General informations

Encyclopedias

• WikiPedia

Foreign travel

• advice for travellers (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France)
• advice for travellers (US Department of State)
• advice for travellers (Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom)

Scientific research

Directories

• French academic documentation system
• Central French file of PhD theses in humanities and social sciences

Sciences

Mathematics

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
  • biographies

Research in computer science: some links

Bibliographies

• Michael Ley's DBLP
• Alf-Christian Achilles' Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Automatic citation indexer CITESEER
• Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Researchers

• Search engine for computer scientists
• directory of personnel from CNRS and associated units

Online publications

• virtual library of the Association for Computer Machinery (access restricted to the members of the association)
• virtual library of the IEEE Computer Society (access restricted to the members of the association)
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science (access restricted to subscribers)

Lists

• conferences and colloquia in computer science, their acronyms and associated bibliographies (DBLP)
• conferences in semantics and abstract interpretation (Patrick Cousot)

Administrative structures

Financements

France

• Ministère de la Recherche
  • actions concertées incitatives (ACI)
  • réseaux de recherche
    • réseau national de recherche en technologies logicielles (RNTL)
    • réseau national de recherche en télécommunications (RNRT)
• CNRS, actions du département STIC

Europe

• 6^ème programme cadre de recherche et développement (PCRD)
  • thème Information Society Technologies

Some useful links

Computing

Programming

I'm interested in the development of free software; I've done some personal works.

Standards informatiques

WWW

• standard HTML 4.01
• standard CSS 2.01
• standard JavaScript 1.5
• interface DOM-Gecko
• Document Level 3 Core Specification
• standard ECMAscript