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Guide to Selected Computer Science

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Professional Associations

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Find Articles
ACM Portal Full text collection of every article published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including over 50 years of archives.
Article1st Covers 12,540 journals in all fields including computer science journals (1990-present).
Lexis/Nexis Meta-system with access to full-text news, trade & general-interest magazines plus extensive legal resources such as law & legal journals.
PapersFirst Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major new research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993.
Proceedings Provides table of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Like its companion, PapersFirst, Proceedings First provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.
Academic Search Premier  Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications as well as including key popular magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Economist, and US News & World Report.

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Find Books
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Computer Science Call Numbers Ranges: QA75.5 - QA76.9 Computer Science

The Ames Library uses Library of Congress Classification.

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Reference & Web Resources
General Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History REF. QA76.15.E53 2001- Good place for background information or quick explanation of a new concept. (2 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Computer Science REF. QA76.15.E48 2000 - Great place to start a research project with detailed definitions and bibliographies for further reading.
Living Internet A resource on the history of the Internet, including TCP/IP, Usenet, and the WWW. 
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
O'Reilly's Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms. REF. Q121.M32002
Webopedia Online dictionary of computer and Internet related terms

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Bibliographies
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Database containing over 1,000 bibliographies with references to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.
The Computing Research Repository Sponsered by the ACM and Los Alamos Laboratory, is a database of current research results in Computer Science.
 The Hypertext Bibliography Project A database made up of bibliographies from important computer science journals, IEEE, ACM, and SIAM publications.

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PrePrint
Preprint Network Computer Science from the U.S. Department of Energy�s PrePrint service.

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Technical Reports
Apple Developer - Technical Publications

AT&T Laboratories

Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies)
Boeing Applied Research and Development 
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

IBM Technical Paper Search

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Intel Architecture Labs Technology Directory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Report Server
Microsoft Research

NEC Research Institute

Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library An international collection of computer science research reports and papers.
Online CS Techreports
Software Engineering Technical Practices, Carnegie Mellon
Computer Science Technical Reports Index Yahoo! Directory of Technical Reports from around the globe
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Unified Computer Science TR Index
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

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Computer Science and Internet 
CiteSeer.IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer was developed at the NEC Research Institute and is hosted by Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology.
Complexity Online A scientific information network about complex systems. You will find access to sites, and publications (including the Complexity International Journal).
Concurrent Systems  (Parallel Systems) From the WWW Virtual Library.
Formal Methods From the WWW Virtual Library.
Internet.com Information on all facets of Internet Technology and Resources
Linux Documentation Project   
Theory of Computing Open access online journal articles on the theory of computing.
WWW Computer Architecture Home Page Provides access to research groups, conferences, simulators, benchmarks, and online publications.
WWW Virtual Library: Computing Links to broad array of information in computing.
Yahoo! Science: Computer Science Directory of internet sites.
Yahoo!'s Robotics Pages Directory of robotics information.

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Programming Languages

Logic Programming from the WWW Virtual Library

PHP Manual
Programmer's Heaven
Resources for Programming Language Research
Visual Basic Web Directory

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Artificial Intellegence 
WWW Virtual Library - Artificial Intelligence Many links to information in artificial intelligence.
The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab    
Artificial Intelligence Center  The AIC is one of the world's major centers of research in artificial intelligence.
U. of Washington�s Artificial Intelligence Research Group 

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Professional Associations
AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery Provides links to information about the association and has over 4200 citations available online.
IEEE Computer Society  Homepage for IEEE Computer Society.
National Science Foundation
CRA - Computing Research Association North American departments of computer science.
SIAM - Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Last revised: July 23, 2008