| C SC 100 Lectures | Links related to topics discussed in class |
|---|---|
| An annotated list of over 2350 programming languages developed over the last two centuries | |
| Various representations for the 7-bit ASCII characters | |
| A table of the 256 characters in the extended ASCII table with their hexidecimal values | |
| A very good tutorial on primitive data representations | |
| Tangible examples of various magnitudes of computer storage | |
| A timeline of historic milestones in the growth of the internet | |
| A biography of the famous mathematician | |
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| The Official Alan Turing Web Site | |
| A description of the Turing Machine and how it works. | |
| The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy description of the Church-Turing Thesis | |
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| Information about the Czech playwright Karel Capek and the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in which he coined the term robot in its modern usage. | |
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| Interactive, web-based tutorial on Karel the Robot, developed by Dr. Duane Buck. | |
| A complete program that solves the problem of having Karel run a hurdle race (steeple chase) that was discussed in class. | |
| This page contains an annotated list of sources on Internet & WWW history that are available on the Net. | |
| 20 Years of Personal Computing | Links related to the history of the personal computer |
| Details, pictures, and links at the Obsolete Computer Museum | |
| Details, pictures, and links at the Obsolete Computer Museum | |
| A picture of the computer designed at Xerox-PARC | |
| Atari Headquarters: Information and links related to the Atari computer (also a good source of Atari gaming information) | |
| Everything you never wanted to know about the TRaSh-80 computer. Nostalgia, links, etc. | |
| Bob's Computer Museum entry on the Commodore Amiga A500 | |
| A 23-part history of the Apple II that begins with a "Pre-Apple" chapter. Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich. | |
| A complete history of Apple Computer corporation | |
| Transcript of a Video History Interview with Mr.William "Bill" Gates at the Smithsonian Museum | |
| The television commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, that launched the Macintosh computer during the Superbowl halftime show in January of 1984 | |
| Excellent entry in the pcwebopedia with complete information and links on the Intel microprocessors | |
| Motorola's Technology Timeline | |
| The PowerPC Alliance Home Page | |
| A list of links related to the history of computers and computer emulators, maintained by Marat Fayzullin | |
| A massive collection of resources about computer history and artifacts, housed at Stanford University | |
| Giant Brains | Links related to the PBS Video series The Machine That Changed The World |
| The author of an award winning site related to the PBS video series The Machine that changed the world. | |
| An alternate site with a summary and links related to the PBS video series The Machine that changed the world. | |
| A biography of Charles Babbage by J. A. N. Lee | |
| An extensive site related to Babbage at the University of Exeter | |
| A picture of Babbage's Difference Engine | |
| An entry on Babbage in the History of Mathematics Archive housed at the University of St. Andrews | |
| Entry on Ada from the Babbage Pages disputing Ada's status as first programmer | |
| A biography of the Countess of Lovelace in the context of the Defense Department naming a programming language after her | |
| A thourough biography of Ada and her relationship with Babbage, from the History of Mathematics pages at Simon Fraser University. With pictures. | |
| The Ada Project (TAP) at Yale University [Might be inactive] | |
| A biography of Konrad Zuse by J. A. N. Lee | |
| The Eniac History Museum | |
| History of the ENIAC computer | |
| A biography of John von Neumann by J. A. N. Lee | |
| The first commercial computer company, formed by Mauchly and Eckert | |
| History of the UNIVAC computer | |
| The story of the development of the Mark 1 computer | |
| Entry on the Mark 1 computer at the National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester | |
| A biography of Maurice Wilkes, developer of the EDSAC computer, by J. A. N. Lee | |
| The Official Alan Turing Web Site | |
| The Story of the Colossus computer | |
| Alan Turing's ACE computer | |
| Paperback Computer | Links related to the PBS Video series The Machine That Changed The World |
| Pages at Sun Microsystems covering both the history of Ivan Sutherland and more current research | |
| A list of recipients of ACM awards, including Ivan Sutherland for Sketchpad | |
| Interview with Doug Englebart about the invention of the computer mouse | |
| Home Page of the company responsible for the 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. | |
| Home Page of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, home of the original GUI (graphical user interface) | |
| A short biography from the Jean Piaget Society web site | |
| An unofficial history of computer interfaces | |
| A picture of the computer designed at Xerox-PARC | |
| Home Page of the inventor of the microprocessor | |
| Intel's pictures and technical details on the 4004 chip | |
| Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers | |
| Picture of the Intel 4004 microprocessor | |
| Details, pictures, and links at the Obsolete Computer Museum | |
| Home Page of Big Blue | |
| Details, pictures, and links at the Obsolete Computer Museum | |
| A biographical sketch of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, from the Apple web site | |
| Biography of Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer | |
| Home Page of Hewlett-Packard | |
| Home Page of Apple Computer | |
| A thourough history of the Apple ][, as well as many other links and resources | |
| The television commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, that launched the Macintosh computer during the Superbowl halftime show in January of 1984 | |
| A complete history of Apple Computer corporation | |
| A biography of the founder of Lotus | |
| A biography of the founder of Microsoft | |
| Home Page of Microsoft | |
| An essay on the role that computer technology plays in the lives of people with disabilities | |
| A list of web links to virtual reality sites | |
| An historical look at virtual reality systems | |
| The Thinking Machine | Links related to the PBS Video series The Machine That Changed The World |
| IBM's coverage of the chess tournament | |
| The original Artificial Intelligence lab | |
| A Critical Review of What Computers Still Can't Do, by Hubert Dreyfus | |
| Biographical sketch and summary of a recent presentation | |
| An history of AI at the University of Edinburgh, including the Lighthill report in 1973, and the development of Freddy | |
| A web based simulation of the original psychoanalyst program ELIZA | |
| Biography of the founder of the CYC project | |
| A survey and history of perceptrons from Kevin Gurney's course at the University of Sheffield | |
| Terry Winograd's home page at Stanford | |
| A lecture on SHRDLU at Cardiff University | |
| A biography of Edward Feigenbaum | |
| An overview of expert systems from the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC) Panel on Knowledge-Based Systems in Japan, chaired by Edward Feigenbaum | |
| One entry in a large history of expert systems developed at the Center for Advanced Medical Informatics at Stanford | |
| An article from Fortune magazine on Doug Lenat (and Rodney Brooks) in November, 1995 | |
| An essay on the Autistic Savant, Written by Stephen M. Edelson, Ph.D., Center for the Study of Autism, Salem, Oregon | |
| A JavaScript page that will display any month of any year. | |
| Home Page of Cycorp, Inc., residence of the CYC project | |
| A Study to assess the usefulness of CYC in a mediated architecture, with a link to a critical review of the CYC project | |
| An overview of the backpropagation learning algorithm by Nikos Drakos at the University of Leeds | |
| The Navlab Project Home Page at Carnegie Mellon University describes projects in unmanned driving and automated highway systems | |
| CMU Home Page | |
| No Hands Across America Navlab 5 USA tour. RALPH drove 2797/2849 miles (98.2%) from Pittsburgh to San Diego. | |
| A journal of the No Hands Across America tour | |
| Terry Sejnowski's Home Page | |
| Information about the data and methods used by Sejnowski and Rosenberg in their NetTalk system |
| Table of Contents | David J. Stucki's Home Page | C SC 100 Page |
