• Professional Organisations:

  • IEEE;

  • Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists, and Managers, Australia (APESMA) offers many services to self-employed, employee, and contractor technology professionals in Australia (students get free membership and can then access low fee banking and other services);

  • Institute of Engineers Australia offers professional services (publications, industrial, etc.), and also operate an education company. See also the National Policy Submissions by IEAust to government.

• Papers Archives:

  • Over 1000 papers by Edsger Dijkstra are available from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD.

  • The Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques archive is at http://www.numdam.org.

  • SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

• General Publications:

  • New Scientist magazine

  • Annals of Improbable Research;

• New Engineering Education:

  • The Olin College of Engineering (Needham, Massachusetts) offers undergraduate programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. It champions design at a technical and human level, and also community engagement.

• Miscellaneous:
  • LAME (MP3 audio encoder);
  • SSH 2 key setup;
  • VNC (virtual network computer) download site;
  • Web server footprint analysis;
  • VM mail reader references
  • The GNU Project;
  • MacTank (Macintosh with organic neural network screen saver);
  • Dilbert IC design;
  • Early Wireless Networks.

Jun 6 2008