Note: The following links in no way represent endorsements of services, products or information and are by no means a "complete" set of links. To recommend additions or changes, contact David A. McMurrey.

Robotics

• CSU Walking Machine Homepage. A page sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Colorado State Robotics Team, winner of the SAE Robotic Walking Machine Decathlon, sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).

• AI and Robotics Web Sites. Interesting sites collected and made available by the Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab.

• Waseda University Humanoid Project. Waseda University (Japan) webpage for its project to develop a humanoid robot.

• Robotics Websites. Provided by the Seattle Robotics Society.

• What Is Cybernetics?. Information from the Department of Industrial Technology, Bradford University, UK. Also see the links to additional information on cybernetics.

• Virtual Worlds Project. The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's effort to create advanced distributed interactive simulation (DIS) systems for use in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, and industry.

• The National UFO Reporting Center. Dedicated to the collection and dissemination of objective UFO data.

Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality

• Introduction to the Science of the Artificial Intelligence. Introduction developed by Tim Dunn, Adam Dyess, and Bil Snitzer.

• Virtual Reality Society. Provides news, software, links, introductory and other information about virtual reality.

Fractals

• The Fractal Microscope. Although subtitled "Distributed Computing Approach to Mathematics in Education," this NCSA website provides a readable introductory discussion of fractals.

• Fractalzone. Philippe Wautelet's fractal website, with good introduction to fractals and links to other related sites.

• Fractals. Different types of fractals and the mathematics behind them.

Alternative Energy Sources

• Human Powered Transportation Committee. A part of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a group dedicated to fostering exchange of knowledge among engineers and planners regarding incorporating human-powered transportation (e.g., walking and bicycling) into transportation systems.

• American Association for Wind Engineering. Website of an organization for promoting research activity, enhancing professional practice, and disseminating information on wind engineering.

• U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Program. Applications, innovations, links to related sites.

• Photovoltaic Power Resource Site. Links to information on PV history, resources, applications, projects, and employment.

• Fuel Cells 2000. A private, non-profit, educational organization providing information to policy makers, the media and the public and supporting the early utilization of fuel cells by such means as pilot projects and government purchases.

• Solar Buildings Program. Website provided by the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN).

• Nova Structure. Sophomore interdisciplinary project at the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology to design an energy efficient house.

• Mr. Solar Home Page. Ask Mr. Solar . . .

• Cold Fusion Times. Webpage for the journal of the scientific aspects of loading isotopic fuels into materials. Numerous links to related aspects of this topic.

• U.S. Fusion Energy Sciences Program. Web site for the program whose mission is to "acquire the knowledge base needed for an economically and environmentally attractive fusion energy source."

• U.S. Department of Energy's Biomass Power Program. Information on biomass power, from current biopower projects, to technical reports for scientists, to general explanations for the average citizen. Also see the Biofuels Information Center operated by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

• Food for Our Future. An organization dedicated to providing understandable explanations of the benefits that biotechnology could bring to our food supply and addressing people's concerns about the new technology.

• Scientists for Global Responsibility. Promotes the socially responsible and ethical use of science and technology.

Alternative Transportation

• Ethanol Vehicle Challenge. Sponsored by the College of Engineering - Center for Envionmental Research and Technology at University of California, Riverside.

• Greener Cars. Toyota's website presenting its efforts to make automobiles "greener."

• Veggie Van. Website presenting the small motorhome powered by a diesel motor that runs on a fuel made from used and new vegetable oil. Developed by Joshua and Kaia Tickell, this engine burns up to 75% cleaner than diesel.

• DOE Transportation Technologies. Sponsored by the DOE Office of Transportation Technologies (OTT), in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of the Department of Energy,

• Solar Car Page. A web site full of information about and links to solar-powered cars.

• Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program. Lots of information about hybrid electric vehicles and the NREL program of the Department of Energy.

Biomedicine, Cryonics, Nanotechnology

• The Visible Human Project. MRI and CATSCAN cross-sections of the human body with explanations.

• Biomedical Visualization. A website available from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• UPMC Artificial Heart Program. A website sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh describing its developmental research and its applied clinical program aimed at treating end-stage heart failure.

• American Cryonics Society. History, information, and links relating to the practice of preserving the whole body, head, or brain, of persons recently declared legally dead, in the hope of revival at some time in the future.

• Ralph C. Merkle's Cryonics Webpage. Discussion and links concerning cryonics.

• Nanotechnology. Manufacturing at the molecular level! Discussion as well as links to articles and websites about nanotechnology (provided by Ralph C. Merkle).

Space, Time Travel, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence

• SETI Institute. Website of the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an organization devoted to scientific and educational projects relevant to the nature, distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe.

• International Space Station. NASA's website for this project.

• Project Skylab. Plentiful information about NASA's Skylab Project.

• Superluminal Motion: Fact or Fiction?. A rather technical but still readable discussion of the possibility of faster-than-the-speed-of-light travel by Ryan Frewin, Renee George, and Deborah Paulson, published in Brigham Young University's Digazine.

• Physics and Star Trek. Jason W. Hinson's efforts to to come up with fictional explanations for the "science" in various science fiction entertainment (especially Star Trek) given what we know about physics today.

• "Companion Object" Near Hale-Bopp Comet? Links concerning the comet, possible UFOs, cover-ups, and other X-File-ish things.

• Time Travel. Presentation on the possibilities of time travel.

Genetic Engineering and Cloning

• LLNL human Genome Center. Website of the Livermore Laboratory human genome work.

• Human Genome Organisation. Website of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), an international organisation of scientists involved in the Human Genome Project (HGP), whose global initiative is to map and sequence the human genome.

• DOE Human Genome Program Home Page. The Department of Energy's website providing information on the human genome project.

• Human Cloning and Genetic Engineering. Provided by Arthur Kerschen of the University of Arizona, discussion and many links related to genetic engineering, human cloning, in particular. In addition, see How to Clone a Human.

New Tools

• Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Good introduction to GPS provided by Anderson & Associates.

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