Resource Finders
Internet Directories
- Google
- MetaCrawler Searching - Multi-thread search engine that queries: Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, and Galaxy.
- Yahoo - Search engine for about 85000 web pages.
- Lycos - Search engine for almost 11 million web pages
- Infoseek - Search engine for: web pages, newsgroups, usenet FAQs, reviewed pages, and topics. About 1 million documents.
- Excite Netsearch - Search engine with about 1.5 million web pages.
- WebCrawler Searching - Search engine with about .25 million web pages.
- Galaxy Search Engine - Search engine with about .55 million web papes.
- Netscape Internet Search
- AOL NetFind
- World Wide Yellow Pages
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
- AEIOU - Portuguese links.
- SAPO, Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses
Computer Networks
- Network Protocols - Yahoo links on Networking Protocols
- Ethernet - Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) Web Site. Extensive documentation about Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area network (LAN) technology. Including the original 10 Megabit per second (Mbps) system, the 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet system (802.3u), and the Gigabit Ethernet system (802.3z).
- Book Reviews: networks
Control Systems & Mathematics
- Control Engineering
- MathSource Gopher - Material available through MathSource. It is organized into four main directories: General, Enhancements, Applications, and Publications. It is possible to search the MathSource collection using Gopher.
- Mathematics (Galaxy)
- Math-Net Links
- Michael Trick's Operations Research Page - Pointers to all aspects of operations research.
- Hybrid Dynamic Systems
- Iterative Learning Control - A Bibliographical Library for Iterative Learning Control (ILC) Research
- Virtual Action Group on Hybrid Dynamic Systems for CACSD
- Entropy in Information and Coding Theory
Countries/Regions
- Virtual Tourist World Map
- City Net - International guide to communities around the world
- City.Net Interactive Map of United States - Interactive map that lets you zoom in/zoom out from street to continent.
- MapQuest - Possibly the most complete map of the US
- Lycos RoadMaps - Creates a custom map with driving direction for a trip between any two adresses.
- Microsoft Expedia Maps - Address finder, driving directions, etc.
- Europe
- Portugal
- Portugal - A collection of home pages about Portugal
- Lisbon (unofficial)
- Acores
- Cape Verde(unofficial)
- US Climatic Data Center - National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Checkout the online Satellite data.
- TerraServer - On-line source to buy satellite imagery. Cool demos.
- U.S. Geological Survey - Maps of everything. Check out the satellite data and recent earthquakes (up to the last hour!)
Engineering
- Internet Connections for Engineering - Catalog of Internet-based Engineerinmg resources
- Electrical Engineering (Galaxy) - Galaxy Electtrical Engineering home page
- Engineering Electronics Shop - UN-L Engineering Electronics Shop Page. Information of particular interest to any EE student designing electronics projects. Includes links to major internet info sites (FAQs, educational, commercial, labs, software, etc.)
References
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus - Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
- WordNet - A Lexical Database for English.
- Oxford English Dictionary - Fully searchable version of the OED, 2nd edition (1989). Includes definition and etymology searches, quotation searches, proximity searches, as well as boolean searching.
- English Grammar
- Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD
- Library of Congress Research Tools (Library of Congress)
- ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form - ARTFL Project's initial implementation of the Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus.
Other
- AskERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).
- Dictionaries - A list of dictionaries on-line.
- ECHO - EURODICAUTOM - Dicionário Oficial e Técnico da Comunidade Europeia
- Logos - Online Dictionary
- Dicionario do Internetes - Dicionario Ingles/Portugues de termos tecnicos relacionados com a Internet.
- Internet Resources List
- Parascience (Galaxy) - Galaxy homepage on Parascience (Parapsychology and Unidentified Flying Objects)
- STO's Internet Patent Search System - A system o perform patent searches, and access information on the patenting process.
- USNI Military Database - An international, armed forces and military database, for unclassified defense and government information, equipment, artillery, specifications, and news.
Bibliography
- Public Libraries With Internet Services
- Academic Press Online Library - Online scientific journal library created by Academic Press. Full text 175 journal available online. Use "direct login" if your institution is registered.
- UMI: Online Dissertation Services
- Danny Yee's Book Reviews - A collection of almost five hundred book reviews, covering all kinds of books. Includes books on computing and networks.
- Library of Congress
Specialized Databases
- ResearchIndex - ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library. It uses Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) to autonomously create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation.
- IEEE/IEE Library online - Full text, electronic version of IEEE jounarls and conference proceedings
- MathSciNet - Bibliographic citation service produced by the American Mathematical Society. Provides daily updates on research literature in mathematics and applied mathematics.
- ISI Citation Database Search Version 3.1 - Institute for Scientific Information Citation Databases (includes conferences)
- Compendex - The major index covering engineering literature, with citations and abstracts from journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books.
- Control Journals at Dallas - Table of Contents of Control Journals
- UnCover - Online article delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keyword index to nearly 17,000 periodicals
- inspec@USC
- Inspec@Berkeley
- Inspec@Yale - Leading English-language abstracting and indexing service providing source information from the world's literature on all aspects of physics, electronics and computing.
- Vision at USC - Vision bibliography at USC Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Pattern Recognition at Delft - Pattern Recognition Bibliographies at TU Delft
- Rosenfeld at USC - Rosenfeld Vision Bibliographies
- Computer Science at Arizona - Computer Science Bibliography Glimpse Server
- Computer Science at U. of Karlsruhe
- Image Analysis and Computer Vision at U. of Karlsruhe
- JSTOR - Full text search in Ecology, Economics, and History Journals.
- Selected Yale Indexes, Abstracts, and Databases
University Libraries
- USC Library resources
- USC's Britannica Online
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- The UC Berkeley Libraries
- University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
- Yale University - Remote Authentication
Conferences
- SCAD: Conference information
- Conference Announcements - Conference Announcement Archive at Fraunhofer-IAO
- Control Conferences - List of Control Engineering conferences in the Control Engineering Virtual Library
Finances
- Thomson Investors Network
- Olsen & Associates - Currency converter service
- U.S. Department of State Foreign Per Diem Rates
- Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
- Meta (R) Online - Information about the Portuguese stock market
- Microsoft Investor - Stock market reports, bussines news, etc.
Internal Revenue Services (IRS)
- IRS - The Digital Daily -
- Forms And Publications
- California Franchise Tax Board
Food & Drink
- CuisineNet - Restaurant guides for New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle.
- 4Dining - New York City's onLine restaurant guide.
- Dining à la Card
- Epicurious - Recipes and more
- New York City Reference - Restaurants
- ThirstyBear Brewing Company
Fun Pages
- Dilbert Zone - Comic Strip
- Doctor Fun
Mailing Lists
- Elsevier Science: Alerting Services
- SCAD: E-Letter
- CAST Email List - Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Mailing List. CAST is the Area 10 of The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The subarea 10B is Process Control.
- Hybrid E-Letters - Elecronic newsletter produced by the IEEE working group on hybrid dynamical systems. The letters contain recent announcement, articles, and commentary on recent events within the hybrid systems research community.
Miscellaneous
- TWIG Login
- Ciberdúvidas da LÃngua Portuguesa - Uma equipa orientada pelo Conselho CientÃfico da Sociedade da LÃngua Portuguesa tira dúvidas acerca da LÃngua Portuguesa.
- Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses
- Computational Nanotechnology
- EXPO'98 Lisboa, Portugal
- InforFisco - Informacao fiscal na internet
- Jesus of the Week
- Klingon Language Institute
- LEGO Information
- Oceanic Society
- Official Olympics Web Site
- Os Lusiadas
- JenniCAM
- Portuguese restaurants around the world
- Visible Human Project - The Visible Human Project is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, 3D representations of the male and female human body.
- Virtual Florist - Send Flowers Virtually Anywhere free.
- FINEST 91
- Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 goes to José Saramago
- Telecel SMS - web portal to send messages to Telecel mobile phones
Movies, Theaters, etc.
- The Fedaykin (Dune) - Source for information about Frank Herbert
- MovieNet
- Swingin' at The Derby!
Music
- The Mammoth Music Meta-List @ VIBE
- Internet Underground Music
- The ultimate band list
- Astor Piazzolla
- Brian Eno
- The Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry
- Tom Waits
News Agencies, Journals, etc.
US News
- MSNBC News - Provides personalized news
- The New York Times
- The NandoTimes - On-line news service
- CT Central - Connecticut newspapers (New Haven Register, New Britain Herald, Middletown Press).
- Pathfinder - Link to several USA magazines (Time, People, Money, Fortune, Entertainment weekly, CNN, etc.)
- Financial Times Group
- Ora.com - Online magazine on the Internet, System Administration, Programming, UNIX, or X.
- The MotherJones Wire
- Z Magazine - Monthly magazine featuring economics, culture, foreign policy, and day-to-day life
- CNN Interactive
- TIME magazine
Computer
- PC Magazine Online
- Computer Shopper - The Complete Buying Authority
Scientific Journals
- Online IEEE Journals - Available to IEEE members only.
- Printed mathematical and computer science journals - Current contents and general information of printed journals
- Automatica
- Automatica Editor-in-Chief's website
- Journal of MCSS - Journal of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
- Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control
- Systems & Control Letters
- AIP Archival Journals - Includes Journal of the Optical Society of America
- The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
- Benelux Quarterly Journal on Automatic Control
- MIT Technology Review
- Nature
Portuguese Newspapers, Magazines, etc.
- Diário de NotÃcias - Daily News
- O Publico
- O Publico - Daily News
- Jornal de Noticias
- Jornal da Rádio Comercial
- O Jornal Luso
- PortugalNet
- Revista Oceanos
- @net - Telepac Magazine
- TVI - Televisao Independente
Organizations and Companies
Research Funding Agencies
NSF
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- CAREER program
- FastLane
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Engineering & Mathematics
- AACC
- AMS - American Mathematical Society (e-MATH)
- CAST Email List - Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Mailing List. CAST is the Area 10 of The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The subarea 10B is Process Control.
- CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physicd
- IBM Research
IEEE
- Home page - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Inc.
- IEEE Working Group on Hybrid Dynamical Systems
- CSS Conference Editorial Board - Contains a searchable database of ACC/CDC authors
- SCAD - Systems and Control Archive at Dallas
- SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Other
- AT&T Home Page
- Baseline Project - Virtual handbook of primary care. Baseline of pratical knowledge for primary care providers, working bibliographic reference, etc.
- CIESIN - Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
- CIESIN Gateway - Data and Information Search and Access
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Federal Information Exchange - Information services company providing a full range of database services, software development and technical support to the government, private sector and academic communities. Check the FEDIX OPPORTUNITY ALERT service which allows users to create a personal interests profile to get funding announcements by email.
- Globalink - Language translation software for PC and Mac.
- Internet Audit Bureau(tm)
- Internet Society - Non-governmental international organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications
- NASA - Take a look at the image archives!
- NASA - HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
- Sony
- United Parcel Service (UPS)
- United States Postal Service
- United Nations
- Z Net
- Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia - Contem regulamentos e formularios para as bolsas do programa PRAXIS.
- Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses
People on the Internet
- Joao Miguel Almeida
- Stephen P. Boyd
- Wen-Chung Chang
- Noam Chomsky Archive
- A. M. Hespanha
- Daniel Jorge Fryxell
- Shankar Sastry
- Carsten W. Scherer
- Eduardo Sontag
- PT-NET Home Pages
Research
Computer Vision
- Hypermedia Image Processing Reference - Hypermedia Image Processing Reference (HIPR) was developed at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh in order to provide a set of computer-based tutorial materials for use in taught courses on image processing and machine vision. The package provides on-line reference and tutorial information on a wide range of image processing operations, extensively illustrated with actual digitized images, and bound together in a hypermedia format for easy browsing, searching and cross-referencing.
- CVonline - Compendium of Computer Vision - On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision (http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/) is a collection of hypertext summaries on the central topics in computer vision. It contains an index of about 700 topics. The Compendium is intended to be a clear summary of methods and applications of computer vision, organized into sections covering the main topics of practice and research. Each section contains a number of topics, and each topic is a hyperlink to a set of materials associated with that text.
Control Systems
- Convex Optimization - Lecture notes, homework assignments, and final exam for EE392X, Introduction to Convex Optimization with Engineering Applications, taught for the first time Spring 1995.
- Hybrid Systems - Compiled by Michael Branicky.
Haptics
- The Haptics Community Web Page
- Haptics-e The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research
- SensAble Technologies
Mathematics
- Combinatorial Object Server - You specify a type of combinatorial object, together with specific parameter values, and COS will return to you a list of all such objects.
- Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - Allows you to look up a number sequence in the data-base.
Network Security
- CERT® Coordination Center - CERT Coordination Center is part of the Survivable Systems Initiative at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Robotics
Accessories
- Imagenation -- Machine Vision, Video Framegrabbers, System Design Integration
Manufactorers
- Nomadic Technologies
- Pioneer Robots from ActivMedia Robotics
- Robotics FAQ
- PC/104 Embedded Systems FAQ
Online Radio Stations
Portuguese Radio Stations
- Rádio Cidade - RealAudio on-line broadcast
- Rádio Comercial - RealAudio on-line broadcast
- TSF Radio Journal - RealAudio on-line broadcast
Software
Multimedia
Audio over the Internet
- CU-SeeMe - Video conferencing Cornell University SeeMe Project
- RealAudio Player 2.0 - RealAudio Player brings live and on-demand audio to your desktop over Internet connections of 14.4 Kbps and faster.
- Microsoft Media Player - Also for UNIX
- Codec Central - Info on Multimedia Codecs and Technologies. Check the Index of Codecs
- SmartVid Conversion Utility - SmartVid is a codec-independent utility that converts between the Microsoft Video for Windows* .AVI video file format and the Apple Computer QuickTime* .MOV video file format.
Control
- CAST - Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Mailing List.
Emacs
- Emacs reference materials
- GNU Emacs FAQ
- GNU Emacs Manual (19.28)
- Newsgroup: comp.emacs
- XEmacs
- XEmacs Sources
- XEmacs Editor FAQ
- Newsgroup: comp.emacs.xemacs
International ISpell
- Sources
- Portuguese dictionary
Miscellaneous
- Jumbo! - The Official Web Shareware Site
- Free Zone - TrialWare, FreeWare, ShareWare, NagWare.
- Nerd's Heaven - The Software Directory Directory
- Zee-archive - Source code for UNIX utilities (e.g. top).
- Walnut Creek CDROM - A catalog of software available by FTP and CDROM
- The Perl Language
- Pine - "pine" ftp site
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
- Netcat (ftp site)
- ConnectSoft's - Digital Communication and Commerce
- Jasper - A collection of resources about TeX, Fonts, SGML and HTML.
- IMAP Products - Products database. Includes servers and clients for numerous platforms.
- Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
Mathematica
- Wolfram Research
- MathSource: The Library of Mathematica-Related Materials
- Mathematica Basics @ Boston University
MATLAB
- MathWorks
- MathWorks FTP Site
- FAQ - MathWorks MATLAB FAQ
- MATLAB Digest - The MathWorks MATLAB Digest
- MathWorks contributed software
- INDEX of user-contributed files
- comp.soft-sys.matlab - MATLAB newsgroup
Linux
- Linux International
- Red Hat Software, Inc.
- Welcome to VMware, Inc. - VMware for Linux installs as easily as any standard Linux application and provides a Virtual Platform environment where Linux users can: Run Microsoft Windows applications on a Linux system with near native performance
- RPM repository on rpmfind.net - very complete repository of rpms for linuz (includes RedHat distribution)
- Forgotten Password
Operating Systems
- comp.software.config-mgmt - Configuration Managment newsgroup
- Configuration Managment - FAQ on Configuration Managment (Honeywell)
Sun
- Frequently Asked Questions for Comp.sys.sun.admin
- SunSolve Online
- SunService Public Patch Page
- More Sun Patches
- Solaris 2 Frequently Asked Questions
TeX & LaTeX
- CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
- CTAN Index
- The LaTeX Catalogue Online, CTAN Edition
- Help On LaTeX
- Help On BibTeX
- TeX Reference
- comp.text.tex - Tex & LaTeX newsgroup
- Xy-pic
- LyX - LaTeX WYSIWYM editing (What You See Is What You *Mean*)
- SciTeXt - LaTeX like word processor for UN|X
- TeX Software Information
- LaTeX/TeX Help Page
Unix
- UC Berkeley ftp site
- POP3 server by Qualcomm
- Introduction to Unix System Administration - free book on UNIX systems administration with coverage of Solaris 2.x, Sun OS 4.1.x,, IRIX, Digital UNIX, and Ultrix.
- UNIX Reference Desk
- Free Compilers List - Very extensive list of freeware compilers (including command shells).
- Unix utilities
- The Z Shell
- Csh Programming Considered Harmful
- SAMBA Web Pages - server to export unix resources (file systems & printers) to Windows NT networks
Microsoft Windows
- The GROOVY Windows 95 Web Site
- WinZip - WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of ZIP files without requiring PKZIP and PKUNZIP. WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.
- MI/X - Free X server for Windows and Mac
- eXodus - X-Windows Server for Windows
- Exceed - X-Windows Server for Windows
- SAMBA Web Pages - server to export unix resources (file systems & printers) to Windows NT networks
WWW
Netscape
- Home Page
- The Online Handbook
- Answers to Tough Questions
Writing HTML Documents
- Introduction to HTML
- NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation
- Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - Table of Contents
- Composing Good HTML (Version 2.0.2)
- Web Icons
- World Wide Web Backgrounds
- HTML Counter FAQ
- HTML Access Counter - Web Tools
- The World Wide Web Consortium - FAQs, Protocols, etc.
- World Wide Web FAQ
- NCSA Mosaic
- Web Tools
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library
X Windows
- XWindows FAQ -
- Sites for X programs
- X Consortium
- X Consortium FTP site
- GNU - GNU Not Unix
Television
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Comedy Central - Take a look at what's on right NOW...
- Discovery Channel Online
- Dr. Katz
- Monty Python
- The Simpsons
- TV1 - Check what's on tonite!
- TVI - Portugal
- RTP Internacional
Travel Information
Consolidator Fares
- Consolidator Listing
- Travel Discounts - Consolidator Discount Airfares
FAQ
- Air Travel FAQ - Lots of stuff
- Airline information online
Travel Agencies
- COUNCIL TRAVEL - Very good prices for students on some Airline (e.g. TAP)
- Automated Travel Center - My travel agency
Frequent Flyer Programs
- America West FlightFund
- Delta SkyMiles - Allows one to check the account balance online
- British Airways - Executive Club - Allows one to check the account balance online.
- TWA Aviators
- TheTrip flight tracker - Flight Tracking, Arrival and Departure Times. Also gives to-the-minute position and altitude of the airplane.
- Wholesale Travel Centre - Prices, Schedules, etc. for plane tickets and Hotels
- Travelocity - Prices, Schedules, etc.
- Airline Tickets Wholesale
- Microsoft Expedia - Book flights, reserve cars and holtes, etc.
- TravelWeb: On-Line Reservations for Hotel and Airline Travel
- AESU - Low-Cost Airfares & Tours to Europe
- Amtrak Schedules - Unofficial (but contains schedules)
- International Youth Hostel Federation
- QuickAID - Public information system for airports.
- Lycos RoadMaps - Creates a custom map with driving direction for a trip between any two adresses.
- TURIHAB - Nice places to stay in Portugal (mostly small old houses recently refurbished)
Universities Home Pages
- All the universities in the world - Yahoo
Instituto Superior Tecnico
- Technical University of Lisbon
- Instituto Superior Tecnico
- Intituto de Sistemas e Robotica
- Control and Underwater Robotics Lab - ISR
UC Berkeley
- Berkeley EECS Home Page
- On-campus Software Download
USC
- Academic Senate
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Integrated Media Systems Center
- Graphics for the web - includes background, seals, fonts, etc. for web design
- USC art - logos, monograms, seals, etc., both for printing and web design.
- USC Autonomous Flying Helicoter Project
- Welcome to the Purchasing Services Homepage - USC
Yale University
- Home Page
- Yale University Library Research Workstation
- Center for Computational Vision and Control
- Pantheon Help
- The Yale Daily News Online
WWW Shopping & Reviews
Online Book Stores & Publishers
- AddALL book search and price comparison - Compare prices, shipping costs, and delivery times from all major Internet stores! (includes Amazon.com Barnes & Nobles, etc.)
- DealPilot - Compare prices, shipping costs, and delivery times from all major Internet stores! (includes Amazon.com Barnes & Nobles, etc.)
- Amazon.com Books - One million titles, consistently low prices.
- Book Stacks
- The Student Market
- Online BookStore (OBS)
- O'Reilly & Associates - Publisher of books for UNIX, X, TCP/IP, and other open systems. Includes an online bookstore.
- CRC Press, Inc.
- Elsevier Science
- Springer-Verlag New York
Computer Hardware & Software
Reviews
- C|net computers.com - Prices and reviews
- PC Magazine Online
- Welcome to PC World Online!
- CNET Reviews - What's new
- ComputerESP - Search Engine to Computer Prices on the Internet. ComputerESP now scans and compares over a million prices from major computer cyberstores in US and Canada and updates over 100,000 prices a day on average.
- Yahoo! - Business and Economy:Companies:Computers:Retailers
- ComputAbility - Your PC Discount Specialists
- CompUSA
- ZDNet
- Micro Warehouse: Your #1 Source for All your Computer Needs Online
Cars
- Kelley Blue Book - The bible for used car pricing (Bluebook Values)
- Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
- World Wide Honda Parts
- Microsoft CarPoint - Car owner news & advice. Includes blue book values.
- Consumer Reports® Online - Most good stuff is not free
- CompareNet - Interactive buyers guide
Send you comments to João Pedro Hespanha, hespanha at ece.ucsb.edu.