| Web_Resources_on_Desertification Links to web sites providing information on desertification worldwide. |
| The_Second_Meeting_of_the_Conference_of_the_Parties_to_the_U_N__Convention_to_Combat_Desertification Page includes summaries of daily discusses, which featured concerned nations from around the world. Past event took place in Dakar, Senegal. (November 30, 1998) |
| First_UN_Convention_to_Combat_Desertification Purpose of meeting was to discuss the problem of land degradation and to offer suggestions to prevent this phenomena. Page includes list of participating countries and their ideas. Took place 29 Sep |
| As_the_World_Turned History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others |
| A_Brief_History_of_Cosmology A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians. |
| Christianity_and_the_Mathematical_Sciences_-_the_Heliocentric_Hypothesis Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. |
| Construction_of_Cosmology When and how physical cosmology became a science. |
| The_Copernican_Revolution A timeline with links. |
| The_Copernican_Revolution Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity. |
| Cosmology_since_1900 A timeline with links. |
| Flat_Earth_Historical_Thinking History of the belief that the earth is flat. |
| History_and_Philosophy_of_Twentieth_Century_Cosmology Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references. |
| History_of_Cosmology An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. |
| History_of_Cosmology A history of our conceptions of the universe from ancient origin myths to the frontiers of modern science. UC Berkeley course syllabus and lecture notes. |
| Inventing_the_Solar_System Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move. |
| The_Shapley_-_Curtis_Debate_in_1920 The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae. |
| Thomas_Aquinas_and_Big_Bang_Cosmology The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe. |
| World_Cosmology_Histories Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history. |
| Analysis_and_Implementations_of_Huffman_Coding Huffman trees and Fibonacci numbers, by Alex Vinokur. |
| The_Arithmetic_Coding_Page By Alistair Moffat. |
| Building_Blocks Applications of Reed-Solomon codes. |
| Coding_Theory,_Algebraic_Geometry_and_Gröbner_Bases D.A. Leonard. One in a series of snapshots of applications of discrete mathematics to other parts of mathematics. |
| Coding_Theory_and_Algebraic_Geometry__an_Interplay A short explanation of Goppa codes by J. W. P. Hirschfeld. |
| Coding_Theory_Overview J.E.H. Shaw. |
| Coding_Theory__the_First_50_Years Richard Pinch. |
| Designs,_Codes_and_Cryptography_Bibliography Hypertext bibliography containing all papers published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, maintained by David M Jones. |
| Encoding_and_Decoding_Reed/Solomon_Codes Web lecture notes by Adina Matache, University of Washington. |
| Entropy_Coding Publications, peoples and source code for entropy coding. |
| Error-Control_Coding Links at the Department of Telecommunications, University of Bremen. |
| Iterative_Probabilistic_Decoding_of_a_Low_Density_Parity_Check_Code Online demonstration by David Mackay. |
| A_Library_of_Linear_(and_Nonlinear)_Codes By N. J. A. Sloane. |
| Notes_on_Coding_Theory By J.I. Hall (PDF). Please contact the author before making use of them. |
| On_Woven_Convolutional_Codes Thesis by Stefan Hoest. Woven convolutional codes are attractive alternatives to turbo codes. |
| Reed_Solomon_Encoding_and_Decoding_in_DVD A Java applet demonstrating the use of error-correcting codes on DVDs. |
| Reed-Solomon_Codes Principles, architecture and implementation. |
| Report_of_the_Working_Group_on_Cryptology_and_Coding National Science Foundation, April 17-18, 1997. |
| R_W__Hamming_-_Error_Detecting_and_Error_Correcting_Codes Bell System Technical Journal, April 1950. |
| Source_Coding_and_Data_Compression Mitsuharu Arimura's bookmarks. |
| Theory_of_Codes Lecture notes from a course taught by Jean Berstel and Dominque Perrin. |
| The_Ubiquitous_Reed-Solomon_Codes By Barry Cipra, SIAM News, January 1993. |
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