Christopher J. Kimmer, Ph.D.

IU Southeast Informatics

Interesting Links ...

These links relate to my research, teaching, computing, or personal interests.

Research

Microsoft Kinect

• Microsoft Kinect SDK
• The OpenKinect project, open source drivers for accessing the Kinect data streams
• The Coding4Fun Kinect toolkit with some useful routines to use in Visual Studio
• Functional Programming wrappers to the Kinect SDK using F#.

Parallel Computing

• CUDA from NVIDIA for GPGPU.
• OpenCL for GPGPU and heterogeneous HPC.

Applied Mathematics

• Mandelbrot sets and Julia Maps in the browser from Google
• Mandelbrot set tutorial
• Another Mandelbrot set tutorial with some pretty pictures
• Ken Brakke's Surface Evolver which I used in my PhD thesis.
• The digital library of mathematical functions from NIST

Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Multiscale Modeling

• LAMMPS, an open source MD code from Sandia National Laboratories
• Pizza.py, Python tools for LAMMPS
• AtomEye: a fast visualization tool for MD trajectories

Teaching

I101 - Introduction to Informatics

• My I101 blog with all things great and current at the time about Informatics.
• Item 2

I308 - Information Representation

• Item 1
• Item 2

I300 - Human-Computer Interaction

• John McSweeney has a nice essay on affordances, visibility, and feedback
• When you need to do user centered design but the boss is cheap, use Guerilla HCI as described by Jakob Nielsen.
• Kind of outdated, but the Interface Hall of Shame is still worth a look.
• Jennifer Tidwell's draft document on HCI Design Patterns.

Computing

Python

• Python, the bestest programming language there is
• NumPy and SciPy are indispensible for technical computing with Python.
• Beautiful Soup for parsing XML and HTML in Python.
• Python Tools for Visual Studio -- the bestest IDE meets the bestest language to create a so-so development environment!
• BioPython and a tutorial for it!

High Performance Computing (HPC)

• Informatics Coder my so very infrequently updated technical blog
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic
• Read Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ coding style.
• Easy file parser in C++
• MapReduce, one of Google's approaches to parallelism

Linux

• Tutorial on the find command
• The Linux Cookbook
• Tutorial for the cron command
• Customize colors in bash
• Simple Ubuntu firewall setup

And the rest...

• IT Hare has many good links in its Programming Guide for Video-Gamers. Thanks to Dylan for discovering it.
• The online version of the Real World Haskell book.

Personal

• LVL1 - The Louisville area hackerspace
• List of projects for DIY stompboxes. Shred!

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