Computer Sciences

A range of high-quality resources for Electronic Engineering and Computer Science are available on the web. For subject specific resources look at these guides:

• Computer Sciences
• Creative computing
• Electronic Engineering
• Digital multimedia
• Digital music
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Web design/development

Dictionaries

• FOLDOC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
• Webopedia: An online dictionary for people in the field of information technology in an easy jargon-free language.

Big Data

• Apache Hadoop: Open-source software which can be used to process and analyse big data.
• Big data processing: Comprehensive overview of big data processing from Science Direct.
• Find open data: British goverment's offering of open data which is freely available and is possible to be used in projects.

Computer architecture

• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals: Gives full access to these developer manuals provided by Intel.
• Johnny Simulator: Simulates a von-Neumann Computer, created for educational purposes therefore simplified.

History

• Timeline of computer history: Fascinating timeline for the development of networking & the web from 1933-2006.

Web design/development

See our useful website for web design/development.

Information portals

• CiteSeerX: A growing digital collection of computer and information science literature. Within its aims is to give access to resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software.
• Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN): Published by staff members from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, exploring the "fun side of computer science."
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: Contains over 2 million references.
• dblp: Open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. dblp is a joint services of the University of Trier and Schloss Dagsthul.
• Microsoft Research: Follow the research at Microsoft. Includes a searchable database of publications and videos.
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science: Freely available resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professional organisations

UK

BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT

International

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)