the end

We're getting to the end of this project. It has been very informative for me and I hope for you as well. Nick Feamster came to my attention by winning the 2008 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. As the title of the award indicates it is still very early in Nick Feamster's career. His website indicates that he is still very active in the research of computer systems and we can look forward to many more important contributions from him. Also from his website and CV we can get an indication of how important Nick will be to the future with his teaching and recruitment interests. Articles such as Can great research be taught? Independent research with cross-disciplinary thinking and broader impact (ACM/SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2008) indicate that he thinks of his teaching career as more than a means to conduct his research.

To wrap up the blog I wanted to add a list of resources that I have come across/sought out in researching this assignment.
Organizations:
ACM, offers many special interest groups - SIGCOMM is the one Nick Feamster is a member of
Student memberships are available with or without access to their digital library (highly recommended if entering the field)
USENIX the advanced computing systems association (proceedings available freely online)
IEEE - professional organization for the advancement of technology. Also a prolific publisher.
Computing Research Association their mission is to advance education and research in computer related fields
International Telecommunication Union (ITU - formerly CCITT) fostering telecommunications on a global level
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (membership includes subscription to Science)
American Mathematical Society furthers the interest of mathematics research and scholarship
Scholarly Societies has a list of organizations under the field of computer science

Websites to explore:
ACM, USENIX, and IEEE all have libraries online (accessibility may depend on membership)
Virtual Technical Reports Center, E-prints, PrePrints, and Technical Reports on the web has links to institutions that provide reports of all kinds
CiteSeerX "is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science."
arXiv operated by Cornell University "is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear service, computer science, quantitative biology & statistics."
Scitopia a search portal for patents and scholarly sources in science and technology
DSpace is MIT's institutional repository
US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team- information on cyber security
NIST Computer Security Resource Center
Stony Brook Algorithm Repository a collection of algorithm implementations
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Programmer's heaven a collection of resources for programmer's

For the newbie you may want to start at:
Science.gov government science information
Charles Babbage Institute - Center for the history of computing
Computer History Museum
Matisse's glossary of Internet terms
Foldoc: Free online dictionary of computing
ComputerUser.com

There are many scholarly databases to check out if you can get access:
ISI (Web of Science)
Scopus
ScienceDirect from Elsevier
Inspec
Compendex
Safari
Knovel