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Computer Science: Background

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American National Biography from ANB
Provides biographies of thousands of Americans throughout history.

Covering the diversity of American social political, cultural, religious, economic, scientific, and popular life the online edition is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, and links to selected web sites.
Biography in Context from Gale
Text, video, audio clips and images about 250,000+ people from throughout history, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Formerly Biography Resource Center.

Martindale's Internet Center
Includes a wide range of resources.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated

Computer Dictionary
Dictionary of Programming Languages
Dictionary of Storage Networking Terminology
Martindale's The Reference Desk - Computer and Internet Dictionaries
Netlingo; the Internet Language Dictionary
One Look Dictionaries
Definitions of over 18 million words in over 1,000 online dictionaries.

Britannica Online from Britannica
Full text contents of the Encyclopædia Britannica plus videos, images, quizzes, image galleries and more
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia from EBSCO
Full-text of the 25,000 entries of this encyclopedia. 2009 edition.