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:

• Internet Archive, Wayback Machine
• 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
• AnyWho.com (includes reverse search for phone numbers)
• Cheap calling card
• IDT Net2Phone, for checking my account, etc.
• Penniesperminute.com
• Credit Cards, Credit card deals from PlasticRewards.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:
  • lowfares.com
  • Orbitz
  • BookingBuddy
  • SideStep
  • ITA Software, for optimization search of travel
  • Farecast.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
  • 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)
  • TISS , (they are particularly good for to/from Europe)
  • Survey page, for discount travel
  • CheapTickets.Com
  • Lowfares.com
  • CheapFlights.com - Price comparison of flight fares and airline tickets
  • 1800FlyEurope.com
  • AirHitch, lets you "hitch hike" to Europe for cheap
  • Lowestfare.com
  • Expedia.com
  • SideStep.com, searches also JetBlue, etc.
  • Bestfares.com, good for last-minute deals
  • EZTrip
  • Cheap Travel, at Travelocity
  • Millrun Tours, consolidator for travel agents only (but useful newsletter)
  • Luxury Travel Source, deals on first class, business, etc
  • Hotel Reservation System, for cheap hotels in Europe
  • Casamundo, vacation weekly house rentals in Europe, USA
  • prontohotel.com, for academic discounted hotels
  • Tomtrade.de, hotels in Germany
  • allstays.com, travel resources
  • hotelsonline.com
• 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
  • 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
• 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

• DirectTextbook.com, search textbooks, rentals, online too
• Bigwords.com, for comparison shopping of multiple textbooks
• CampusBooks.com, for comparison shopping of textbooks
• Cheap Used Textbooks
• PriceWatch, gives great comparisons of where the best deals are!
• price comparisons at Nextag
• Estonish.com
• Surplus Direct,
• CDW
• Digiconcepts
• Best Shopping Center
• MySimon.com
• Shopzilla.com
• PriceGrabber.com

• Campus directory, look up phone, address, email
• Campus Dining (hours, meal card, etc)
• Announcements to campus, a weekly service (submit by 12:00 Friday); Archive
• CELT home page
• Academic dishonesty guidelines
• Grad Student database, AMS
• SOLAR System
• Blackboard, site for on-line courses, gradebooks, etc,
• Web-based AMS mail reader
• Office of Grants Management, SUNYSB; Main Research Site (for forms, rates); FORMS; travel rates
• MAS monthly reports;
• SBF monthly reports ( year 2001-2002)
• Research Foundation forms, another site; there is also an index site for Research
• Academic Calendars at SUNYSB and the Final exam schedule
• SUNYSB SINC Site, with other useful pointers
• SUNYSB Library
• Loews theater, Stony Brook
• Moviefone.com, to find listings, buy tickets
• Long Island Online
• LIRR
• Three Village Schools
• Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School
• Emma S. Clark, library
• Undergraduate Council: (1998-99),
• 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

• Bezek phone book for Israel
• Israel Ministry: General Info, News
• Jerusalem Post
• Ha'aretz
• Mivzakon
• Maariv
• Israel Railroad

Lycos:
• DejaNews Research Service - query form
• 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
• National Grid Project, Joe Thompson
• Viewpoint Parts
• Large Models, Georgia Tech
• Big power plant data, UNC
• MRI Slice data
• Berkeley Soda Hall data
• Multi-Tesselation (MT) package, from University of Genova
• Canoma, a 3D model-building product that uses 2D image input
• Multigen-Paradigm, Realtime 3D company (with Computer Associates)
• Solid Modeling Association, info of members in the field, etc

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

• , figure drawing
• CG Authors, by Eppstein
• People in Mesh Generation
• Hervé Brönnimann edits the Computational Geometry Tribune
• Computational Topology thesis of Afra Zomorodian
• NYU Geometry Seminars
• Jeff Erickson's Geometry Page
• 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
• 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
• SIGGRAPH Israel
• 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
• 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)
• Optimization Online, site for e-papers, etc

• Graph Theory Book, by Reinhard Diestel (Springer-Verlag Feb/March 2000)
• 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
• Graph Theory Tutorials, C. Caldwell, U. Tennessee.
• Sequences Page, to look up a sequence, given the first entries

• Discrete and Computational Geometry
• Journal of Computational Geometry
• IJCGA
• CGTA; editor login
• 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 DMTCS, A Free Electronic Journal
• 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
• ACM TOG
• Journal of Graphics Tools
• World Scientific
• 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

• NIST Guide to Available Math. Software (GAMS)
• 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
• Mathematics Association of America
• MathSoft unsolved mathematics problems page
• Recreational mathematics
• Sci.math.research archives
• 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
• 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)
• Compendium of NP Optimization Problems.
• Hamming's talk on scientific research

• Fastlane
• NSF: CCR
• NSF: Grants Info
• CIES (Fulbright)

• Scott Joplin, another favorite
• Home construction and remodeling
• Home repair solutions
• Bob Vila's site
• Puzzles and Riddles

• 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
• The Learning Kingdom, Inc.
• Word of the Day
• Presidential trivia