Communications of the ACM
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Why Telecom Regulation Needs to Change
Research suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.
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What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness
The saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation’s mythology: he’s the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship...
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Score: Agile Research Group Management
Adapting agile software development methodology toward more efficient management of academic research groups.
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Version Aversion
The way you number your releases communicates more than you might think.
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Risks of Undisciplined Development
An illustration of the problems caused by a lack of discipline in software development and our failure to apply what is known in the field.
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Victorian Data Processing
The Victorian world was awash with data and with organizations that processed it; and they usually used nothing...
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5 Reasons the Media Cover Apple So Much
A study published Monday drew on a host of metrics to conclude something we all already knew: The media covers Apple more than any other company.
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Friends Without Benefits
The Valley used to be a place run by scientists and engineers, people like Robert Noyce, the Ph.D. physicist who helped invent the integrated circuit and cofounded...
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Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
When James Gosling led the team that created the Java language and platform, Sun Microsystems was riding high and Java stood as a landscape-changing revolutionary...
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Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
When James Gosling led the team that created the Java language and platform, Sun Microsystems was riding high and Java stood as a landscape-changing revolutionary...
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New Business Models Emerge For the Web
I am constantly impressed by the crazy amount of energy entrepreneurs spend hatching innovative services, so I have never understood why they seem to spend so...
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Grim Numbers Point to the End of the Venture Capital Era
Silicon Valley has passed an important milestone that may mark the end of one era and the beginning of another.
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Future Internet Architecture: Clean-Slate Versus Evolutionary Research
Should researchers focus on designing new network architectures or improving the current Internet?
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Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever!
Revisiting the Great Objects Debate.
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Discussing Cyber Attack
Cyber attack—the other side of cyber defense—deserves a more open discussion than it has been getting.
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Principles of the Law of Software Contracts
An overview of a new set of legal principles for software contracts developed by the American Law Institute.
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Qualifications Needed to Be Hp's Next Ceo
The world's largest technology company by revenue and the outfit that birthed Silicon Valley has very suddenly and unexpectedly put out a figurative "help wanted"...
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An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra
The computer science luminary, in one of his last interviews before his death in 2002, reflects on a programmer's life.
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