Course Materials
(check weekly)

Course text:

There is no course text. However, William Arms online book and glossary can be very helpful:

Digital Libraries, by William Arms, (c) 2000 M.I.T. Press.

Presentation viewgraphs can be found in:

clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST512/vghs/

Exercises can be found here:

clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST512/exercises/

Project information can be found at:

clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST512/project/

Useful links:

Online Books and Courses:

Online Books in Mathematics and Computer Science

Online Courses and Lecture Material

AI, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Science:

Online texts:

(NEW) Introduction to Machine Learning

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Front/topic_index.html

AI resources:

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/welcome.html

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai.html

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/aima.html

Compression:

Online book:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/pubs/DataCompression.html

Online summaries of methods:

http://www.data-compression.com/

Multimedia data:

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/Multimedia/node141.html

Compression Tests and Standards:

http://www.compression.ca

Computer Science:

Glossaries:

http://www.nist.gov/dads/

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeAlgDS/

Books:
http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~lewis/texts/theory/front/contents.pdf

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/compsci220sc/lectures/

Compendium of NP Optimization Problems:

http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/wwwcompendium.html

Computer Science Document Search Engines:

IST Version of CiteSeer

Cryptography:

Online resources:

http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~csgs/resources/crypt.html

Online lecture notes:

http://williamstallings.com/Extras/Security-Notes/

Data Mining:

Data mining resources:

http://www.scd.ucar.edu/hps/GROUPS/dm/dm.html

http://www.kdnuggets.com/

Information Retrieval:

Online book:

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/ir_resources/books/

Search engine software:

Search Tools - Information, Guides and News

Web Robots Pages

Search engine resources:

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

http://www.searchengineguide.com/

Information Theory:

Online book:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/book.html

Online Resources:

http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/paper/primer/latex/index.html

Online Information Theory Courses:

http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/itresources.html

Math:

Glossaries:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

http://www.math2.org/

Philosophy:

Glossaries:

Philosophy Pages

Statistics:

Statistics on the web:

http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/statistics.html

Online texts:

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
Glossary:

http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm

Acknowledgements: