Links for "The Profession," 2003
The links here supplement or repeat the links given from time to time in the column "The Profession", which appears in the IEEE Computer Society's house magazine, Computer.  Where there is more than one list for an essay, the first list is of links cited in the column, others are, in particular, of links provided by readers.  Comments and additions can be sent here.
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Revising the Principles of Technorealism,   2003 January
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  • Technorealism (their home page)
  • Harvey Blume, Alternate Realities, Atlantic Unbound, 2000 January 13
  • Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, Norton, ISBN 0393320537
  • Timothy Phillips, Thomas Jefferson's copyright term, 1999 February 11
    Some other relevant URLs are collected here.
    Truth and Clarity in Arithmetic,   2003 February
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  • Harold Thimbleby,   Calculators are Needlessly Bad (1999, 34pp.; see also his Calculators)
    Other URLs and discussion are available, on some errata, on further explanation of the operational calculator, on the declarative calculator, on the editorial keys, and on the basic operations suggested for the operational calculator, together with a variety of URLs.
    Veljko Milutinovic and Nikola Skundric, Will Distance Learning Create a Global University?   2003 March
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  • Instituto Technológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
  • Jun Ma and Matthias Hemmje, Developing Management Systems Step by Step pp.301-319
  • Fraunhofer IPSI, Lecture Lounge
    The Case For Perspicuous Programming,   2003 April
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  • Jean Sammet, The early history of COBOL (also ACM)
  • Donald Knuth, Literate Programming  (see also literateprogramming.com)
    Other URLs and discussion are available.
    Venkat N Gudivada,     The Computing Profession at a Crossroads,   2003 May
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  • Neville Holmes, Jobs, Trades, Skills, and the Profession
  • David Lorge Parnas, Software Engineering Programs Are Not Computer Science Programs
  • Leonard Tripp, Benefits of Certification
  • Adam Kolawa, Certification Will Do More Harm Than Good
  • Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
    The Problem with Unicode,   2003 June
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  • Adrian Smith, Guest Editorial (the editorial that provoked this column; thanks to Klaus Krug Christiansen for the updated URL)
  • What Is Unicode (the official message)
    Other URLs are available.
    Should Professionals Be Political?,   2003 July
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    This essay mostly referred to other essays in The Profession:
  • Fashioning a Foundation for the Computing Profession
  • Terrorism, Technology, and the Profession
  • The Profession and the World
  • US Electoral Reform: The Obvious Obligation
  • Representative Democracy and the Profession
    Other citations were
  • The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (the quotation in the essay appears about two thirds of the way through Section VI in a paragraph starting "The concept of 'free trade' arose as a moral principle ...")
  • The IEEE Vision and Mission
    Other URLs are available.
    Simone Santini      Bringing Copyright into the Information Age,
    2003 August
    Wojciech Cellary,      The Profession's Role in the Global Information Society,
    2003 September
    Hai Zhuge and Xiaoqing Shi,      Fighting Epidemics in the Knowledge Age,
    2003 October
    Artificial Intelligence: Arrogance or Ignorance?   2003 November
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  • Wojciech Cellary, The Profession's Role in the Global Information Society, Computer, Vol.37, No.9, 2003 September, pp.124,122-123 (discusses computation as decision-making)
  • Bob Colwell, Engineering Decisions, Computer, Vol.37, No.8, 2003 August, pp.9-11 (makes plain that the best decisions are not always to be computed)
  • Adrian A Hopgood, Artificial Intelligence: Hype or Reality?, Computer, Vol.37, No.5, 2003 May, pp.24-28 (the key quote is "If AI were named `nifty computer programs,' [current AI technology] would surely be hailed as an unqualified success.")
  • Tangled Up in Blue and Face Time (the two book review items from American Scientist, 2003 May-June)
  • Better Brains (the special issue of Scientific American)
  • Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences after Twenty Years (Invited Address, American Educational Research Association, April 2003; then see also)
  • Although the essay cites the Oxford English Dictionary as holding that algorist is obsolete, if the word is Googled then The Algorists come to light, and see here for a lead to more on algoristics.
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    The Digital Divide, the UN, and the Computing Profession   2003 December
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    The following are the URLs cited in the essay, in their sequence there.
  • World Summit on the Information Society
  • UN ICT Task Force
  • UN Development Programme
  • The Hunger Site
  • Michael Meacher, The planet's polluters should be in the dock, The Guardian, 2003 October 25 (only a world environment court can curb capitalism's excesses)
  • George Soros, Toward a Global Open Society, Atlantic Monthly, 1998 January
  • David Attenborough, The Life of Mammals, BBC, (also ABC and the book)
  • UNICTTF Partners
  • Charles Rosen, Culture on the Market, New York Review of Books, Volume 50, No. 17, 2003 November 6 (on classical music in the marketplace and much else)
  • TV children taught how to talk, 2003 November 4 (primary school children are going to be taught how to speak and listen to each other)
    The following links relate to microcredit, the first two being provided by Don Dwiggens (see letter PDF).
  • The Grameen Foundation has been very successfully making microloans in Bangladesh, an idea which now has a USA "branch" and has extended to India (this item is not free)
  • Ajit K Pyati, WSIS: Whose vision of an information society? ("WSIS paints a wholly utopian, technologically deterministic picture of an `Information Society' that oversimplifies and generalizes a complex issue and phenomenon, about which no clear consensus exists.")
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.