PRISM Jump Page

Here is our jump page. It is an index to other WWW sites and Internet resources that we find useful and/or interesting. As with all jump pages, it is not complete in any sense, and is idiosyncratic.

Index

In the Neighborhood--University of Maryland
Web and Internet
- Web and Internet related documentation and help sites
- WWW Jump Stations and Indices
- WWW Search Engines and Internet Tools Web and Internet Search Facilities
- Neat Tools on Internet
Organizations' WWW Sites
Collections by Research Areas and Topics
- Database Research
- Logic Programming
Publications: Journals, Magazines, E-Zines, and other Literary works
Announcements and Advertisements
- Conference and Journal Announcements
- Job Search Information
Information Sites
Real and Virtual Places: Cafes, Galleries, Museums, Travel, and Places

In the Neighborhood

University of Maryland System
- University of Maryland, College Park
  - CfAR: Center for Automation Research
    - DIMUND: Document Image Understanding Information Server
  - Computer Science Department at UMCP
  - UMIACS: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
    - CLIP: Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab
  - The Institute for Systems Research
  - Terrapin Home Page
    Page with many good links to places and things of general local interest.
  - W3EAX: University of Maryland Amateur Radio Association
More local stuff (PRISM)
- Eclectic collection of electronic humor

Web and Internet

WWW and Internet related documentation and help sites
- Conferences in Hypertext and Networking
  WWW conference information.
- HTML Specifications
  Documentation on the HyperText Mark-up Language. At CERN.
- JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
  A good style guide for designing WWW pages.
  Maintained by the Oneworld Company.
- WWW Protocol specifications
  Tells what the WWW protocol is. Useful if one wants to write a WWW server. At CERN.
- Zen and the Art of the Internet
  A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, by Brendan P. Kehoe
  This is a fairly nice beginner's overview of the Internet and what it has to offer.
WWW Jump Stations and Indices
- Indices at CERN
  - World-Wide Web Servers
    An index listing of organizations by country (and state).
  - The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
    An index listing by topics.
- Internet Resources Metamap
  Supported by the Software Development Group out of NCSA at UIUC.
  A graphical guide to the WWW.
- EINet Galaxy WWW listings by topic. Also has a search engine.
  Provided by EINet, a commercial provider of network communcation and information services.
- Global Network Navigator
  A commercial index to interesting Internet and WWW issues.
  Warning: hyper-slow loading! Too many pictures in their index page.
- Special Internet Connections
  A list of miscellaneous Internet services supported by Scott Yanoff.
- A Comprehensive HTTP Site List
  An automatically updated list of WWW HTTP home pages.
  Run by mkgray@mit.edu.
  Useful only for a last attempt search for something. The information is fairly raw.
- The Mother-of-all BBS
  A hierarchical listing of various services. Supported at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
  Warning: slow loading!
- Yahoo: A Guide to WWW
  A WWW database of links arranged in a hierarchy. Maintained at Stanford.
Web and Internet Search Facilities
- CUI Search Engine
  Generates a WWW home page based on search results over its WWW-site database.
  (Once upon a time nicknamed Jughead.)
- Lycos search
  A searchable catalogue of URLs. WWW users can add their URLs to the catalogue. Supported at CMU.
- Find Newsgroups
  A search service at UIUC to help locate USENET groups.
- NIKOS Gateway (The New Internet Knowledge System)
  Run by Rockwell Network Systems.
  They continuously map the Web. Queries are evaluated against this Web database, and a page of the matching index is returned.
- Internet Tools Summary
  A comprehensive index to Internet tools.
  Provided by RPI.
  - Netfind via telnet
    Helps to find Internet accounts of people.
  - Veronica via gopher
    Queries are broadcast, and an index of the matching pages is presented.
Neat Tools on Internet
- WWW talks back --- text2speech generator

WWW Sites

Government
- Government Agency WWW Servers
  A good alphabetized index to government WWW sites.
- United States Government Gophers (gopher space)
- Recent Supreme Court decisions
- United Nations resolutions and relevant information (gopher space)
- The White House
Companies
- IBM Almaden Research Center
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
  This is an excellent entry point into the impressive Japanese corner of WWW.
  Pages are also available in Japanese, but one must have a Japanese compatible browser to view them.
- Research Triangle Institute
  In the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina.
Laboratories
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval---CIIR
  An academic/industry consortium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  They are doing research on intelligent information retrieval.
- DIMACS: Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.
  DIMACS is a joint project funded by the NSF and affiliated with Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Bell Labs, and BellCore.
- NIST's WWW Home Page
  National Institute for Standards and Technology
  - NIST(gopher space)
- Space Telescope Science Institute
  The people who take care of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  They are located in Baltimore.
Universities
- American Universities
  An index to many universities' home pages.
  Maintained by Mike Conlon at the University of Florida.
- College and University Home Pages
  Maintained by Christina DeMello (cdemello@mit.edu).
  Extensive list of universities' home pages world-wide.
  List is alphabetized, and is idexed by letter.
Professional Societies
- ACM: The First Society in Computing
  - ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
- IEEE Computer Society
Other Organizations
- The Carter Center
  The Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga., is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982.
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Internet Business Directory
  Run by Internet Business Services. They also have an HTML Résumé Service.
- Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet
  Index maintained at MIT.

Publications: Journals, Magazines, E-Zines, and other Literary works

Bibliography Databases

Computer Science Bibliography Glimpse Server
Provides excellent databases and search for computer science articles.
Academic Journals
- The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week
- CMU listing of on-line CS-related journals
- The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
  Maintained at Georgia Tech. Articles can be downloaded.
- Complexity International
  An electronic journal of complex systems research.
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  A refereed Internet journal, also published by Morgan Kaufmann.
- Journal of Intelligent Systems
Literary
- The Electronic Newsstand(tm) (gopher space)
  Archives and excerpts from commercial magazines.
  - Magazine listings, alphabetical
- Atomic Books
  A progressive book store in downtown Baltimore.
- The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling
- Mother Jones
- The Princeton Review
- TIME Magazine
- The UCI Bookstore
  This is a university bookstore actually on-line.
  University of California, Irvine
- Verbiage
  A literary e-zine, edited by Thomas Boutell.
  One may also submit pieces of short fiction to them.
- Wired
Cartoons
- Archives of Dilbert cartoons
Guides
- MIT Guide to Lock Picking
- The Bible search gateway

Research Areas and Topics

Database Research
- Other Database Information
  Pointers to database research centers and vendors.
  Maintained by Berkeley's DBMS Research Group.
- Cooperative Answering
  - Research in Cooperative Database Systems at the University of Erlangen.
- Digital Libraries
  - Digital Libraries and Xerox
- KDD: Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  - The Data Mine
    A good index to the field maintained by Andy Pryke at Birmingham University (UK).
  - Knowledge Discovery Mine
    Nice overview page of this research area maintained by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Chris Matheus at GTE. Links to various groups doing such research.
  - QUEST
    A Database Mining Project at IBM Almaden.
- ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
- Glimpse Bibliographies on Databases
  Compiled by Alf-Christian Achilles of the University of Karlsruhe.
  A huge collection of bibtex citations for papers on databases.
- Initiatives
  - The ARPA Intelligent Integration of Information Initiative (I3)
    Pages maintained by ISX Corporation.
- University Research Groups and Projects
  - Berkeley DBMS Research Group
  - COIN: The Context Interchange Project
    At MIT.
  - Database Research Group at Heriot-Watt University.
  - Simon Fraser University: School of Computing Science
    - DBLearn: Knowledge Knowledge Discovery in Databases
    - Database Research News
Logic Programming
- The WWW Virtual Library: Logic Programming
- The LP Newsletter Archive
- Logic Programming Page at the Department of Computing at Imperial College.
  Also indexes other LP archives and such.
- Logic Programming at T.J. Watson Research Center
- The Prolog Language
  - The Prolog Management Group
  - FAQ: Prolog Implementations
    Posted monthly. Maintained at Ohio State.
Miscellaneous
- Petri Nets
  - Home of Petri Nets at DAIMI

Announcements and Advertisements

Conference and Journal Announcements
- ACM SIGART list of AI Conferences (gopher space)
- ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
  - SIGMOD's Database Conference Listings
    Extensive.
- Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (gopher space)
- Notices
  - CIKM-95
    Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    November 8-11, 1995 Baltimore, Maryland USA
    Submittal deadline: 1 May
  - DOOD-95 CFP (text)
    Fourth International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
    Singapore, December 4-7, 1995
    Submittal deadline: 15 April
    - KDOOD CFP
      First International Post-Conference Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
      Singapore, December 8, 1995
      Submittal deadline: 1 June
  - EDBT-96
    The Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology
    Avignon, France, March 25-29, 1996
    Submission deadline: 16 June 1995
  - FOCS-95
    The 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
    Milwalkee, Wisconsin USA, October 23-25 1995.
  - ICDE-96
    12th International Conference on Data Engineering
    New Orleans, Louisiana USA, February 26 to March 1, 1996.
    Paper, Panel, and Tutorial submissions deadline: 31 May 1995
  - ICLP-95
    Twelfth International Conference on Logic Programming
    Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa Japan, June 13-18, 1995
  - IJCAI-95
    The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Montreal, Quebec Canada, August 20-25, 1995
  - JIIS Special Issue on I3
    Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Integration of Information.
    Submission deadline: 15 June 1995
  - KB&KS-95
    Second International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases
    University of Twente, the Netherlands, April 9-12, 1995
  - KDD-95
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Montreal, Quebec Canada, August 20-21, 1995
  - KRUSE Symposium
    Knowledge Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency
    Santa Cruz, California USA, August 11-13 1995
  - ACM SIGMOD-PODS
    San Jose, California USA, May 21-25, 1995
  - VLDB-95
    The 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
    Zurich, Switzerland, September 11-15, 1995
Job Search Information
- Job Search Services
  - Galaxy: Employment Opportunities and Resume Postings
  - IndustryNET
    Must join to use.
  - JobWeb
    Sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Seems to have a good index of companies with WWW pages.
- Good Indexes
  - Academic Position Network (gopher space)
    Has a number of diverse academic job advertisements. Not so useful for a focused search.
  - ACM SIGMOD Information Server Home Page
    - SIGMOD's Database Jobs Listings
      Great list, but small.
  - AI-related Job Posting Archives
    CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
  - The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week
  - Computing Research Association
    - CRA's Index of Academic Jobs in Computer Science
      Seems to be nearly complete for academic jobs available in computer science.
  - National Career Search Career Magazine
    - Career Magazine Jobline Database
      Not well indexed, unfortunately, so hard to find anything.
  - Yahoo: A Guide to WWW
    - Jobs in Business
- Other Meta-Indices
  - On-line Job Services
    Meta-index to job announcement pages on Internet.
    Maintained at Stanford.
  - Texas A&M Job Link
    Created and maintained by Hal Mueller. A good meta-index into university on-line job announcement sites.

Information Sites

Citation Servers
- Computer Science Bibliography Glimpse Server
  For finding LaTeX BIB citations for academic articles. It searches a number of standard BIB databases others maintain. Amazingly thorough. A disadvantage is that citations for the same paper may appear many times. (It does not collate.) Maintained by the CS Department at the University of Arizona.
Natural Languages
- The Language Page
  Miscellaneous links to resources on natural languages.
  Maintained by Tyler Jones at Willamette.
  - English-German and German-English dictionary
    Maintained at the Univeristy of Passau.
- Japanese/English, English/Japanese Dictionary Gateway
  By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl at CMU.
  Warning: hyper-slow if you are not using a kanji-compatible WWW client!
Weather maps and forecasts
- Current Weather Maps & Movies
  By the Michigan State University's Unix Computing Group.
  - Current weather conditions
    Pretty picture of continental USA of current weather conditions.
    Map is clickable for current weather conditions at that spot.
- Monthly Temperature Anomalies
  From NOAA. World map showing regional temperature anomalies.
  Provides forms to parameterize the map.
- Weather & global monitoring
  Maintained by the Australian National University.
  Good index for world-wide weather satellite images.
- Washington, DC Area Weather Forecast (Gopher space)
Miscellaneous
- AT&T 800 Directory on the Internet
- Information for Graduate Students in Computer Science
  Sponsored by UMBC. Nice links to information about CS departments, admissions, documents about being a grad student in CS, etc.
- Internet Multicasting Service
  Internet radio. A list of various audio-programs, e.g., speaches, addresses, etc.
- The Free-Nets Home Page
  Courtesy of Peter Scott at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries.
  List of free-net services around the US and Canada.
- Hypertext front-end to the rec.arts.movies database
  At Cardiff UK. This link is to the mirror at Mississippi State University.
- PGP
  alt.security.pgp FAQ, hypertext version.
  PGP = Pretty Good Public-key encryption.
- World Factbook 1994
  CIA
- SkyView image retrieval facility
  NASA.
- Taxing Times 1994
  Has tax forms, etc., on-line.
- WHO's On-line
  A project to create and maintain distributed databases of WHO's on Internet and the WWW. People can be accessed by interests, profession, and name.
- World Birthday Web (WBW)

Real and Virtual Places

Cafes

The Electronic Cafe
This cafe is under construction. The idea is nice.
Galleries and Museums
- ARTHOLE
  The gallery's curator is Harlan Wallach at MCS.
  Has links to other museums on-line.
- The Electric Gallery
  A gallery of naive and primitive art.
  Paintings are for sale.
- Exploratorium Home Page
  The Exploratorium in San Francisco, a hands-on science and technology museum.
- Le WebLouvre
  The Louvre in Paris, on-line.
  Also offers a nice walking tour of Paris.
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Travel
Real Places
- Atlanta
  - PeachWeb
- Baltimore
  - Charm Net Baltimore Page
    Great links to things around Baltimore.
- New York City
  - Paperless Guide to New York City
    Provided by Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc.
- North Carolina
  - Triangle Online
    Propaganda and information about the Research Triangle area (Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh) of North Carolina.
- Washington, D.C.
  - The Washington DC City Pages

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