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Sections:
  

Education / Networking  
Game Theory  
Cryptography 
Virtual Reality   
Image Processing   
Data Compression   
Computer Architecture   
Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science   
Artificial Life   
Cybernetics   
Speech Recognition
Research Labs  
Media Study 
Technology News Sources 

  
Education  

  • Doc: An Interview (Seymour Papert, 1995)
  • Doc: How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab (various, 1991)
  • Link: The Free Software Foundation ==> free software & code
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    Game Theory   

  • Link: Economic and Game Theory Game
  • Link: Introduction to Game Theory
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    Cryptography   

  • Link: The RSA Site
  • Link: Pretty Good Private International
  • Link: Cryptozilla, A Secure Browser
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    Virtual Reality    

  • Link: Real-time 3D Techniques (Tom Hammerly)
  • Link: Hornet Demo Archive
  • Link: NRC Vitual Information Lab
  • Link: OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Welsey Book On-line)
  • Link: The OpenGL Site ==> all you'll ever need
  • Link: The VRML Consortium
  • Link: Cosmo, The Best VRML Plug-In
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    Image Processing    

  • Link: Fast Fourier Transform Tutorial
  • Link: Fast Fourier Transform (by DCT)
  • Book: "Digital Image Processing", Gonzalez, 1977
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    Data Compression Information
        

  • Link: Lossless Compression (LZW, RLE, Huffman)
  • Link: Lossy Video Compression (JPG, MPEG)
  • Link: Lossy Audio Compression (Psychoacoustics, MP3)
  • Link: Wavelet Image Compression
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    Computer Architecture  

        
    Articifial Intelligence / Cognitive Science  

  • Doc: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Alan Turing, 1950
  • Doc: "Intelligence without Reason", Rodney Brooks, 1991
  • Link: MIT AI Lab
  • Link: NRC Artificial Intelligence Lab
  • Link: MIT Intelligent Agents
  • Link: Hugo de Garis, the Mind Builder
  • Book: "The Society of the Mind", Marvin Minsky, 1985
  • Book: "Affective Computing", Rosalind Picard, 1997
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    Artificial Life  

  • Book: "Artificial Life", Steven Levy, 1992
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    Cybernetics  

  • Doc: "As We May Think", Vannar Bush, 1948
  • Doc: "Man-Computer Symbosis", J. R. Licklider, 1960
  • Link: Transhuman Technologies  ==> Amazing Link Page!!!
  • Link: Wearable Computers
  • Book: "Out of Control", Kevin Kelly, 1994
  • Book: "Cybernetics", Norbet Wiener, 1961
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    Speech Recognition

  • Doc: "Review of Low Bandwidth Speech Coding"
  • Link: Intro to Hidden Markov Models
  • Link: Dragon Naturally Speaking
  • Link: Microsoft Speech Group
  • Link: Carnegie-Mellon University Speech Group
  • Book: "Fundamentals of Speech Processing", Saito & Nakata, 1985
  • Book: "Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition", Huang, Ariki & Jackson, 1990
  • Paper: "A Tutorial on HMM and Selected Applications in Speech Rec.", LR Rabiner, 1989
  • Paper: "An Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design", Linde, Buzo & Gray, 1980

  • Research Labs  

  • Link: Microsoft Research
  • Link: Bell Labs
  • Link: Xerox PARC
  • Link: NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Link: Communications Research Center (CRC)
  • Link: The Knowledge Institute
  • Book: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Thomas Kuhn, 1962
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    Media Study  

  • Link: MIT Media Lab
  • Link: Jupiter Communications
  • Link: Media and Communication Studies
  • Book: "Understanding Media", Marshall Macluhan, 1964

  • Technology News Sources

  • Link: The Matrix Meme
  • Link: The New York Times
  • Link: Wired News
  • Link: The Yahoo Internet Index
  • Link: A.C.M.
  • Link: I.E.E.E.
  • Mag: Wired
  • Mag: MIT Technology Review
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    Original list provided by Ben Houston(bhouston@acm.org)