Links for "The Profession," 2004
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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Mohan Babu   From Organization Man to Free Agent,   2004 January
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Qusay H Mahmoud, Wlodek Dobosiewicz, and David Swayne
Making Computer Programming Fun and Accessible,   2004 February
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Languages and the Computing Profession,   2004 March
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  • Steven J Vaughan-Nichols, Statistical Language Approach Translates into Success, Computer, 2003 November, pp.14-16
  • Mark Twain's German
  • Letters, Computer, 2004 May, pp.6-7
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Margaret L Johnson
    Biometrics and the Threat to Civil Liberties,   2004 April
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    Data and Information as Property,   2004 May
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  • Simone Santini, Bringing Copyright into the Information Age, Computer, 2003 August
  • The behaviour of dogs The Economist, 2004 February 19 (how dogs became man's best friend; indirectly referred to in the essay)
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Kai A Olsen
    The Economics of International Conferences,   2004 June
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    In Defense of PowerPoint,   2004 July
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  • Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil, Wired, 2003 September 11 (power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely)
  • Trevor Cooke, Death by slides: say it, don't show it, Australian Financial Review, 2003 November 15 (presentations are one of those ubiquitous rituals of modern corporations that have attained iconic status)
  • John Naughton, How PowerPoint can fatally weaken your argument, The Observer, 2003 December 21 (as an addiction of the white-collar classes, PowerPoint ranks second only in perniciousness to cocaine)
  • Does PowerPoint make us stupid?, CNN, 2003 December 30
    I have cited this link in response to an emailer to provide an entrée to Edward Rolf Tufte's excellent work. Note, however, that the Amazon and CLBooks links on that page are dead. Otherwise, this Google search may yield some interesting sites.
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    David A Swayne, Qusay H. Mahmoud and Wlodek Dobosiewicz
    An "Offshore-Resistant" Degree Program,   2004 August
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    Letter
    Rationality and Digital Technology,   2004 September
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    Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Victor Skowronski
    Do Agile Methods Marginalize Problem Solvers?,   2004 October
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    Letters
    The Usefulness of Hindsight,   2004 November
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    Simone Santini
    Determining Computing Science's Role,       2004 December
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    Letter: 2005 February