Links

Links to web sites more or less related to what we do. Inclusion should not be mistaken for endorsement, and omission is more likely due to ignorance than choice. Suggestions welcomed.

Handwriting Recognition

Apple-Newton Handwriting Recognition

Despite the abysmal recognition accuracy in the first generation Newton, most Newton afficianados or people interested in handwriting recognition will tell you that the second generation, "Print Recognizer" in Newton OS 2.x was a vast improvement, offering fast and surprisingly accurate recognition.
Maintained by Larry Yaeger.

CellWriter

CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel. As you write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly recognized at the character level. When you press Enter on the panel, the input you entered is sent to the currently focused application as if typed on the keyboard.
Maintained by Michael Levin.

Lipi Toolkit (LipiTk)

LipiTk is an open source toolkit for online Handwriting Recognition (HWR), supported on Windows as well as Linux.
Maintained by HP Labs India.

NICI (Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information) Handwriting Recognition Group

The advent of pen computers and PDAs has opened new possibilities in "ubiquitous computing." However, automatic recognition of handwritten input (HWR) is still not really optimal, and user-interfacing issues have not settled. The NICI has been active in human handwriting movement studies for over a decade, and has been involved in the recognition of online, cursive connect script since 1990.
Maintained by Lambert Schomaker and Louis Vuurpijl.

X Scribble Project

Xscribble is an X application that allows a user of a touch screen to input characters into X applications, using a uni-stroke (graffiti like) alphabet. It uses the X test extension to allow synthesis of characters as though they had been typed on a keyboard. It is the X version of the scribble program.
Maintained by Jim Gettys.

wayV

Experiment with human computer interaction, especially gesture based computing.
Maintained by Mike Bennett.

LibStroke - a stroke translation library

LibStroke is a stroke translation library. Strokes are motions of the mouse that can be interpreted by a program as a command.
Maintained by Mark Willey.

Hardware

Linuxslate.com

To facilitate and advocate the use of Open Source Software on past, present, and future highly portable information devices.

Sharp Zaurus SL-5500

A PDA built on a Linux core. Although smaller than the Open Slate concept design, this form factor may prove to be a critical success factor.

Sharp Linux/Java PDA Developer Community Site

An official Sharp-sponsered web site devoted to software developers (in Japanese).

Fujitsu PC Corporation

A long-time member of the slate PC family; indeed, a pioneer.

BIOS

OpenBIOS

OpenBIOS will be a free portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
According to the project web site, "not quite ready for prime time."

LinuxBIOS

LinuxBIOS is an Open Source project aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start.

tinyBIOS™

tinyBIOS™ was designed from the ground up for embedded PC applications such as network appliances. It is designed for easy adaptation and simple code. Features not needed or desired for embedded use have been left out.

FreeBIOS

The goal of the FreeBIOS project is to be a central gathering point for BIOS firmware code which can be used to initialize and boot various services. Initially, due to the large scope of the project, FreeBIOS will likely only boot the Linux kernel on a few chipsets. Eventually the goal will be to provide a complete BIOS replacement for many popular motherboards.

Operating Systems

FreeBSD

Open-source BSD-style Unix

FreeBSD on a laptop

This site just has pointers to various people's own webpages that have more detailed information about running FreeBSD on their specific laptops.
Caution: some of this information could be stale.

Laptop Compatibility for FreeBSD

This document is meant to serve as a resource for identifying successes and difficulties running various versions of FreeBSD on laptop computers.
Maintained by David Kulp.

Linux

GNU licensed Unix

Debian

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 8710 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

DebianEdu

DebianEdu is a project to make Debian the best distribution available for education purpose. Goals are 1) Classify and package all free software related to education, 2) Write documentation to explain how to use the various software (in the educational context), and 3) Beautifying DebianEdu by creating eye candy graphics for it.

Mandrake Linux

(Previously known as Linux-Mandrake.) Mandrake Linux® is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both servers and the home/office. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world.

Red Hat

Red Hat's mission is to bring Linux and open source technology into the enterprise.

Linux on Laptops

How-to's on installing Linux on laptop computers, by model.
Caution: some of this information is stale.

MobiliX

The MobiliX site is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems. It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information about installing and running Linux, BSD and other UniXes on laptops, PDAs, cell phones, wearables and other mobile computer devices.
Maintained by Werner Heuser.

The Familiar Project

The Familiar Project is composed of a group of loosely knit developers all contributing to creating the next generation of PDA OS. Currently, most of our development time is being put towards producing a stable, and full featured Linux distribution for the Compaq iPAQ series of handheld computers, as well as apps to run on top of the distribution.
Maintained by Jamey Hicks. (One of the project members is Jim Gettys, author of xscribble.)

X Window System

XFree86

The open-source X implementation

LCD-NOTE-PC list

Information about running XFree86 on specific notebook computers. Note that the tables are grouped by resolution. Click on the "X Window System" entry to see XF86Config data.
Maintained by Yoshiro MIHIRA.

XInput

Wacom XInput driver for XFree86.
Maintained by Frederic Lepied.

The XInput HOWTO

This document attempts to collect some basic information about the XInput extension to X11, describe how to set it up with XFree86, and provide pointers to further information.
Maintained by Owen Taylor.

Pointers to Pen & Mobile Linux

A few tips on using pen input with Linux, including a modified version of Lepied's XInput driver that handles older Wacom tablet formats.
Maintained by the NICI Handwriting Recognition Group. (see entry above under Handwriting Recognition.)

X Window Managers

Rather than maintain our own list we'll just point you to an excellent web site devoted to this topic: xwinman.org.

X Desktop Environments

Gnome

KDE

GPE: The GPE Palmtop Environment

GPE is a project whose aim is to provide a Free Software GUI environment for Palmtop/Handheld computers running the GNU/Linux? operating system. GPE uses the X Window system with the GTK+ toolkit.
Maintained by Owen Cliffe.

Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie)

Opie is a "fork" of the Qtopia codebase. Qtopia (formerly QPE) was written mostly by employees of TrollTech and uses the Qt Embedded toolkit which is produced by TrollTech.
Maintained by llornkcor.

On-line News

Tablet PC Talk

The Latest Tablet PC News.

Pen Computing

Highlights from the magazine.

eBiquity.ORG

eBiquity.ORG is a portal for news, discussion and community building for ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Our intended scope covers devices, communication technology and protocols, infrastructure, middleware, software architectures, mobility, applications, m-commerce, theory and research ideas.

Computers in Education

Schoolforge

Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education. Schoolforge is intended to empower member organizations to make open educational resources more effective, efficient, and ubiquitous by enhancing communication, sharing resources, and increasing the transparency of development. Schoolforge members advocate the use of open source and free software, open texts and lessons, and open curricula for the advancement of education and the betterment of humankind.

OSEF

The Open Source Education Foundation (OSEF) was founded on the idea that technology in education should prepare students to excel with technology. It is the role of educators to help students become productive members of society. OSEF will research and develop the tools required to ensure that educators and students alike have the information needed to succeed in our technological society.

Open Source Schools

News, contributed stories, mailing lists, information about projects, resources, tools, and case studies.

The Open Book Project

The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics.

SEUL/edu

SEUL/edu is the discussion group for those interested in using Linux for education. This covers all aspects of educational uses of Linux, by teachers, parents, and students. SEUL/edu is a sub-project of SEUL, the Simple End User Linux project. The SEUL/edu web site hosts a database of educational software for Linux; however, not all of the applications are open-source.

StarLogo

Welcome to the StarLogo 2.0 release of StarLogo, a programmable modeling environment designed to help you model and explore the workings of decentralized systems, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, and market economies.

Squeak

Squeak Is An Idea Processor For Children Of All Ages!
... an instrument whose music is ideas ...
We all know what a word processor is, but what is an idea processor? Of course, we can play with some ideas and express them in a word processor, but a lot of important ideas need more, for example: art, music, math and science. And some of these ideas really need a "dynamic medium for creative thought": music, animation, and many areas of science.

A.L.I.C.E AI Foundation

Promote the adoption and development of Alicebot and AIML technology.

K-12Linux Project

Tips for using Linux at school.

The Linux for Schools Project

(UK) Teaches students how to work on a Linux server.

Academic Technology Center, Cornell University

Assists faculty who would like to support instruction with computer technologies

Pacific New Media

University of Hawaii at Manoa Outreach College. Classes and seminars on digital media, including film making.

Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education

On-line book by Frederick Bennett, Ph.D.

Center for Technology in Learning

By the early 1990s, it became very clear that technology was to play an increasingly important role in the education of children, youth, and adults. The issues of how to effectively use technologies to support learning were considered to be so important that the Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) was established at SRI. The Center was established within SRI's Policy Division, where it is closely allied with ongoing education and health research programs.

Center for Innovative Learning Technologies

The Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT) is a distributed center designed to serve as a national resource for stimulating research on innovative, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 learning. Our approach is to foster and conduct collaborative research and development in areas that we believe promise significant advances in learning.

SRI PEP Report

Study Indicates That Handhelds Make Valuable Contribution to Teaching and Learning. (March 6, 2002)

Innovation in Education

The Intel® Innovation in Education initiative is focused on strengthening mathematics, science, and engineering education in more than twenty nations on five continents.

Mid-Pacific Linux User's Group

Linux for Hawaii Schools Project

Deals with refurbishing PCs for use as Linux thin clients. (For more about thin clients, see K12 Linux Terminal Server Project)

Mobile Computing

Bayou

Xerox PARC's project on database access designed for mobile users.

Dataman

Rutgers University Mobile Computing Lab.

Infopad

The goal of the InfoPad research project is to develop the hardware, software and mobile network support which will allow ubiquitous, wireless access of realtime multimedia data from high speed networks using an inexpensive, portable terminal.

MosquitoNet

The Mobile Computing Group at Stanford University.

MobiDick

(MOBIle Databases, Interoperability, Computing, Knowledge) -- The long term goal of the MobiDick group is to set up a research centre for mobile computing and associated applications. This is to be achieved through successful grants and co-operative arrangements with industry leaders.

Project Pengachu

Cheap Wireless Linux for Everyone (MIT).

Wearable Computing at the MIT Media Lab

Smaller and faster notebook computers have made mobility less of an issue, but the same staid user paradigm persists. Wearable computing hopes to shatter this.

Wearable Computer Systems at Carnegie Mellon University

Wearable computers deal in information rather than programs, becoming tools in the user's environment much like a pencil or a reference book. The wearable computer provides automatic, portable access to information. Furthermore, the information can be automatically accumulated by the system as the user interacts with or modifies the environment thereby eliminating the costly and error-prone process of information acquisition.

The Wearable Group

The Wearable Group at Carnegie Mellon is an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), the School of Computer Science (the Computer Science Department, Robotics Institute, and Human-Computer Interaction Institute), and the College of Fine Arts (the School of Design). Combining a decade of investigation into the architectural and interface requirements of wearable systems, the Group is now entering a new phase of research in the area of pervasive computing.

GTRI Wearables

Wearables work at Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Wearable Computing

This is a collection of wearable computing information. Grab some parts and ideas and augment your reality.

Instructional Content

This section in particular is not intended to be exhaustive, but simply examples worthy of mention.

Project Gutenberg

The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.

Wikipedia

A collaborative project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language.

The Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.

OpenCourseWare

At a press conference on April 4, 2001, MIT announced its commitment to make the materials from virtually all of its courses freely available on the World Wide Web for non-commercial use. This new initiative, called MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), reflects MIT's institutional commitment to disseminate knowledge across the globe.

Fabula

Fabula is a free software package for making bilingual multimedia stories with children. Using Fabula, teachers, parents and children can combine texts in two languages, images and sounds to make fun-to-use interactive learning resources.

LOGO as a Programming Language for Educational Applications

A brief article by Jim Andris (Southern Illinois University) on the benefits of teaching children Logo.

Peter Bacon Hales

Art History Department, The University of Illinois, Chicago.
My current work is divided among photographic projects which are themselves works of cultural history (albeit contemporary cultural history), book-length projects in varying stages, "documentary" projects which may include a wide variety of materials and texts, and larger collaborative ventures with other scholars of the cultural landscape.

The Library of Congress

The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

The Constitution of the United States

An example of a Library of Congress Web Guide.

US National Archives & Records Administration

Keeper of historical documents.

CiteSeer.IST

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.

Postmodern Culture

Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR's publication, from 1990 to the present.

Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology

This document collects links to Internet resources of interest to classicists and Mediterranean archaeologists.

Perseus Digital Library

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.