Dr. Parhami has found the following Web sites, organized into 20 categories, useful for his own academic and personal pursuits. The links may not be up to date, so use at your own risk.
Mail, Search, Directory Guides, Databases, Tools
Dictionaries and Reference Maps, Travel, Weather
Libraries and Archives Bookstores and Publishers
Univ. of California, UCSB UCSB/ECE, CE Program
Technical Periodicals Technical Conferences
Education and Teaching Hardware and Software
Research Information Research Funding Sources
Groups and Organizations News and Views
Art, Literature, Poetry Games, Hobbies, Recreation
Humor and Curiosities Banks, Stores, E-Merchants
Page last updated on 2021 August 18
Disclaimer: I am frequently contacted by Web managers and other readers with suggestions to expand or update this page. I have neither the resources nor the need to frequently update this page, which is primarily for my personal use. Updates occur when I need something new or when I discover that a link is broken/dead. There is no routine monitoring of Web sites for the sake of keeping the page up to date. Please take no offense if your e-mails with suggestions go unanswered.
GMail-ECE
GMail-BP
Linked-in
ConnectBox
Facebook
Twitter
GoodReads
Google
G-Books
G-Images
G-Scholar
G-Translate
G-Video
YouTube
Searching via multiple engines
White Pages Yellow Pages
Yahoo
Yahoo-based AllTheWeb
Yahoo directory
Arranging a room Better Homes & Gardens
Calculators of all kinds
Calculators Math, engineering, conversions, and more
Calendar, Persian Calendar generator
Calendar, Persian On-line calendar
Calendars and other time/date stuff
Citations and h-index Via Google Scholar
Father's World
Homework help and more Fact Monster
Internet connection test Testing the speed of an Internet connection
Internet domain names and Web hosting Network Solutions
Movie Guide Internet Movie Database
Music Guide All Music
Persian Typing Aid Behnevis
Persian Typing Aid Google transliteration
Persian Typing Aid Direct input from on-line keyboard
TV Guide Programs listing
Unit Conversions UnitConverter.net
US Consumer Price Index
US Internal Revenue Service Guides and forms
Visual map of the market
Dictionary/Thesaurus, English Dictionary.com
Dictionary/Thesaurus, English TheFreeDictionary.com
Dictionary, multilingual Definitions and various searches (starting with, ending with, containing)
Dictionary, Persian to/from English
Dictionary, Persian encyclopedic Loghat-Naameh Dehkhoda
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia, free online Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Iranica
Guinness World Records
Quotations archives: BrainyQuote Quoteland
Thesaurus, English Theasaurus.com
Airline, United United Airline
California coastline aerial photos
Highway webcams, California California Dept. Transportation
Hotels.com Hotels search and reservations
Los Angeles traffic prediction Traffic movement map, by day and hour
Map of the World Editable, interactive world map
Maps, Expedia Maps and driving directions
Maps, Google Google interactive maps
Microsoft Virtual Earth
Travel, comparison shopping LowFares.com
Travel, Expedia
Travel, UC Univ. of California travel and car rental rate agreements
Travelocity
Weather for Goleta, Ventura, West Los Angeles
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
AMS Mathematical Reviews MathSciNet
E-Audiobooks, free Persian
E-Books, CRC handbooks
E-Books, free Project Gutenberg
E-Books, free Ultimate Guide
E-Books, free Persian ParsTech
E-Books, free textbooks Wikibooks
E-Books, free textbooks bookboon.com
IEEE Xplore Online journals and more
Internet Archive For finding an old Web page with known URL
Library, Goleta Public Includes Kidspace
Library, Internet Public Includes Kidspace
Library, Melvyl search UC libraries' combined catalog
Library, UC databases
Library, UC e-journals
Library, UCSB Main page
Library, UCSB Engineering Guide
Mathworld World of Mathematics, Wolfram Research
Turing Archives Alan Turing's life and works
Bookstore, Amazon On-line bookstore
Bookstore, E-Bay discount Formerly half.com
Publish your own books lulu.com
Publisher, Oxford Univ. Press
Publisher, Springer Includes Kluwer Academic & Plenum Press
Textbooks and more, chegg.com Rent, buy, or sell your textbooks
UC employee benefits UC at Your Service Online
UC Path UC payroll, benefits, HR
UC travel portal Connexxus
UCAP University Committee on Academic Personnel
UCLA University Records System Access (URSA)
UCSB Academic Personnel
UCSB Academic Senate
UCSB College of Engineering
UCSB Department of Computer Science
UCSB e-Grades Electronic grade reporting system
UCSB graduate admissions database
CE Program faculty recruitment
CE Program main page
ECE Dept. course evaluation results Including instructor and TA evals
ECE Dept. forms and publications Including general catalog & schedule of classes
ECE Dept. main page
ACM Computing Reviews Free reviews under "hot topics"
Authors Home, Elsevier
Author info, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I
Author info, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II
J. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iranian
Journal ranking information
Journals, American Mathematical Society Including Mathematical Reviews
Manuscript Central, IEEE CS IEEE Computer Society author/reviewer/editor system
Manuscript Central, IET The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Manuscript Central, IJPEDS Int'l J. Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
Manuscript submission, Nature
Manuscript submission, SIAM
Computer Arithmetic, IEEE Int'l Symp. ARITH-22, 2015
Conference calendar, IEEE Computer Society
Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp. IPDPS
Proc. ARITH Conf. IEEE Int'l Symp. Computer Arithmetic
Proc. HPCA Conf. High-Performance Computer Architecture; PDFs found under conf. program
Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar Conf.
Biology, Moorpark College Behnaz Parhami-Seren
Business-related degrees On-line guide by Discover Business
Business schools in California On-line guide by Discover Business
Career Development and Education, IEEE CS
Collection of university lectures CS, math, ...; video, audio, and/or notes
Computer architecture, Univ. California Berkeley David Patterson
Computer arithmetic, animation Alain Guyot
Computer arithmetic, George Mason Univ. Kris Gaj
Computer arithmetic, Stanford Univ. Michael J. Flynn
Computer arithmetic, Tel Aviv Univ. Guy Even
Computer arithmetic, Univ. California Davis Vojin Oklobdzija
Computer arithmetic, Univ. California Los Angeles Milos Ercegovac
Computer arithmetic, Univ. Massachusetts Amherst Israel Koren
Computer arithmetic, Univ. Wisconsin Madison Michael Schulte
Computer Science Online Courses and other resources in CS
Education Portal Videos on English, math, history, social sciences, business, and science
Engineering orientation Career advice for precollege students
MOOCs provider: Coursera
MOOCs provider: Udacity
Open courseware at MIT
Parallel Programming On-line book by Ian Foster
Resources for teachers "100 unbelievably useful reference sites you've never heard of"
The Ultimate RISC (URISC) Wikipedia article describing an educational tool of F. Mavaddat and B. Parhami
AMD processors
Intel processors
Intel Technology J.
Microsoft Research
Architecture and Arithmetic Group Standord Univ., Michael J. Flynn
Computer arithmetic links J.-M. Muller (includes bibliographies)
Floating-point arithmetic with adaptive precision Jonathan R. Shewchuk, CMU
Floating-point standard, IEEE 754 First issued 1985, revised 2008
Gate arrays, dynamically programmable Caltech
Interval analysis, constraint solving via robust
Interval computation resource page
Processor Technologies Group, Advanced Manchester Univ.
Reconfigurable architectures Caltech
Soft computing Univ. California Berkeley
VLSI info on the Web Univ. Idaho (includes FPGAs)
COS Pivot Finding Discovery
NIST Advanced Technology Program
UC Discovery Grant
UCSB Office of Research Funding Database
UC Micro Program
US National Science Foundation
US NSF Fastlane Proposal submission
American Mathematical Society AMS
Association for Computing Machinery ACM Web
British Computer Society BCS
Computer Architecture and Compilers, Directory of Researchers
IEEE CCS IEEE California Central Coast Section (Technical Talks Calendar)
Informatics Society of Iran
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
Men Advocating for Gender Equity UCSB MAGE
Professors Against Plagiarism Blog, mostly in Persian
Salem Parhami Yahoo Group Private family photo and file exchange site
Sharif (Arya-Mehr) Univ. Technology Association SUTA
UCLA Bruins Santa Barbara Network Events calendar
UCP work Inc.
West Campus Point UCSB Faculty Housing
West Campus Point UCSB Leak Remediation Blog
WWW Computer Architecture Page
Atlantic, The Online magazine
BBC Persian Service
Computing Research News
Daily Beast, The
Daily Nexus, The UCSB student newspaper
Google News
Iranian.com Online magazine, in English and Persian
Iran News Agency IRNA
Los Angeles Times
New York Times NYT on the Web
New Yorker, The
Newshour PBS online radios
Newsweek magazine Newsweekly
Persian Heritage Online magazine
Salon Online magazine
Santa Barbara Independent Newsweekly
Santa Barbara News Press
Science Daily
Science Magazine AAAS
Science News
Sciences, National Academy of PNAS
Scientific American
SciTechDaily
Tech News, ACM
Tech News, BBC
Tech News, c|net
Tech News, IEEE Spectrum
Tech News, MIT
Tech News, Reuters
Tech News, The Conversation
Time magazine Newsweekly
UCSB's Newsletter The Currrent
USA Today
Voice of America, Persian
Yahoo News
Art Gallery, Kane Khosro Esmaeili
Music, Engineering, Design Farnaz Parhami
Music Discovery, Pandora Personalized Internet radio stations
Music Library MP3 files at Ghost Whisperer
Music, with Lyrics lyricstube.net
Persian Nast'aliq Writing Tool nastaliqonline.ir
Poetry Archives eMule.com
Poetry Daily poems.com
Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org
Poetry, Hafez Divaan-e Hafez; Includes faal-e Hafez
Poetry, Hafez Mastaaneh; Includes faal-e Hafez
Poetry, Persian Online Library
Poetry, Persian-speaking poets ganjoor.net
Bit-Player "An amateur's outlook on computing and mathematics"
Codeword Puzzles bestforpuzzles.com
Crossword Puzzles thinks.com
Essays on Math Topics American Mathematical Society's "The Feature Column"
Logic Games Online Sudoku, Netwalk, Nurikabe, LightsOut, TenPair
Puzzles, USA Today Crossword, Sudoku, Up & down words, Word roundup
Sudoku Puzzles
Think Labyrinth Maze page by Walter D. Pullen
Walking Program, UCSB
Cartoon Caption Contest The New Yorker
Humor & Video cracked.com
Jokes in the Google directory
Jokes in the Yahoo directory
Jokomok Persian jokes
American express
AT&T Mastercard
Bank, Chase
Bank, Wells Fargo
Computers/electronics, Best Buy
Computers/electronics, Dell
Computers/electronics, HP Shopping
Cox Communications
Department store, K-Mart
Department store, Sears
Department store, Target
E-Marketplace, Amazon.com
Edison Electric company
Gas Company
Health insurance, Health Net
Macy*s Card
MarBorg Disposal Trash and recycling
Movie rental, Netflix
Movie rental, Redbox
Pharmacy, CVS Caremark
Photo development and printing snapfish.com
Sears Card
Telephone service, Verizon
Telephone service, Verizon Wireless
Warehouse store, Costco Online
Weight Watchers
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage