Resources
Here is our current list of web resources that we find very useful or interesting. We'll try to keep this updated with our latest favorites so that it doesn't become long and unwieldy.
Academic Papers
Assocation for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
A terrific resource for papers and publications related to computing technologies. We particularly enjoy it since CHI falls under the ACM umbrella.
Google searches within the subset of academic pursuits.
A search engine fo searching through scientific and research web resources.
Intellectual Property
US Patent and Trademark Office
Resource for looking up published U.S. patents.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Digital Library
Resource for searching published patents around the world.
Software and Programming
Ruby and Rails have been getting a lot of press recently. It's a very nice option for many web-based efforts that need to be built quickly. This is a particularly good resource for Ruby-related materials.
Yahoo! has made available a repository of web UI widgets and UI patterns guidelines. Some of these are very nice and all of them are good for learning about UI techniques for the web.
Other
Stanford Center for Professional Development Online Seminars
Some of these online seminars are very good and they're free! Take a look and you can view talks from prominent experts in Silicon Valley and beyond.
This site provides thorough and in depth reviews of various consumer electronic products. There's a lot of great information here and the content is high in quality. If you like keeping up with new gadgets from a technical perspective, this is a great resource.
There's so much information here it's hard to describe. Explore with the understanding that the information is maintained by the general public. But in most cases, it's quite good for gaining a cursory understanding of a topic and getting additional links for that topic.
Entertaining and informative. This is nice reading when you have to eat lunch in front of a computer.
For the lowdown on what's happening in the tech world through the lens of Silicon Valley.
For the lowdown on what's happening in the tech world through the lens of Silicon Alley.
If you have any comments or suggestions for how we can improve this list of resources, please let us know.