Resources for
Module 10
- 2001, A Space Odyssey
- An archive of information about the movie written by Arthur C. Clarke, and featuring the HAL 9000 computer.
- Alta Vista Search Engine
- by Digital Equipment Corp.
- An Intellectual Property Primer
- Survey of intellectual property laws.
- Automatic Teller Machine-phobia
- An article from Georgia Tech on how training of older people can reduce their fear of ubiquitous new technologies, such as ATMs.
- Brief History of Computer Technology
- Brief sketch of the development of digital, electronic computers, part of a larger Web-book on computational
science; sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
- Chatterbots, Tinymuds, and the Turing Test
- Paper about the Loebner Prize (AI) competition.
- Civil Liberties
- ACLU page on Internet censorship.
- CNet News Service
- A news service that will let you customize your interests and send you weekly email with headlines
- Communications Decency Act - 1996
- Full text of the 1996 CDA ruling.
- Composing Good HTML
- A treatise by E. Tilton.
- Computers and Society book list
- Several publications dealing with the impact of computers on society.
- Copyright Website
- Lots of copyright information for the WWW.
- c|net News
- The latest news about the net.
- DejaNews Search
- Searches news items and newsgroups.
- Disney's Fantasia
- The tale of the sorcerer's apprentice is given fantastic form in this classic Disney animated film. See clips and sound bytes here.
- Expert Systems at Penn State
- The Penn State Agricultural Department has a number of experimental expert systems for agricultural management for you to try out.
- Federal Networking Council
- Official government definition of the Internet.
- Galaxy Search Engine
- by Trade Wave Corp. A search engine and catalog of subjects.
- HAL's Legacy
- A 25th anniversary celebration and book about the movie 2001, and the legacy of Arthur C. Clarke's vision of the future of computing through HAL 9000.
- Hamilton College
- The cool college where Rick and Stu weave their magic web
- History of Computers Notes
- Computers: From the Past to the Present - a series of lecture notes from Michelle Hoyle at University of Regina, Canada. Uses Frames.
- History of the Net
- The View from Internet Valley.
- InfoSeek Net Search
- InfoSeek home. Also a starting point for browsing "cool" sites.
- Intellectual Freedom and Censorship of the Internet
- Information on the issues of intellectual freedom, free
speech, and censorhip of the Internet.
- Internet Caucus
- A group of US legislators trying to protect the Internet.
- J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing
- A collection of materials related to the history of computing
- Kasparov v. DeepBlue Page
- Comprehensive information on the rematch, and more, sponsored by IBM.
- Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects
- Thinking ahead about Internet legislation.
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Spec sheet for the most well-known spreadsheet.
- Lycos Search Engine
- Lycos home. Now a commercial search engine: created at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Machine That Changed The World
- Outline of the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series.
- Managing the Virtual Commons
- Sociological view of cyberspace.
- Mark/Space Virtual Reality
- Colorful site of VR information, glossary, and links.
- MOO Central
- Information and pointers to educational Multi-User Domains (Dungeons) and other virtual environments.
- MUD Catalog
- Kent State Department of Education lists all the MOOs/MUDs that are fit to print.
- NetLingo
- A dictionary of the Internet language.
- Newspage
- A customizable news service
- PBS Internet timeline
- From the PBS series Life on the Internet.
- PC Therapist
- By a three-time Loebner winner.
- Privacy Pages
- Source for Internet privacy issues.
- Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
- From the Computer Ethics Institute.
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- Wonderful listings of computing history, computing resources, images, etc.
- Volume Controls in Cyberspace?
- First Amendment questions about the Internet.
- Webcrawler
- Search engine originally from U. Colorado.
- WebTV
- Magnavox's WebTV site.
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Home of the WWW Project, as started and continued by T. Berners-Lee.
- Yahoo Web Search and Directory
- Cataloged and searchable listings from Yahoo, an outgrowth of the Stanford Web cataloging project.
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