Words are used as invectives, toasts, and tirades, among other forms of human expression. As a type of artistic experiment, Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions decided to create this engaging website that documents the 86,000 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Nay-sayers beware: This is no simple listing of the words, contained within a mundane series of connected web pages. As visitors quickly realize, this articulated end-to-end listing of these 86,000 words features scaled versions of each word, giving a "visual barometer of relevance." As the site notes, "The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find." Interestingly enough, the word "God" is one word from "began" (which is at number 375), and six words from "war." Budding urbanologists will find it interesting that the word "Chicago" is at number 6,692 and that "Shanghai" makes into the list at 18,242.

While there have been many notable mathematicians that have made Oxford University (England) home for their academic careers, one of them is better known for his fiction writing than for his problem solving. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, was the author one of the best known children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Also to his credit is Through the Looking Glass. At this site maintained by the Library of Congress visitors will find the contents of a scrapbook kept by Carroll during the middle years of his life from 1855 to 1871. Of the 200 pages, 63 contain clippings and writing and all of these are available to view at the site. Users can browse or search for specific items by title or subject.

Matthew Miller, professional engineer and creator of palmsolo's Life with PDAs, has compiled a list of engineering applications which are compatible with a Palm powered PDA.

This page was created by a volunteer "Expert Guide" who wanted to help people learn what you can do with a Palm Powered system. If you'd like to be a Guide or suggest a topic we haven't covered. Learn more

The Learning Technology Research Institute, based at the London Metropolitan University, "conducts research into the application of information and communication technologies to augment, support and transform learning." The Institute's research focuses on three areas in particular. The first focuses on the design, development and use of learning objects, particularly for instruction in programming. The second theme is the study of learning interaction and networked communities from which they have developed "a range of innovative dialogue systems, interactive web-portals, and models or frameworks for communicative interaction and learning." The third focus is something called "informal eLearning." This research project seeks to provide learning services that will help people to manage their "personal learning goals, projects and informal learning activities" and community collaborations. The website provides a description of each research theme along with several publications and examples of their software and learning objects.

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is the result of a merger in 2003 of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Lab for Computer Science. The interdepartmental laboratory conducts research in "both computation and artificial intelligence, broadly construed." The four main research areas include: Architecture, Systems, and Networks; Theory; Language, Learning, Vision, and Graphics; and Physical, Biological, and Computational Systems. The site lists the various research projects, each with an abstract describing the lab's approach and current progress on the project. The Research Activities section provides links to specific project websites of CSAIL researchers. They have not yet developed a CSAIL publications series, so research continues to be published under the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for Computer Science publication series, which are also available from this website.

Dr. Edward F. Gehringer, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, NC State University has posted this website on Ethics in Computing. An interactive image of a map guides visitors through different topics covered on this website, so you can start with the Basics or jump right into one of the issue areas. The areas covered include: Social Justice Issues, Commerce, Computer Abuse, Speech Issues, Risks, Privacy, and Intellectual Property. Under each area are links to other resources on the Web, providing definitions, relevant data, case examples, and offering various perspectives on the issues. Some of the links are out of date, but there is still plenty of information to be gleaned from this website on ethics.

In July 2007, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its initiative to develop a National Health Information Infrastructure. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to create an electronic health record (EHR) for every American so that health records can be securely shared among health care providers. This Topic in Depth explores developments in electronic health records and technology.This website (National Health Information Infrastructure) is the official site for the National Health Information Infrastructure 2007: Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare. Some current ideas for how to share medical records, such as secured online postings or saving data on flash disks are discussed in this article from PC World: Medical Records May Go Online. The next article (CNET News: Human Chips More Than Skin Deep) discusses another development in information technology, implantable electronic identification chips. The fourth website (Medical Records Institute Survey) presents findings from a recent Medical Records Institute survey of health providers on their current uses, future hopes and perceived barriers to electronic health record systems. One challenge for the initiative is interoperability, which is explained generally on this website (Ariadne Magazine: Interoperability). The issue of interoperability, as well as privacy and fragmentation in the health industry are addressed in the Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare released by Connecting for Health (Connecting for Health Roadmap). For more on current research on technology supporting the use of electronic records see The Electronic Record Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP) web site.

Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River Valley Technologies.

Sarovar is hosted on a Compaq box running Debian woody and GForge.

Please read the site documentation sarovar.org for effective use of Sarovar.org. Send an email to folks@sarovar.org if you have further questions or comments

The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan is one of the most well-regarded academic and social research organizations in the world, and has been in existence for more than 50 years. Employing close to one hundred researchers, the ISR informs both theoretical discussions and policy debates with its strong track record of empirical research in the disciplines of psychology, political science, economics, anthropology, and public health. The first place to visit for the uninitiated visitor to the website should probably be the centers and projects area. Here, visitors can learn about the Survey Research Center (which is well known for its Survey of Consumer Attitudes), the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Population Studies Center. While the site may seem a bit overwhelming, a good way to get a quick handle on the ISR’s activities is by browsing through the ISR Update newsletter which can be found within the extensive “News” section of the site.

The Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International "studies the logical foundations of scalable systems, that are beyond the scope of traditional testing or simulation, and builds and applies efficient high-level tools for rigorous mechanical analysis." These scalable systems include traditional computer hardware and software, as well as biological systems and nanoelectronics. The website provide a brief description of each of the lab's projects along with a list of recent publications, most of which are available to download free of charge. Other activities, such as workshops and journals, are also described. An interesting feature is the The Risks Digest, which is "a moderated digest" and includes postings on "risks to the public in computers and related systems." Visitors can browse The Risk Digest by date or search the archives.

The British Columbia Institute of Technology posts this page on how mathematics is used in technology. A table format allows visitors to explore the relationships between the different areas of mathematics (listed horizontally) and several areas of technology (listed vertically). The applications listed in the table are then linked to a topic area page with more specific examples of how mathematics is used in that area of technology. Examples include the use of Integral Calculus in Chemical Science and the use of Algebra and Geometry in Robotics. They note that the project is not yet completed, so check for more examples in the future.

MIT's Project Oxygen designs computer systems that are more "human-centered" than current systems that "have required us to interact with them on their terms, speaking their languages and manipulating their keyboards or mice." The project title alludes to the group's goal of "bringing abundant computation and communication, as pervasive and free as air, naturally into people's lives." This means developing a system that is pervasive, embedded, nomadic, adaptable, powerful, yet efficient, intentional, and eternal, according to the website These criteria are met using device, network, software, perceptual, and user technologies, all of which are described on the site. Several possible applications are presented in terms of hypothetical situations where this type of system would come in handy. Demonstration videos allow visitors to view a sampling of some of the technologies being tested by Project Oxygen researchers and their industry partners

The WebQuest website offers various resources for teachers looking to use the WebQuest model to teach with the Web. A WebQuest "is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web." The model, developed in 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, has received significant attention in recent years. The bulk of the website is located in the Readings and Trainings Materials section, where teachers can find the paper that started the WebQuest project, as well as various articles providing different perspectives on what the WebQuest is all about and how to proceed to create your own lesson using the Internet. Examples of WebQuests created by teachers and a template with sections such as Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, Resources, and Conclusion help guide you through the process. The Portal provides updates on WebQuest news (mostly workshops and conferences) and a link to the Top rated WebQuests, as well as some "Middling" WebQuests, and new ones that have not yet been rated. The WebQuests in their database as well as various articles can also be searched from the Portal. The Forum section is a place for "conversations about using and extending the WebQuest model.

The intersection between art and science is an area that continues to be worthy of detailed exploration, and several organizations have been created in recent years to do just that. The Art & Science Collaborations group was started by artist Cynthia Pannucci in 1988 when she began to realize that there was a general lack of support for technology-based art across the United States. In the past 16 years the organization has expanded its mission to sponsor public events, panel discussions, and develop resources for artists working in this interesting area. The most compelling part of the site allows visitors to learn about artists who participate in the organization's activities, and also read about their various symposia and public projects in order to get a better sense of their very diverse set of perspectives. The Spotlight Archive will interest most visitors, as it features various developments in the field of visual arts that deal with aspects of technology from around the world, including selections from online journals.

The e-Learning Centre aims to help organisations and individuals understand e-learning and provide practical advice on how to build effective e-learning solutions. Guide to e-Learning provided here is "suitable for those who want an introductory, structured, no-nonsense, practical approach to e-learning". It provides easy-to-read explanations of e-learning topics, links to good examples, key resources as well as some practical guidance on how to get started with links to useful tools and systems. The online version is a free resource. It also hosts e-Learning Job Centre, a free service for e-learning job providers and jobseekers.

The website provides an "Alphabetical listing of over 2000 electronic devices, abbreviations, definitions and acronyms, terms and acronyms". For each term or acronym, the users will get the meaning, definations, expanded form of the acronym, related electronic terms and additional links related links such as dictionaries, tutorials, whitepapers, vendors etc. The website also provides links to list of new electronic terms, medical abbreviations and telecom dictionary.

Hardware-guru is designed to provide up-to-date digital hardware design technical information. This unique online resource center offers interview quiz, board and system design, articles, lab material, white papers, related links and several related online resources. The website is updated regularly.

This website offers a database containing links to free computer and Internet books available online. All the titles are full-text online editions unless otherwise indicated. One can either search the database or browse the alphabetical list of titles. List of titles added recently is also provided. The free full-text online edition of the book can be viewed by click the title.

The Matrix Market provides access to a repository of test data for use in comparative studies of algorithms for numerical linear algebra. The data consists of matrices, matrix generation software and services, in the fileds such as linear systems, least squares and eigenvalue computations in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Tools for browsing through the collection or for searching for matrices with special properties are included. "Currently, 482 individual matrices and 25 matrix generators are available. Our database now includes the entire Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection (Release I), Yousef Saad's SPARSKIT collection, and the Nonsymmetric Eigenvalue Problem (NEP) collection of Bai, Day, Demmel and Dongarra". Each matrix and the matrix generator has seperate home page, with all the required infowmationa and descriptions. The can be downloaded in several text file formats. The visitors can browse the collection by matrix name, generator name or the top ten. Searches can be done by matrix properties, application area, contributor and in bibliography as well. Users are encouraged to submit their own test matrices for possible inclusion in the Matrix Market. The Matrix Market is a service of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Open Channel Software focuses on publishing innovative software providing solutions to problems in science, industry and technology. Academic and research environments are the prime source for these applications. The coverage includes a wide range of subjects from aerodynamics to X-ray spectrography. The website hosts some priced softwares also and so not all softwares are available free. Access to some softwares is restricted to US citizens only. For downloading the free softwares, the users should register by filling a form.