Future of the WWW

"Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge. That decision was instrumental in making the web truly world wide. BBC News talks to some of the leading figures in the web community about their hopes for the future of the web." 1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee 3. Professor Wendy Hall 5. Dr David Belanger, AT&T 7. Mark Bernstein, Parc 9. Robert Scoble, blogger 2. Professor Nigel Shadbolt 4. Kai-Fu Lee, Google China 6. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla 8. Robert Cailliau, Cern 10. Tim O’Reilly http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7373717.stm

Published by Bill Frakes on April 30 of 2008

Exploratory Data Analysis

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/eda.htm

Published by Bill Frakes on April 13 of 2008

Survey Tools

Survey Monkey http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Cost is reasonable; can create your online questionnaire for free and then pay for one month during data collection.
If you plan to use Survey Monkey for an electronic survey, be sure to include in your IRB application that you will have SurveyMonkey "enable the SSL" before data collection.  In this way, the results you get will be truly anonymous and there will be no record kept of respondents’ IP addresses.

VT survey tool survey.vt.edu
Free for faculty and students. OK for short questionnaires where don’t need page-breaks or skip routines.

Blackboard learn.vt.edu - but this only works for VT PIDs

VT SONA system http://www.psyc.vt.edu/research/sona.html  - used by the Psychology Dept. for for online research study participation.

Published by Gabriella Belli on March 28 of 2008

Safety Analysis

The topic of safety analysis is of interest to several programs here. A key reference is,

Leveson, N. G. (1995). Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

I teach this topic as it relates to software in CS5744 and CS6704.

We have a workshop series on software reuse and safety at ICSR.

Published by Bill Frakes on February 29 of 2008

Parallel computing resources

For threaded parallel code use a shared-memory machine such as the SGIs described here …
http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/sgi/index.php .

There’s info there about how to request an account.

To use System X (a distributed memory cluster) means having an MPI-To develop one, a very simple description of what he wants to do can be uploaded at

http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/SystemX/index.php .

Requests for these resources are reviewed by Prof. Cal Ribbens, CS Blacksburg.

Published by Bill Frakes on February 11 of 2008

style and diction tools to check writing

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/05/05/LivingLinux.html

and here are style and diction for Windows

http://www.akki-n.de/development/diction-and-style-for-windows

and here is a study using these tools

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/35130.html?welcome=1202556583

Published by Bill Frakes on February 9 of 2008

writing coach for all students

The Graduate School is pleased  to announce a writing coach  for all students in the National Capital Region.

Brad Shapiro, GTA, will be available  via polycom starting Monday, February 11th.  Appointments will be available on Mondays and Thursdays from 6:00-8:00 PM for 30 minutes to 1 hour.  All writing sessions will be held live via polycom at the Northern Virginia Center.

Location: Northern Virginia Center, Room 320, except on  2/28, 3/20, 4/24  Room  401
Days : Mondays and Thursdays
Time: 6:00-8:00

You may contact Brad for an appointment by email at bshapiro@vt.edu

Published by Bill Frakes on February 7 of 2008

New Hampshire Survey Failure

Why the surveys in NH failed

Published by Bill Frakes on January 9 of 2008

Research Bibliography

1. ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
2. Ashenhurst, Robert,(Editor)ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985, Addison Wesley Professional; ISBN: 0201548852; 1st edition (July 1, 1991)
3. Collected algorithms of the ACM
4. Demarco, Tom and Tim Lister. Peopleware. New York: Dorset House, 1987.
5. Fenton, N. E. (1991). Software Metrics: a rigorous approach. London: Chapman and Hall.
6. Feynman, Richard, Feynman Lectures on Computation, Perseus Books; ISBN: 0738202967; (July 2000)
7. Feynman, Richard,, The Character of Physical Law, Modern Library; ISBN: 0679601279; Modern lib edition (November 1994)
8. Feynman, R. (1997). Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!’: Adventures of a Curious Character. W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393316041.
9. Fussell, Paul, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, Ballantine Books; ASIN: 0345361350; Reprint edition (February 1990)
10. Gardner, M. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486203948; 2nd edition (December 1957).
11. Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Shambhala Publications; ISBN: 0877733759; (October 1986)
12. Gonick, L. (1994). The Cartoon Guide to Statistics. Harper-Collins.
13. Grady, Robert B. Practical Software Metrics for Project Management and Process Improvement. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992.
14. Langley, P., Simon, H. A., Bradshow, G. L., & Zytkow, J. M. (1987). Scientific Discovery : Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes. MIT Press; ISBN: 0262620529.
15. May, W. (1996). Edges of Reality: Mind Vs Computer. Perseus Books; ASIN: 0306452723.
16. Simon, Herbert, Models of My Life, MIT Press; ISBN: 026269185X; Reprint edition (October 8, 1996)
17. Simon, Herbert, The Sciences of the Artificial, MIT Press; ISBN: 0262691914; 3rd edition (October 1, 1996)
18. Tufte, E. R. (1983). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
19. Watson, J. D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Touchstone Books; ISBN: 074321630X.

Published by Bill Frakes on January 8 of 2008

Stat Methods in Water Resources

Statistical Methods in Water Resources

by D.R. Helsel and R.M. Hirsch
U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations
Book 4, Chapter A3
Published in September 2002
This report is freely available only and is not for sale.
 http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/twri/twri4a3/

List of Appendix Data Sets in Excel spreadsheet.

This 510 page text is recommended by Dr. Tom Grizzard.

Published by Gabriella Belli on November 13 of 2007