BCL Resources and Reference Materials

Computer Reference Materials

• Guide to computers in the lab:
  • CVS cheat sheet,
  • MEG analysis tools: DREAMON,
  • computer tips,
  • system administration tools.
  • MS Windows CVS HOWTO.
  • I prefer octave to Matlab but have trouble convincing others.
  • I really hate perl.
  • Please avoid HTML email.
  • C++ tutorial for C users

• The Debian System - Concepts and Techniques by Martin F. Krafft.

• The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use, by Michael Stutz

• Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux, by Dale Scheetz

• The GNU/Linux Desktop and Survival Guide, by Graham J. Williams.

• We use LaTeX/BibTeX for most document production. Documentation is available with texdoc, arg essential (the very basics), lshort (longer manual), symbols (table of math symbols), grfguide (best way to include graphics), natbib (best way to do citations). Poke at /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/ for more. M-x info m latex in emacs for info format.

• This robust LaTeX font flame from Utah gives good info on making LaTeX documents produce output suitable for posting on the web.

• Some grad student organization has a nice LaTeX guide with pointers to graphics manuals and such.

• Peter Flynn wrote A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX.

• TeX for the Impatient has been freed.

• For a quick intro to the Gimp, a photo editor, see Gimp for the Artistically Challenged.

• You can log in to a lab machines from almost anywhere using the mindterm java applet on www-bcl.

• Nice long rant on Premature Optimization.

Resources for Academics

Fun

• BCL Fishcam, or ugly IE fishhack

Neuroscience and Signal Processing

• Textbook, Bioelectromagnetism: Principles and Applications of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Fields, by Jaakko Malmivuo and Robert Plonsey.
• Textbook, The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, by Steven W. Smith.
• CVonline: The Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision

Relevant Online Journals

• Neural Computing Surveys
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Neural Information Processing - Letters and Reviews
• Journal of Machine Learning Gossip
• Directory of Open Access Journals

Self-Help

• Inverse relationships between competence and confidence: incompetence and inflated self-assessments, and Why we overestimate our competence.

Lab mailing lists

• decommissioned due to heightened security requirements

Good Online Science Fiction

• Omni Fiction Archives
• The Infinite Matrix
• Sci Fiction on scifi.com
• Barrington Bayley short stories
• Cory Doctorow
• Sheldon Pacotti
• Infinity Plus
• Strange Horizons