Online Articles and Papers

• Encoder design for storage (IBM)
  
  
• Hard disk encoding and decoding (PC Guide)
  
  
• Digital hard drives (BYTE Magazine)
  
  
• Data storage white papers (Quantum)
  
  
• Technology papers (Seagate)
  
  
• Technology Papers (IBM)
  
  

Engineering Societies and Organizations

• Institute of Electronics and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  
  
  • Communications Society
    
  • Magnetics Society
    
  • Information Theory Society
    
  • Signal Processing Society
    
  • Neural Networks Council
    
  • Circuits and Systems Society
    
    
• The Internation Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
  
• National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC)
  
• International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA)
  
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
  
  
  

Related Academic Centers and Research Groups

• Asad Abidi Research Group (UCLA)
• Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR, UCSD)
• Center for Research on Information Storage Materials (CRISM, Stanford University)
• Communications and Data Storage Lab (CDSLab, University of Minnesota)
• Data Storage Institute (DSI, Singapore)
• Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC, Carnegie Mellon)
• Information Storage Technology Group (ISTG)
• Institute for Information Storage Technology (IIST, Santa Clara University)
• Jack Wolf's Group (UCSD)
• Magnetics and Information Science Center (MISC, Washington University)
• Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT, University of Minnesota)
  
  
  

Data Storage/Component Companies

• Ampex Corp.
• Analog Devices
• Cirrus Logic
• DataPath Systems, Inc.
• DISK/TREND
• Exabyte
• Free dB, Inc.
• Guzik Technical Enterprises
• Hitachi America
• HMT Technology
• Hutchinson Technology
• IBM Storage
• Imation
• Iomega
• Ioptics
• Komag Inc.
• LaCie
• LG Electronics
• Magnavox
• Marvell Semiconductor
• Maxtor Corporation
• Micropolis Corporation
• Philips
• Quinta
• Professional Instruments
• Quantum Corp.
• Read-Rite Corp.
• Samsung
• Seagate Technology
• Silicon Systems Inc.
• SyntheSys Research, Inc.
• Terastor
• Syquest
• 3M
• VTC Inc.
• Western Digital Corporation
• Link A Media Devices Corporation
  
  
  

Miscellaneous

• M. Camras - the father of magnetic recording.
• The Dilbert Zone