Professional societies

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Digital Library (Union only): ACM journals, magazines, conference proceedings.

Guide to Computing Literature: CS bibliographic references

SIGS (ACM special interest groups on many areas of computing)

student membership

careers in computing

IEEE Computer Society and its Computer magazine (partial access only)

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

CRA (Computing Research Association)

ISOC (Internet Society) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

a list of many computer science organizations

Research sources

Union library, computer science online references, including access to the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE/IEE electronic library

Virtual Library; section on computing and computer science

JSTOR (scholarly journal archive)

Citeseer (scientific literature digital library -- citations and full articles)

DBLP (Digital Bibliography Library Project)

Google Scholar: search for research and scholarly literature

UC-Berkeley's guide to evaluating Web page information

Virtual Museum of Computing (numerous links on computing history)

Graduate study and careers

List of graduate programs in computer science and computer engineering

CRA for Students: graduate programs, careers

University of Maryland links to pages on graduate study: why, how, where.

University of British Columbia, updated copy of Choosing a Ph.D. program in Computer Science by Rachel Pottinger, ACM Crossroads 6:1, Fall 1999.

National Science Foundation, REUs in computing (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)

Internships, from ACM Crossroads, 2005

Showing and telling

Writing:

Union library links

The Elements of Style, William Strunk. A classic guide, also available in print, revised by E. B. White (4th ed, Longman, 2000).

Jack Lynch's page on resources for writers, with many links

Common Errors in English, by Paul Brians

 

Web pages:

World Wide Web Consortium; its markup validator service, and CSS validator

usability information by Jakob Nielsen; essays on current issues, particularly Usability 101 and 10 top mistakes

Web Accessibility Initiative from w3.org

accessibility issues, from the U. Wisconsin Trace Center.

Last updated 29 April 2007. Send comments or suggestions to David Hemmendinger, hemmendd nospam at union.edu