Bookmark File

AI miscellaneous

Argonne Automated Reasoning group ... lives on as Prover9 & Mace4 from Bill McCune (R.I.P.) / TPTP.org Theorem Prover Problems Archive (Miami U.)

AI Links / AI Subject Index (National Research Council Canada)

AI-Education Repository from Bill Manaris (Charleston SC)

Comp.ai FAQ / Sigart

On-line Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (MIT)

Machine Learning links: Austrian Research Institute / David Aha / Databases (UC Irvine)

C4.5/5.0 machine learning: J. Ross Quinlan / Rulequest Corp.

Machine Learning and Statistical NLP Reading List from Shlomo Argamon

Data Mining Server logic-based classifiers

Russell and Norvig textbook , also Russell and Norvig

Unesco data mining tutorial

Constraints archive and links (U. New Hampshire)

CMU AI Repository from 1995 / PAIL "Portable AI Lab" for intro courses from 1990s

RoboCup Robot World Cup Football

AISB Society for the Study of AI and Simulated Behavior (UK)

Northwestern U. Infolab

Epistemology: Cyc etc. / Open Mind Common Sense Knowledge

Cognitive Science Web Sites Paul Thagard

Creative Systems group (Universidade de Coimbra, PT)

Soft Computing Home Page Neural, fuzzy, genetic, probabilistic, etc. computing

AI Lecture Notes Bill Wilson (New South Wales)

Game Trees with good pseudo-code

AI Class by Lisa Zhang Way cool assignments and material, U of Toronto

Logic Puzzles in Prolog

Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents Poole and Macworth book

Farm robot articles in NYT and New Yorker

Real World Affective Faces Database Amazing database of face images

Fairness in machine learning set of interesting papers from Google

Not very Cleverbot chatbot

AI/Data Science Education

Kaggle Machine learning, data science: astonishing set of tutorials, data sets, notebooks, etc.

Towards Data Science Executable examples with written narrative explanations, including neural nets

EDUCBA Gobs of courses, certificates, etc.

AI Generative

Early 2022 article 12 Super Cool AI Content Generators You Have to Try

Some Chatbots Ganged Up and Plagiarized Me Slate story

Jasper text generation marketed for blogs etc.

Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit AI Images generated from lyrics (from Artificial Arts Duck on https://ko-fi.com

AI Neural

Weihong Deng Lots of face and pattern recognition research

Deep Learning book from Goodfellow, Benigo, and Courville

CS231 Visual recognition with convolutional neural networks

AI for Everyone non-technical intro at deeplearning.ai

Tensorflow.org / Tensorflow online playground

Convolutional NN videos thorough set of instructional videos

Understanding the Backpropagation Algorithm at Towards Data Science

Fast.AI PyTorch oriented neural network classes and instructional material

Neural Networks and Deep Learning free book and web site from Michael Nielsen

3 Blue 1 Brown Youtube channel and web site amazing videos on NNs, linear algebra, other topics, Grant Sanderson

Books

Finding Books / Advanced Book Exchange used books / Book browse current excerpts / Book Sense bookstore association / AddALL bookstore meta-search!

Bookstores: Powells / Books & Bytes / Amazon / Alapage livres / Buns&Noodle / Seminary Coop / Wordsworth / British Books / OGara and Wilson

Publishers: A-W / Blackwell / CUP / CSLI / Erlbaum / McGraw-Hill Ed / MIT / Morgan Kaufmann / O'Reilly / Pren Hall / Springer / Wiley / World Scientific

Expensive Dutch publishers: IOS / Kluwer / John Benjamins / Elsevier Noord-Holland Pergamon

Small publishers, sellers: Amador / Left Bank / Peer-to-Peer (still has historical titles) / Lake Claremont (Chicago-Midwest topics) / Mountain Press (Roadside geology, western states)

Hypertext publishers: Eastgate

On-line classic books: The Bala Raju list / Eldritch Press / Project Gutenberg

Complete Review collects and summarizes reviews of noteworthy books / The Posner list of public intellectuals

Schoenhofs foreign language and language learning books, warehouse is in Skokie

Green Tea Press Free online (and O'Reilly) Computer Books

Paper Republic Chinese literature in translation: resources, news, etc.

Computer Hardware & Systems

PC hardware advice: Trish's Hardware Hell / PC Guide

Computers used/repair/parts: Computer Exchange of Brookfield / KMR Tech (mostly monitors)

Krex sells cheap new parts / Hyde Park Computers (Evanston) reputable parts/service vendor

Gamma test for your monitor

Pure Color Test Images

HP ZJS Drivers for HP ZjStream printers (better than the official ones)

Sparkfun project materials, tutorials, blogs

Chicago Information

Chicago City , Other Agencies, Useful Info

Transit: CTA / El maps, history / Metra / RTA

Worldwide subways: Subway Navigator Urban Rail

Yahoo Chicago / Ripco Chicago

Reader / Events from Metromix / Music Box / Landmark / Indiana / Vickers

Guides: Metromix / Citysearch

Chicagoland Expressway Congestion Map: Travel Midwest

Weather: Tribune / Intellicast / MIT-ORD

WBEZ / Midnight Special (WFMT)

Chi area Graveyards incl. Haymarket and Douglas memorials + history

Ameritech Yellow Pages

Chicago Reporter race issues / Catalyst schools

Fox Valley Folklore Society

Vegan Street (reviews Chicago restaurants)

Substance the newspaper of public education in Chicago.

Mexican Art Museum / Garfield Park Conservatory

First Contact Social services in Porter County (including emergencies?)

NWI Bus Stop Map

Forgotten Chicago

Collaborative Problem Solving

Innovative Assessment of Collaboration 2014 conference

NAEP Collaborative Problem Solving report

Carolyn Rosé publications start here, there are many

Analyzing collaborative learning processes automatically Rosé paper

PISA 2015 Collaborative Problem Solving Results

Comics

Daily Kos / The Nib favorite lefty cartoonists

Cagle's Professional Cartoon Index

Universal Uclick / Creator's

Doonesbury

NonSequitur / Candorville

gocomics.com (with Tribune Media Svcs) incl. Sylvia / Six Chix

Comics Kingdom Bizarro Tina Fastrack Pardon Rhymes Orange

Carol*Simpson / Cartoon Movement / Ted Rall / Jeff Danziger JD daily / Herblock / Larry Feign

Reuben National Cartoonist Society / Cal Grondahl

Rubin Bolling’s Tom the Dancing Bug at Boing Boing / Tim Eagan’s Deep Cover

XKCD / Jorge Cham’s Ph.D.

Girl Genius adventure strip / Deviant Art community of cartoonists, artists, whatever

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Women in Comics Wiki

An Ethical Dilemma from Existential Comics

Passive Aggression from SMBC Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Wondermark

Mike Peterson amazing Comic Strip of the Day blog , now at DailyCartoonist , also read his Storybook graphic educational stories.

Alison Bechdel’s former D2WO4 / David Rees cartoons including former Get Your War On / Carol Lay Index Carol Lay

Conference Archives

ACL Archives digitized old publications

Analyzing Educational Dialogue Interaction workshop at AI-ED 99

EMNLP -2001 -1997 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Proceedings of Workshop on Empirical Methods for Tutorial Dialogue Systems (ITS '02)

MUC-7 Message Understanding Conference

AAAI Spring 98 Symposium Machine Learning

ACL-95

Ecai '96 Workshop on Extended finite state models of language

MAICS 96 Proceedings

HLT-2001 Human Language Technology

CoNLL-2001 Computational Natural Language Learning

IWPT-2000 International Workshop Parsing Technologies

Statistical Generation Day collection of related papers (Columbia, '01)

IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases (Penn, '01)

Using Educational Dialogues to Design Technology Based Learning (North London, '99, abstracts)

Workshop on Tutorial Dialogue Systems at AI-ED 2001

ICLS on-line proceedings: 2000

Agents2000 workshop on achieving human-like behavior in interactive animated agents

DRM-2002 digital rights management

Educational Data Mining all years

Intelligent Support for Exploratory Learning Environments all years

CEUR-WS Archives of many workshops, including MAICS 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

ISLG-2014 intelligent support for learning in groups

SIGHAN Chinese Language Processing

Conferences

EACL-99 / Indexes to prior EACLs

ECAI-2000

ECCAI European Coordinating Committee for AI

ELRA : LREC-All Years Language Resources and Evaluation (even numbered years)

ESSLLI - 2002 - 2001 -99 -98 -97

NASSLLI -2002

FLAIRS : -2000 -99 -98 -97

HLT -2002

ICCL/COLING :  COLING - 2002 -2000 -98 (acl)

ICALT -02 -01 Advanced Learning Technologies--IEEE Learning Tech. Task Force

AAAI Conferences / AI Magazine Calendar / AAAI Symposia

ICLS-2000 / -98 Learning Sciences

IJCAI all years

INLG: -02 -2000 -98

ITS: -04 -02 -2000 -98 -96

IUI Intelligent User Interfaces (all years)

MAICS-2004 :  - 2003 - 2002 -2000 -99 -98 -97 -96

MUC Message Understanding Conferences page at NIST.

NAACL -2000 (anlp)

Text and Discourse 2000

TREC Text Retrieval Conference

ACL list of relevant conferences

User Modeling, Inc. : UM-99 Main web site has old confs & proceedings

AAAI-2000 Fall Symp on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications (ITS DIAL)

Winter Discourse Text & Cognition-98

ATALA : TALN Traitement Automatique desLangues Naturelles

AIMDM-99 AI in Medicine and Medical Decision Making

IACL-8 International Association of Chinese Linguistics

ICAST conferences

JILA-99 Journées Internationales de Linguistique Appliquée

AMTA even-numb years AMTA-98 Assoc. Machine Translation in the Americas

Cognition+Instruction symposium

IEEE-CS

Impacts on NL Generation

EURALEX European Association for Lexicography

3rd HCC Human-Computer Conversation

IAT-2001 Intelligent Agent Technology

AI-2001 Canadian AI conf

Roy's Resources Linguistics Conferences list

Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Language Argumen t 2001

EMNLP-2001 Empirical Methods in NLP

ICTAI-2001 IEEE Conf on Tools with AI

IDA Intelligent Data Analysis conferences

ACL : -2001 -2000 -99 -98 (coling) -97 (eacl) -96 -95

TMI-2002 Theoretical Machine Translation

NLP+IA-98 NLP and Industrial Applications

AI-ED : -2001 -99

ANLP -2000 (naacl) -97

Cognitive Science Society / Cogsci-2001 -2000 -99 -98 -97

DUC Document Understanding Conferences

Historical and Less Interesting Conferences

Lists of Conferences

Ongoing Conferences of Interest

Computer-Related Interesting Topics

Virtual Museum of Computing

International Cryptographic Software Pages

Information Warfare

Windows Annoyances

Spam.abuse.net : everything you need to know

Cyberspace Law Institute

Quantum Computing

CC2001 Curriculum

FOLDOC online dictionary of computing

Identity-Based Encryption new approach to public key cryptography

Historic Documents in Computers: Fortran I, Algol, EDVAC and ENIAC patents, 360, EWD papers

BitSavers historical manuals and software

CS 2013 Computer Science Curriculum 2013

The TCP/IP Guide Helpful explanations (not RFPs)

Sophos Naked Security newsletter

Ethics case studies for classes: ComputingCases and ACM Integrity Project

Generation 5

Spamhaus Drop List malevolent IP addresses

ISP Liability exercise

Kieran O'Hara computers and democracy and many social issues

Culture

Internet Movie Database / Films42 (small local reviews site)

Digital Traditions folk music database

Folk music: Snazzy / Waterbug

Center for Public Intellectuals

Radio on the Internet

ILGRadio shortwave database

10 Korean Folk Tales frm the Sejong Cultural Society

Filmsite.org Information on great films

tvtropes.org tropes in all kinds of media, including your favorite comic strips, movies, tv, etc.

Hollywood actor gender/age discrimination: Time Mag IMDB study Business school study Sociology study

The Mary Sue for women pop culture geeks

Design

Bloat Busters bloated software

Bad Designs of everyday things

Jakob Nielsen Software and website design

Don Norman design of everything

Boxes and Arrows online design journal

UbuWeb very weird collection of art and artifacts

DarkPatterns.org deceptive user interface practices

Shining a Light on Dark Patterns Controlled experiment on dark pattern interface

Education Theory

APOS Theory of learning for mathematics classes

Steve Wheeler education blog

Food

Food Nutrition Tables from Cyber Diet / Food Calories

Rec.food.cusine.jewish archives

SOAR searchable online archive of recipes (renamed recipesource)

Celiac: .com .org .ca .sprue / Kasarda on Grains / GFlinks

GF on a Shoestring

Recipe conversions

Reader Raters

Indian Businesses in USA including food, of course

What would Cathy eat? flavorful and hearty healthy food

Ellen's Kitchen of interesting and ethnic food, including stinky tofu

Pick Your Own directory

Maangchi / Kimchi Mom / Korean Bapsang Korean Cooking

Tarla Dalal Famous cookbook author's recipe site in India

Domesticate Me Serena's awesome cooking site

Maggie Zhu modern Chinese and Asian cooking, I like her sensibility

Abeer Najjar Chicago Palestinian food blogger with hispanic cross-over food

Emily Paster West of the Loop: interesting and practical recipes, a lot of it Jewish

Maccheesmo Nick Evans, “Cooking with Confidence”

New Food Economy

The Korean Vegan Korean lawyer and food blogger. And utterly fascinating.

Chinese Food Demystified Youtube channel

Korea Kimchi Co. Reader article on local company.

ĂN VẶT CÔ BEO Vietnamese Snacks, Chicago company.

One Lovely Life food blogger with a lot of gluten and dairy free, low carb, etc. Overly complicates her recipes, but her explanations are smart.

One Lovely Life food blogger with a lot of gluten and dairy free, low carb, etc. Overly complicates her recipes, but her explanations are smart.

Cube Rule humorous classification of food by where the starch is located

Graphics Instruction

Opengl-tutorial.org

WebGL tutorial from Mozilla Web Docs

Learn WebGL from brown37.net

LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT what does it do

Han: Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Marjorie Chan Ohio State U.

Chin. language links: Inet Guide for Chin. Studies (WWW Virtual Lib) / Mandarin Tools / Zhongwen.com

Chinaonline news, largely business oriented

Norman Matloff's Chinese software explanations.

Unicode for Chinese

The MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary with Word Lookup and Radical/Stroke Lookup ( Submissions )

Journey to the West Xi You Ji: Web site dedicated to the book

Chinese Open Courseware and immersion programs

Drawable character dictionary at qhanzi.com and Chinese Tools (java applet)

Cantonese learning materials and dictionary (crowd-sourced way cool)

Character to Pinyin Converter

Dict All Chinese<->English Dictionary with auto-harvested examples

Cantonese Proverbs illustrated

Chinese flashcards keyed to popular books, including downloadable printable versions

Jyutping Dictionary/Database and Conversion Cantonese tools from HK Polytechnic U.

State Language Commission of China

Steven Chu Videos Mandarin and Cantonese instruction (including Tang poems)

Journal of Chinese Language and Computing (AKA International Journal of Asian Language Processing) with Zipf’s law paper

Jyutping Cantonese Input

Chinese Grammar Wiki

Chinese Chinese punctuation

Obsolete: Pinpin huge Chinese dictionary with wildcard search, idioms, etc. and NCIKU writeable characters dictionary

Pinyin chart with all syllables and audio.

Korean Literature Now reviews and features.

Standard Mandarin.com MANY language aids and explanations, including mongo idioms database

Learn Chinese video sites blog post from FluentU

Chinese Holiday Dates from Discover Hong Kong

Talk to Me in Korean Wonderful bites of language lessons

Blog CJV Lang Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese/Mongolian, by a translator. Check out Spicks and Specks really interesting notes.

Paper Republic all things about Chinese literature in translation

CTEXT.org digital library of historical Chinese texts

Scott Seligman Many interesting history books, incl. Wong Chin Foo and Great Kosher Meat War

Korean Quarterly Korean-American issues and culture

KLEAR Korean-American as a foreign language instructional materials

Learn Chinese with Jian good and practical (both)

90 Day Korean energetic language learning site

History

Story of DuPage Planned Parenthood founding mothers speak to Cong. Casten

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

Ellis Island immigration records

Niagara Aerospace Museum

Voices of the Holocaust earliest interviews with survivors

OnWar descriptions of WW-II, capsule summaries of all wars since 1800.

The Intercept newsletter, including article on NSA role in assassinations

Fake Nazi Death Camp bizarre hoax promoted by Polish nationalists

World Geography Games Identify the countries

Smithsonian article on Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears internal US slave trade after 1808 until Civil War

Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal amazing articles, most by Neil Gale

The History Makers digital archive of the Black experience in U.S.

Going Medieval blog on medieval history, by prof. Eleanor Janega

HTML and Net Info

Composing Good HTML / Beginner's Guide

ArsDigita (formerly Web Tools Review)

Network Solutions NSI / NSI Whois / ICANN controls registry

HTML 4.0 Spec

Extropia Open Source and Freeware web applications

Namesecure register and set up forwarding service

Amaya web page editor

W3C HTML Validation Service

Web Standards Project the obnoxious folks who want you to get a new browser

WDVL Web developer's virtual library: tutorials, technical info, software, etc.

Demoronize r repairs MS incompatibilities

Netcraft web and internet news and statistics

Should I Change My Password database of e-mail addresses hacked from major sites (avalanche technology group)

W3 Schools HTML including try-it editor

Do not track explanation and test

Domain Name Creator from Network Solutions

IP Location with command line/script ability

Sanitize against SQL injection in many languages.

Visual characters confusion: txtn.us and unicode.org similar-looking characters and string from different code-points

How to redirect web page meta-refresh, javascript, .htaccess mod_rewrite, php, rails, node.js, etc.

Entity chart also keyboard shortcuts

Upside down and backwards text

Character entities for Latin-1

Humor

Still good for the archives: Rec.humor.funny , also see Jokeindex.com jokes

Annals of Improbable Research

John Perry's Light Essays

Chomskybot

Capitol Steps

The Onion

Pizza Server

Riddles (defunct, find a replacement)

Eric Schulman (defunct, science humorist and author)

Segfault

DHMO Danger

Lighter Side of System Administration

Acme Klein Bottle

The Corporation

Laugh Lab

Journal of Universal Rejection

Augustine's Law Revisited

Dr. Dave House of Fun Jokes, tricks, illusions, funny historical photos, you-name it

hmpg end of the internet. (One of many such pages, but a particularly nice one

Babylon Bee humorous news with a Christian bent

Bulwer Lytton Fiction Prize annual bad opening lines contest

NY Times PitchBot tweets satirizing NYT news and politics coverage

Trump Transcends Ego humorous image+caption

Humor Videos

Juice Media home of Honest Government ads and Juice Media podcasts, from Australia

Roy Zimmerman parody songs, check out Vote him away The liar tweets tonight

Six13 Orthodox acapella and youtube channel check out annual Chanukah parody song.

Ramses the Pigeon parodies very cued to popular culture, check out Commas in God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Elle Cordova hard to describe, check out the digital asst. room

Parody Project political parodies, check out Whiter Shade of Fail

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Projects

CIRCSIM-Tutor (IIT)

ANDES physics tutor (Pitt)

Auto-Tutor (Memphis)

CIRCLE (Pitt & CMU)

Artic-soft (ILS Northwestern)

ACT-R Advanced Computer Tutoring project (CMU)

ILS Institute for the Learning Sciences--various projects

VIVIDS / DIAG visual interactive tutor tool (USC)

Ms. Lindquist algebra expression word problems

Carnegie Learning cognitive tutors

Why fusion of Pitt and Memphis

Project LISTEN reading tutor (CMU)

Active Math Adaptive and collaborative environments for math (DFKI)

VGK Ph.D. Projects in ITS and computer-mediated instruction (3 locations in Germany)

ITS and Educational Psychology People

Michelene T. H. Chi Educational Cognitive Psychology (LRDC)

Allan Collins

Neil Heffernan Ms. Lindquist algebra tutor, other things, (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Stellan Ohlsson Educational and cognitive psychology (UIC)

Rachel Pilkington Educational Dialogue (Leeds)

John Self (Leeds)

Kurt VanLehn (ASU)

Noboru Matsuda (CMU)

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer (NC State) Dialogue based learning

David Jonassen (Missouri) Ed Psych and Learning Tech (incl famous 2001 paper )

Sidney D'Mello Notre Dame Affective

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Resources

ITS Seminar by Horacek and Kruijff-Korbayova, 2003 (great reading list)

ITS Seminar reading list Kurt VanLehn, 1999

Lancaster Technical Reports (from defunct AI in Education group)

Computer-Based Learning group (Leeds)

Rand report on Role of ITS McArthur (1994)

Crossroads report on AI in Education (1996, updated?)

IDA PAPER P-3003 (Comprehensive overview of ITS efforts) (Where did it go?)

Bibs and links: KIKI Material på internet / Hockemeyer

Porter W. Johnson Web CAI (IIT)

Summaries of Papers on Educational Dialogue (Cornelia Kneser)

Tom Murray ITS authoring tools (Hampshire College)

John Self's paper on Computational Mathetics , the study of learning

The Tutoring Research Group at the Memphis Cognitive Science department.

Learning/instructional theory summaries: theory into practice list at psychology.org encyclopedia / much shorter Brooks list

Active Math class reading lists DFKI & Saarland University.

APOS Theory of Learning

CIRCLS The Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences

Jewish Topics

Sefaria the go-to site for Jewish texts and translations

Zipple defunct Jewish portal

Jewish Calendars: current 3 months / 5 yrs major holidays

Also Hebcal amazing site, incl 5 yrs all holidays / custom calendar with optional parshas, times, omer, etc.

Chicago Jewish News former newspaper published by Joseph Aaron

Debka weird Israeli politics and security issues site

JPS Tanach (1917) another one .

Hebrew Tanach at Sifrot Hakodesh , also has Mishna, Tosefta, Babelonian and Palestinian Talmuds, Rambam.

Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)

Prayers often used as renewal chants , part of Open Siddur

Hebrew Songs

Mahfouz abu Turk Palestinian photojournalist

English to Hebrew phrases at linguanaut.com

English to Hebrew Keyboard Type here, then copy-paste.

Zemirot Database Words plus many recordings.

Coffee Shop Rabbi Rabbi Ruth Adar covers topics, partly for beginners.

Halachipedia

Berman Jewish Databank Hundreds of quantitative studies of North American Jewry

The Lobby Al-Jazeera documentary series on Israel lobby

ChineseJews.com history and heritage

St Augustine 17 Seventeen rabbis arrested in a civil rights action, 1964

Letters to My Neighbor Yossi Klein Halevi new version of a dialogue with Palestinians

Rabbi Menachem Cohen

Rabbi Shefa Gold , with her Parasha calendar

Beit Toratah the Regendered Bible, rewriting the torah.

Daniel Cainer Jewish singer and entertainer

Six 13 Acapella Jewish music, hysterical parody music videos

Zemerl Database of Jewish Song

Sinat Chinam animated video exploration of baseless hatred, a wise drash of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza

Tanach with Rashi from Chabad, excellent and very usable site.

Hebrew script chart

Everyone wants to be Sephardic at Passover humorous song by Sarah Aroeste at Global Jews / B'Chol Lashon celebrating Jewish diversity

Sapir Journal slightly-rightish magazine of Jewish affairs

Reform Judiasm Torah Study

Rabbi Shefa Gold

Keter Torah Detroit area Sephardic temple, great website

SketchPad Chicago Building and organization supporting Chicago-area Jewish nonprofits

Journals

AI Com AI Communications

ETAI Electronic Transactions in AI

Discourse Processes

J. AI Research

J. ASIS American Society for Information Science

Crossroads ACM

Natural Language Engineering

J Language & Computation

IJAIED International J of Artificial Intelligence in Education and the AI-ED society.

Interactive Learning Environment on-line journal often covers ITS topics

UMUAI User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Language @ Internet

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Computer-Mediated Communication

Language Learning & Technology

Languages

verbix.com conjugate verbs for many languages.

mylanguages.org learning material for many languages.

Law

Open Law Community writing of legal briefs

Law.com search for Parloff's columns

1st Amendment Cases (American Libraries Assoc.)

CrimeLynx news and resources from a criminal defence perspective

Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure better ideas for international patent/copyright

Uniform Commercial Code

InterPropLaw the Intellectual Property law server: all kinds of stuff plus forums

All About Redistricting Prof. Justin Levitt's guide. Includes lot of legal and practical stuff.

Partisan Gerrymandering Recent papers.

First Amendment Encyclopedia Amazing web site.

Origin History of Federalist Society article in Politco.

Short history of consumer contracts and click-through article from NPR Planet Money.

Library resources

Valpo Library and catalog

JAS Journal Abbreviation Sources

Porter County Libraries including Valparaiso

UIC Library

IIT Main Library / Catalogs

The University of Chicago Library Catalog

Illinois State Library and Other Illinois Library Systems

I-Share , aka Carli, formerly known as Illinet: Illinois academic libraries

Maryland Libraries Sailor

Library of Congress

Max Planck Institute bibliography databases

Linguistics generally

LINGUIST Mailing list, bulletin board, all-around useful site.

Summer Institute of Linguistics / computing resources / Ethnologue Languages of the World

Yahoo Linguistics Category

Chicago Linguistics Society

Lesss commonly taught languages: links & teaching materials from Minn and UCLA

EBLUL European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages

Translator's Home Companion translator's resources

Old English home page (U VA)

Transformational Grammar class notes -- D Higgins (U Chicago)

LinguaLinks books, references for language fieldwork (SIL)

Omniglot encyclopedia of writing systems

Linguistics Olympics puzzles and problems.

Agora Language Materials links to publishers, translators, software, etc.

Language Log boffo linguistics blog, search pre Apr 08 posts

Verbix.com and wiki.verbix.com verbs and conjugations and online conjugator, many languages.

lexilogos.com Pointers to dictionaries and a huge number of resources for many languages.

Brand name generic terms dumpster. windbreaker. Who knew!

Macintosh

MacInTouch

MRP: Macintosh Resource Page / MacFixIt / Mac Hack

Malware, Viruses, etc.

National Vulerability Database All the CVEs

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

Virus Bulletin

Virus Myths

ISS Internet Security Systems corp.

SANS Emphasis on NT Security

Spam Assassin filtering for unix

Markup

COCONUT Annotation manual

GNOME Annotation of NPs manual

Mathematical and Statistical Topics

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive history, biogs, famous curves, etc. (St. Andrews)

Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems

Netlib Numerical software of all kinds

FSU Virtual Mathematics Library

Large Precision integer arithmetic list of packages

Learning Dynamical Systems tutorial (incl. SVD and EM techniques) (Brown)

Learning Bayesian Networks from Data includes EM, Moises Goldszmidt (SRI)

Numerical Recipes books on-line / Numerical software links

Le Coefficient Kappa description, references, calculator

Agreement Statistics comprehensive ressource, part of Latent Class Analysis site (J. Uebersax)

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures from NIST

Dynamical Systems and Technology Project (Boston U) educational materials for fractals, chaos, dynamical systems.

Random number generators at plab (Salzburg)

Get your math questions answered at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Mathematics blog

Leland Wilkinson statistician with neat site, many applets

Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

John D Cook&s blog on Math and Statistics topics , see Practicalities section for numerically less error-prone algorithms

jMetrik item analysis software

R Introduction

Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers) All kinds of interesting stuff (including class handouts and opinion blog)

Mary Celine Fasenmyer Short biography of interesting person

calculator.net Math, finance, health, etc.

Analyzing Likert Data

Statistics How To clear explanations of everyday topics

Math equals love High school math ed. blog from Sarah Hagen Carter, including hot fat tune puzzle/game

MathHandbook.com weird and wonderful symbolic algebra site, from DrHuang.com much wonderful stuff

Pointless large numbers all kinds of interesting functions and series, including Ackermann's function

Social Science Statistics including convenient calculators and tutorials

News

Chicago Tribune / Chicago Sun-Times

The Long Read articles from The Guardian

Robert Feder Chicago-area news media columnist

NPR

Haaretz Israeli English-language newspaper

AP Associated Press

Times of Israel

Meduza Russian news in exile

Daily Maverick left-wing muckracking newspaper published in South Africa

NLP Generally

NLP FAQ

LT World Language Technology World at DFKI

Statistical machine translation: links site / Knight and Koehn 2003 tutorial

Gentle Intro to Statistical and Neural Language Models at Machine Learning Mastery

IEEE Spectrum story on Microsoft Tay the chatbot that learned bad chat

IEEE Spectrum story on GPT-2 language generation

IEEE Spectrum: Eliza

IEEE Spectrum: Origin of tatistical language models

IEEE Spectrum: Kabalist language generation

NLP Bibliographies and Links

NLP Bibliography from Gérard Sabah (Limsi, Fr)

NLP Links from Erik Oltmans (Twente, NL)

NLP Links from Kenji Kita (Tokushima U.) [Amazing collection!]

NLP Lexicons, Corpora, etc.

Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania)

Siglex List of on-line lexical resources (no longer maintained)

European Corpus Initiative in various languages, other Elsnet resources

Word Net lexicon linked with semantic relationships

Oxford Text Archive

MRC Psycholinguistic Dictionary: Queries and Info

Corpora mailing list archives

TEI Text Encoding Initiative

AMARYLLIS corpora for NLP & text retrieval in French

Word Sense Disambiguation Test Collectcion

Statistical NLP / corpus-based computational linguistics resources Chris Manning, Stanford

Linguatools Parallel Corpora

Corpus of Contemporary American English at English Corpora.org

LRE Map monster index of language resources

NLP Education

Macquarie, Robert Dale, Various NLP Classes

Heriot Watt, Alison Cawsey Speech and Language Technology

UIC, Barbara Di Eugenio NLP class syllabus.

Memphis, Graesser & Harter Cog Sci Seminar Fall 2000 with NLP emphasis and many good exercises.

Edinburgh Informatics Intro to CL class

Harvard, Stuart Shieber NLP class

Stanford, Martin Kay Intro to CL class

Syntax Class Notes from Derrick Higgins (U Chicago)

Edinburgh, Johanna Moore Generation Class , 2004

NLP People (Individually)

Lists of CL/NLP/Speech people from: Elsenet and Kai Siemonse

Janet Cahn expressive speech (Motorola) (formerly MIT )

Sandra Carberry Generation, Dialogue, User Modeling, ITS (Delaware)

Jaime Carbonell Machine Translation + everything else (CMU)

Giuseppe Carenini Generation (Pitt)

Jean Carletta Dialogue, Coding (Edinburgh)

Alison Cawsey , Generation (Heriot Watt)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll Dialogue (Bell Labs)

Cristina Conati , ITS user modeling (LRDC)

Mark Core Dialogue parsing, management, markup (Edinburgh)

Robert Dale , Generation (Macquarie)

Steven Abney statistical methods, finite state parsing, many other things (ATT Labs)

Barbara Di Eugenio , Generation, Discourse, ITS (UIC)

Bonnie Dorr Interlingual Machine Translation (Maryland)

Michael Elhadad , FUF, also old Siggen page

Martha W. Evens Lexicography, ITS, Medical Informatics, NLP (IIT)

Peter Foltz LSA grading, Cognitive & Engineering Psych. (NMSU)

Barbara Fox (Colorado)

Jean E Fox Tree Linguistics of disfluencies, discourse markers, and other phenomena of speech.

Stan Franklin , Autonomous Agents (Memphis)

Reva Freedman ITS, Generation (NIU)

Abigail Gertner Student modeling, plan recog., ITS, etc., (MITRE)

Vincent Aleven ITS and deep understanding (CMU)

Art Graesser , Discourse, Intelligent Tutoring (Memphis)

Georgia Green Pragmatics, syntax, language and law (UIUC)

Nancy Green Generation, discourse (UNCG) (Formerly at CMU )

Ralph Grishman Proteus project, Tipster, etc. (NYU)

Barbara Grosz Discourse structure, Collaborative planning, AI (Harvard)

Susan Haller Dialogue, text planning (U Wisconsin Parkside)

Thomas Hofmann Probabalistic LSA, etc. (Brown)

Amy Isard (Edinburgh)

Christopher Jenks (South Dakota) Computer-mediated discourse analysis, simultaneous chat

Arne Jönsson Discourse processing and analysis

Pamela W. Jordan Generation, dialogue (LRDC)

James Allen NLU, spoken dialogue, etc. (Rochester)

Michael Kearns Machine Learning, Probabilistic Reasoning (ATT Research)

Jung Hee Kim (NCA&T)

Walter Kintsch Reading comprehension, LSA (Colorado)

Sheldon Klein "Meta Linguistic NLP," cog sci., analogies (Wisc. Madison)

Kenneth Koedinger Cognitive tutors (CMU)

Staffan Larsson dialogue generation (Göteborg)

Alex Lascarides pragmatics, discourse, semantics etc. (Edinburgh)

Alon Lavie GLR* parser, Janus spoken-language project, etc. (CMU)

John M. Lawler Generally Useful Linguistics Guy (Michigan)

Wendy Lehnert text extraction (U Mass)

John Bateman NLG, Discourse, MT (Bremen)

Mark Lepper Educational Psychology (Stanford)

James Lester Generation, agents (NC State)

Gina-Anne Levow intonation, cross-language IR, Chinese-English translation, others (Chicago)

David Lewis IR and ML (independent) (formerly at ATT )

Elizabeth Liddy NLU: IR, information extraction, data mining, summarization, etc. (Syracuse)

Dekang Lin Parsing (GB), Information Extraction, Lexicography

Diane Litman Spoken language, plan recognition, other things (Pitt & LRDC) (formerly at ATT )

Susann LuperFoy Discourse, MT, speech (Georgetown & IET corp.)

Steven Lytinen Link parser, FAQ-finder, others (DePaul)

John C. Mallery large scale NLP projects in lisp, CL-HTTP

Michael Berry , Latent Semantic Indexing (U Tenn Knoxville)

Bill Mann incl. dialogue macro-game theory (SIL)

Susan W. McRoy discourse, dialog, knowledge rep, medicine (Wisc. Milwaukee)

Andrei Mikheev Machine Learning / SGML for data intensive NLP (LTG Edinburgh)

Ruslan Mitkov Anaphora Resolution (Wolverhampton)

Diego Mollá Aliod

Raymond J. Mooney Machine Learning applied to NLP (U Texas Austin)

Johanna Moore (Edinburgh, formerly at Pitt ) Generation

Clifford Nass Social responses to computers, HCI (Stanford)

Nicolas Nicolov lexicalized grammars, generation, other stuff (Sussex)

Martha Palmer XTAG stuff, MT (Penn)

Kim Binsted "Expressive Communication" & generation (Sony, Tokyo)

Ehud Reiter Generation (Aberdeen)

Philip Resnik Modeling human language processing, much other stuff (Maryland)

Christopher Riesbeck general AI, ITS authoring tools (ILS Northwestern)

Jacques Robin Generation (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

Carolyn Penstein Rosé Parsing (Pitt)

Dan Roth machine learning NLU (UIUC)

Ken Samuel Dialogue act tagging (Delaware)

Christer Samuelsson Statistical Methods in NLP

Stuart Shieber Grammar/parsing/unification, automatated graphic design (Harvard)

Jeffrey Mark Siskind Scheme, Latex trees, constraints in lisp, etc. (Purdue)

Gosse Bouma , spoken dialogue systems, Dutch linguistics, etc.

Derek Sleeman ITS (Aberdeen)

Janet Sniezek Human judgement and performance (Illinois)

Matthew Stone (Rutgers)

Katia Sycara Intelligent Agents, Case-Based Design (CMU)

Antal van den Bosch Machine Learning applied to NLP (Tilburg, NL)

Marilyn A. Walker Spoken dialogue systems (ATT)

Janyce Wiebe dialogue, word sense, statistical methods (Pitt)

Peter Wiemer-Hastings LSA, Autotutor, other goodies (DePaul)

Rosalee J. Wolfe sign language (DePaul)

Robert Wilensky (Berkeley)

Peter Brusilovsky , adaptive hypermedia (CMU)

R. Michael Young Narrative, generation, planning-Longbow (NC State)

Xu Jiajin Corpus linguistics, Educational dialogue, Comparative stuff (Bei Wai)

NLP Research Groups and Institutions

Center for Computational Linguistics (U. Amsterdam)

NIST Spoken Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval

University of Essex CL/MT Research Group

New Mexico State Computing Research Laboratory

Sheffield U. NLG group

U. Delaware NLP program

U. Texas Connectionist NLP

LTI Language Technologies Institute (CMU)

ILK Induction of Linguistic Knowledge group (Tilburg, NL)

UCREL University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (Lancaster)

Mitsubishi Research Laboratory MERL

Microsoft NLP Research

LADL Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (Université de Marne-la-Vallée et CNRS)

King's College NLP Group

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (U Mass)

Center for Spoken Language Understanding: Colorado / Oregon

CSLI Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford)

HCRC Human Communication Research Centre (Edinburgh)

LILLA Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Linguistique et de Linguistique Appliquée (Nice)

LRDC Learning Research and Development Center (U of Pittsburgh)

SRCT Social Responses to Communication Technologies

NLP Organizations

ACL Association for Computational Linguistics

ELRA European Language Resources Association

Elsnet European Network in Language and Speech

Society for Text and Discourse

DRI Discourse Resource Initiative

COLIPS Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society and associated Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

Siggen eration / Siglex icography / Sigdial ogue / Signll natural language learning / Sigparse / Sigdat corpus linguistics

ACH Association for Computers and the Humanities

ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

AMTA Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

ASIS American Society for Information Science

ATALA Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues

Cognitive Science Society

CLUK UK Computational Linguistics SIG

NLP Corporations and Products

CoGenTex Several cool products and documents, including Realpro Text Realizer

CL Research DIMAP Lexicon, Utilities by Ken Litkowski

Glucose Text Summarization

Lingsoft morphology, proofing tools, nordic languages, etc. (Finland)

Signiform This is weird

Translation Experts Machine TranslationSoftware and Services

List of free web-based translation engines

Text Analysis Int'l information extraction tools

NLP Projects

NIST Speech Group incl. evaluations: content extraction, language recognition, MT, etc.

Ovis Speech Understanding (Netherlands)

Proteus Project Large corpus linguistic analysis & markup, information extraction, etc. (NYU)

RAGS Reference Architecture for Generation Systems (Brighton & Edinburgh)

Sign Language Synthesizer Project (DePaul)

SPUD Declarative NLG (Rutgers)

Text Summarization Project (University of Ottawa)

Trindi task oriented instructional dialogue toolkit (Göteborg, SE)

Olympus plus Ravenclaw components for dialogue system (CMU)

CARD corpus analysis resources for discourse (Columbia)

Collagen collaborative dialogue

Condorcet Information Retrieval (Twente)

GATE General Architecture for Text Engineering (Sheffield)

FASTUS System Information Extraction (SRI)

KOMET Multilingual text generation (GMD-IPSI Darmstadt)

Korean NLP at Penn

NIST IR Group TREC/DUC/TIDES etc.

NLP People (Institutional Directories)

LRDC directory

MITRE NLP people

NLP Software and Tools

Compendium of Demonstrations of NLP tools. (recommended!)

Alembic Workbench SGML Utilities (Mitre)

Language Software Helpdesk (Edinburgh)

Language Technology Group SGML Utilities + other stuff (Edinburgh)

MATE markup tool / Specification / Overview of other markup tools

SGML/XML compendium! / Gentle Intro. to SGML

Intro to XML (Walsh) / Annotated XML Spec (Sperberg-McQueen et al.)

WVDL XML tutorials, resources

Natural Language Software Registry (DFKI)

KPML Text Generation Software

INTEX Linguistic development tools for large corpora (LADL)

LDC Annotation resources page

Giant list of taggers and related tools, from Martin Weisser

Giant Language Model Test Room , Compare probabilities of word sequences to language models

NLP Specialized Topics

Comp.Speech FAQ

IR-L Information Retrieval mailing list and links

Lexical Functional Grammar Home Page

Human-Computer Interaction resources page

Systemic-Functional Linguistics

Latent Semantic Analysis at Colorado & Bellcore & Tennessee / SVDPACK software / Rong Zhao LSA for image recognition

RST Rhetorical Structure Theory

Statistical Generation collection of papers (Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki)

Open Educational Resources

Massive number of open textbooks at Open Textbook Library

Massive number of books at Free E-Book Foundation including free programming books (follow the link to the git repo)

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces textbook by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau

Open Data Structures Textbook by Pat Morin (also see list of other textbooks at bottom of page)

Runestone Academy Open source mostly CS education

Assembly language resources: index page

Data One Free data and analysis resources keyed to Earth data.

OpenClassrooms Gobs of online courses, many computer-oriented.

Codiva Tutorials book Data structures and algorithms, Narashimha Karumanchi

MIT Open Courseware course materials freely available

Turing Machine Simulator online

WAC Clearinghouse Writing instruction across curriculum

Papers, Technical Reports, etc.

CiteSeer-Research Index CS Citation Index (NEC-NJ)

Collection of CS Bibliographies

CMP-LG Computational linguistics E-print archive, expanded to all CS (LANL), also try this new E-Print Archive link

NCSTRL Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (newer)

UCSTRI Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index (older)

CS Tech Reports Archives

Maintained CS Bibliographic Collections within SFU Library in CS

Searching for and ordering Dissertations (University Microfilms)

General DBLP Bib Database and Logic Programming (+ CS generally) orgs, confs, etc. (Univ. Trier)

People with Interesting Sites

Peter Angeline Genetic Programming

Paul Bourke geometry & graphics math & algorithms, data formats, much other stuff

Richard Smith Security, privacy, advanced web programming (Phar Lap)

Norman Walsh XML/XSL/SGML/HTML dynamic styles/fonts/TeX/document formatting

Lawrence Lessig Cyberspace law, "Code is Law"

Steve Gibson SpinRite unique disk util; ClearType made clear.

Eric Steven Raymond

Alan Turing Theory, crypto, math, history of computing (Heaven)

Jamie Zawinski Formerly of Netscape and his rants

James Gleick NYT computer columnist

Eric Robert Schulman Science/Astronomy writings & humor

Steven Morgan Friedman including Inflation Calculator

Steven M. Christensen

Sam Steingold generally opinionated, CL / open-source hacker

Sven Guckes unix editors mail browsers etc.

Perter Neumann RISKS, security, e-voting, more (SRI)

Robert L. Glass Software Engineering topics

Leonard Grossman Chicago topics, Jewish topics, Lightweight net software, other links

John Walker Fourmilab Index Librorem Liberorum

Shamim Mohamed unicon, open-bsd firewall, misc.

Helmer Aslaksen calenders and astronomy, Chinese

Erica Schultz Jewish conversion story, misc.

Norman Matloff (UC Davis) computer architecture, general programming, hiring practices

Richard Goerwitz

Hobbit Strange and wonderful technical guy. Check out Prius MFD problem analysis.

Rebecca Onion Historian, Slate writer, interesting blog.

Andrew David Thaler Southern Fried Science blog.

Phil Plait Bad Astronomy blog.

Ashley M L Brown Games user research, interesting opinions.

Ling Ma Author of Severance, Bliss Montage, and a wonderful article about crying in an office job

Politics

Election commisons: Illinois / DuPage

Federal Election Commission FEC Contributions Database

Public Citizen / Open Secrets Center for Responsive Politics

Capitol Fax Illinois politics

DuPage Democrats

Essential Nader collection progresive sites

Daily Howler media watchdog, Daily Howler before Sept 2011

Political Research Associates and archival Public Eye

Violence Policy Center against gun violence

Democratic Underground fun reading

Greg Palast investigative journalist

Indymedia

FAIR , Media Matters , and Media Bugs (Scott Rosenberg) watchdogs

Center for Media and Democracy Sourcewatch influencers of policy & opinion

Brad Blog voting and election integrity

Ontheissues.org positions and votes of our federal elected officials

Govtrack positions and votes of our federal elected officials including PCA analysis of bill sponsorship and leadership

The Green Papers presidential election data, including more details on primaries than you care to know

Trump Voter whose undocumented wife was deported.

Niskanen Center modern center-right libertarian think tank, Jerry Taylor got fed up at Cato.

Conservatives are More Easily Disgusted than Liberals Famous paper. I don't find it persuasive, but Inbar et al do interesting work.

Charlie White Indiana Secretary of State convicted of voter fraud

FEC Campaign Contribution Rules See individual contribution limits, also reporting requirements for the $200 limit.

Democrat Attends Trump Rally Sobering article, how the left is pushing people away.

Data For Progress think tank

DC Report David Cay Johnston's news site

Scary die-hard Trumpists after the 2020 election.

Michael Lewis on the Trump transition after the 2016 election.

Gallup Trump job approval/disapproval tracker and historical presidential job approval (not disapproval)

Anthea Butler professor of religion and of Africana, studies evangelical politics

How the right suppressed IRS oversight of non-profits acting as PACs

Balloon Juice sharp commentary ("baloon juice"=slang for "hot air"

Pete Buttigieg excellent answer to Fox abortion question , also Sen. Gary Peters"

From HUD to Iran-Contra: Crime During the Reagan Administration Report for National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Zack Beauchamp Vox writer on state of democracy, 2023 article debunking economic anxiety theory of Trump

Ballot Access News newsletter

Girl, I Guess voter guides from Stephanie Skora (for progressive Democrats)

Privacy, Risks, etc.

Center for Democracy and Technology

RISKS

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (California orientation) / Privacy Forum

Victims of Credit Reports (news, addresses, etc.)

Identity Theft.org how to cope

No Cards A free people does not show identity papers to buy bread

Programming Environments/Problems

Geeks for geeks Programming problems, quizzes, and other stuff, much of it related to job interview problems

trinket.io Online code environment for eduction: Python, html5, others

pythonanywhere.com Online code environment for python

cloud 9 Online shared workspaces for work and education, many languages and IDEs

codeanwhere.com Online shared workspaces for work, many languages and IDEs

codingbat.com Practice problems for education, Java and Python

turingscraft.com (now known as Codelab) Practice problems for education, Java mostly and Python

Problets Practice problems for education from Amranth Kumar, Java/C++/VB

PCRS Interactive programming + Video mixed from U Toronto: C, Java, Python, SQL

Top 6 Online Java Compilers for Students article mentions Codiva, JDoodle, Rextester, OnlineGDB, BrowXY, IDEOne

PythonTutor.com Many languages online environment, shareable

LinuxZoo.net online Linux practice

Repl.it In-browser IDE for many languages

Valgrind memory debugging, memory leaks, profiling, etc.

Top 6 online Java environments article

Programming Languages

The Association of Lisp Users / Common Lisp WIKI

Common Lisp the Language / HyperSpec (TM) doc

Xanalys (Harlequin) Franz Allegro Digitool Mac Clisp vendors

Lisp People: David Lamkins (incl. MCL) Rainer Joswig Lisp on the Net

Lisp FAQ (getting old!)

Intro to CLIM Free CLIM does not exist yet.

Jatha Run 'Lisp' programs actually using Java

Icon Project / Language ref / Intro to Icon Clint Jeffery   / Posix extension

Unicon successor to icon / awesome matarial on Unicon by Brian Tiffin

##C on Freenode / C and C++ FAQs / C-IAQ (partly humorous)

Church Project formally beautiful languages (Boston U.)

The Programming Languages Shootout (benchmarks in about 30 languages, with examples and discussion)

Tiobe popularity index based on search engine statistics (updated monthly)

Rosetta Code Programming chrestomathy site: set of programming problems coded in many different languages

LangRef Short common tasks in many modern languages

HelloWorldQuiz identify the language quiz

Actionscript MathML: F-Math main site, plus Google Code site

Lambda the Ultimate programming languages weblog

Stack Overflow programming help

TutorialsPoint programming language tutorials (very good)

TutorialsPoint Unicode for Python programmers (hint: python3 is easier)

CodeQuizzes Quizzes for learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, CSS, etc.

David Beazley Python 3 Guru, including Python 3 I/O and Strings/Bytes/Unicode slides

Python 2 to 3 Cheat Sheet

Python3 Text Processing! at Nick Coughlan's Python Notes

PythonLearn stellar learning materials for Python 2 and Py4E same for Python 3

Numpy Basics

Python CSV module

Psychology

Online Psychology Assessment Collection from U Texas Austin

LIWC Linguistic Inqiry and Word Count text analysis

Inernet Trust, Digital Psy-Ops

Digital Forensic Reseach Lab Digital Sherlocks

Covid Twitter Bots CMU Study

What does Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior mean? Exploring the boundries of a muddy definition

Deep-fake student opinion writer

Russia attacking BLM from Haaretz

Stanford Internet Observatory

NY Attorney General: Fake Comments: How U.S. Companies and Partisans Hack Democracy to Undermine Your Voice a report on faked public comments on internet neutrality

Russian, Chinese Disinformation About COVID-19 news report on a study

ISD: Institute for Strategic Dialogue researches online disinformation, hate, etc. Publishes valuable reports.

EU Disinformation Lab

Social media bot problem at Social Media Today

Center for Countering Digital Hate

Claire Wardle studies misinformation

Early spread of Covid misinformation one of many studies by Neil Johnson

CCDH Center for Countering Digital Hate non-profit documenting not only hate

Two WaPo articles, 9/23: 5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC likely violated First Amendment Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) Indiana University

Fiction spreads faster than fact major MIT study of false news cascades on Twitter

Russian targeting African-Americans BBC report on Senate investigation

Maliciously edited video does not violate Meta rules Facebook oversight board is pissed

Reading: Periodicals, etc.

Scientific American

Tom Paine political and topical magazine

Ellen Goodman columnist

Dave Barry archive at Miami Herald

Nando Times online newspaper

Talking Points Memo Joshua Micah Marshall (roughly weekly)

Consortium News Self-styled successor to IF Stone.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 6/yr

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Molly Ivins at Creators and at Star-Telegram twice per week, at The Free Press once per week but better archives

Columbia Journalism Review 6/yr

Exqusite Corpse 6/yr

Event Horizon Science fiction magazine

On The Issues Feminist Mag (good links)

Reference Desk

Covid daily statistics US at Worldometer.info assorted world stastics (very cool!)

Covid Tracking amazing statistics with data as csv or json

Post Office: Zip codes

Illinois / Illinois Dept. Revenue

President / House of Reps / Senate / Constitution / Thomas US Congress pending bills, committes, etc.

data.gov downloadable US datasets / fedstats links page for a lot of federal data (UMD CS dept).

FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center

Federal budget: Office of Management and Budget / Congressional Budget Office / Concord Coalition

Telephone numbers: Anywho / Switchboard White Pages (has by-address lookup)

The Universal Currency Converter

Virtual Library

Consumer Reports

Time services from the Naval Observatory

A4 Paper Standard sizes explained, where to get

Online road maps: Mapquest / Yahoo / Maps on Us / Map Blast / Expedia Maps / Zip2

Urban legends: snopes.com (well researched) / urbanmyths.com / truthorfiction.com / alt.folklore.urban FAQ

Word Origins selected English etymology

Refdesk general references site

Internet Wayback Machine

US Colleges and Universities list (U Texas)

National Library of Medicin e & Medlineplus (disease information)

Investment FAQ / Roth IRA Calc. / Market Watch / CPI Inflation History

City Data

Pronounce It Right / Prounounce Names (“pronouncer” style) / forvo.com (native recordings)

Freedict multilingual dictionary lookup

Indexmundi statistical data from around the world

Red Cross Blood Donor Eligibility Criteria comprehensive

Passport Index measuring the utility of possessing various country's passports (mobility, welcoming, human development)

itools gobs of reference tools

Search

Dejanews Usenet newsgroups & archives (now google groups)

Findarticles magazine article archives (free)

Ask Jeeves

Qwant more private search engine

Private Search Engines article at Restoreprivacy.com

CEO Express "portal"

Every Google search operator you will ever need including AROUND proximity search

Google Search Tips Including allintitle: and similar keywords

Miscellaneous Uncategorized

Cracking the Codes Distributed Effort

Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology including the Microsoft Anti-Trust page

Need to Know: weekly newsletter / home page (long-defunct fun)

FAQs from Usenet

Wordsmith A word a day.

Corporation for National Research Initiatives incl. cs-tr, digital library, etc.

Hubble Space Telescope

ISCA International Soc. for Computers and their Applications (conference-giving org.)

Human Subjects IRB Rules: 45 CFR 46 from the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)

Scholarly Technology Group (Brown) / Richard Goerwitz text processing, online bible, etc.

Chemical Industry documentary by Bill Moyers

E Star Tech Wen Zhu's Company

The Xtal Set Society Crystal Radios!

Reva Freedman's Links

VU Provost faculty, fmployees handbooks and other policies

Foundation Center , home of the 990 Finder

Information Is Beautiful visualizing information

Margery Conner Designing With LEDs blog, teardowns and reviews of LED lighting

Jon Stewart show series on Australian Gun Control

Slate article on famous reporters who Made Stuff Up

Angry Asian Man blog: news, angry reader of the week, etc.

On Bull---- Review of book I ought to read.

College Meltdown Dahn Shaulis blog about higher education.

iPhone secret internet traffic WaPo article.

Free Radicals radicals who are into science.

Masks: Kollecte.com / Jong Ang Ilbo Korea Daily Hot Deals

Grand Canyon Education: Educational Enron report, also some class action lawsuits

Abortion Op-Ed from OBGYN: Indiana’s new abortion law won’t save babies. It will only make my patients suffer.

Apple Irish Jersey tax avoidance the offshore tax avoidance and intellectual property scam.

Pop music getting worse study Scientic American blog and Million song database .

Plagiarism Today News of all things plagiarism, from scandals to improperly asserting copyright.

Asianometery Great videos on tech history and sometimes about Asia.

Unix Administration

Sun & Unix World / Solaris Security FAQ

Distro Watch compendium of Linux & BSDs

Tcl/Tk Home Page

Solaris Freeware / Useful tools for Suns

Sunsolve: public patches and security for Suns

Solaris Answer Book / Solaris FAQ / Sun Managers list,FAQ and searchable archive

Humongous searchable archive of many unix-related lists

Sendmail / Claus Assman's .cf enhancements

Wietse Zweitze Venema Tools and Security (incl. tcp_wrappers)

GNU Project / GNU Docs (Delorie)

Linux: Gazette, Journal, Resources / WINE Windows emulator / XFree86 / Gnome Gnu desktop / RPM Package Repository

The user-friendly collection of Linux Howtos and Tutorials at the Linux Desktop Directory

CVS (RCS) source code control

Cygnus GPL unix-within-windows, real time kernel, java, etc.

Open Office office suite (was Star Office)

The UGU compendium of system administration links

Unix is a Four Letter Word oldie but goodie unix command line for newbies

Alpine e-mail client (pine replacement)

X Window sharing: VNC virtual network computing (ATT) / XMX X Protocol Multiplexor (Brown)

SSH implementations (all platforms)

Procmail FAQ / Quick Reference / Quick Start

Gimp Savvy Gimp instruction book

tcsh script writing short reference, from Jan Plaza at Plattsburgh

RIMU Hosting Howtos Really useful system administration topics, linux and unix servers

Everything Sysadmin from the authors of The Practice of System and and Network Administration

Redirect stderr in bash and tcsh, part of DIGITAL Unix User's Tutorial

Linux Home Networking fantastic Linux system admin howtos, NOT limited to home networking

systemd for administrators the replacement for /etc/rc.init and other functions by Lennart Poettering, Entwickler Systemd

Server Fault Help for system administration

Linux Kernel Drivers book

The Geek Stuff large number useful linux and db examples, many deeply technical

RKHunter in Fedora installing and configuring

Fedora LiveUSB creation

Windows utilties: Procmon or also just run perfmon /res

Useful Sysadmin utilities lists: GFI Blog

LXDE Openbox Keyboard Shortcuts alt-F4=Close alt-Sp=WindowMenu F11=+/-Fullscreen

speedguide.net contains an important ports database including activity and malicious use.

Ubuntu Firewalls at Linuxconfig

Gitlab Devops development platform you can install

Logging with Systemd systemd, journalctl, journald, etc.

MS TT fonts on Fedora

Bash scripting cheat sheet at devhints.io Rico%rsquo;s cheatsheets monster site

Global Warming

Authoritative news and answers: Carbon Brief / Climate Central

Skeptical Science database of articles rebutting misinformation

Answers to Global Warming Skeptics at Astronomy notes, contains New Scientist and Scholars and Rogues lists

Climate Denial Crock of the Week Videos countering denialist myths

RealClimate Climate scientists blog keeping up on events

Climate Data Guide browse and learn about climate data sets

Climate Progress of Joseph Romm and Think Progrss (defunct, now just an archive)

Lomborg Errors

RTCC.org Responding to Climate Change global warming news site

Climate Change Explained A marvelous "Potholer" video, not to be missed

Global Carbon Atlas from Global Carbon Project : Charts and graphs of emissions, consumption, transfers, land use changes, etc.

National Snow and Ice Data Center Interactive Arctic sea ice graph

American Petrolium Institute Draft Global Climate Science Communications plan scanned and html

Denial Depot humor

Breaking news Tamino / And Then There's Physics / Rabbet Run

History of climate change science science (American Institute of Physics)

Hot Whopper blog 'eavesdropping on the deniosphere'

Inside Climate News , article on hate mail ;

Climate Action Tracker tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries;

What's Warming the World Visualization of the components of warming+cooling (very nice, very persuasive);

U Chicago/Coursera class Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast;

Attribution Scientific American article on attribution;

Contrarian Matrix Summary and links to examples of multitudinous varieties denier arguments;

Electric vehicle MPG calculator computes MPG equivalent for different grid locations and car models;

Under the Dome powerful Chinese documentary on air pollution: whole film or part 1 of 8 . (English and Chinese subtitles);

eGRID emissions of electricity production, by grid sub-region. Convenient profile of your own region at Power Profiler page

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law articles and records of ongoing cases

Levelized Cost of Electricity from Lazard, 2018, showing utility-scale solar and wind are cheap (rooftop solar expensive)

utilitydive.com extensive news from electric utility industry

Energy Markets Policy Group from LBL, lot of info informing policy and decision making.

Yale Climate Connections visualizations

GAO Social Cost of Carbon request, showing Trump-era division by seven!

Global Warming Solved and CERES-Science denialist web sites by a weird team of scientists

Amy Westervelt journalist, disinformation specialist

Climate Change Flyers last-minute Trump-administration denialist documents, originally at ceres-science

WaPo Climate Change Flyers article on the brou-ha-ha.

GHG Emissions from EVs data from EPA

Trends in Types of Climate Denial from CCDH text analytics on you-tube content shows 5 categories of denial

Wikipedia Topics

Study of Wikipedia influence on judges in Ireland: Slate article

Study of How Conflicts and Population Loss Led to the Rise of English Wikipedia’s Credibility

Word Processing

CTAN TeX & Latex Search / LBL TeX links

Latex help: Stian's L Tips & Tricks / ACM L for Web / (La)TeX navigator / L for Authors / Goddard L Hypertext Help Bibtex Types

Latex packages for linguists: Charles U CZ / Essex UK

Miktex Win32 TeX / WinEdt Editor & Command Shell / LyX WYSIWYG

Woody's Office Watch / MS Office Resource Kit updates to MS Office / Levit & James Word Utilities

Nisus multi-lingual wp software

Comp.Fonts FAQ / MS Typography / The late comp.fonts page

Distiller Settings for AAAI publications, use these for portability.

EMACS Wiki / Vim Tips Wiki

EMACS Quick Reference Guide

First Guide to Postscript / FNAL Postscript & EPS Use Guide

PDF FAQ from MIT

Creating Quality PDF from TeX/DVIPS - the Kendall Whitehouse document

Linguist's Software fonts for the whole world, modern and ancient

List of available Font Editors

NASA Goddard Hypertext Help with LaTeX

Open Office command line arguments

Comprehensive Latex Symbol List (pdf)

Monospaced Fonts for Programmers 42 examples!

Overleaf Running Latex in a web site.

LetterSize Latex setting files. Try texconfig paper letter in Linux .

FSymbols Amazing fonts, symbols, etc. Try Russify or Tarty.

LingoJam Gobs of text effects. Upside down, italic, you-name-it.

Zzz

Why dark net is destined to be screwed up: Silk Road example.

Veena Dubal expert on law, technology and 'precarious work', among other topics.

Planet Money toxic asset they bought a slice of a toxic mortgage derivative, and produced many interesting articles.

Symbol.cc cool site devoted to all things Unicode symbols

Yip Yew Chong murals in Singapore