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ICT-WEB Alert
December 2008
- Hippocrates Deep Web Medical Search
Hippocrates is an innovative and state-of-the-art search application that makes it possible for any one to simply type in a medical term and get a detailed, formatted report on that disease, condition or medication within a few seconds. Hippocrates is not just a general Internet search as seen on many search engines. With one click of your mouse you will get a complete report on the medical keyword from trusted sources, so you no longer have to do the tedious site-by-site searches.
- The Arts Trust: The Indian Contemporary Art Gallery
Indian Contemporary Art Gallery The Arts Trust was set up in 1990 by Mr. Vickram Sethi and is an organization actively engaged in the promotion of Indian Contemporary Art. The Arts Trust organises exhibitions of Indian art that showcase a wide range of talent and creativity. It provides art lovers and patrons alike a chance to see great works of Indian Contemporary Art at this online Indian Art Gallery.
- CiteULike A free service to help academics to build a personal library
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to build a personal
library. It enables the users to share, store and organize the academic
papers they are reading. On the click of a button, the paper on the web
can be added to the personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts
the citation details. It works from within the web browser. There's no
need to install any special software. It is stored on the server and can
be accessed from any computer, shared library with others and find out
who is reading the same papers, discover relevant literature. Only links
to the papers are stored, the papers themselves stay in archives like
CiteSeer or PubMed.
- Daily rotation
Daily rotation website provides headlines from "300+ Tech Sites". Top 10 current headlines are highlighted. All the technology news feed sites
included here are listed alphabetically. Users can either access a particular site or get the headlines from all the listed sites. Users can also customize the site by selecting the required news feed sites from the list.
- Discover circuits - Free electronic circuits schematics
The Discover circuits website aims to enable the designer to find quick solutions for electronic design problems. A resource for engineers,
hobbyists, inventors and consultants, this is a collection of approximately 8000 electronic circuits or electronic schematics, designs or diagrams catagorized into about 500 categories. New circuits and/or links are added regularly.
- Earthquake Information Network (EQNET)
The Earthquake Information Network (EQNET) Web site is sponsored by a
consortium of state and national organizations in the United States to
disseminate earthquake related information. EQNET aims to provide links
to authoritative Internet resources about earthquakes and the related
topics. Virtual library at this site provides resources including
information services, agencies, engineering, seismology, geophysics,
disaster planning, news, photo archives and reports on recent seismic
events. Site is searchable. It has regional and alphabetical indexes.
- ElectronicsInfoline - Free electronics schematics from around the world
ElectronicsInfoline is a directory of selected and edited quality links from several sites related to electronics project schematics and EDA
software resources available on the Internet. The wide range of electronic schematics are organized into hierarchical categories of top-level directories and subdirectories. The site provides datasheets, articles and project ideas as well. It is updated every week with new
circuits. Access to the contents is free. The website is by Radio Communication Laboratory (RCL), an electronic design firm in West Bengal, India.
- Electronic waste guide - A knowledgebase on sustainable recycling of Electronic wastes
The rapid pace of technological advancements in electronics and
telecommunication resulting in development of new products and their
availability at affordable prices are resulting in obsolesce of older
devices. Electronic Waste or e-waste is the term used to describe such
discarded old, end-of-life electronic appliances. It includes computers,
entertainment electronics, telecommunication equipments like. These
materials comprise of relatively expensive and essentially durable
products. The large quantities of e-waste being generated have given
rise to a new industry: e-waste recycling. This website, eWaste Guide,
focuses particularly on the following types of e-waste: computers,
monitors, television sets, hi-fi sets, mobile phones, personal digital
assistants (PDAs), game consoles, electronics from industrial sources
and the like. Electronic waste contains both valuable as well as harmful
materials such as gold, copper, lead, arsenic, plastic, glass etc. These
materials require special handling and recycling methods. The website
provides many interesting technical facts and figures, the composition
of valuable materials and hazardous substances in e-waste, different
extraction processes and dangerous emissions during the recycling
process. The site also includes case studies about India, China and
South Africa.
- Enviropedia - An encyclopedia of environment
The website provides information on more than 300 topics such as acid rains, air pollution, air quality, atmosphere, climate and climate
change, weather, global warming, ozone depletion and sustainability. The contents are organized under such categories. The site has additional links such as EcoIQ, EcoSpeakers, EcoPhotos etc.
- InterOperability Laboratory KnowledgeBase
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) tests networking and data communications products. The UNH-IOL is a
full-scale, non-profit test lab dedicated to fostering cooperation and understanding within the data communications industry. The laboratory performs interoperability group tests and private one-on-one testing and debugging. It also provides employment to many graduate and
undergraduate students enabling them to gain hands-on experience with developing technologies and products from hundreds of major companies. This website provides references and links to thesis work completed by IOL student employees, papers presented by IOL staffers at various conferences and white papers produced as part of IOL's technological research and development process. The IOL also provides online tutorials and links to information related to the technologies that have been used and tested.
- National Semiconductor - The power of analog
National Semiconductor, California, USA, is a premier company engaged in creating high performance analog devices, products and subsystems for
power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. Based on its R & D activities, the company has developed usfeul online tools and educational materials. The following information at this website will help the researchers and students in their academic pursuits:
WEBENCH - an online design environment. This is a free tool which
guides the user through each step of the design. The users can
create and simulate, configure and design the amplifier circuits
using online electrical simulation; design and optimize power
supplies using on line electrical and thermal simulations; choose
audio amplifier for the design and get the thermal and frequency
response; optimize the PLL loop filter; design and optimize an
active filter using on line spice simulation. Knowledge Base - a comprehensive technical document library. This provides access to reference documents, design guides, search
tools and online services to support the design research. Analog University - the School of Analog Design. This innovative
and user friendly site helps to expand the knowledge and
understanding of analog electronics technology using its vast
knowledge base of real-world systems and semiconductor devices. It
gives access to eduacational materials in the form of online
seminars, reading materials. Its resource center offers several
referernce documents like application notes, guides, design guides
and libraries.
- OAIster
OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Its goal is to create a collection of "freely
available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources". The service also covers the digital resources previously "hidden" from users behind web scripts. The resources are easily searchable. It has option for browsing by institutions/data providers.
- Pureperformance.com - Tweaks and tips for Windows XP/2000, Windows 9x/ME
PC users sometimes tune the installation to improve performance and stability by taking maximum advantage of the installed hardware.
Available here are tips and instructions for fine-tuning the pcs. The
instructions are straightforward with each step clearly detailed. Among
others, the tips provided here are for changing configuration settings
to an optimal value, installing updated drivers, removing incorrect
information from the registry, removing unused applications,
instructions on correct installation of new software for maximum speed
and performance, correctly configuring network protocols including
Internet access, tuning critical system files, updating and configuring
the BIOS and benchmarking the results. The site also contains related
articles, windows troubleshooter and popular downloads for Windows.
- ResearchChannel - A consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions
ResearchChannel is a consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions dedicated enhance the interaction among scientific
community. It links the participants to an international audience by providing broadcasting media and on-demand multimedia facilities. It thus enables the broadcast of institutional lectures, interviews, panel discussions and documentaries. The participating institutions will have a communication portal through which they can impart research to scientists, professionals, alumni, students and general audiences. Participants also have the opportunity to be involved in technology experiments which will facilitate greater distribution of research information worldwide and to contribute to the future growth of ResearchChannel as an organization. The site has links to webcasts, video library and projects. The webcasts bring up the lectures and
programs running currently on the channel. The video library is further organised by program title, series title, institution and subject. The projects link provides details about the experiments conducted by ResearchChannel. Some of the interesting projects at this site are
Multi-University/ Research Laboratory Seminar Series (MURL), DigitalWell, Tech Demos . A variety of useful , interesting information and details of other projects are available at this website. Software required for viewing is also available for download at the website.
- Reshaping scholarly communication
The website provides insights about the efforts of University of California's scholars and their partners across the academy in reshaping
scholarly communication. According to them, " current model of scholarly communication has become economically unsustainable, restrictive, and increasingly limited in its ability to make information accessible". The scholarly outputs and the research results are therefore not reaching all those who have the potential to utilize these. The website discusses the remedies and alternatives to make available such useful scholarly information to more number of readers, more quickly and at economically sustainable costs as well. It calls upon the researchers to make use of the current digital and network technologies. The issues discussed include factors affecting the scholarly communication systems, alternatives for scholarly communication, intellectual property, alternative forms of publishing and economics of publishing. This site
hosted by the UC Office of Scholarly Communication, The Regents of the University of California.
- Singularity Institute for artificial intelligence
With vast technological advancements and innovations, it is said that within a few decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the
existing upper limit on intelligence and will develop a potential of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence. "This event is called the Singularity by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole ? just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds". The process, being a product of intelligence, creates snowball effects resulting in smarter and smarter minds. Such enhanced intelligence ensures better solving. The Singularity Institute is a non-profit organization with a mission to direct research into Singularity technologies design, development and implementation of the friendly
artificial intelligence and responsible intelligence enhancement. It offers discussion forums, coordinates the related research efforts and publishes material on the Singularity.
- Special Topics - Summarized publication and citation data from ISI for the analysis of research trends & performance
The ESI Special Topics website is designed to complement ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product in providing citation analyses and
commentary for selected scientific research areas that have experienced notable recent advances or are of special current interest. Each topic is prefaced with a description of its relation to the main ISI Essential Science Indicators rankings and the methodology used to assemble the
data from the ISI Essential Science Indicators database. A new topic is added monthly. The data presented for each topic include citation rankings for scientists, institutions, nations and journals. Most special topics also feature interviews and essays by prominent scientists in the area. ESI Special Topics also spotlights New Hot Papers, Fast Breaking Papers, Emerging Research Fronts and Fast Moving Fronts, all of which deal with current and emerging trends in specialized areas of research. Methodologies for the various entities and commentary on data interpretation are also included.
- Technical compendium by Wildpackets
"From wired to wireless, from wide area to gigabit, from core to edge - WildPackets lives, breathes, and sleeps networking. With those types of
people all working together comes an incredible body of knowledge". Compiled by the network gurus, the Technical compendium is a collection of essays and papers on technical issues of interest to networking professionals. It is a reference tool and an information source for
networking professionals to enhance their knowledge of networking technology in general. The topics covered include: Ethernet, fast Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel technology, token ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Logical Link Control (LLC), interconnect devices, TCP/IP Protocol family, RS-232 and modem connectivity, IEEE 802.4 / Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP), connection architectures, a general discussion on fiber optics, wireless LAN / 802.11, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). It also has reference materials about Ethertype values, RFCs, instructional design and courseware development. The site is best viewed with Internet Explorer.
- Top 500 World Universities - Academic ranking of world universities 2008
The task of ranking of the world universities was originally undertaken by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, with the purpose of
identifying the gaps between Chinese universities and world-class
universities in terms of academic or research performance. The
university publishes the ranking on its website and updates the ranking
list annually for the benefit of the scientific community. The criteria
for ranking are based on several indicators of academic or research
performance of an institution such as the number of its alumni and staff
winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of its alumni and staff
being acknowledged as highly cited researchers, number of articles
published in Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in major
citation indices and the per capita academic performance of an
institution. The team has ranked one thousand universities in this
manner. Published at this website are the top 500 universities. The
website gives details about the methodology adopted, ranking resources
and statistics and FAQs. The website states that "It would be
impossible to have a comprehensive ranking of universities worldwide,
because of the huge differences of universities in the large variety of
countries and the technical difficulties in obtaining internationally
comparable data."
- World Biodiversity Database (WBD)
The World Biodiversity Database (WBD) is a taxonomic database and information system to search and browse a number of online species banks
covering a wide variety of organisms. Currently, "17 species banks with 24514 extensively described and illustrated taxa" are accessible through the WBD. Each species bank has its own interface and feature set. The information provided for the items inlcude taxonomic information,
synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and literature. Online identification keys and interactive geographical information systems are included as well. WBD is developed and maintained by ETI BioInformatics, an NGO at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in collaboration with UNESCO.
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