| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Publications / Journals |
| Title: | Information and Computation |
| Description: | Covers all areas of theoretical computer science and computational aspects of information theory. |
| Location: | http://projects.csail.mit.edu/iandc/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Research_Institutes |
| Title: | MIT Laboratory for Computer Science |
| Description: | Research in a variety of areas in computer science. Description of research, publications, and news. |
| Location: | http://www.csail.mit.edu/index.php |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory |
| Title: | Theory of Computation, Fall 2006 |
| Description: | Course 6.045J/18.400J at MIT OpenCourseWare, emphasizing computability and computational complexity theory. |
| Location: | http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-404JFall-2006/CourseHome/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory |
| Title: | Automata, Computability, and Complexity, Spring 2005 |
| Description: | Course 6.045J / 18.400J at MIT OpenCourseWare with introduction to basic mathematical models of computation, Turing machines, Church's Thesis, time complexity and NP-completeness. |
| Location: | http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-045JSpring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory / People |
| Title: | Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi |
| Description: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Location: | http://www.mit.edu/~hajiagha/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory / People |
| Title: | Goldwasser, Shafi |
| Description: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/shafi/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory / People |
| Title: | Rivest, Ronald |
| Description: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Complexity_Theory / People |
| Title: | Sudan, Madhu |
| Description: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Journals |
| Title: | Information and Computation |
| Description: | International journal on Theoretical Computer Science and Information Theory. |
| Location: | http://projects.csail.mit.edu/iandc/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | Ronald L. Rivest |
| Description: | Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's EECS Dept and member of Theory of Computation Group at CSAIL. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | Madhu Sudan |
| Description: | Faculty at EECS Department, MIT and member of Theory of Computing group in CSAIL. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | Albert R. Meyer |
| Description: | Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, EECS Dept, MIT and member of Theory of Computation Group at CSAIL. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/meyer/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | David R. Karger |
| Description: | Faculty at EECS Dept, MIT and member of CSAIL. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | Tom Leighton |
| Description: | Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT and member of the Theory of Computation group at CSAIL. |
| Location: | http://people.csail.mit.edu/ftl/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / People |
| Title: | Adam D. Smith |
| Description: | Assistant Professor at PSU. Provides details of teachuing and research. |
| Location: | http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~asmith/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Quantum_Computing / Research_Groups |
| Title: | Quantum Information Science @ MIT |
| Description: | This web site offers an up-to-date overview of the activities of groups at MIT interested in Quantum Information Science. |
| Location: | http://qis.mit.edu |
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| Directory: | Computers / Computer_Science / Theoretical / Research_Groups |
| Title: | MIT LCS Theory of Computation Group |
| Description: | Research areas include algorithms, complexity theory, computation and biology, cryptography and information security, distributed systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, semantics, and supercomputing technologies. |
| Location: | http://theory.csail.mit.edu/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Data_Formats / Graphics |
| Title: | Graphics for Inclusion in Electronic Documents |
| Description: | Essay on how to produce portable graphics files that can be imported into other documents, especially TeX. The advice is aimed mostly at linux or similar operating systems which have open-source command-line tools. Also includes guidelines for image producers. |
| Location: | http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/elec_fig/elec_figures.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Data_Formats / Graphics / 3D / Open_Inventor_File |
| Title: | Open Inventor .iv Files |
| Description: | A good description of Open Inventor files. |
| Location: | http://web.mit.edu/ivlib/www/iv.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / E-Books / News_and_Media |
| Title: | The Future of Books |
| Description: | Summarizes a bits vs. books argument. [Wired] |
| Location: | http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-02.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Ethics / Conferences |
| Title: | Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP96) |
| Description: | Proceedings of the sixth conference hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c), held in March 1996. Archives are permanently available. |
| Location: | http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/mac/cfp96/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hacking / Ethics |
| Title: | The Hacker Crackdown |
| Description: | Electronic edition. |
| Location: | http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Components / Processors / Multiprocessors |
| Title: | MIT Alewife Project |
| Description: | Large-scale multiprocessor, integrates cache-coherent, distributed shared memory, and user-level message-passing, in one integrated hardware framework; papers, people, pictures, posters. |
| Location: | http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/alewife/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Historical |
| Title: | The Apollo Guidance Computer Project |
| Description: | The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was developed to provide reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. This site is devoted to documenting the machines, people and institutions that made this possible. |
| Location: | http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Peripherals / Audio / Portable_Players / Apple_iPod |
| Title: | iPod and Linux |
| Description: | Technical and detailed explanation of how to configure iPod usage under Linux without Mac OS or Windows. |
| Location: | http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~adonovan/hacks/ipod.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Peripherals / Keyboards / Dvorak |
| Title: | Jeff Bigler's Dvorak Keyboard page |
| Description: | Includes instructions for remapping your keyboard for Windows, Mac, and XWindows |
| Location: | http://web.mit.edu/jcb/www/Dvorak/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Systems / Wearables / Research_Groups_and_Projects |
| Title: | MIT: Wearable Computing |
| Description: | The group extensively describes its MIThril system: a complete wearable computer from hardware to applications. Also overviews of other projects as well as papers and people are given. |
| Location: | http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Hardware / Systems / Wearables / Wearable_Electronics |
| Title: | MIT Musical Jacket |
| Description: | The jacket synthesizes MIDI sound based on button presses on a sewn-on key pad. Demonstrated in several mpeg movies. |
| Location: | http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/levis/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / History |
| Title: | Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology |
| Description: | New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters. |
| Location: | http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3784 |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Engelbart,_Douglas |
| Title: | The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart |
| Description: | Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize. |
| Location: | http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Kurzweil,_Raymond |
| Title: | Winners' Circle: Raymond Kurzweil |
| Description: | Biographic announcement of 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize. [MIT] |
| Location: | http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-kurzweil.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Minsky,_Marvin |
| Title: | Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky |
| Description: | From the online book, edited by David G. Stork: Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality. |
| Location: | http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/chap2/two1.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Minsky,_Marvin |
| Title: | Marvin Minsky |
| Description: | His page. One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence; a significant contributor to cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics (microscopy). Published writings and links to research groups. [MIT Media Lab] |
| Location: | http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Minsky,_Marvin |
| Title: | Marvin Lee Minsky: Matter, Mind and Models |
| Description: | Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events. |
| Location: | http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/doyle/gallery/minsky/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / History / Pioneers / Papert,_Seymour |
| Title: | MIT Media Lab: Seymour Papert |
| Description: | Papert was a founding faculty member of the Media Lab, and now works there part-time. The Media Lab site has been hard to reach lately and is often inaccessible, but be patient and keep at it: it is well worthwhile. |
| Location: | http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Human-Computer_Interaction / Research |
| Title: | Software Safety Research at MIT |
| Description: | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offering information on current projects and papers. |
| Location: | http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safety.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Cyberspace |
| Title: | Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans |
| Description: | Research paper introduces precise measures of balkanization, and develops a model of individual knowledge profiles and community affiliation. It examines how information technology links separated people, thereby uniting communities, but at the same time fragments interaction and divides groups by leading people to spend more time on special interests. |
| Location: | http://web.mit.edu/marshall/www/papers/CyberBalkans.pdf |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Cyberspace / Weblogs |
| Title: | Timbl's Blog |
| Description: | Weblog of Tim Berners-Lee, commenting on matters related to the World Wide Web he invented. |
| Location: | http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Gopher |
| Title: | Whois Search |
| Description: | Directory provided by the sipb.mit.edu Gopher server for querying whois servers throughout the Internet. Due to a port limitation, it doesn't work with Firefox, another browser such as Lynx must be used instead. |
| Location: | gopher://sipb.mit.edu/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / History / People / Berners-Lee,_Tim |
| Title: | Timbl's Blog |
| Description: | Weblog of Tim Berners-Lee, commenting on matters related to the World Wide Web. |
| Location: | http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Routers_and_Routing / Traceroute_Servers / United_States |
| Title: | M.I.T, MA |
| Description: | AS3 - MIT-GATEWAYS. Traceroute to you. |
| Location: | http://bs.mit.edu:8001/cgi-bin/traceroute |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Searching / Metasearch / Question_Answering |
| Title: | START |
| Description: | Demonstration from the MIT InfoLab Group of its natural language question answering system, developed by Boris Katz. |
| Location: | http://start.csail.mit.edu/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Internet / Web_Design_and_Development / Authoring / Online_Tools / Graphics / Image_Manipulation |
| Title: | TransWeb Transparent-GIF Service |
| Description: | Gives ordinary GIF images transparent backgrounds. |
| Location: | http://www.mit.edu:8001/transweb.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Multimedia / Music_and_Audio / Audio_Formats / MPEG-4 |
| Title: | MPEG-4 Structured Audio |
| Description: | Technical information and developer resources from the Machine Listening Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the official homepage for this format maintained by Eric Scheirer. |
| Location: | http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Multimedia / Music_and_Audio / Audio_Formats / MPEG-4 |
| Title: | Machine Listening |
| Description: | Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section. |
| Location: | http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/Classes/MAS.945/technical.html |
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| Directory: | Computers / Multimedia / Music_and_Audio / FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials |
| Title: | Computer Music Journal |
| Description: | A quarterly Journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. Includes recent issues and ordering information. |
| Location: | http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/ |
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| Directory: | Computers / Multimedia / Music_and_Audio / Software / Max_and_MSP |
| Title: | Composing Interactive Music |
| Description: | Max textbook covering interface design, interaction concepts, controllers, algorithms, and program structure. |
| Location: | http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026223193X |
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| Directory: | Computers / Open_Source / Books |
| Title: | Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software |
| Description: | Book edited by Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam and Karim R. Lakhani. Full text as PDF downloads of each chapter. |
| Location: | http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11216 |
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| Directory: | Computers / Parallel_Computing / Beowulf / Documentation |
| Title: | How to Build a Beowulf |
| Description: | Paper book. Table of contents, online purchasing, and mailing list available. |
| Location: | http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3898 |
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| Directory: | Computers / Parallel_Computing / Conferences / 2005 |
| Title: | ICS 2005 |
| Description: | 19th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. June 19–22, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Location: | http://ics05.csail.mit.edu |
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