Computer Science & Mathematics resources

Computer Science

Association for Computing Machinery

http://www.acm.org

Information about the organization and member services. Features a free searchable index called the "Digital Library" with the tables of contents, abstracts, and reviews of papers published in ACM periodicals since 1985. To both search and access the full-text of these publications, follow the link to ACM Digital Library under the Computer Science & Mathematics database page above.

Computer User High-Tech Dictionary

http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/index.html

Search for definitions of over 7,000 words plus handy lists of domain extensions (.com, .gov, .org), file types (.asp, .gif, .mp3), html tags, and emoticons :-)

Directory of Computing Science Journals (Simon Frasier University)

http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/Collections/CMPT/cs-journals/

Convenient compilation of links to periodicals in the field. Information provided ranges from links to publishers' title pages and tables of contents to full-text archives and online availability.

Free Online Dictionary of Computing

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

Allows you to do a keyword search and provides a definition with related links to Internet resources.

IEEE Computer Society

http://www.computer.org

Has information about the Society, its publications, conferences, standards activities, membership, etc. Also provides links to other Internet resources.

InformIT's Reference Guides

http://www.informit.com/guides/

An online collection of reference guides (e.g. XML) on a variety of computer-related topics.

TechEncyclopedia

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

Provides definitions of commonly-used terms. Helpful illustrations are included for many entries.

Webopedia

http://www.webopedia.com/

Can search by keyword or broad category. Links to related Internet sources are provided for some terms.

WWW Virtual Library: Computing

http://vlib.org/Computing.html

Links to web directories on specific topics, such as artificial intelligence, programming languages, and software engineering.

Mathematics

E-Math (American Mathematical Society)

http://www.ams.org/

Great sources for information on conferences, AMS publications, math news, etc. The "Mathematics On the Web" section offers either a textual or tabular guide to the literature available on the Web. Especially useful is the ability to search by the structured AMS Classification scheme or by topic keyword (e.g.calculus, fractals, etc.).

The Math Forum (Drexel University)

http://mathforum.org/

A searchable site for information on math and math education at all educational levels. Includes sources for parents, students, and teachers, an extensive list of Internet math resources, excerpts from math electronic discussion groups, etc.