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Bibliography

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Books

  1. Robyn Adams and Jane McKenzie, Computer Science Unplugged, csunplugged.org  [A user friendly collection of CS Ed activities].

  2. D.A. Bader (ed.), Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Atlanta, GA, 2008.

  3. John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, Penguin (2006) [Author was a founding editor of Wired].

  4. David Harel and Yishai Feldman, Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition), Addison-Wesley (2004).

  5. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Penguin (2000).

  6. Richard P. Feynman, David Pines, Anthony Hey, Robin W. Allen (Editor), Feynman Lectures on Computation, Perseus (1996) [A physics genius gets interested in computation].

  7. Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Doubleday, 1999 and self published.

  8. Steven Wolfram, A new kind of science, Wolfram Media Inc., 2002 [A superstar giving himself credit for super science].

Web Sites

  1. Blue Waters, Sustained Petascale Computing, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/BlueWaters/news_search.php [petascale computer under construction].

  2. Center for Computational Thinking, sponsored by Microsoft Research, www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink [Carnegie Mellon may well be the premier school for CS and this is now a focus for them].

  3. Center for Extreme-Scale Computation in Science and Engineering, Univ. of Illinois, www.iacat.uiuc.edu [Transfer of advances from CS and engineering research to the larger scientific, engineering, and arts, humanities and social science communities].

  4. Columbia University Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, www.c2b2.columbia.edu/ [One of many such centers].

  5. Indiana University Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, www.compbio.iupui.edu/

  6. Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI), National Science Foundation, www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/.

  7. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, www2.krellinst.org/csgf/.

  8. eScience at Caltech, escience.caltech.edu [eScience is computationally intensive science].

  9. CACR, Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, www.cacr.caltech.edu/ [Modestly "ensures that Caltech is at the forefront of computational science and engineering"].

  10. GoogleEarth,  earth.google.com/tour.html [Data repository plus visualization, a must see; see also Virtual Earth].

  11. Jim Gray Home Page, research.microsoft.com/users/Gray/ [A heralded visionary lost at sea in 2007].

  12. Microsoft eScience Workshops, research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2008/ [A cross-disciplinary workshop of those doing eScience].

  13. Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing, iic.harvard.edu. [using innovative computing tools to accelerate discovery].

  14. National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge, www.nccs.gov/about/ [Self-described as the Leadership Computing Facility for the nation].

  15. National Computational Science Institute (NCSI), www.computationalscience.org/  [Provides computational science education workshops].

  16. NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/ [Look at the winners].

  17. National Virtual Observatory, www.us-vo.org/index.cfm [Enables new science by enhancing access to data and computing resources].

  18. Open Source Initiative, www.opensource.org/  [A revolutionary movement in line with the Web's original openness].

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  19. RAPTOR, a flowchart-based programming environment, www.usafa.af.mil/df/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/raptor.cfm [Useful for Computational Thinking class].

  20. Science Education in Computational Thinking (SECANT), NSF Workshop, 2008, secant.cs.purdue.edu/agenda08 [Purdue's computational think ed].

  21. Science Education in Computational Thinking (SECANT), NSF Workshop, 2007, secant.cs.purdue.edu/workshop.

  22. Shodor, A National Resource for Computational Science Education, www.shodor.org/home/ [A leader in wide-ranging Computational Science Education].

  23. Data Intensive Computing at Pacific Northwest National Lab, dicomputing.pnl.gov [Research level discussion].

  24. Virtual Earth, www.microsoft.com/VirtualEarth/ [Microsoft's version of Google earth that actually preceded it].

  25. Visible Human Guided Tour, www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/planes.html [Data intensive example for the non squeamish].

Digital Libraries

  1. arXiv.org, an ePrint Library at Cornell University, arxiv.org/ [Started revolution in ePublishing.]

  2. Berkeley Electronic Press, www.bepress.com [High quality peer-reviewed electronic journals].

  3. Creative Common, creativecommons.org [A forefront standard copyrighting in ePublishing].

  4. Gutenberg Digital Book Library, www.gutenberg.org [Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks)].

  5. comPADRE, Digital Resources for Physics & Astronomy, www.compadre.org/portal/.

  6. National Science Digital Library, www.nsdl.org [The nation's digital science library; plenty to find, except what you are looking for].

  7. Computational Science Education Reference Desk,  www.shodor.org/refdesk/ [A Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library].

  8. Google Book Search,  books.google.com/ [Changing Web publishing of copyrighted materials].

  9. D. Schaffhauser, Google Book Search, The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly, Campus Technology, Jan. 2008.

Simulations

  1. Landau Research Group Computational Physics Applet Collection, www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~rubin/nacphy/CPapplets/ [Programs that run through a Web browser].

  2. Math, Physics and Engineering Applets, www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html [A nice collection].

  3. Physics Applets from University of Oregon, jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/ [One of the first and excellent].

  4. Physlets, Physics Applets, webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html. [Books have been written that include these].

  5. The Web Physics Project, webphysics.davidson.edu/   [A collection of various sites].

Articles & Talks

  1.  Pat Phillips, Computational Thinking, Computer Science Teachers Association, www.csta.acm.org/Resources/sub/ResourceFiles/ComputationalThinking.pdf.

  2. Atkins Report, Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure, NSF report: Report website,  Executive Summary, The Report,  Appendices.

  3. G. Bell, J. Gray and A. Szalay Petascale computational systems: balanced cyberinfrastructure in a data-centric world, a letter to NSF Cyberinfrastructure Directorate, research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/papers/Petascale computational systems.pdf.

  4. Robert J. Brunner, S. George Djorgovski, Thomas A. Prince, Alex S. Szalay, Massive Datasets in Astronomy, arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106481.

  5. Department of Energy Research News, Data-intensive computing to large science discoveries, www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2005-12/dnnl-dct122005.php.

  6. Toni Feder,  Astronomers Envision Linking World Data Archives, Physics Today, Feb. 2002, alt PDF.

  7. Peter A. Freeman (Head, NSF Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering CISE),  How Computational Thinking will change our work and daily lives, www.iese.fraunhofer.de/fhg/Images/Plakat_Freemanenglisch_mit_tcm175-104737.pdf.

  8. Ian Gorton, Data Intensive Computing, special issue of IEEE Computer, April 2008, dicomputing.pnl.gov/news/20080414-ieee.asp.

  9. Jim Gray, eScience Talk, research.microsoft.com/users/Gray/talks/NRC-CSTB_eScience.ppt, Mountain View CA, 11 January 2007.

  10. The Heavens at Your Fingertips, a news feature, Nature, 420, 262 (2002),  alt PDF.

  11. A.J.G. Hey and E. Trefethen, The data deluge: an e-Science perspective, F. Berman, G.C. Fox and A.J.G. Hey, eds., Grid computing: making the global infrastructure a reality. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Chichester, UK, 2003, pp. 809–824.

  12. R. Ivie and K. Stowe, Skills Used Frequently by Physics Bachelors in Selected Employment Sectors, tech. report, Am. Inst. of Physics Education and Employments Statistics Division, 1995; The Early Careers of Physics Bachelors, Amer. Inst. Of Phys. College Pk, MD, 2002, AIP Pub. R-433.

  13. Barbara Jewett (National Center Supercomputing Applications), Infusing petascale thinking, gladiator.ncsa.uiuc.edu/PDFs/access/spring08/petascale-thinking.pdf.

  14. Tom McMail (External Research, Microsoft), Next Generation Scientists in the Workforce, secant.cs.purdue.edu/mcmailscientiststomorrow-1.pdf.

  15. Microsoft Research, Science 2020, Challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences  research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/background_overview.htm (also Nature, March 2006).

  16. Microsoft Science Business, The Science of Thinking, Europe's Next Policy Challenge, www.sciencebusiness.net/documents/thinking.pdf.

  17. David Moursund and Dick Ricketts, Computational Thinking, iae-pedia.org/Computational_Thinking,  [On-line educational encyclopedia].

  18. NSF Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel Report on Cyberinfrastructure, www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp.

  19. NSF Funds New Center to Bring Together Biologists, Mathematicians, www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112167&govDel=USNSF_51 [Power of mathematics and modeling to be applied to large-scale questions in biology].

  20. Steven Pinker, The computational theory of mind (2008), www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrb5ClvDho [11 minute video].

  21. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness, 2005, www.nitrd.gov/pitac/reports/20050609_computational/computational.pdf;

    President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, Investing in Our Future, 1999,  www.nitrd.gov/pitac/report.

  22. V. Springel, S.D.M. White, A. Jenkins, C.S. Frenk, N. Yoshida, L. Gao et al.. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars. Nature 2005; 435:629–636.

    24. A. Szalay and  J. Gray,     2020: Computational Science in an Exponential World, Nature, 440, 413 (2006) -- (PDF)

  24. A. Szalay and J. Gray, The World-Wide Telescope, Science, 293, 2037 (2001),  alt  PDF.

  25. Pat Phillips, Computational Thinking, a problem-solving tool for every classroom, www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/resources/ct_pat_phillips.pdf.

  26. Steven Pinker, The computational theory of mind (11 minute video), 4/13/08: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrb5ClvDhospan.

  27. Greg Wilson, Where's the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing? Amer Scientist, 94, 5-6, 2006, www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/wheres-the-real-bottleneck-in-scientific-computing [A computer scientist's concerns about modern programming practices].

  28. Jeannette Wing, Peter Henderson, Orit Hazzan, Tom Cortina, Assoc. Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in CS Education, Special Session on Computational Thinking, www.cs.cmu.edu/~tcortina/computational_thinking.pdfspan.

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  29. Jeannette M. Wing (President's Professor of CS, Carnegie Mellon), Computational Thinking, CACM 49, no. 3, 2006, 33-35, www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf [started fashion craze].

  30. Jeannette M. Wing, Computational Thinking: Two and a Half Years Later,  Abstract,  PowerPoint presentation, Video.

  31. Noel Zahler, Computational Thinking in Music,  www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/video/zahler/zahler.html.