Some cool people and places

  • Ross Anderson Cool security papers, even if you don't care about the area (``Why Cryptosystems Fail'' is a classic).

  • Jim Gray, assimilated

  • Ben Zorn Interesting class readings.

  • Programming language exploration. Good pointers to many different languages.

  • Tom Van Vleck: a multician expounds on building software. Good essays on building large systems and getting code right.

  • The on-line Books Page

  • Stanford's online version of *all* of its tech reports. This page is amazing: the scanned in TR's fit in a handful of megs, go back to the 1960's, and include some wonderful papers (the early algol definitions, Hoare's "Hints on programming language design", etc.).

  • A collection of theory-centric surveys, papers and books.

  • Leone's page of people in programming language research.

  • David Cheriton. Cheriton is smart, weird, and ahead of most systems research.

  • Alta vista, killer app for the web.

  • The language list.

  • Programming language critiques page. Cool papers.

  • MIT AI Online Publications. Has ``Lambda: the ultimate ...'' papers and a bunch of Rod Brooks et al papers (``Fast, cheap, and out of control'', ...), which are very cool even if you could care less about AI in general, and robots in particular.

  • RFCs