Communications of the ACM
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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Involvement and Detachment
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
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Systems Abstractions
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
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Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
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Back of the Envelope
Back-of-the-envelope calculations are a powerful professional practice.
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Locality and Professional Life
The locality principle extends beyond computer memories. It teaches us something about being human.
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Science Is Not Another Opinion
The issue is not who has the "truth," but whose claims deserve more credence.
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Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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Uncertainty
Considering how to best navigate stability and randomness.
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An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency
Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.
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An Interview with Dave Parnas
A discussion of ideas about software engineering.
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The Computing Profession
Taking stock of progress toward a computing profession since this column started in 2001.
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The Forgotten Engineer
Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
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Remaining Trouble Spots with Computational Thinking
Addressing unresolved questions concerning computational thinking.
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Learning to Learn
Do you get stuck when it is time to learn something new? Read this.
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Software Quality
Software users are looking more and more for software that delights.
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How to Produce Innovations
Making innovations happen is surprisingly easy, satisfying, and rewarding if you start small and build up.
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