Computer Science Resources

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Secure Terminal Emulators

• PuTTY - free implementation of Telnet and SSH (Windows)
• ShellGuard - secure Telnet/SSH client (Windows)
• Tera Term and its secure shell extension module (Windows)
• NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH - enhanced version of the NiftyTelnet 1.1 application which adds support for encrypted terminal sessions using SSH (Macintosh)
• MacSSH - modified version of BetterTelnet with SSH2 support (Macintosh)

Programming Languages

• Java 2 Platform from Sun Microsystems (Windows/Unix)
• Chez Scheme from Indiana University (Windows/Unix)
• DrScheme from Rice University (Windows/Macintosh/Unix)

GNU Software

• GNU Emacs for Windows installation instructions
• More GNU Software from the Free Software Foundation

• Harvey Mudd CS Documentation Pages
• GNU Emacs Manual
• UNIX is a Four Letter Word: Christopher C. Taylor's Guide to UNIX
• Java 2 API Documentation from Sun Microsystems
• Java Tutorial from Sun
• Java Language Specification
• Beginner's Guide to HTML from NCSA
• Web Style Guide

• ITS Main Page
• ITS Help Pages
• ITS Computing Labs and Classrooms

• Liberal Arts Computer Science Consortium
• World Wide Web Consortium
• Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM Programming Contest
• Computing Research Association
• IEEE Computer Society
• Association for Women in Computing

General Advice

• Some general information about the PhD degree (by Douglas Comer)
• Advice for undergraduates considering graduate school (by Phil Agre)
• Choosing a graduate school in computer science (by Rachel Pottinger)
• How to succeed in graduate school: a guide for students and advisors (by Marie desJardins)
• Graduate school survival guide (by Wanda Pratt)
• CRA-W graduate school information guide
• HMC guide to CS graduate school

CS Graduate Program Rankings

• National Research Council Study of PhD Programs in CS
• National Academy of Sciences Rankings of PhD Programs in CS

Graduate Fellowship Opportunities for Seniors

Pomona College Graduate Fellowships Office

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Graduate Programs
(Deadlines vary depending on program)
U.S. Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Abroad Program
(Deadline: October 25)
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships
(Deadline: November 1)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships
(Deadline: November 7)
National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships
(Deadline: November 15)
Soros Graduate Fellowships for New Americans
(Deadline: November 30)
GEM Consortium Graduate Fellowship Programs for Minorities
(Deadline: December 1)
Lucent Technologies Graduate Research Program for Women
(Deadline: January 7)
Lucent Technologies Cooperative Research Fellowship Program for Minorities
(Deadline: January 7)
AT&T Labs Graduate Fellowship Program for Women and Minorities
(Deadline: January 15)
Google Anita Borg Scholarship for Women
(Deadline: January 15)
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program
(Deadline: January 31)
DOE High-Performance Computer Science Graduate Fellowship
(Deadline: February 12)
National Training Systems Association I/ITSEC Scholarship Program
(Deadline: February 28)

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Program
(Deadline: March 1, 2005)
Pomona College Craddock-McVicar Summer Research/Fall Teaching Award
(Deadline: March 1, 2005)
University of North Carolina Greensboro REU in Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words
(Deadline: May 25, 2005)
Pomona College Irvine Summer Fellowships
(Deadline: March 1, 2005)
Harvey Mudd College REU in AI, Systems, and Networks
(Deadline: March 8, 2005)
UC Irvine REU in Micro/Nano Technology
(Deadline: March 21, 2005)
Ithaca College REU in Virtual Reality and Fractal Analysis
(Deadline: March 15, 2005)
Columbus State REU in Computer Networking
(Deadline: March 1, 2005)
University of South Carolina REU in Security and Software Engineering
(Deadline: March 1, 2005)
List of all NSF Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs
(Deadlines vary depending on program)
Hope College Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(Deadline: February 28, 2005)
Univ. of Minnesota Internship Program in Scientific Computing and Graphics
(Deadline: February 28, 2005)
Santa Fe Institute Summer REU Internships
(Deadline: February 18, 2005)
CRA Distributed Mentor Project for Undergraduate Women in Computing
(Deadline: February 15, 2005)
Summer Internship in Natural Language Processing at Johns Hopkins University
(Deadline: February 11, 2005)
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Summer Student Program
(Deadline: February 1, 2005 or ASAP thereafter)
Argonne National Lab Undergraduate Program in Computational Science
(Deadline: February 1, 2005 or ASAP thereafter)
U.S. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
(Deadline: February 1, 2005 or ASAP thereafter)
National Security Agency Summer Network Evaluation Intern Program
(Deadline: November 15, 2005)
NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
(Deadline: January 31, 2005)
DIMACS Summer REU Internships
(Deadline: January 31, 2005)
APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women
(Deadline: January 31, 2005)
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Undergraduate Programs
(Deadlines vary depending on program)
MIT Lincoln Lab Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Los Alamos National Lab Undergraduate Student Program
(Deadline: April 1, 2004)
AT&T Undergraduate Research Program for Women and Minorities
(Deadline: December 1, 2003)

Internships in Industry

Industrial Light and Magic Student Internships

IBM Extreme Blue Internships

ACM Listing of CS Internship and Co-Op Opportunities