Links of Possible Interest

The following is a chapter-by-chapter list of links to material related to the text Computer Science: An Overview.

• Chapter 1: Data Storage
  • ANSI--American National Standards Institute
  • Unicode
  • ISO--International Organization for Standardization
  • IEC--International Electrotechnical Commission (The source of kibi and mebi)
  • IEEE Standard 754--The IEEE standard for floating-point representation used by the Pentium processors
• Chapter 2: Data Manipulation
  • Simulators --for the machine described in Appendix C
  • Pentium --Manuals for Intel's Pentium CPU
• Chapter 3: Operating Systems and Networking
  • Linux
  • Menuet--A simple operating system with source code (written in FASM)
  • CRET--Computer Emergency Response Team
  • Symantec--Infromation on viruses from Symantec (an Internet security and service company)
  • Fraud--National Fraud Information Center
  • SIGOPS--ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
  • ICANN--Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • Virus info.--The Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse collection of links to computer virus information
• Chapter 4: Algorithms
  • Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Journal of Algorithms--published by Academic Press
  • The Medical Algorithms Project
• Chapter 5: Programming Languages
  • FASM--An assembler (called Flat Assembler) for Intel's Pentium series of CPUs
  • Java API--Information on Java from Sun
  • SIGPLAN--ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
• Chapter 6: Software Engineering
  • ACM--Association for Computing Machinery
  • IEEE --The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • Ethics--ACM code of ethics
  • Copyright information
  • Patent information
  • GNU software
  • Risks--The Risks Forum
  • SIGSOFT--ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
• Chapter 7: Data Structures
  • C++ STL--Information regarding the Standard Template Library for C++
  • Glossary--Lots of terms with definitions
• Chapter 8: File Structures
  • W3C--The World Wide Web Consortium (the source of HTML and XML)
• Chapter 9: Database Structures
  • Oracle--A major supplier of database systems
  • Access --A database system for PCs by Microsoft
  • OMG--The Object Management Group consortium (the origin of CORBA)
  • EPIC--The Electronic Privacy Management Center
• Chapter 10: Artificial Intelligence
  • SIGART--ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Blue --Information about IBM's chess playing machine called Deep Blue
• Chapter 11: Theory of Computation
  • PGP--Pretty Good Privacy home page
  • SIGACT--ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (Theory of Computation)