computer-science

There's been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalization for each. Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:

Garkov is a comic strip generator that uses Markov chains to synthesize new Garfield strips based on transcripts of several hundred existing strips. The output varies nicely from plausible to surreal to downright incoherent.

Computing is the meeting point of three powerful concepts: universality, duality, and self-reference. In the modern era, this triumvirate has bowed to the class-conscious influence of thetractability creed. The creed's incessant call to complexity class warfare has, in turn, led t more...

S is one of the two combinators forming the SK basis of combinatory logic.

Reducing away objectively real and explanatorily powerful levels of abstractions is bad science. Computational thinking extracts lessons from software -- which is grounded in reality in a way that purely abstract disciplines like mathematics are not.

18 computer books that haven't been written (yet)

lots of interesting stuff related to computer science

Chronological list, with pointers to the associated lectures

D. Harel, 1997, IEEE COMPUTER, Vol. 30, issue 7, JULY, pp.31-42

The TUNES Project is a project to develop a free software computing system based on a reflective design

by Gerald Jay Sussman [PDF]