Some Useful Web Sites

Behrooz Parhami: 2008/11/18 || E-mail: parhami at ece.ucsb.edu || Other contact info at: Bottom of this page

Professor 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.

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Search and Directory:

Google: http://www.google.com
Searching via multiple engines: http://www.search.com
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo-based AllTheWeb: http://www.alltheweb.com

Directory info (555-1212.com): http://www.infospace.com/info.go555

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B Parhami's Pages:

Home Page (including brief bio): http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/index.htm
Technical Biography: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/tech_bio.htm
Curriculum Vitae: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/cv.htm

Teaching and Textbooks: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/teach_n_texts.htm

Research Program: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~p/research_prog.htm

List of Publications: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/publications.htm

Files and Documents: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/files_n_docs.htm

Personal Information: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/personal.htm

For Students and Visitors: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/stud_n_visitor.htm

Virtual Retirement (not real): http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/virtual_retirement.htm

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U California, UCSB:

ECE Department at UCSB: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu
ECE Department's Web-based e-mail: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/webmail/
Forms and publications (incl. schedule of classes): http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/undergrad.shtml#gfp
ECE UCSB graduate admissions: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/GradData
College of Engineering at UCSB: http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/
UCSB electronic grading: http://www.egrades.sa.ucsb.edu
UCSB Academic Senate: http://www.mysenate.ucsb.edu
UC at your service (employee benefits): https://atyourserviceonline.ucop.edu/ayso/

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Travel, Maps:

Microsoft virtual earth: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx

Google interactive maps: http://maps.google.com

Expedia maps and driving directions: http://www.expedia.com

California Dept. of Transportation highway webcams: http://video.dot.ca.gov/

California coastline aerial photos: http://www2.californiacoastline.org

Travelocity: http://www.travelocity.com

United Airline: http://www.united.com

Hotel reservations: http://www.hotels.com

UC travel and car rental rate agreements: http://accounting.ucsb.edu/Travel/

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Hardware / Software:

Directory of free software: http://www.tudogs.com
Software downloads, freeware or shareware: http://www.tucows.com

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Teaching Material:

Behnaz Parhami-Seren's biology course website: http://bpseren.googlepages.com/
Goleta Valley Junior High School: http://www.gvjh.org
IEEE CS Career Development and Education: http://www.computer.org
Engineering orientation and career advice for precollege students: http://www.tryengineering.org/
MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Computer architecture, UC Berkeley, David Patterson: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn
Computer arithmetic, U Mass Amherst, Israel Koren: http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/index.html
Computer arithmetic, UCLA, Milos Ercegovac: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~milos
Computer arithmetic, Tel Aviv U, Guy Even: http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~guy
Computer arithmetic, Stanford U, Michael J Flynn: http://arith.stanford.edu
Computer arithmetic, UC Davis, Vojin Oklobdzija: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/acsel
Computer arithmetic, U Wisc Madison, Michael Schulte: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/faculty/schulte_michael.htm
Computer arithmetic, George Mason U, Kris Gaj: http://ece.gmu.edu/faculty_info/gaj.html
Computer arithmetic, animation, Alain Guyot: http://tima-cmp.imag.fr/~guyot/Cours/Oparithm/english/Op_Ar2.htm
Parallel programming, on-line book by Ian Foster: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp
Resources for teachers: http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/07/100-unbelievably-useful-reference-sites-youve-never-heard-of/
Collection of university lectures (cs, math, ...; video, audio, and/or notes): http://lecturefox.com/
Ultimate RISC (URISC): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URISC

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Research Information:

Dynamically prog. gate arrays, Caltech: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/research/ic/transit/tn136/tn136.html
Reconfigurable architectures, Caltech: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/research/ic/transit/rcgp/rcgp.html
VLSI info on the Web, incl. FPGAs: http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/vlsi
Advanced Processor Technologies Group, Manchester U: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt
IEEE 754 Standard, binary floating-point arithmetic: http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754
IEEE 754 Standard and its revision: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/projects/754
Floating-point arithmetic with adaptive precision, CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html
Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic Group, Michael J Flynn: http://arith.stanford.edu
Interval computation resource page: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~robert/mirror/interval-comp/main.html
Constraint solving via robust interval analysis: http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/index_english.html
Soft computing, UC Berkeley: http://www.soft-computing.de/def.html
Computer arithmetic links, incl. bibliographies, by J.-M. Muller: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/

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Research Funding:

National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov
NSF Fastlane: https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/jsp/homepage/proposals.jsp
NIST Advanced Technology Program: http://www.atp.nist.gov
UC Discovery Grants: http://uc-industry.berkeley.edu/welcome2.asp
UC Micro Program: http://www.ucop.edu/research/micro

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Journals:

IEEE Computer Society Author/Reviewer/Editor System: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee

IEEE Distributed Systems Online: http://computer.org/dsonline

IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, author info: http://tcas1.ece.orst.edu/Forms/Authors/index.html

IEE Proceedings Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iee

IJPEDS: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1744-5760

Iranian J. Electrical and Computer Engineering: http://www.sid.ir/En/JournalList.asp?ID=330

SIAM manuscript submission: http://peerreview.siam.org

Author Gateway, Elsevier: http://authors.elsevier.com

American Mathematical Society journals (incl. Math. Rev.): http://www.ams.org/

ACM Computing Reviews (free reviews under "hot topics"): http://www.reviews.com/index.cfm

On-line submission to Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/submissions/subs/index.html

Journal ranking information: http://www.journal-ranking.com/

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Conferences:

ACM Events and Conferences: http://www.acm.org/events

IEEE Computer Society Conf. Calendar: http://www.computer.org/portal

IEEE Symp. Computer Arithmetic (ARITH): http://www.lirmm.fr/arith18/

Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers: http://www.asilomarssc.org/

Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp.: http://www.ipdps.org/

Int'l Conf. Communications in Computing: http://www.cs.utep.edu/~cic

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Libraries and Archives:

UCSB Library: http://www.library.ucsb.edu

UCSB Librarary, search Melvyl: http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90

UCSB Library, e-Journals: http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_ucsb/a-z/default

UCSB Library, databases: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases

UCSB Library, ECE resources: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/engineering/ece.html

IEEE Xplore, on-line journals and more: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/advsearch.jsp

Internet Public Library, includes Kidspace: http://www.ipl.org

Computer Arithmetic Symp (ARITH) Proceedings: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/acsel

High-Performance Computer Arch (HPCA) Proceedings: http://www.hpcaconf.org

ACM Guide to Computing Literature: http://portal.acm.org/guide.cfm

ParsTech, free Persian e-books: http://www.parstech.org

Project Gutenberg, free e-books: http://www.gutenberg.org

Wikibooks, free educational textbooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

CRC electronic handbooks: http://www.engnetbase.com/default.asp

Mathematical Reviews on the Web, AMS MathSciNet: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet

World of Mathematics, Wolfram Research: http://mathworld.wolfram.com

Turing Archives, A M Turing's life and works: http://www.turingarchive.org

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Bookstores, Publishers:

Amazon on-line bookstore: http://www.amazon.com/books
E-Bay discount books, formerly half.com: http://www.half.ebay.com
Bookpool discount computer books: http://www.bookpool.com
Oxford University Press: http://www.oup.com/us
Kluwer Academic Publishers, incl. Plenum: http://www.springeronline.com
ParsTech, free Persian e-books: http://www.parstech.org
Project Gutenberg, free e-books: http://www.gutenberg.org
Springer, North & South America: http://www.springeronline.com

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Dictionaries, Reference:

English/Persian and Persian/English dictionaries: http://www.farsidic.com
Dehkhoda Persian dictionary (Loghat Naameh): http://www.loghatnaameh.com/home-fa.html
Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/
Theasaurus.com: http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Quotation Archive: http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml
Quotations Page: http://www.quotationspage.com
Quoteland: http://www.quoteland.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com
Guinness World Records: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Word definitions: http://www.allwords.com
WWW Computer Architecture Page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www
Yahoo reference page: http://dir.yahoo.com/reference

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Guides, Tools:

TV Guide on-line listings: http://www.tvguide.com/listings
The Internet Movie Data base: http://www.imdb.com
US Internal Revenue Service, guides and forms: http://www.irs.gov
Arranging a room, Better Homes & Gardens: http://www.bhg.com/arrangearoom
Father's World: http://www.fathersworld.com/features.html
Homework help, and more: http://www.factmonster.com
Internet domain names and Web hosting: http://www.networksolutions.com
Calculators of all kinds: http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html
Calendars and other stuff having to do with time and date: http://www.timeanddate.com
Music guide: http://www.allmusic.com
Persian calendar generator: http://www.payvand.com/calendar
US Consumer Price Index: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
Testing the speed of an Internet connection: http://www.speedtest.com

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Societies, Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Web: https://campus.acm.org/public/clientfunctions/acmorg.cfm

American Math Society, AMS: http://www.ams.org

British Computer Society, BCS: http://www.bcs.org/bcs

Computer Architecture and Compilers, Directory of Researchers: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~yuanxie/community/whoswho/photos.html

Dos Pueblos High School: http://www.dphs.org/

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee Archives: https://eckert.computer.org

Informatics Society of Iran: http://www.isi.org.ir

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE: http://www.ieee.org

Sharif (Arya-Mehr) Univ. of Technology Association: http://suta.org

West Campus Point UCSB Faculty Housing: http://www.westcampuspoint.net/community/

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Art, Literature, Poetry:

Farnaz Parhami's "Music, Engineering, Design" website: http://farnaz.parhami.googlepages.com/
Khosro Esmaeili's Art Gallery: http://kaneartgallery.googlepages.com
Poetry Archives at eMule.com: http://www.emule.com/poetry
Poetry Daily at Poems.com: http://www.poems.com
Hafez poems, including faal-e Hafez: http://www.hafez.com
The Persian poetry on-line library: http://www.persopedia.com
Persian-speaking poets: http://ganjoor.net/

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Humor, Curiosities:

Jokes Galore: http://www.jokesgalore.com

Jokes in the Google directory: http://www.google.com/Top/Recreation/Humor/Jokes

Jokes in the Yahoo directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Jokes

New Yorker cartoon caption contest: http://www.newyorker.com/captioncontest

Hossein's Persian joke page: http://www.jokomok.com/

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Games, Recreation:

Bit-Player: An Amateur's Outlook on Computing and Mathematics: http://www.bit-player.org/

Crossword Central at Thinks.com: http://thinks.com/crosswords/crosswords.htm

Random House Puzzles & Games: http://www.randomhouse.com/special/puzzles

Sudoku Puzzles: http://www.websudoku.com

Think Labyrinth (maze page, by Walter D. Pullen): http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth.htm

UCSB's Walking Program: http://www.recreation.ucsb.edu/walk/Default.aspx

USA Today Puzzles: http://puzzles.usatoday.com/?POE=cwlfql

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Stores, E-Merchants:

Circuit City, computer, electronics, more: http://www.circuitcity.com

CompUSA stores, computers etc.: http://www.compusa.com

Costco on-line: http://www.costco.com

HP shopping: http://www.shopping.hp.com

Express Scripts: http://www.expressscripts.com

K-mart discount retailer: http://www.kmart.com/home.jsp

Movies, Blockbuster: http://www.blockbuster.com

Movies, Netflix: http://www.netflix.com

Photo development and printing: http://www.snapfish.com

Sears discount retailer: http://www.sears.com

Target discount retailer: http://www.target.com

Verizon Wireless: http://www.verizonwireless.com

Washington Mutual Bank: http://www.wamu.com/personal/default.asp

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News and Views:

Atlantic (The) e-magazine: http://www.theatlantic.com
Daily Beast (The): http://www.thedailybeast.com/
Iranian (The) e-magazine: http://www.iranian.com

IRNA, Iran News Agency: http://www.irna.com

Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com

New York Times on the Web: http://www.nytimes.com

New Yorker (The): http://www.newyorker.com/

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Dr. Behrooz Parhami, Professor		Office phone: +1 805 893 3211
Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering		Departmental fax: +1 805 893 3262
University of California, Santa Barbara		Office: Rm 5155 Harold Frank Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560 USA		Deliveries: Rm 4155 Harold Frank Hall
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/		E-mail: parhami at ece.ucsb.edu