Miscellaneous Links

General Resources

The following links are of general interest. Some of them are accessible only if your university has registered with the site.

Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists on the Internet

NetEc contains several links to websites for economists.

JSTOR contains the full text of many journals in economics, mathematics, and political science. Articles are available if they were published five years ago or earlier.

Mathscinet: Mathscinet is a database of reviews of publications in the mathematical literature. It also has a service for selling copies of articles.

Bell Labs Scientific Computation papers. Here is the home page for the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research group.

Benchmarking software at BenchWeb

Numerical Analysis Digest

The Internet Mathematics Library

Welcome to Intel

Hilbert's problems

Hilbert's 1900 lecture on the state of mathematics is perhaps the most influential mathematics lecture of all time. The lecture is available here. A nice table lists the problems and their solutions, if any.

 

Numerical Methods and Software

Automatic Differentiation

Chapter 2 discusses some of the ideas used in automatic differentiation. The following websites contain information about this topic:

Computational Differential Project at Argonne National Laboratory

Automatic Differentiation tools: Links to several codes

NASA: A Fortran Program for Nonlocal Automated Sensitivity Analysis.  See also the paper.

Optimization

People Working in Optimization

Decision tree for optimization

Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods

Pseudo-random and quasi-random numbers

Finder software: FinDer produces low-discrepancy sequences. This web site discusses some of the applications of low-discrepancy sequences to finance.

This website contains many references on random number generators.

News on random number generators

 

Agent-Based Computational Economics and Artificial Economies

ACE:  Web-Site for Agent-Based Computational Economics

Santa Fe Institute:

Santa Fe Working Papers

Artificial Life: This web site contains material related to the artificial life research at the Santa Fe Institute.

 

Supercomputing Centers

CTC HOME: Cornell Theory Center

SDSC: A National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering

Welcome To NCSA: The University of Illinois - Champagne supercomputing center.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Home Page

 

Alternative Computing Technologies

As we exhaust the implications of Moore's law, we will turn to other technologies to continue improvements in computing speed.

Quantum computing

Quantum computing is a possible alternative computer technology which, if it works, would provide an enormous increase in speed for solving some difficult problems.

This Scientific American article is an accessible introduction to quantum computing.

Peter Shor's paper on using quantum computation to factor numbers gave this literature a kickstart a few years ago.

Centre for Quantum Computation

Quantum Physics and Computers Expository article by Barenco

http://www.banished.dem...k/quantum/Algorithm.htm

Learning in Non-superpositional Quantum Neurocomputers 

Stanford-Berkeley-MIT-IBM project

Quantum computing - an idea whose time has come

DNA and biological computing

DNA computing is another possible technology for the future. The following sites contain some basic information about the key ideas.

Dna Computing

DNA Computing

USING DNA ALGORITHMS TO SOLVE NP-COMPLETE PROBLEMS

Kenneth L. Manders

Dan Boneh

USC Computational Biolog

Lila Kari