Web Resources

Technical Support/References

• Journal Impact Factors
• Libraries at Johns Hopkins
• Socrates II , Stanford's Web-based catalog
• Melvyl , University of California's Web-based catalog
• Matrix fun
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• On-Line Geometric Modeling Notes
• comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ
• Help on LaTeX Commands
• CiteSeer Research Index
• Useful web stuff by Bob Alden
• File Conversion
• SLAM summer school materials 
• Human Subjects Internal Review Board
• Office of Technology Licensing
  

Links to Other Researchers

• Haptics-L email list
• Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford University (Cutkosky)
• Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics at MIT (Srinivasan)
• Laboratory for Computational Intelligence at University of British Columbia (Pai, Salcudean)
• Biorobotics Lab at University of Washington (Hannaford)
• Human Engineering Lab at UC Berkeley (Kazerooni)
• Harvard Robotics Lab (Howe, Brockett)
• Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ferrier)
• Tactile Sensing at University of Maryland, College Park (Hristu)
• Virtual Environments and Teleoperation Lab at University of Utah (Hollerbach)
• Haptic Interface Research Laboratory at Purdue (Tan)
• Physical User Interfaces at University of British Columbis (MacLean)
• Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Lab (O'Malley)

Links to Companies

• Jobs in Haptics (Haptics Community Website)
  
• Immersion Corporation
• SensAble Technologies
• Intuitive Surgical
• Computer Motion
  
• EndoVia
  

For Students Doing Research

• Being a successful Graduate Student
• Graduate Student Survival Kit
• Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students
• Tips, Tools, & Techniques to Improve Your Writing
• How to Write a Dissertation
• Web Guide to Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience
• Nasa Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program
• Ph.D. Comic Relief

Academic Career

• Academic Job Search
• Obtaining an Engineering Academic Position
• Lessons Learned (Robotics specific)
• Interview Questions
• Landing an Academic Job
• The Job Talk
• And if success, Negotiating a Start-up Package
• Survival in the Academy
• Tomorrow's Professor Listserve
• Science and Engineering Education Scholars Program
• Richard Felder's Teaching Page

Grants & Funding Resources

• Government Sources
• NSF Career Award & PECASE
• NSF Directorate for Engineering
• NSF Custom News Service
• NSF SBIR/STTR
• Federal Awards for Career Development
• Office of Naval Research
• National Institutes of Health
• Department of Energy
• Student Fellowships & Funding
• Graduate Fellowships
• National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships (Minorities & Women)
• Whiting School of Engineering Graduate Fellowships
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Education Dissertation Fellowships
• AAUW Fellowships
• Link Foundation Fellowships
• Lucent Graduate Research Program for Women
• Ford Foundation Fellowships
• Hertz Fellowship
  
• Whitaker Foundation
• Packard Foundation
• Community of Science
• JHU's Research Administration (Info needed for proposal prep)
• WSE Office of Research
  

Interesting Robotics & Haptics Stuff

• Institute for Applied Autonomy
• Stelarc