(This page was originally written by J.M. Walsh, walsh@cs.unc.edu, and modified and extended by Andy Wilson for COMP 96 during Summer Session 2, 2001.)
Organizations and other general CAS links
A list of organizations, along with a few other pointers, that deal with multiple topics.
EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and information. Check out their Online Newsletter archive.
Pew Internet and American Life Project Interesting project that considers how the Internet is changing us, and why. It focuses on six areas: impact on family; communities; health care; school and education; political and civic life; and the workplace.
CPSR The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is a non-profit, public interest organization concerned with the effects of computers on society. Good, sometimes balanced material on a wide variety of isues. And they have an email address.
CDT The Center for Democracy and Technology is a non-profit, public interest organization based in Washington DC. The Center's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.
VTW Voters Telecomm Watch is a volunteer organization, concentrating on legislation as it relates to *telecommunications* and civil liberties. We do our best to alert the public at crucial times during the life of legislation, such that you, the citizen, can act appropriately without having to be a full-time activist.
ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union.
Americans for Computer Privacy. A broad-based coalition working to ensure that the privacy of all Americans' confidential files and communications is preserved and protected in the information age.
ALA.The American Library Association
The Well. A network of online communities.
NetAction. Organization founded in 1996 to educate the public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to promote access to and use of info technology as a tool for community organizing, outreach, and advocacy.
The Thomas server. Legislative information available on the Internet...in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson.
EFF ACTION ALERTS: WHAT's HOT! The name says it all. Check here for current events dealing with cyberspace issues.
Social Issues of Computing, a set of resources dealing with social issues of computing (Rob Kling and Tom Jewett).
"Risks" archives of moderated discussion regarding risks to the public of using computers and related systems. From the tightly moderated Usenet newsgroup comp.risks. Excellent source for reliability issues; good source for computer security and crime, with occasional attention to workplace and other social issues.
OYEZ, OYEZ ON THE WEB. A Northwestern University professor has developed a Web site that features oral arguments made before the Supreme Court, accessible with a Web browser and RealAudio software. Fifty hours of arguments from 60 cases are available, including such cases as the United States v. Nixon, which denied a sitting president the power to withhold audiotapes from investigators. Jerry Goldman, the site's creator, hopes one day to expand the offerings to include recordings from 500 cases: "Someday, this is going to be the compete Supreme Court reference."
CyberWire Dispatch, an electronic magazine concetrating on issues relevant to cyberspace. The author, Brock Meeks < brock@well.com>, describes it as a "hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners news service." He's a journalist by trade, with a good nose for a story, though; there's some good stuff in with the acid.
HotWired, Wired magazine's online presence. You have to give them your name and email to get on. It's free; they pay for it by corporate sponsorships. Back issues of Wired, and their privacy archive. A good, if distinctly opinionated, source.
C/net Central. TONS of everything about cyberspace, from product reviews to social issues. A great resource for anyone.
EduPage. A summary of the latest technology news with a reference to each news source. Published by Educause.
Techserver . A summary of the latest technology news, brought to you by the folks at the News & Observer.
Internet Index. Facts, stats, and Net trivia.
NUA.ie . Another Internet site that provides worldwide Net statistics and trends.
AntiOnline site . Everything from tech stories to links for hackers.
Computer Underground Digest. A weekly digest/newsletter/journal of debates, news, research, and discussion of legal, social, and other issues related to computer culture.
History
ENIAC birthday celebration
History of the Net and Web. From the Electronic Software
Publishers Corp.
Brief History of the Internet. From Delphi's Net Forum.
Hobbes' Internet Timeline. An authoritative Internet history site.
How Computers Work
Computing Concepts. From Willamette University.
Virtual Communities & Cyberculture
NTIA home page. National Telecommunications & Information
Administration.
Turkle's "Life on the Screen." A brief overview of her book.
About people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our
identities in the age of the Internet.
Howard Rheingold's home page.. A famous Netizen. Pointers to
his Writings page, to his book, _The Virtual Community_, and more.
Virtual Communities--a number of other Rheingold articles
posted here.
John December's Information Sources page
for Computer-Mediated Communication. A huge resource for net users.
Pointers to all sorts of offbeat information sources on various
aspects of Internet life, from technology to Internet psychology.
MIT's City of Bits. Space, Place, and the Infobahn.
Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte. Some interesting ideas about life in the digital age.
CivicNet: A Virtual Event on the Web. although the program took place in May/June 1997, you can still visit to get a taste of what happend there.
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers. This site is intended to curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail. It's a listing of spammers and what their crimes were...Canter (greencard lawyer) is top of the list. One of their suggestion is to mail these advertisers offering to charge $500 proofreading fee for every message they send, when you get an e-junk message, you send them an invoice and then take it to small claims court.
The Netizen's Guide to Spam, Abuse, and Internet Advertising. Everything you ever wanted to know about spam.
MultiUser Dimensions at LUDD. A brief explanation of Multi User Dimensions (MUD) with links to many MUD sites.
EarthCam's 25 most
interesting webcams from around the world. Check this one out.
WebCamCentral. The virtual voyeur's WebCam hub of choice
WebCams. Links to Webcam sites.
LambdaMOO. Telnet to the original MOO!
The National Information Infrastructure
IITF Web Server. The National Information Infrastructure
Task Force's Web Server.
Cyberspace Law, Governance, and Related Policy Issues
Intellectual Property Rights
EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright"
Archive
The "Link Controversy" Page. Intended to provide an overview of the legal problems of using hyperlinks, inline images and frames in the WWW.
The U.S. Copyright Office. General information, as well as info on publications, legislation, announcements, and links.
Bitlaw. A detailed look at copyright law in the U.S.
Wemsi. A list of links to articles on Internet copyright law.
U.K. Shetland Times v Shetland News settlement..
Cnn etc. v Total News settlement.
The League for Programming Freedom. Argues that the whole concept of software patents is wrong.
Privacy
General resources
Privacy.org. EPIC and Privacy
International have launched Privacy.org, the site for
news, information, and action. The website contains brief summaries
and links to news items appearing both in the domestic and the
international press. Its database of news stories is searchable by
text, and it extends back two years. Privacy.org also features the
EPIC-Digest, a weekly e-mail digest of news, information, and action
items.
For background on other privacy laws and developments around the
WORLD, see Privacy & Human Rights 2000.
EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center. Of particular
interest is their
EPIC's Privacy Guidelines for the NII
The PRIVACY Forum is a moderated digest for the discussion and
analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy
(both personal and collective) in the "information age" of the
1990's and beyond.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
HotWired and Wired Privacy Archive Fight for Your
Right to Electronic Privacy!
EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mostly legal and political stuff dealing with privacy and free access
to the net. Good archives. They sponsor many Usenet newsgroups,
such as comp.org.eff.news, comp.org.eff.talk
ACLU Freedom Network
FCC's Consumer Privacy Pages. Includes lots of useful info about consumer privacy: addresses, phone numbers, and links to all three national credit bureaus, to the Direct Marketing Association, and lots more.
Internet Privacy Coalition. The mission of this site is to promote privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography.
Protect Your Privacy "A Weblog
dedicated to bringing you information on the new Internet technologies and
their impact on personal privacy on the Web."
DMA Consumer Privacy Pages:
Main Page. The DMA's Guide to Online Basics, Behavior and Privacy.
Privacy policy Generation Tool. This site will help you create your own Company's Online Privacy Policy. Simply answer several questions and submit a form - they send you a Web page to post to your site.
Crime and Security
EPIC's Cryptography Policy
Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And
Related Systems. Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator. The RISKS Forum is a moderated digest. Its USENET equivalent is comp.risks.
Definitions (cracker, hacker)
MIT's "Hacker Ethic"
Concerning Hackers Who Break Into Computer Systems. By Dorothy Denning
Court case, State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz.
COMPUTERS AND WARFARE
Information Warfare Research Center. Brought to you by the Terrorism Research Center. An extensive collection of research, reference documents and links, covering the following subjects: Information Assurance, Information Warfare, Information Terrorism, Information Security, and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Information Warfare books and resources from
Management Analytics. A small collection of books and papers viewable via the internet.
IASIW. Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare, a virtual nongovernmental organization formed to facilitate an understanding of information warfare with reference to both military and civilian life.
InfoWar.com. The Internet Global Clearinghouse for Information Warfare.
Office of the Director of C4I. Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers. This website provides support to Directors of Information Management (DOIM) in areas related to policy, architecture, standards, and technology.
Workplace
Jobs
Technology, Employment, and Community
Job Service, North Dakota. Some info on retraining.
Gender and the Sciences
MIT's Women and Computer Science Page
The Ada Project.
The Ada Project (TAP) is a WWW site designed to serve as a
clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing.
WomensNet. WomensNet is a non-profit computer network for women,
activists, and organizations using computer networks for
information sharing and increasing women's rights.
Virtual Sisterhood's Sea Change. To bring women and
women's information, ideas, and perspectives online.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Cybergrrl Webstation.
An interesting site created by a self-proclaimed Web junkie. ;-)
Technology and Education
Education resources from Yahoo.
A good place to surf from.
Educom, Transforming Education through Information Technology.
Education Technology page from the
World Wide Web Virtual Library. Lots of pointers, including the book
Engines for Education, by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary, about education and educational reform.
Learner Online, the Annenberg/CPB Project's Web Site for Learners and Educators.
Magpie,
a British guide to educational resources on the
Internet. Nearly a thousand resources, growing all the
time; many have reviews.
Unix5 gopher
, put out by the New York State Education
Department (NYSED), has more education-related material
than even professionals want to look at.
Examples of what can be done:
The Franklin Institute Science
Museum; they have the science section from The
Philadelphia Inquirer, a question-and-answer forum
targetted to K-8 students, a school unit on wind energy,
and lots of other interesting stuff for
teachers, students, and curious people in general.
The Nine Planets: information about the solar system
designed for a non-technical audience.
Peterson's Internet Education Center (they of the Guides). Application forms and various information on educational instituions at all levels.
The Virtual Frog Dissection Kit, or how to do a cruelty-free dissection by computer.
Web66, Hillside Elementary School's guide to using the Web in the context of K-12 education.
San Luis Valley: Can the Internet Help Improve Rural Economies?
Using Computers in Low-Income Schools, by Howard Rheingold.
Artificial Intelligence/Life
A Life Garden. ALife Ecosystem is a virtual ecosystem with 500 ALife(Artificial Life) creatures evolving everyday. With a free membership, you can create your own creatures and (hopefully!) watch them grow and evolve!
Can Machines Think? from Time Magazine, 25 March 1996 (cover story).
Technology Critics
The Unabomber's Manifesto
Human Responsibility and the Future
Some thought-provoking stuff dealing with multiple topics such as
Netfuture. A reader-supported newsletter that looks *beyond* the generally recognized risks. By Steve Talbott.
Confronting Technology; associated with NetFuture:
critically examining the relationship between humans and computer technology.
(Includes a bibliography of books related to this topic.)
Daily Meditations for the Computer-Entranced
The Loka Institute
--research and advocacy organization concerned with social,
political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology.
Howard Rheingold presents: "Brainstorms.. An experiment in
community futurism.
Tools for Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer
Revolution, by Howard Rheingold.
A Web of On-line Dictionaries. Linked to over 800 dictionaries in 160 languages
Northern Light. One of the better search engines; its database includes more than 5,000 full-text magazines and 120 million web pages.
The Mining Co.. Covers over 500 topics, which allows you to work through a menu to the level of specificity you need.
Google. This search engine uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk.
Hotbot. Another really nice search engine.
Ask Jeeves!. This search engine allows you to use "natural language" to ask your question.
Search Engine Watch. This informative site will tell tou everything you ever wanted to know about search engines; includes an overview of all the major search engines, reviews, tutorials, charts, graphs, resources and much more!
Yahoo! Comparing Search Engines. Provides links to sites describing how to pick an appropriate search engine.
General Reference
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Resources for Writers. Documenting electronic sources; and
using APA or MLA styles.
MLA Documentation. A Guide for writing research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.
Free Internet Encyclopedia. Information in a chatty syle with lots of useful links.
Encyberpedia. A variety of topics and resources.
Library of Congress. Search their database by title, author, or a combination of words. This will get you publishing information on every book published in the United states.
United States Code. ALL the federal laws, organized by title.
CAP WEB. Enter your zip code, and find your Representatives/Senators.Search Engines
Search engines can be valuable tools for finding information on the Internet. The following links will take you to several of the search engines available, as well as providing resources that will enable you to learn more.General Portals
Yahoo!
Excite
The Mining Company
MSN.comThe Microsfot Network
Netscape Netcenter
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