable 50-year timeline.
- The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)
- Provides an "eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world". The Pioneers of Computing page provides links to biographical information for over 70 computer scientists and links to other biographical web sites.
- Chronology of Personal Computers
- Chronological arrangement of significant events in the history of personal computers; includes bibliographic references.
- Past Notable Women of Computing
- Provides brief biographies for a select group; includes links to relevant web sites.
- Smithsonian Computer History
- Contains images of early computing machines and interviews with notable leaders in computer science and modern communications. From the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
- Pioneers
- Informative biographies of 10 historical figures in computer science, including Charles Babbage, Vannevar Bush, George Boole, and Nikola Tesla.
- International biographical dictionary of computer pioneers. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995.
Print: QA76.2.A2L442 1995 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection - Includes biographies for over 250 computer pioneers. Most articles contain a list of selected publications and biographical references.
- TCS Virtual Address Book
- SIGACT's searchable list of "URLs of over 1200 theoretical computer scientists around the world".
- The Turing Digial Archive
- Contains page images of selected unpublished papers and photographs from 1923-1972, from the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge.
- AlanTuring.net -The Turing Archive for the History of Computing
- Provides page images of important documents that "form the historical record of the development of computing". Also contains a report on World War II codebreaking and articles about Turing and his work. This site is scheduled to be completed by end of 2004.
Algorithms and Software
- Collected Algorithms of the ACM
- CALGO contains referred software associated with papers published in the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and other ACM journals. Includes all algorithms numbered 493 and above, plus a few earlier ones. Alorithms can be downloaded from the server.
- The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
- This site, created by Steven S. Skiena, is based on his book The Algorithm Design Manual. It contains a "collection of algorithm implementations for over seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms".
- Google Web Directory: Computers - Programming - Languages
- Provides links to extensive set of programming languages web sites, organized by specific language.
- Programmers Heaven
- Provides a "complete start-off for programming related web surfing and file downloading". Currently contains more than 10,000 files for downloading and 2300 links to programming-related web sites. Developed and maintained by Synchron Data.
- Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
- The principal public archive of TeX materials. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
- American Mathematical Society TeX Resources
- Information about AMS-supported Tex products.
- C/C++
- Java Technology
- Sun Microsystems' Java website. Includes documentation, discussion forums, newsletters, and more.
Education / Careers / Jobs
- ACM Career Resource Centre
- This redesigned site lists job oppotunities, primarily in the United States and Canada. Also includes articles and columns about careers, job searching, professional development, and industry trends.
- IEEE Careers for Electrical Engineers & Computer Scientists
- The IEEE student career web site includes information on career planning, finding a job, and salaries. Also contains overviews of the computer science and electrical engineering fields.
- Naturejobs
News
- ZDNet
- News section includes selected top stories from PCweek, PC magazine, MacWeek, and MacWorld.
- CNET News.com
- Provides daily technology news.