Here's a collection of interesting links that might be useful to you when working on your assignments:
- How Things Fly
- Pretty simple introduction to why things fly.
- See How It Flies
- An in-depth look at flying theory. It's for pilots, but has a lot of useful information.
- Streamlines & Swirls
- This little study in computational fluid dynamics focuses on air flow around sails, visualized with the help of streamlines.
- Introductory Unix Guide
- This is a simple introduction to Unix from the CS Department website. Go through the list of commands in this page to get a feel for working in Unix/Linux.
- CS Department Minicourses
- These are short introductory courses given at the CS Department for new students every year. Check out the course notes for Emacs, Unix Intro and Permissions. It'll help working through your assignments.
- CCV at Brown
- Home page of the center where the CAVE is. Has help for tracker/projector problems, documentation, machine specs, etc.
- Bill Buxton's technology briefs
- Very comprehensive and up-to-date lists of user interaction technologies. The first one is on interaction devices.
- Scientific Challenges, by Dave Willis
- A very informative email response from Dave Willis (MIT) about some of the challenges you should think about for your final project.