http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/references.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

On-line reference works

This is a small collection of on-line reference works, both at CMU (preferred) and elsewhere. Please write to spok if you know of other ones that would be useful to have here, or of better sources of the reference works below. See also other on-line publications.

CMU users can also use the dictionary and encyclopedia available on LIS.

Dictionaries

See also the human languages page at Willamette.

English Dictionary: Search Webster's Dictionary (local hypertext interface); Search English and Technical Dictionary (from CERN)
Foreign Language Dictionaries: French to English dictionary (from ARTFL); English <-> French dictionary (at the Hypercube Web in Finland); German <-> English dictionary (in Germany); Japanese <-> English dictionary (by jfriedl); English-Slovene and Slovene-English dictionary (from Slovenia)
Computing Dictionaries: Search the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (from the UK); Search the Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon File (from Austria)
Acronym Guide: Search acronym directory (in Ireland)
Thesauri: Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus (at NIH)
Quotations: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (of 1901) (at Columbia); LoQtus Quotation Resource Page (at UC-Davis)

Internet Resources

Internet Indexes: Internet Resources Meta-Index (at NCSA); Internet Tools Summary (by John December at RPI); Whole Internet Resource Catalog (at gnn.com); Yahoo: A Guide to WWW (at yahoo.com); Yanoff's Internet Services list (new hypertext version at UWM); ArchiePlex (searchable index of FTP sites) (at NASA); Some Web search indexes (including Lycos and The JumpStation ); Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (at UMichigan)
Usenet FAQs: Usenet FAQ listing in HTML (from Ohio State); FAQs at rtfm.mit.edu by group or by hierarchy

Geographical and other place-oriented references

Maps: Map files and servers
World Fact Book: 1994 CIA edition (from the CIA Web); Search 1993 edition (from UWO Gopher)
U.S. Gazeteer (with maps!): Search town information (from Buffalo); How Far Is It (to U.S. Cities and Towns)? (courtesy dkindred); Zip+4 codes form (courtesy the US Post Office)
U.S Census Information: 1990 Census data (from UMich Gopher); US Census server (under construction)
Area codes (see also Geographic DB): Area codes listed by number (local listing); Telecom Digest Guide to Area Codes (at MIT)
Currency exchange: Koblas Currency Converter (at GNN)
Phone books: CMU CS phone book (local access only); Selected phonebooks for North American institutions (from Notre Dame)

Other references

Bibliographies: A selection of on-line CS bibliographies (locally listed)
Legal and governmental references: Whole Internet Government resources (at GNN); Selected US legal materials (from Cornell); Electronic Goverment Information Service (Gopher at Syracuse); Political documents from around the world (locally listed)

spok@cs.cmu.edu (Last updated 28-Mar-95)