Personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species...
In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten
books, records, movies, ideas.
People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest.
But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource?
That's disappearing faster than trees.
But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put
five billion people together in cyberspace.
And it'll freeze the entire species...
Everyone will think the same thing at the same time.
- Ian Malcolm in Michael Crichton's The Lost World
Welcome!
Welcome to
Iain Stewart's home page.
Here at the
Department of Computing,
Imperial College,
London, UK,
my teaching job mainly involves preparing, presenting
and helping out with the
first year lab
courses, and supervising some
individual projects.
I also try to keep up with computing and physics research generally
- especially
quantum computing.
You can e-mail me at
ids@doc.ic.ac.uk,
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Department of Computing pages
Imperial College pages
Pages from around the world
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What is the
World Wide Web?
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About the web browser
Netscape.
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WWW servers in
the UK and in
the world.
Also
by subject.
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Searching the World Wide Web:
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Alta Vista,
from Compaq,
can search both the web and Usenet news.
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Infoseek
- (quote) "proof of intelligent life on the net".
A very impressive search engine.
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HotBot, from
HotWired,
claims to have the largest searchable index of the web.
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Google
shows the estimated "importance" of each page it returns,
an important page being defined (recursively!)
roughly as one that lots of other important pages point to.
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Excite - (quote) "the intelligent way to navigate the net"!
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Northern Light
puts its search results into useful
folders
by rough category,
while also giving a traditional best-matches-first listing.
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The Lycos search engine.
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DejaNews
- OK, it searches Usenet news only, not the web, but it's very nice!
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The
WebCrawler
- (quote) "the smallest search engine, and happy that way".
(Sit back and enjoy their
search ticker!)
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Yahoo - a nice subject index.
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The
TradeWave Galaxy.
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The web is full of search engines - see
Search Engine Watch
for an overview, or
All-in-One
for a vast selection!
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And finally:
Inference Find
and the
MetaCrawler
are "meta-level search engines",
which search a wide variety of ordinary search engines
and collate the results.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
the vast collected wisdom of the net!
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EDU2?
- an alphabetical cornucopia of subject categories, maintained by
Jack Inglis-Arkell.
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A "hotsheet"
of heavily accessed websites, roughly sorted by category.
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Online newspapers: the
Times
and the
Telegraph.
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Online news services (typically updated several times a day):
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Online magazines:
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There's even some online bookshops!
Try
Amazon,
or the
Internet Bookshop.
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COPAC
- unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest
university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
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Quantum computing
- harness the power of parallel universes to speed up your calculations!
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Some astronomy-related pages:
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The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Open government on the web:
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Why are there so few female computer scientists?
A thought-provoking paper.
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Some music-related sites:
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The
Internet Movie Database!
(UK readers can go here.)
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The English server:
a student-run cooperative publishing in the humanities.
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The
Red Dwarf home page!
Also a
science fiction resource guide
including
movies
and
television.
Miscellaneous
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General all-purpose disclaimer.
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Exchange rates
at the OANDA currency site.
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Some beautiful
pictures of China
found on the China News Digest
by Wei Yi Fan.
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A final resting place on the web for a much loved pet.
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Anyone for
chess?
Or how about
Connect 4?
Or even
Mornington Crescent?
There are lots of games to play out there - see
Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web.
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The
Unix Haters' Handbook!
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The
Findout / AthenaNow Technology Company Engine.
More comprehensive than the Yellow Pages, more up-to-date than
tomorrow's newspaper - it's the biz, folks! :-)
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Get dizzy fast - surf the web
backwards!
(Why not start with
egap emoh s'niaI?)
Or help yourself to some
spam!
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The
Planet Earth Home Page,
though awkwardly structured, is great for serendipity!
For example here's
The Useless Pages'
stuff about
pi.
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An online database of
US patents,
courtesy of IBM.
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Need To Know
and
The Register
are lively computing news sites.
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NewsScan
and
Edupage
are on-line computing-related newsletters.
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The
RISKS Forum
catalogues computer errors and computer-related risks from around the world.
BugTraq,
hosted by SecurityFocus,
discusses specific bugs and their implications in greater detail.
Also try
DigiCrime!
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The
Electronic Frontier Foundation
home page.
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Operation Clambake - the fight against
Scientology on the net.
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Big Brother is watching you.
This is for real!
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Teletext online!
(UK terrestrial channels only. Content may lag by several days.)
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A nice complicated
maze.
(Try printing it out more than once!)
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Some
evolution-related pages
found by
Duncan White,
including the inevitable
dinosaur exhibit!
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Archie - search the Internet's archive sites around the world.
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Something for Alta Vista et al to chew on.
(They can have expt, misc,
RCS and tinyurl too!)
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Where I've been in cyberspace.
(Or just
since Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 2001
or
since Tue Jan 1 00:00:00 2002,
if you find the full-sized one too big or slow to load.)
- And who's been visiting me!
Writing your own web pages
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times. Do you believe that?
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