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Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University The Historical New York Times Project: Chapter 2: The Civil War Years 1860-1866 
 This site contains the digitized text for those years. Searchable by date or browsable by the topics of battles, military, politics, relations among the states, and social issues. From the Universal Library at Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.nyt.ulib.org/ Topics: United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Computer Recycling: Educational Resources
This site was created "to assist you in locating information or contacts needed to reduce the amount of electronic equipment going to landfills." Includes links to sites for recycling computers, monitors, floppy disks, parts, components, peripherals, and more. A few broken links. http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/comprec/resources.html Topics: Computers, Computers, Environment, Technology Last updated Dec 21, 2001 Recaptcha
"A 'captcha' is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer [such as those with distorted images of letters]." You can use this site to help stop receiving email spam "by asking people to solve a recaptcha before they can view your email address" (if you are running a web application that lists user's email addresses). This process uses unclear images from digitized books. From Carnegie Mellon University. http://recaptcha.net/ Topics: Internet Last updated Jun 10, 2008 Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
Compilation of links to material about "Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch [who] delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that moved an overflow crowd at the university -- and went on to move audiences around the globe." Includes biographical details about Pausch, who died in July 2008 due to complications from pancreatic cancer, information about his achievements and projects in the computer science field, and a link to the 2007 lecture. From Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People Last updated Aug 4, 2008 Clifford Glenwood Shull Collection
This is a "full-text digital archive of Clifford Glenwood Shull, 1937 graduate of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shull's pioneering work with Ernie Wollan in neutron scattering while a physicist at Oak Ridge ... led to his Nobel Prize." Search the collection, or explore the scope and content notes. Includes a biography and related links. Maintained by Jennie Benford, University/Heinz Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University. http://diva.library.cmu.edu/Shull/ Topics: Notable People, Physics Last updated Aug 20, 2008 |
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