Interesting Links

Some of these are certain to be out of date since I do not remember to update this page often.

• Hurlbert's graph pebbling page

• PCP@Home (Post Correspondence Problem)

• Algoraph is the HCG and interactive algorithm running software package created and maintained by me and my students.
• Fold It is one of the most succesful HCGs, dealing with protein folding and design.
• GWAP (Games with a Purpose) is a group of games created by Luis von Ahn's research group a Carnegie Mellon. Their purpose is to use the players to help solve problems that computers aren't good at. This site currently includes ESP Game, Tag a Tune, Verbosity, Squigl, and Matchin.
• Phetch
• Peekaboom The game used to be here, but the page now takes you to GWAP.com, which does not contain Peekaboom.
• Google Image Labeler is a game to help label images on the Internet. It is based on Luis von Ahn's The ESP Game.
• Listen Game
• Major Miner Music Labeling Game
• MoodSwings
• GIVE (Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments) is a game that helps improve AI algorithms.
• Phrase Detectives is a game that will help "train anaphora resolution systems that can be used to improve text summarisation and search engine indexing, which will ultimately lead to a better Web experience for you."
• OntoGame
• Sentiment Quiz
• Spectral Game (See a draft of a paper about this work here.)
• The FACTory
• Phylo is a game that helps with sequence alignment (Link to Wikipedia page because the link to game didn't work)

• Treating players like numbers A blog entry from January 2006
• Using Games to Tap Collective Intelligence A blog entry from September 2006
• Using Games to Tap Collective Intelligence (Part 2) A blog entry from November 2006

• The Wisdom of Crowds Wikipedia article about the book by James Surowiecki.
• Crowdsourcing Wikipedia article on the topic.
• The Rise of Crowdsourcing A Wired article by Jeff Howe, author of the book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.
• Is Crowdsourcing Evil?
• Crowdcasting A Wikipedia article about crowdcasting, a combination of crowdsourcing and broadcasting.
• Guide to Crowdcasting A very brief discussion of crowdcasting
• Tuning In to Crowdcasting An article from Business 2.0 from November 2006.
• Citizen science Wikipedia article.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar A paper by Eric Steven Raymond about why open source software works well.
• Crowd-sourcing the World An article about a project called txteagle that seeks to leverage the underused work force in some of the poorest parts of the world by distributing tasks via cell phones.

• Investigaming A site containing research related to gender and games.
• Sustainable Perspectives on Video Games - A TEDx Talk

• IzPack (For packaging Java applications)
• Eclipse Help
• GUI Alternatives

• Plura Processing and Games A company that according to this blog embeds computation into games. That is, the user donates part of the CPU to run computations as a sort of payment for playing the game.
• Sorting 1PB with MapReduce A Google Blog about how they sorted 1 PB worth of data using 4,000 computers.
• WhereCamp PDX Takes on PacManhattan A game of Pac Man using real people.
• tweenbots A really cool example of crwodsourcing.
• List of Educational Programming Languages

• 435
• 245
• 166
• 165
• 281
• 121
• 212
• 87 (To a lesser extent)
• 325 (I can't necessarily relate, but this one made me laugh uncontrollably for some reason.)

• Nanobots (IPv6)
• Tree (Trees/Heaps)
• Paths (Shortest Path)
• NP-Complete (Subset Sum)
• Substitute (Calculus--Optimization Problems)
• Pointers (Pointers)
• Donald Knuth (Famous computer scientist)
• Applied Math (Another Donald Knuth one)

• Amish Guy on Cell Phone
• Professor Destroys Student's Phone
• Sprint Break Up Commercial

• Image Enhancement on lots of shows
• Image Enhancement on CSI
• Image Enhancement on Castle
• Photosynth on CSI
• Photosynth Demo
• Stargate Universe: Gaming
• Unix/Linux in Movies/TV
• Donald Knuth Vidoes

• Sunday's Coming - Movie Trailer
• Emo Philips - Once I was in San Francisco
• Let me tell you what I believe... (From The Matrix)

• The Biologos Foundation
• American Scientific Affiliation A fellowship of Christians in science.
• Emerging Scholars Network The Emerging Scholars Network is called to identify, encourage, and equip the next generation of Christian scholars who seek to be a redeeming influence within higher education.

• Serving the Poor by using Science and Technology Of particular interest is the information about coconuts
• Lazarian World Homes An affordable and eco-friendly solution to the World's housing crisis.
• Appropriate Technology A Wikipedia article about "technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social and economical aspects of the community it is intended for."

• About Clonezilla Parameters
• Clonezilla FAQ

• The Simpsons on PhDs and Grad Students