COMPSCI - Topics - Computer Science Information Sources

Areas of interest to computer scientists and students

• Software: Software Engineering Institute; federally-funded research and development center to help others make measured improvements in their software engineering capabilities
• Security: Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center; a center of Internet security expertise; handles computer security incidents and vulnerabilities, publishes security alerts, researches long-term changes in networked systems, and develops information and training to help improve security; at the Software Engineering Institute, operated by Carnegie Mellon University
• Architecture: Computer Architecture; selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals; presented by Computer Architecture Group, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin--Madison
• History: Computer History Museum; artifacts and stories of the information age; Web site of museum located in Mountain View, California
• FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing; hyptertext dictionary of computer terms
• DADS: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures; presents algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions; presented by the Software Quality group of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division in the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration
• Math: Mathematics Information Sources; computer science theory is based on mathematics; if you study Computer Science in depth, you'll probably spend time with proofs, algorithms, and abstract concepts; build up your mathematics knowledge
• Internet: Internet Tools Summary; a collection of information about the software used on the Internet for information, communication, and interaction

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