Reference Materials

  1. World Wide Web
  2. Common Lisp
  3. Macintosh

  1. World Wide Web

    2. WWW Technical Information is provided by the World Wide Web Consortium, including documentation for its reference proxy caching server, W30 HTTPD. A wealth of timely information concerning technologies, applications, and directions can be found in the online proceedings of Conferences on the World Wide Web.

    Internet protocols and draft standards relevant to the Web are available from several relevant Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups:

    HyperText Transfer Protocol
    HyperText Markup Language
    Uniform Resource Identifiers
    Virtual Reality Modeling Language Architecture Group
    World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders
    World Wide Web Security
    Electronic Payments
    Mobile Code
    Gif89 Animation
    Explains how to animate CompuServe Gifs.

    BrowserWatch compares all major Web browsers and enumerates plug-ins for the Netscape browser by operating system.

    Server Surveys

    Altavista is by far the top search engine for locating Web and netnews/usenet resources using full text search.

    There are a variety of news groups under news:comp.infosystems.www.* of interest to WWW users, and to a lesser extent WWW developers. The most relevant ones probably are:

    Various publications are of interest to WWW developers:

    Cypherpunks Home Page
    Gamelon Java Applet Repository
    Interactive Age
    Jon Wiederspan's WWW resource Developer's Page
    Yahoo Directory of Web Publishing Information

    Clip art for dressing up WWW servers can be found in a number of places:

    W3C Icons
    Sandra's Clip Art Server
    YAHOO Icon Index
    NOSC Icon Archive 1 and 2
    Large Italian Repository

  2. Common Lisp

    3. American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
    Association of Lisp Users.
    CMU Lisp Repository.
    CMU AI Repository.
    Common Lisp HyperSpec from Harlequin.
    Common Lisp Interface Manager 2.0 User's Guide from Harlequin.
    Common Lisp Specification, X3J13's final draft (version 15.17R) hardcopy.
    Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition (CLTL2) by Guy L. Steele Jr., Digital Press, 1990.
    Common Object Request Brokerage Architecture (CORBA).
    (See also ANSA's WWW CORBA application.)
    Inter-Language Unification (ILU) from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.
    KSL AI Resource Index.
    Mac Common Lisp Repository at Digitool, Inc.
    Tutorials:
    Related Languages:

  3. Macintosh

    4. Software

    Publications

  4. Windows

    5. Software

    Publications

John C. Mallery -- jcma@ai.mit.edu
M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory