The Analytical Engine Online Resources

Resources for The Analytical Engine

2001, A Space Odyssey: An archive of information about the movie written by Arthur C. Clarke, and featuring the HAL 9000 computer.
Abacus Applet: A java-implementation of a working Abacus, and information on how to use one.
ACM Loebner Prize Home Page: Information and updates on the annual Loebner Prize competition.
Ada Lovelace Notes: Ada Lovelace's notes on her translation of Menebrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Adobe Magazine: Online articles on design, typesetting, and imagesmithing.
Adobe Photoshop 4.0: Top features of the most widely used graphics publishing software.
AEGON annual chess tournament: Information on the bigger and better human vs. AI competition (see Kasparov link).
Alan: Short implementation of the Turing Test, by Tal Cohen.
Alan Turing Comprehensive: Comprehensive Alan Turing Page.
Alan Turing Page: Comprehensive Alan Turing resource.
Alan Turing's biography: Seven pages of biographical information.
Alta Vista Search Engine: by Digital Equipment Corp.
An Intellectual Property Primer: Survey of intellectual property laws.
Artificial Intelligence Links: Variety of links to AI projects, pages, and journals.
Atanasoff-Berry Computer: Description of the very first electronic digital (single purpose) computer.
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.
Babbage: by Schaffer: Pt. 3 - Calculating engines and their intelligence.
Banai's Turing Test Page: Interactive test and results.
Bare Bones Guide to HTML: Excellent reference for intermediate HTML authors.
Beginner's HTML: At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, home of Mosaic browsers, a beginner's guide to coding in HTML.
Binary Representation Lesson: Brief lesson on Binary Representation at UC Davis
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.
Brief History of the Internet: From the Internet Society.
Carl & Gary's VB Beginners Page: Information for the novice VB programmer.
Case Western Reserve U. Tutorial: Award winning HTML tutorial.
Charles Babbage: Biography with pictures.
Charles Babbage (1791-1871): The Babbage difference engine.
Charles Babbage Institute: Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing.
Chatterbots, Tinymuds, and the Turing Test: Paper about the Loebner Prize (AI) competition.
Chess and AI: Discussion about using AI to play chess.
Chipping Away at VLSI Design: An article on the history of chip design, and large scale integrated circuits.
Chronology of Computer History: Detailed timeline of international computing history. See also, the file museum.htm at this same URL. Sponsored by the Historical Computer Society.
Chronology of Digital Computing Machines: What was the first computer, and who built it?
Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers: Collection of product announcements and magazine articles.
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
Collected Thoughts on AI: From someone who "passed" the Turing Test.
Colorado State SavvySearch: Searching interface that integrates multiple search engines.
ColorCenter: The absolute best color scheme tool available.
Communications Decency Act - 1996: Full text of the 1996 CDA ruling.
Composing Good HTML: A treatise by E. Tilton.
Computer History 0000 0001: Short history of computing at Mississippi State.
Computer History Timeline: A list of historical events in the evolution of computers, starting with the invention of the abacus.
Computers and Society book list: Several publications dealing with the impact of computers on society.
Copyright Website: Lots of copyright information for the WWW.
Corel Draw 7: Information on the Corel Draw graphics publishing suite.
Corel Homepage: Corel software company manufactures Wordperfect word processing software, Quatro Pro spreadsheet software, and a wide variety of graphics software.
Corel WordPerfect 8: New features for the latest release of this word processor.
CPU Info Center: News on new CPU developments, as well as information on older CPU's, from UCal Berkeley.
CPU Terms: A brief glossary of terms describing elements in the CPU.
Crash-Course in WWW Docs: A Crash-Course on HTML coding by Ziff-Davis Publishing.
Creating HTML: A Simple Guide: A simple, concise guide to writing HTML documents.
Cyrix 6x86: Cyrix's technical brief on the Pentium alternative
c|net News: The latest news about the net.
DejaNews Search: Searches news items and newsgroups.
Discrete Structures in Computer Science: A Web-text on binary representations of numbers and Boolean logic as they relate to computation science, by Deborah A. Stacey at the University of Guelph.
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.
Distributed Computing : An Overview: Tutorial on parallel and distributed computing.
DropStuff: Drag and drop stuff/unstuff utility.
Evolution of Software Debugging: A short treatise on program debugging and software that will help the programming to do it more easily.
Excite Search Engine: Excite home.
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.
Expert Systems lecture: Paper on expert systems from West Point.
Federal Networking Council: Official government definition of the Internet.
Font Abuse!: Sarcastic example of using inline images for font control.
Galaxy Search Engine: by Trade Wave Corp. A search engine and catalog of subjects.
Gamelan Javascript: JavaScript section of the Gamelan site (Java resources) is a good source for examples.
Gensym Expert Systems: Gensym makes commercial visual development tools for creating professional expert/intelligent systems for process control.
GIF Animation: Royal Frazier's guide to gif animation tools.
Good Hypertext Writing: Musings on good text style in Web pages by Jutta Degener.
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present: Comprehensive information about many microprocessors.
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
Herman Hollerith: Short biographical summary.
Hexidecimal Color Chart: A must know for people who want to keep their graphics and web-backgrounds from dithering.
Historic Computer Images: A collection of high resolution scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive.
History of Alan Turing: From "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
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 Computing: For the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC, IEEE celebrated by putting up this detailed history from the 1600's on.
History of Internet and WWW: Essay by Gregory R. Gromov.
History of the Net: The View from Internet Valley.
HTML 2.0 Example: Good basic HTML example page.
HTML Bad Style Page: Good explanation of why bad HTML is bad.
HTML Sourcebook: The HTML Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to HTML - by I. Graham
HyperStand: New Media magazine online: tools, reviews, tips
Idiot's Guide to JavaScript: A companion to the book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to JavaScript, from Que Publishing.
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.
The Interactive Factory: A cool and groovy place where educational multimedia comes to life.
Internet Caucus: A group of US legislators trying to protect the Internet.
Internet History: From the Discovery Channel.
J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing: A collection of materials related to the history of computing
JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer: Beginner's tutorial to JavaScript and OOP.
JavaScript Manual: The official JavaScript reference manual, from the creators, Netscape Communications.
JavaScript World: Everything for JavaScript: examples, tutorials, discussion, chatting...
JavaSoft Home Page: Sun Microsystems' Java programming language page.
JM Web JavaScript Collection: Working viewable examples with copyable code.
Kasparov v. DeepBlue Page: Comprehensive information on the rematch, and more, sponsored by IBM.
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995): The Father of Modern Computers - long article on Zuse and the Z-family of computers.
Konrad Zuse's work: Zuse's own discussion of the Z-family of computers.
Landmarks in Digital Computing: A review of major calculating aids.
Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects: Thinking ahead about Internet legislation.
Lexicon of Semiconductor Terms: A dictionary and information about semiconductor gate technology, from Harris Semiconductor.
Linkfinder's JavaScript List: a list of useful JavaScript examples and programs, from Far Horizon's Software.
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.
Micro History: History of the microcomputer revolution by Frank Delaney at the Washington State University.
Microsoft Excel 97: Product brochure for the newest version of Excel spreadsheet software.
Microsoft Homepage: Makers of wordprocessing, spreadsheet, and database software, as well as operating systems. See also the Microsoft Internet Explorer; Why IE is better than Netscape Navigator 3.0... for the moment.
Microsoft Word 97: Product brochure for the latest version of Word.
MMX Technology: Short intel explanation of the new MMX technology.
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.
Multimedia Graphics Listing: Maintained by Maricopa college, this is a vast resource of images for you to browse.
NCSA HTML Primer: The heavily requested NCSA beginner's guide to HTML.
NCSA Virtual Reality Lab: The current VR work being done at the NCSA.
NetLingo: A dictionary of the Internet language.
Netscape Communications: The Netscape Communications homepage. Netscape manufacture's the world's most popular Web browser software, as well as Web servers and other Internet multimedia technologies.
Netscape Guide to HTML: A listing of on and off-site resources for style and composition of HTML documents.
Netscape Navigator 3.0: Standards and features of the Netscape browser version 3.0.
Netscape's DevEdge Online: A developer's dream site, with documentation on HTML, JavaScript, and a host of other Netscape technologies.
Netscape's JavaScript: A description of this scripting language from the developers, and pointers to the reference guide and some examples.
Newspage: A customizable news service
Object Oriented Programming Tutorial: Peter Muller's introductory lectures in OOP using C++.
Odyssey Science Center: A summary of the devices leading to the development of the modern computer.
Parsing Lecture: Web lecture on parsing in the UK.
PBS Internet timeline: From the PBS series Life on the Internet.
PC Therapist: By a three-time Loebner winner.
Pentium Processor: Intel's overview of the Pentium processor.
Pictures from Computing History: Photo archive from David Wessels of James Cook University.
PKZip: The original zip/unzip utility.
Power PC 620: Motorola's overview of their flagship microprocessor.
Privacy Pages: Source for Internet privacy issues.
Programming Page: Info and tutorials for most major languages, by David Reilly.
PWS Publishing Company: The most happenin' publishing company around...
QuickTime VR: An overview of Apple's QuickTime VR surround-view moviemaking technology.
Semiconductor Manufacturing: A complete outline of the chip manufacturing process, from Fullman Semicondutors.
Shlurrrpp......Java: The first user-friendly tutorial on Java
Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi: Comprehensive guide to all HTML commands and methods.
Slide Rule - Historic: Old manufacturers information on a slide rule.
Slide Rule on the WWW: The Amazine WWW Slide Rule lets you calculate logs online.
START Natural Language Server: MIT Artificial Intelligence lab's natural language "answer machine" for the web.
Stuffit Expander: Most widely used Mac stuff/unstuff utility.
Syntax: A description of programming language syntax by Anthony A. Aaby from his Web-text: Introduction to Programming Languages.
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics: From the Computer Ethics Institute.
Texas Instruments History: History of the early TI calculators.
Tip of the Week: Webreference's JavaScript tip of the week.
Tips, Tricks, How-to, and Beyond: Great source for HTML basics and insightful tips.
Tom Sullivan's Essay File: Short summary of Turing's contributions.
Tools for Thought: By Howard Rheingold: Ch. 2 - The First Programmer Was a Lady.
Turing Institute Home Page: Links, pictures, etcetera.
Turing Machine Example: Windows turing machine coded as a student project
Turing Machine Introduction: An explanation of Turing's idea from the University of the Virgin Islands.
Turing Test: Short description and criticism of the Turing Test, part of a larger Web-text on AI by Robert Kosara.
Turing's World: Pictorial explanation of Turing Machines.
Unofficial JavaScript Center: The Unofficial JavaScript Resource Center has lots of cool ideas for using JavaScript to spice up HTML pages.
US Army History of Computing Information: Documents from the home of the ENIAC: The U. S. Army Research Lab.
Virtual Museum of Computing: Wonderful listings of computing history, computing resources, images, etc.
Virtual Reality Lab at UM: University of Michigan site concentrating on VR.
Visual Basic: Microsoft's VB site.
Volume Controls in Cyberspace?: First Amendment questions about the Internet.
Voodoo's Introduction to JavaScript: Tutorial with examples and copyable code.
VRML Authoring Tools: List of Virtual Reality Machine Language tools, and a language description. One of the most way-out applications we know of.
Webcrawler: Search engine originally from U. Colorado.
Webmaster's Reference: How-to articles on all aspects of WWW publishing.
WebTV: Magnavox's WebTV site.
What is a Turing Machine?: Brown University TM description.
WinZip: Windows 3.1 and 95 graphical zip/unzip utility.
Women & Computers: From Ada and the Difference Engine to Sandra Bullock in *The Net*.
World Wide Web Consortium: Home of the WWW Project, as started and continued by T. Berners-Lee.
World Wide Web Primer: Written by N. Torkington in New Zealand, this primer talks about the origins of the Web and explains protocols, networking, etc.
WWW Frequently Asked Questions: Written by T. Boutell and Boutell Com., Inc.: everything you always wanted to know about the Web (in multiple languages yet) but were afraid to know.
Yahoo Web Search and Directory: Cataloged and searchable listings from Yahoo, an outgrowth of the Stanford Web cataloging project.
Yale Web Style Guide: Combines traditional editorial approaches to documents with technical authoring skills.
ZipIt Homepage: Unzip utility for the Macintosh.

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