For Starters

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
• Zotero and Mendeley are other options
• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
• Using the UofT library system
• General library-related Grad student info.

• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael. Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
  • Rebooting the CS Publication Process
  • Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research
  • Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research
  • Time for computer science to grow up
  • Open, Closed or Clopen Access?
  • Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• If you’re not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie.

• Need to use Acadlabs login to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel
    processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Article Citation Databases

• INSPEC — best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
  • concurrent and aerospace and programming
  • concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
  • concurrent and locking and java
• Scopus — another good general database with citation information
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
• Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings

• IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
• SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
• Other: keyword search with part of title
• Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages
• Remember, you have 50 free article requests!

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas.  Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
• Books24x7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro

Resources on Where to Publish

• Citation tracking & journal “impact”
  • Web of Science
  • Scopus
  • Google Scholar
  • Journal Citation Reports
  • Papers Invited (conferences looking for submissions)
• Open Access publishers where the library subsidizes author fees
  • Public Library of Science
  • BioMed Central
  • Hindawi
• Other Open Access resources
  • York Libraries Open Access Guide
  • arxiv
  • Pubmed Central
  • Pubmed Central Canada (CIHR policy)
  • York Space
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sherpa/Romeo for figuring out publisher OA posting policies

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web but a bit out of date
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102L
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
Also I’m on Twitter,  FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.

This page is at: http://bit.ly/eecsyorku

• New Spice — Study like a scholar, scholar
• Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?
• pipl.com
• What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?

Due date: Wednesday October 17th, 11:59pm.

To submit:

• send and email to sshujah@yorku.ca (sshujah at yorku dot ca)
• Subject line *must* have CSE 1001 in it.
• Please include your name and student number.

What: Pick any CSE related topic and send me 4 references related to that topic

• 1 book (print or ebook) that is available via the York Libraries (include catalogue url)
• 1 journal article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 conference proceeding article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 site on the open web

Note: For the journal and conference article, I want an example of an article inside the journal or conference, not the name of the whole journal or conference.

Format:

• In the email, list your topic then all four citations one after another
• If the database has an exportable citation format (including BibTex), that is fine.
• If not, use the Citation Machine and either APA or MLA format.
• Online sources must have a URL that I can click on campus to access the item
• For the book, please give the link to the catalogue record, if available

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
• Zotero and Mendeley are other options
• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• What I suggest for this assignment: Citation Machine
  • use APA or MLA
  • Click on “More” to get conference paper form
• My search topics
  • biometric face recognition
  • computer chess
  • search engine optimization

• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael. Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
  • Rebooting the CS Publication Process
  • Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research
  • Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research
  • Time for computer science to grow up
  • Open, Closed or Clopen Access?
  • Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
  • Hypercriticality
  • An interesting publishing model
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.

• Need to use Passport York to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel
    processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
• Books24x7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro
• Scholars Portal eBooks –  a great big pile of ebooks

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas. Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC
• Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals

Article Citation Databases

And on the open web…

• Using Googleas a scholarly research tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

Subscription library databases…

• INSPEC– best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
  • concurrent and aerospace and programming
  • concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science– Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
  • concurrent and locking and java
• Scopus — another good general database with citation information
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings

• IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
• SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
• Other: keyword search with part of title
• Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages
• Remember, you have 50 free article requests!

Due date: Wednesday October 5th, 11:59pm.

To submit:

• send and email to sshujah at yorku dot ca
• Subject line *must* have CSE 1001 in it.
• Please include your name and student number.

What: Pick any CSE related topic and send me 4 references related to that topic

• 1 book (print or ebook) that is available via the York Libraries (include catalogue url)
• 1 journal article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 conference proceeding article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 site on the open web

Note: For the journal and conference article, I want an example of an article inside the journal or conference, not the name of the whole journal or conference.

Format:

• In the email, list your topic then all four citations one after another
• If the database has an exportable citation format (including BibTex), that is fine.
• If not, use the Citation Machine and either APA or MLA format.
• Online sources must have a URL that I can click on campus to access the item
• For the book, please give the link to the catalogue record, if available

An example

Topic: face recognition

Book (used Citation Machine):

Gates, Kelly. Our biometric future : facial recognition technology and the culture of surveillance. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Print.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2525674

Journal Article (exported via ACM  DL):
W. Zhao, R. Chellappa, P. J. Phillips, and A. Rosenfeld. 2003. Face recognition: A literature survey. ACM Comput. Surv. 35, 4 (December 2003), 399-458. DOI=10.1145/954339.954342 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/954339.954342

Conference Article (exported via IEEE Xplore):

Ming Zhao; Tat-Seng Chua; , “Markovian mixture face recognition with discriminative face alignment,” Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2008. FG ’08. 8th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-6, 17-19 Sept. 2008
doi: 10.1109/AFGR.2008.4813443
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4813443&isnumber=4813301

Web Site (used Citation Machine):

Bronstein, Michael. “Expression-invariant 3D face recognition.” Website of Michael M. Bronstein. N.p., 25 Oct 2010. Web. 27 Sep 2011. <http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~mbron/research_facerec.html>.

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: sshujah@yorku.ca
Phone: 416-736-2100 x33945

The Steacie Library is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Lecture 1

Yes, I got my CS degree in 1986

• IBM PC XT (info)
• IBM PC AT (info)
• Compaq Portable II (info)

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
  • For ACM Digital Library & other databases like dblp, you can import from the bibtex format.
    • Use the References–>Import Feature

• Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• What I suggest for this assignment: Citation Machine
  • use APA or MLA
  • Click on “More” to get conference paper form
• My search topics
  • women in computing
  • privacy in social networks
  • outsourcing of software development
  • biometric face recognition

• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael. Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
  • Rebooting the CS Publication Process
  • Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research
  • Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research
  • Time for computer science to grow up
  • Open, Closed or Clopen Access?
  • Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
  • Hypercriticality
  • An interesting publishing model
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.

• Need to use Passport York to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java
    • women and technology
    • gender and information technology
    • ethics and social media

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
• Books24x7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro
• Scholars Portal eBooks — a great big pile of ebooks

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• ABI/Inform and Business Source Premier – full text articles from a business & organizational viewpoint, so likely to cover ethics and similar issues more completelly than purely technical sources
• SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas. Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC
• Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals

Article Citation Databases

And on the open web…

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

Subscription library databases…

• INSPEC — best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
  • concurrent and aerospace and programming
  • concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
  • concurrent and locking and java
• Scopus — another good general database with citation information
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings
  • IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
  • SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
  • Other: keyword search with part of title
  • Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also I’m on Twitter, FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook and Twitter.

FREE Citation Management Software

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
  • For off campus use, get the York group code here.
  • FAQ and Instructions for various databases
  • RefWorks Tutorial
  • For ACM Digital Library & other databases like dblp, you can import from the bibtex format.
    • Use the References–>Import Feature

• Key points:

• Don’t forget to install Write-n-Cite on your PC. It’s in the Tools menu
• Also don’t forget to move items out of the “Last Imported” folder into the folder you create for your course
• Lastly, don’t forget to use “Edit citation” in the Write-n-cite application to get page numbers!

• Zotero and Mendeley are other options

• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Plan B: various style guides & Landmarks Citation Machine

• Scientific publication cycle
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• If you’re not sure how to get started on your project, come see me at Steacie.

• Need to use Passport York login or bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java
• Google Books Search — search inside the books

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Books 24×7 — 1000s of searchable full text books in computing and engineering
• Synthesis — excellent source of high quality information on more advanced CS & Engineering. Ebooks done properly.

These online databases can also be found in the eResources
Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Article Citation Databases

• Scopus — good general source, can sort by number of references
• INSPEC — best source for citations in
  all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches
  • concurrent and locking
  • concurrent and aerospace and programming
  • concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for theoretical topics
  • concurrent and locking and java
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing

• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings
  • IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
  • SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
  • Other: keyword search with part of title
  • Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — source of articles from various
  conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science
• Scholars Portal Journals — very large article database from all fields

• Using Google as a scholarly research
  tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Google Scholar — good tool, but a bit unreliable while in Beta release. Generally quite good for CS.
• And others…

Course wiki version of this page.

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also on FaceBook

• Zotero, Del.icio.us, CiteULike and Connotea are options
• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Good hacker article in wikipedia.  (for a topic like hacking, Wikipedia is a pretty good source)
• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael, “Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide,” Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
    (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
    circuit diagrams
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable
    subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
• If you’re not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie.

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject: Java
  • by subject: computer security
  • by keyword (for books and articles):
    • linux and security
    • hackers
    • hackers and credit card
    • hackers and medical
    • hackers and health care
    • hackers and hospital
    • medical and records and security
    • medical and records and privacy
    • medical and records and canada

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science
• Computer Database — good for computer trade magazones
• ABI/Inform and Business Source Premier –both have lots of business/IT articles in full text
• Research Library
• Canadian Newsstand, Canadian Periodical Index  provide good news and current events coverage

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics

• Wikipedia — good source for tech topics, but only as a starting place for information
  • computer security
  • hacker disambiguation page
• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • searches:
    • computer security resources
    • computer security medical records
    • data privacy hospitals
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• A good computer security blog: Bruce Schneier
• Very good US government site: NIST Computer Security Resource Center
• Some edgier resources: secureroot
• EDUCAUSE site on Higher Ed

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web but a bit out of date
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also I’m on FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.

York computer science Professor Eshrat Arjomandi can remember a time when she was one of only a handful of women studying computer science at university. It was a lonely road, filled with challenging and grueling course work, hours of study and the isolation that comes from being a female in a male-dominated profession. It was with this experience in mind that Arjomandi, together with colleagues in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering, formed a small ad-hoc group in 2004 with a mission to support and mentor a growing number of young women choosing to study computer science and engineering at York.

It’s a great article about some great women doing some really important work. Here’s a nice photo of some of the students (Anna Topol, Foroohar Foroozan, Mary Kuruvilla and Neha Durwas) along with Profs. Melanie Baljko, Eshrat Arjomandi and Natalija Vlajic. (And don’t forget Prof. Baljko’s daughter Erma).

Also of interest, the Steacie Spotlight this month is books on Women in Science. We have highlighted over 30 books on that theme, ranging from Grace Hopper to Lise Meitner and women astronauts and everything in between. Check it out (and check out the books too) on the Steacie New Books shelves.

According to Stan Shapson, York VP Research and Innovation:

Governments do a lot of investment in basic reserach, which is critically important in the long term. But government also want to look at opportunities for earlier returns on investment. That’s why it’s important for a university to take applied research and, in some cases, graduate training and experience out into the local community.”

Great article.  Check it out.

Yesterday’s post What’s in a Project Name? is all about the weird and silly names big software houses give to their “top secret” projects.

Some rules of the game:

We’ve come up with the following loose guidelines for project naming:

• We prefer one word names.
• They should be relatively easy to pronounce and easy to spell.
• They have to be client friendly.
• They should be globally unique across the company. No duplicates.
• We need a reasonable number of items in the set to choose from, in A-Z order.

Ok, so not so weird and silly. Anyways, check out the blog, it’s a lot of fun.

One of my recent favourites is a two part interview with Mehran Sahami, Head of the undergrad program at Stanford University. In the first part he talks in general about Stanford and the computing job market; in the second part he speaks more directly about CS enrollment trends in the US. Stanford, of course, is where Larry Page and Sergei Brin studied before they dropped out of their PhD program to found some tech company or other…oh, yeah, that would be Google. Oh yeah, and another video about building robotic cars at Stanford.

• La Vida Robot
• China’s Next Cultural Revolution
• Ups and Downs of Jetpacks