Useful Links for Students

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
• 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.

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