Behrooz Parhami

Behrooz Parhami's Useful Links

Network Links

Dr. Parhami has found the following Web sites, organized into 20 categories, useful for his own academic and personal pursuits. The links may not be up to date, so use at your own risk.

Mail, Search, Directory Guides, Databases, Tools
Dictionaries and Reference Maps, Roads, Travel
Libraries and Archives Bookstores and Publishers
Univ. of California, UCSB UCSB/ECE, CE Program
Technical Periodicals Technical Conferences
Teaching, Course Material Hardware and Software
Research Information Research Funding Sources
Groups and Organizations News and Views
Art, Literature, Poetry Games, Hobbies, Recreation
Humor and Curiosities Banks, Stores, E-Merchants

Maps, Roads, Travel

Airline, United United Airline
California coastline aerial photos
Highway webcams, California California Dept. Transportation
Hotels.com Hotels search and reservations
Map of the World Editable, interactive world map
Maps, Expedia Maps and driving directions
Maps, Google Google interactive maps
Microsoft Virtual Earth
Travel, comparison shopping LowFares.com
Travel, Expedia
Travel, UC Univ. of California travel and car rental rate agreements
Travelocity

Libraries and Archives

ACM Guide to Computing Literature
AMS Mathematical Reviews MathSciNet
E-Audiobooks, free Persian
E-Books, CRC handbooks
E-Books, free Project Gutenberg
E-Books, free Persian ParsTech
E-Books, free textbooks Wikibooks
IEEE Xplore Online journals and more
Internet Archive For finding an old Web page with known URL
Library, Internet Public Includes Kidspace
Library, Melvyl search UC libraries' combined catalog
Library, UC databases
Library, UC e-journals
Library, UC ECE resources
Library, UCSB Main page
Mathworld World of Mathematics, Wolfram Research
Turing Archives Alan Turing's life and works

Bookstores and Publishers

Bookstore, Amazon On-line bookstore
Bookstore, E-Bay discount Formerly half.com
Publish your own books lulu.com
Publisher, Oxford Univ. Press
Publisher, Springer Includes Kluwer Academic & Plenum Press

Univ. of California, UCSB

UC employee benefits UC at Your Service Online
UC travel portal Connexxus
UCAP University Committee on Academic Personnel
UCSB Academic Personnel
UCSB Academic Senate
UCSB College of Engineering
UCSB Department of Computer Science
UCSB e-Grades Electronic grade reporting system
UCSB graduate admissions database

UCSB/ECE, CE Program

CE Program faculty recruitment
CE Program main page
ECE Dept. course evaluation results Including instructor and TA evals
ECE Dept. forms and publications Including general catalog & schedule of classes
ECE Dept. main page

Technical Periodicals

ACM Computing Reviews Free reviews under "hot topics"
Authors Home, Elsevier
Author info, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I
Author info, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II
J. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iranian
Journal ranking information
Journals, American Mathematical Society Including Mathematical Reviews
Manuscript Central, IEEE CS IEEE Computer Society author/reviewer/editor system
Manuscript Central, IET The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Manuscript Central, IJPEDS Int'l J. Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
Manuscript submission, Nature
Manuscript submission, SIAM

Technical Conferences

Computer Arithmetic, IEEE Int'l Symp. ARITH-19
Conference calendar, IEEE Computer Society
Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. IPDPS
Proc. ARITH Conf. IEEE Int'l Symp. Computer Arithmetic
Proc. HPCA Conf. High-Performance Computer Architecture; PDFs found under conf. program
Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar Conf.

Teaching, Course Material

Hardware and Software

AMD processors
Intel processors
Intel Technology J.
Microsoft Research

Research Information

Architecture and Arithmetic Group Standord Univ., Michael J. Flynn
Computer arithmetic links J.-M. Muller (includes bibliographies)
Floating-point arithmetic with adaptive precision Jonathan R. Shewchuk, CMU
Floating-point standard, IEEE 754 First issued 1985, revised 2008
Gate arrays, dynamically programmable Caltech
Interval analysis, constraint solving via robust
Interval computation resource page
Processor Technologies Group, Advanced Manchester Univ.
Reconfigurable architectures Caltech
Soft computing Univ. California Berkeley
VLSI info on the Web Univ. Idaho (includes FPGAs)

Research Funding Sources

NIST Advanced Technology Program
UC Discovery Grant
UC Micro Program
US National Science Foundation
US NSF Fastlane Proposal submission

Groups and Organizations

American Mathematical Society AMS
Association for Computing Machinery ACM Web
British Computer Society BCS
Computer Architecture and Compilers, Directory of Researchers
Dos Pueblos High School DPHS
Dos Pueblos High School Academic Portal
Informatics Society of Iran
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
Professors Against Plagiarism Blog, mostly in Persian
Salem Parhami Yahoo Group Private family photo and file exchange site
Sharif (Arya-Mehr) Univ. Technology Association SUTA
West Campus Point UCSB Faculty Housing
WWW Computer Architecture Page

News and Views

Atlantic, The Online magazine
BBC Persian Service
Beast, The Daily
Iranian.com Online magazine, in English and Persian
Iran News Agency IRNA
Los Angeles Times
New York Times NYT on the Web
New Yorker, The
Newshour PBS online radios
Nexus, The Daily UCSB student newspaper
Persian Heritage Online magazine
Salon Online magazine
Santa Barbara Independent Newsweekly
Santa Barbara News Press
USA Today
Voice of America, Persian

Art, Literature, Poetry

Art Gallery, Kane Khosro Esmaeili
Music, Engineering, Design Farnaz Parhami
Music Discovery, Pandora Personalized Internet radio stations
Music, with Lyrics lyricstube.net
Persian Nast'aliq Writing Tool nastaliqonline.ir
Poetry Archives eMule.com
Poetry Daily poems.com
Poetry, Hafez Divaan-e Hafez; Includes faal-e Hafez
Poetry, Hafez Mastaaneh; Includes faal-e Hafez
Poetry, Persian Online Library
Poetry, Persian-speaking poets ganjoor.net

Games, Hobbies, Recreation

Bit-Player "An amateur's outlook on computing and mathematics"
Crossword Puzzles thinks.com
Logic Games Online Sudoku, Netwalk, Nurikabe, LightsOut, TenPair
Essays on Math Topics American Mathematical Society's "The Feature Column"
Puzzles, USA Today Crossword, Sudoku, Up & down words, Word roundup
Sudoku Puzzles
Think Labyrinth Maze page by Walter D. Pullen
Walking Program, UCSB

Humor and Curiosities

Cartoon Caption Contest The New Yorker
Humor & Video cracked.com
Jokes in the Google directory
Jokes in the Yahoo directory
Jokomok Persian jokes

Banks, Stores, E-Merchants

Bank, Chase
Computers/electronics, Best Buy
Computers/electronics, Dell
Computers/electronics, HP Shopping
Department store, K-Mart
Department store, Sears
Department store, Target
Health Net
Movie rental, Blockbuster
Movie rental, Netflix
Movie rental, Redbox
Pharmacy, CVS Caremark
Photo development and printing snapfish.com
Warehouse store, Costco Online
Telephone service, Verizon Wireless

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