Computer Science

Table of Contents

Article Databases
Electronic Journals
Comprehensive Computer Science Internet Sites
Handbooks and Tables
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Bibliographies and Full-Text Resources
Technical Reports / Preprints
Professional Societies and Organizations
Departments, Institutes, and Centers
History / People / Biography
Algorithms and Software
Education / Careers / Jobs
News

Computer Science Library Collection:
The University of Chicago computer science collection is located primarily in Eckhart Library (Eckhart Hall 217). The collection includes research level monographs and journals in theoretical computer science, including mathematical aspects of computing, computational complexity, algorithms, logic, and the use of computers to solve mathematical and scientific problems. Because of space considerations, most low-use materials have been transferred to The John Crerar Library. The transfers include all materials in popular computing, most pre-1980 monographs, and most inactive journals.

Most popular computing materials are located in The John Crerar Library or The Joseph Regenstein Library.

Article Databases

Computer and Control Abstracts. London: IEE.
Print: TJ212.C751 -- Crerar Library Stacks (1969 - 1996)
Electronic: INSPEC (1898 to date)

Indexes journals conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.

ACM Guide to Computing Litertaure. New York: ACM.
Print: QA76.A1C761 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection (1977-1996)
Electronic: ACM Guide to Computing Literature

Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports in computer science.

Engineering Index. New York: Engineering Index, Inc.
Print: T1.E46 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection (1906 - 1997)
Electronic: Compendex (1884 to date)

Indexes journals, conferences and reports in all areas of applied science and engineering.

Mathematical Reviews. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
Print: Z6653.M42 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection (1940 to date)
Electronic: MathSciNet (1940 to date)

Indexes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and some computer science.

Consult the 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification
Search the Journals Database to find information about journals and serials indexed by Mathematical Reviews. Search by abbreviated title, full title, title keywords, or ISSN.
View the Abbreviations of Names of Serials, a pdf file of Mathematical Reviews serial abbreviations.

Computing Reviews. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
Print: QA76.A1C76 -- Eckhart Library Refernce Collection (1960 to date)
Electronic: Computing Reviews (1985 to date)

Contains reviews of books, conference proceedings, and selected journal articles, arranged by the ACM Computing Classification System.

Science Citation Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
Print: AI3.S41 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection (1965-1997)
Electronic: Web of Science/Science Citation Index (1900 to date)

Includes records from Science Citation Index and CompuMath Citation Index. Indexes citations (references) in journal articles and books.

Use the Tutorial to learn how to search this database.

Current Contents. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information.
Electronic: Current Contents Connect (current 3 years)

Lists tables of contents for over 6500 journals, in all areas of the scienees. Includes bibliographic data for each article, and includes abstracts for about 85% of the articles. Search by journal title, article title, authors, keywords, and corporate source. Personal profiles may be set up which are executed as desired to discover when new articles of interest are published in specific journals in the requested subject area.

U of C Library Catalog. Chicago: University of Chicago Library.
Electronic: Library Catalog

Covers the holdings of books, journals (print and online), and other formats in all of the libraries at the University of Chicago.

Comprehensive Computer Science Internet Sites

WWW Virtual Library: Computing and Computer Science: Lists computing web sites arranged in subject categories.
Virtual Computer Library: Provides links to a wide range of computing web sites. Includes a "What's New" section.
Yahoo: Computer Science: Catalog of computer science web sites organized by category. Includes search function.

Handbooks and Tables

The Computer Science Handbook, 2nd edition. Editor-in-chief, Allen B. Tucker, Jr. CRC Press, 2004.
Print: QA76.C54755 2004 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: A comprehensive handbook with information organized in chapters within 11 subject sections. Published in cooperation with the ACM.
Computer Almanac - Interesting and Useful Numbers About Computers: A useful "collection of numbers relevant to computers". Entries are organized in broad subject categories and include references.
Martindale's Calculators On-line Center: Provides links to a wide range of online calculators, arranged in broad subject categories.
ACM Collected Algorithms: Print: QA76.95.A87 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection
Electronic: ACM Collected Algorithms; Includes software associated with papers in ACM publications. Electronic version includes all algorithms numbered 493 and above, as well as a few earlier ones; organized by algorithm number. Algorithms may be downloaded from this server.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology. Edited by Phillip A. Laplante. CRC Press, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.D5258 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Provides brief definitions for computer science terms.
The Computer Glossary: the Complete Illustrated Dictionary. Alan Freedman. 9th edition. AMACOM, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.F733 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Defines more then 6,000 terms in computer science. Includes illustrations and cross references.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Edited by Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly and David Hemmendinger. 4th edition. Grove's Dictionaries, 2003.
Print: QA76.15.E48 2003 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Contains 623 articles which are arranged alphabetically within nine broad categories: Hardware, Computer Systems, Information and Data, Software, Mathematics of Computing, Theory of Computation, Methodologies, Applications, and Computing Milieux. Articles are signed and provide bibliographies and website listings for obtaining additional information on a subject. Includes name and subject indexes.
The Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Alan Freedman. 9th edition. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.F732 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Defines "every important computer concept, term and buzzword used in the world of computers from micro to mainframe".
Elsevier's Dictionary of Computer Science: in English, German, French and Russian. Compiled by B. Delijska and P. Manoilov. Elsevier, 2001.
Print: QA76.15.D442 2001 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Lists English comptuer science terms and provides German, French and Russian equivalents.
Elsevier's Dictionary of Computer Graphics in English, German, French and Russian. Compiled by P. Manoilov, G. Manoilov and B. Delijska. Elsevier, 2000.
Print: T385.M35 2000 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection: Lists English computer graphics terms and provides German, French and Russian equivalents.
Dictionary of Computing. Edited by John Daintith. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Print: QA76.15.D526 2004 -- Eckhart Library Reference Collection
Electronic: Dictionary of Computing: Provides brief definitions for 6500 computing terms.
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC): A searchable dictionary of "acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing". Contains over 13,000 definitions.
Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems: Provides definitions for terms related to algorithms, algorithmic techniques, and data structures. Also includes a list of "terms with definitions which have links to implementations with source code" and a category/subject index. Produced by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms: Irving Kind's massive glossary contains hundreds of computer related acronyms. Updated three times per year.
Webopedia: Defines terms in computer and internet technology.

Bibliographies and Full-Text Resources

BibFinder: A Computer Science Bibliography Mediator: This computer science bibliography search engine simultaneously searches the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (CSB), the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, the ACM Digital Library, ACM Guide, Network Bibliography, ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, CiteSeer, and Google Scholar.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: Contains over 2 million references from approximately 1500 computer science bibliographies, which can be searched by keyword or browsed within broad subject groups. Over 600,000 references contain cross references to citing or cited publications and about 1 million references contain links to full-text.
CiteSeer: This uniquely designed digital library contains full-text computer science articles and their citations, arranged in subject categories and searchable by author and keyword. Now contains over 5 million pages and 4 million citations. Utilizes "Autonomous Citation Indexing", which "automates the construction of citation indexes".
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography: The Digital and Bibliography Library Project "provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings". It indexes more than 870,000 articles (as of 7/1/07) and can be searched by author and title or browsed by conference name, journal title, or broad subject. Entries often provide links to the full text.

Technical Reports / Preprints

Technical Reports -- The University of Chicago Department of Computer Science: Searchable list of technical reports organized by report number. Links to full text is available for most reports.
CoRR: Computing Research Repository: A searchable repository for computer science documents. Organized by subject using the 1998 ACM Computing Classification System. Sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, and NCSTRL.
NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library: Indexes computer science technical reports that are stored in different sites worldwide.
On-line CS Techreports: A searchable index of technical reports from approximately 400 sites worldwide. From Carnegie-Mellon.
E-print Network. Computer Technologies and Information Sciences section: Lists academic institutions, research laboratories, and individual authors that make their works available online. The E-print Alerts feature allows users to create personal profiles. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technial Information.
TechXtra: Search engine for finding "articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources" in engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
Virtual Technical Reports Center: Provides links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports from a large list of institutions.

Professional Societies and Organizations.

ACM -- Association for Computing Machinery
AMS -- American Mathematical Society
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Association for Women in Computing
British Computer Society
Computing Research Association
IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Computer Society
IET -- The Institution of Engineering and Technology
IFIP -- International Federation for Information Processing
Internet Society
SIAM -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ---
Resources of Scholarly Societies. Computer Science: Provide links to websites of scholarly societies in computer science

Departments, Institutes, and Centers

University of Chicago Department of Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory. Mathematics and Computer Science Division
CSAIL - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
DIMACS - The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering
National Science Foundation - Mathematical & Physical Sciences ---
Computers: Computer Science: Research Institutes: Lists U.S. and international research centers. From the Open Directory Project.

History / People / Biography

Charles Babbage Institue - Center for the History of Information Technology: The Institute, an archives and research center at the University of Minnesota, is "dedicated to preserving the history of information technology and promoting and conducting research in the field." The site includes a searchable list of Finding Aids for the Manuscript and Archive Collections. ALSO SEE their Related Web Sites page, which provides information about and links to Research Collections at Other Institutions, Bibliographies and Research Tools for the History of Computing, and Related Web Sites.
Computer History Museum: Includes information on current exhibits and its extensive collection of materials relating to the history of computers. A portion of the Museum's collection, incluing "20,000 records for objects, documents, software, photographs and films" can be searched. The site also includes a Timeline of Computer History that can be browsed by year (1939-1994) or by broad subject categories.
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC): Provides an "eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world". The Pioneers of Computing page provides links to biographical information for over 80 computer scientists plus links to other web sites that contain biographical information.
Smithsonian Computer History Collection: Contains images of early computing machines and interviews with notable leaders in computer science and modern communications. From the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Chronology of Personal Computers: Chronological arrangement of significant events in the history of personal computers; includes bibliographic references.
Past Notable Women of Computing: Provides brief biographies for a select group; includes links to relevant web sites.
Pioneers: Informative biographies and images of 10 historical figures in computer science, including Charles Babbage, Vannevar Bush, George Boole, and Nikola Tesla.
International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995.
Print: QA76.2.A2L442 1995 -- Crerar Library Reference Collection: Includes biographies for over 250 computer pioneers. Most articles contain a list of selected publications and biographical references.
The Turing Digital Archive: Contains page images of selected unpublished papers and photographs from 1923-1972, from the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge.
AlanTuring.net -The Turing Archive for the History of Computing: Provides page images of important documents that "form the historical record of the development of computing". Also contains a report on World War II codebreaking and articles about Turing and his work.

Algorithms and Software

Collected Algorithms of the ACM: CALGO contains referred software associated with papers published in the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and other ACM journals. Includes all algorithms numbered 493 and above, plus a few earlier ones. Alorithms can be downloaded from the server.
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository: This site, created by Steven S. Skiena, is based on his book The Algorithm Design Manual. It contains a "collection of algorithm implementations for over seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms".
Google Web Directory: Computers - Programming - Languages: Provides links to extensive set of programming languages web sites, organized by specific language.
Programmers Heaven: Provides a "complete start-off for programming related web surfing and file downloading". Currently contains more than 10,000 files for downloading and 2300 links to programming-related web sites. Developed and maintained by Synchron Data.
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: The principal public archive of TeX materials. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
American Mathematical Society TeX Resources: Information about AMS-supported Tex products.
The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup): Provides extensive information about C++ as well as links to other web sites.
Java Technology: Sun Microsystems' Java website. Includes documentation, discussion forums, newsletters, and more.

Education / Careers / Jobs

ACM Career Resource Centre: This redesigned site lists job oppotunities, primarily in the United States and Canada. Also includes articles and columns about careers, job searching, professional development, and industry trends.
IEEE Career and Employment Resources: Provides career resources for professionals, employers, and students. Job listings are available via the IEEE Job Site.
phds.org: Provides career resources for scientists and science students. Includes Grad School Rankings, based on National Research Council data. Also includes listings for Science Jobs and a Engineering Science Blog.
Academics360.com: This website, described as a "meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter", includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
Science Careers: Career information, including job postings. From the journal Science.
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chronicle Careers
naturejobs.com

News

ZDNet: News section includes selected top stories from PCweek, PC magazine, MacWeek, and MacWorld.
CNET News.com: Provides daily technology news.