Joe Mitchell's Hotlist

Compgeom.com email, Wikipedia, Craigslist, YouSendIt, edealinfo.com

Contents: my web pages -- general information -- computing info -- computers shopping -- local information -- Israel information -- web search -- CAD/VR -- cartography -- geometry -- geometric software -- graphics/visualization -- OR -- graph theory and combinatorics -- journals and books -- mathematical software -- mathematics -- theoretical computer science -- funding agencies -- my hobbies -- personal.

Pages I help to maintain:

• Home page; webmail in AMS
• Papers and publications; see also BibFinder
• Computational Geometry at Stony Brook
• Events List (conferences, etc, of interest to me)
• People List
• Courses I Teach: Course Material for students
• The Open Problems Project (TOPP), with J. O'Rourke and E. Demaine
• Computational Geometry Steering Committee
• Family links and photos, and Bonnie Mitchell's Jewish and Israeli art

General information:

• CNN
• New York Times
• FoxNews
• directory of worldwide newspapers
• Webster's Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary
• Hebrew dictionary
• Technical Writing Handbook, all kinds of useful English info!
• Chicago Manual of Style
• How Stuff Works
• USPS Zip+4 lookup service
• Calendar: US Holidays and more
• Jewish Holidays calendar
• The Quotations Page
• Bartlett's Quotations Online
• Anagrams
• College Board, SAT info, etc
• AnyWho.com (includes reverse search for phone numbers)
• Cheap calling card
• IDT Net2Phone, for checking my account, etc.
• Penniesperminute.com
• Davis Vision, for my vision care plan
• The Health Care Spending Account: form (fax to 800-743-3271)
• The United States Postal Service, Internet Branch, postal rates!, Click-N-Ship, buy stamps
• Tax Forms, US Treasury
• New York DMV, Edmund's Car Guides, AutoSmart, automotive.com,
• Foreign exchange rates; or by date exchange rates
• Travel Deals:
  • Orbitz
  • BookingBuddy
  • SideStep
  • Vayama.com
  • LastMinuteDealFinder
  • LastMinuteTravel
  • Site59.com, for weekend getaways
  • SmarterTravel
  • Farechase.com
  • Qixo.com, good for international
  • Frommers
  • JetBlue, airline for cheap tickets to CA
  • IsraelToGo, airfares, hotels, cars in Israel
  • Council Travel, deals for faculty/students
  • PriceLine, to name your price for airline fares, cars, etc
  • HotWire.com, also to bid for very cheap tickets (Petr recommends)
  • Internet Travel Network
  • Uniglobe Travel, cheap plane tickets (I used to CA)
  • Airfare.com, another discount agency
  • TISS , (they are particularly good for to/from Europe)
  • AESU
  • Survey page, for discount travel
  • Tripmakers, offers also last-minute discounts
  • CheapTickets.Com
  • Lowfares.com
  • Cheap Flights USA - Price comparison of flight fares and airline tickets
  • 1800FlyEurope.com
  • AirHitch, lets you "hitch hike" to Europe for cheap
  • SideStep, searcher offered by USAir (for all airlines)
  • Lowestfare.com
  • Expedia.com
  • SideStep.com, searches also JetBlue, etc.
  • Bestfares.com, good for last-minute deals
  • EZTrip
  • Travelocity
  • Millrun Tours, consolidator for travel agents only (but useful newsletter)
  • Luxury Travel Source, deals on first class, business, etc
  • Hotels By City More than 500 worldwide travel guides
  • Hotel Reservation System, for cheap hotels in Europe
  • Tomtrade.de, hotels in Germany
• Financial Sites:
  • Everbank
  • ING
  • CapitalOne
  • Discovercard
  • E*Trade
  • GMAC Demand Notes
  • HSBC
  • Harvard Crimson Cash
  • EZ-Pass
  • Verizon
  • GMCard
  • Citibank Mastercard
  • Chase credit cards
  • AmExp
  • FashionBug
  • Verizon
• Memberships:
  • LIPA Edge
  • BMG
  • Snapfish.com photos
  • MCI Neighborhood
  • T-Mobile, cell phone
  • Cingular, cell phone
• Many Languages!
• Language translation dictionaries
• FreeTranslation.com, translates whole paragraphs
• AltaVista Translator service
• Blue Mountain Greeting cards, More greeting cards
• overstock.com, discount shopping (free S&H)
• HeartlandAmerica
• Mail-In Rebates
• AFT Union
• Uncover Reveal search and table of contents service
• Web of Science (web version of Science Citation Index)
• Faculty Salaries in CS
• Salary.Com, all kinds of salaries in all fields
• Sabbitcal Homes (for rent, exchange, etc)

• Software Discounts for Educators, cheap Microsoft products, etc.
• Gifsicle, gif and animation tools
• Latex2html manual
• Martin Held's notes on Unix-based typesetting, drawing, plotting tools, from his course in Salzburg.
• Lilypond Latex Music typesetting

• Bigwords.com, for comparison shopping of multiple textbooks
• PriceWatch, gives great comparisons of where the best deals are!
• price comparisons at Nextag
• Surplus Direct, (Hannah recommends)
• CDW
• Digiconcepts
• Best Shopping Center

• Campus directory, look up phone, address, email
• Off-Campus Housing Office
• Campus Dining (hours, meal card, etc)
• Announcements to campus, a weekly service (submit by 12:00 Friday); Archive
• Bioinformatics Seminars at Stony Brook
• CELT home page
• Academic dishonesty guidelines
• Grad Student database, AMS
• SOLAR System
• Blackboard, site for on-line courses, gradebooks, etc,
• Web hit stats at AMS
• Web-based AMS mail reader
• Computer-Based Instruction, Division of Information Technology, SUNYSB
• Staples Business Advantage, part of the SUNYSB procurement homepage
• Office of Grants Management, SUNYSB; Main Research Site (for forms, rates); FORMS; Consultant travel form, travel rates, tax exempt form
• OVPR Memos archive
• MAS monthly reports; click here for help
• SBF monthly reports ( year 2001-2002)
• Microsoft Office XP site license at SUNYSB
• monthly grant reports (MAS's)
• IDF form (in place of SUNY 2)
• Research Foundation forms, another site; there is also an index site for Research
• Dial-Up Info, SUNYSB
• Academic Calendars at SUNYSB and the Final exam schedule
• SUNYSB SINC Site, with other useful pointers
• SUNYSB Library
• Web of Science Citation Searches, etc
• Loews theater, Stony Brook
• Moviefone.com, to find listings, buy tickets
• Long Island Online
• Long Island FleaMart
• LIRR
• Three Village Schools
• Ward Melville High School
• Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School
• Emma S. Clark, library
• Undergraduate Council: (1998-99), (1999-2000), (2000-2001)
• What's on TV? (NY Times)
• Ramp Ford rentals, good deals on renting vehicles locally
• SearchNYC.com list of restaurants, etc. in the City
• A Reasonable Alternative, B&B's in Port Jeff area
• Local Transportation, airport shuttles, trains, ferries

• Bezek phone book for Israel
• Israel Ministry: General Info, News
• Macom Home Page of Info
• Jerusalem Post
• Ha'aretz
• ExtraTV, TV and radio from Israel
• Mivzakon
• Maariv
• Israel Railroad
• Hebrew lessons

Lycos:
• All-In-One: 200 search engines on one page
• DejaNews Research Service - query form
• WWWW - the world wide web worm
• Yahoo WWW index
• EINet Galaxy WWW index
• Aqui reverse link tracer

• Tecnomatix
• FriendlyMachines, makes robot lawnmowers, etc (based in Israel) (see also RobotStore for all kinds of mobile robots stuff for hobbyists)
• 3DIX, IBM
• BRL-CAD, a CSG-based solid modeling system
• National Grid Project, Joe Thompson
• NIST Repository of Parts
• Viewpoint Parts
• Large Models, Georgia Tech
• Big power plant data, UNC
• MRI Slice data
• Berkeley Soda Hall data
• Rapid Prototyping Sites
• VR Lab at Naval Research Lab
• CRS4's Visualization and Virtual Reality group, Italy
• Multi-Tesselation (MT) package, from University of Genova
• MINGLE, (Multiresolution in Geometric Modelling), EU research training network
• Canoma, a 3D model-building product that uses 2D image input
• Multigen-Paradigm, Realtime 3D company (with Computer Associates)
• Cocone, surface reconstruction software, using CGAL and LEDA, from OSU (Tamal Dey)
• Solid Modeling Association, info of members in the field, etc
• Center for Design Visualization
• 2D Nesting Software, Grandine's project at Boeing

• Getting Started with GIS, and pointers to GIS info
• MapBlast
• Maps On Us
• Yahoo map index
• Yahoo! Maps (online map server).
• Research on cartography and GIS algorithms
• DEM data (USGS)
• More DEM data (USGS)
• More DEM data (Xerox)
• Seagull Project (password protected)
• Descartes (acquired Lightstone Group, 1998)

• , figure drawing
• People in CG, list by Pascucci, or CG Authors, by Eppstein
• People in Mesh Generation
• Search the CompGeom Bibliography
• Hervé Brönnimann edits the Computational Geometry Tribune
• Computational Topology thesis of Afra Zomorodian
• NYU Geometry Seminars
• Jeff Erickson's Geometry Page
• Computational Geometry on the WWW, Maintained by Guilherme Albuquerque Pinto
• David Eppstein's Geometry in Action
• David Eppstein's Geometry Junkyard
• David Eppstein's General Geometric References
• Mesh Generation Pages
• Meshing Roundtable, 1998 (lots of nice papers)
• Voronoi.com, page of Chris Gold
• Task Force Report
• Postings to compgeom
• CG Column 29: Past accomplishments and future directions - Joe O'Rourke
• Strategic Directions in Computational Geometry: Working Group Report - Roberto Tamassia et al
• Zometool: Ball and stick building toy/tool for geometers
• George Hart's home page, a fascinating collection of images of his work and links to others
• George Hart's Conway notation tool (Java), virtual polyhedra (really cool! paper models, etc)
• Geometry problem of the week (elementary)
• Bryan Stout's article on optimal paths in games
• International Biometric Group
• EG-Models, a library of electronic geometry models (not CAD models, but models of a mathematical interest)

• GeomView Web Page
• CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
• Computer Vision Software
• Directory of Computational Geometry Software
• QMG: Quality Mesh Generator, Steve Vavasis
• QuickCD, Stony Brook's fast collision detection code (my work with J. Klosowski, M. Held)
• CORE library, NYU (Chee Yap)
• TPIE, external memory algorithms page at Duke
• SAND, Spatial indexing applets, Hanan Samet, UMD

• ACM SIGGRAPH
• People in Graphics
• Graphics hardware acceleration of algorithms
• Eurographics Publications
• SIGGRAPH Israel
• SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography
• VolVis, Stony Brook
• NYU Seminar (fall 1998) on CORE
• Joint NYU-SUNYSB Visualization Seminar
• SUNYSB Graphics Seminar
• LOD/Multiresolution Modeling
• Stanford Graphics Group
• MIT Graphics Group
• V-COLLIDE
• SOLID, a library for interference detection of 3D polygonal objects undergoing rigid motion
• V-Clip, A C++ collision detection code by Brian Mirtich
• The GNU Triangulated Surface Library (GTS)
• Java3D API page
• 3D Geometry File Formats

• BIB search of OR journals, INFORMS
• Math Programming Gloassary by H. Greenberg
• WORMS
• Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• The Cornell University School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
• SoPlex a C++ sequential object-oriented simplex, by Roland Wunderling
• Optimization Online, site for e-papers, etc
• Convex Optimization, book of Boyd and Vandenberghe

• Erdos Number Project
• Graph Theory Book, by Reinhard Diestel (Springer-Verlag Feb/March 2000)
• TSPBIB Home Page, which has pointers to everything on TSP
• The Steiner Tree Page
• The Hamiltonian Page, with all kinds of good stuff on Hamilton cycles/paths
• Complexity of Scheduling Problems
• The Vehicle Routing Problem
• Graph drawing
• J. Graph Algorithms & Applications
• J. Graph Theory
• Open problems in graph minors, N. Dean, DIMACS.
• Graph Theory Tutorials, C. Caldwell, U. Tennessee.
• Sequences Page, to look up a sequence, given the first entries

• scholar.google.com, for citation search, citation counts
• arXiv.org
• CiteSeer, to search for papers (NEC); also see CS Search
• ComputerScienceWeb (CITE)
• Scirus, scientific literature search
• JSTOR, a warehouse of several journals that are searchable, with (free) printable articles
• Journal of Discrete Algorithms
• Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science DNTCS, A Free Electronic Journal
• International Journal of Mathematical Algorithms
• J. Graph Algorithms & Applications
• Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), an electronic journal
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
• SIAM J. Computing
• SIAM J. Discrete Math, now accepting electronic submissions (D. Shmoys, ed.)
• Elsevier Contents Direct service
• Information Processing Letters
• Discrete and Computational Geometry
• IJCGA
• CGTA; editor login
• ACM TOG
• CAD
• Computer-Aided Geometric Design
• Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Discrete Mathematics
• Journal of Graphics Tools
• Operations Research Letters
• World Scientific
• Baltzer Publishing
• Springer Verlag, or call 1-800-SPRINGER
• Addison-Wesley
• AddAll.Com, searches for best buys in books at stores, internet
• Annals of Improbable Research
• Bookpool.com, discount technical books
• Discount Books: Libhitech

• Wolfram Research, Inc. (publishers of Mathematica)
• Function Plotter (applet)
• Mathematica World (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
• NIST Guide to Available Math. Software (GAMS)
• Mathematica notebooks converted to HTML format, T. Robb, Monash U., Australia.
• TeX frequently asked questions
• Dante TeX archive

• MathWorld, great site for all math!
• , do indefinite integrals
• American Mathematical Society; AMS Classification System
• Math Awareness Week'96
• AMS MathSciNet Search
• Hypatia archive and bibliographic database of math and comp. sci. (Warning: case-sensitive.)
• Mathematics Association of America
• Mathematics Information Servers (Penn. State U.)
• MathSearch keyword search among WWW mathematics resources
• MathSoft unsolved mathematics problems page
• Recreational mathematics
• Sci.math.research archives
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mathematics
• MathTrek and other math columns (Science News)

• ACM Digital Library
• Search the HBP Bib
• Analysis of Algorithms Page (by P. Flajolet, H. Prodinger)
• DADS, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, NIST
• FOCS Home Page
• STOC Home Page
• Taulbee Salary Surveys
• TCS Virtual Address Book
• Complexity Page
• ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms & Computation Theory (SIGACT)
• DIMACS
• ACM Publications (abstracts of ACM journals)
• Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science
• Dennis Grinberg's Theory Page and lists of theory conference attendees
• Glimpse: Computer Science bibliography searcher from U. Arizona
• Information and Computation
• Limits to Parallel Computation: P-Completeness Theory (contents and problem list from book by Greenlaw, Hoover, and Ruzzo)
• Specialized parts in software engineering: Algorithms. Results of a web crawl on the subject from the Systems Eng. Res. Inst., Korea.
• Compendium of NP Optimization Problems.
• A Theoretician's Guide to the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms: David Johnson.
• Hamming's talk on scientific research

• List of Research Sponsors, many links to agencies
• Fastlane
• NSF: CCR
• NSF: Grants Info
• CIES (Fulbright), and the Alumni Initiatives Program

• Billy Joel, my favorite musician.
• Scott Joplin, another favorite
• Ragtime Music Page
• The Piano Page
• Home construction and remodeling
• Wallace and Gromit
• Link to building codes, etc; very handy for my construction projects!
• Home repair solutions
• Bob Vila's site
• Games by AllMixedUp, some good combinatorial games
• Riddles
• Puzzles and Riddles
• Illusions and art

• Wood Acres Elementary School
• College High School
• My Uncle Jay, died in Vietnam just after staying with us at our house in Pittsburgh
• Hazen Home, of my cousins (Uncle Jay's family)
• Peanuts
• Age Gauge
• Darwin Awards, acts of incredible stupidity that help to rid the world of idiots
• Laugh-A-Lot (humor)
• Joke-A-Day
• Daily humor list
• TopFive.com, humorous lists
• How to write a good scientific paper, or a PhD thesis, humor
• The Learning Kingdom, Inc.
• Word of the Day
• Presidential trivia

Joe Mitchell -- Applied Math & Statistics -- Computer Science -- SUNY Stony Brook