Links for "The Profession," 2005
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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Wojciech Cellary   People and Software in a Knowledge-Based Economy,   2005 January
The Profession and the Big Picture,   2005 February
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Letters 2005 April

Citations

  • p.104: Scientific acceptance
  • Crichton rebuttal,  (this is the direct link)  Crichton rebuttal II (this is some extra points)
  • p.102: Kyoto Protocol
  • US Climate Change Policy,  (this is the State Department official policy; news item on the Buenos Aires international talks: "The U.S. delegation sought to put the focus in Buenos Aires not on emissions reduction, but on long-range U.S. programs to develop cleaner-burning energy technologies.")
  • The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2000
    p.103: George Monbiot, Goodbye, Kind World
  • Mark Lynas's home page where there are details of his book, High Tide
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Spencer Weart, American Institute of PhysicsA Hyperlinked History of Climate Change Science
  • World Watch for overall environmental issues, Climate Ark for climate change specifics
    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Thomas K Johnson       An Open-Secret Voting System,   2005 March
    In Defense of Spam,   2005 April
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    Citations

  • Danes save Spam's bacon, BBC, 1997 December 23 (includes the origin of the word spam and a link to Page O'Spam!)
    Brad Templeton, Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse
  • David Cheung, Spam and the law (PDF), Computer, 2004 July, p.7
    Brian Whitworth and Elizabeth Whitworth, Spom and the Social-Technical Gap (Abstract), Computer, 2004 October, pp.38-45
    Various, Curbing the spam problem (PDF), Computer, 2004 December, p.8-9 (exchanges re the Whitworths' article)
  • Wikipedia: Spam Spamming E-mail spam Wikipedia
  • European Union, Electronic Commerce, Privacy Protection, The Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC: link, English PDF
  • United States Congress, CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003)
  • Australian Government links   Spam Act 2003   (explanation)
  • Christopher Lueg, The Hidden Impacts of Anti-Spam Measures and their Contributions to the Digital Divide: An Exploratory Study, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004 November 13-18, Providence RI, USA, pp.176-183 (link to a late draft in PDF format; a very useful source of information)
  • My April Scientific American arrived too late for me to cite the following very informative article:
    Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman and Robert Rounthwaite Stopping Spam, Scientific American, Vol.292, No.4, 2005 April, pp.24-31 ("what can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages?"; interestingly, although legislation is mentioned, it's ineffectiveness is repeatedly acknowledged)
  • Also, the April Computer held a relevant article by P Oskar Boykin and Vwani P Roychowdhury: Leveraging Social Networks to Fight Spam
    The following is a URL I cited in my response to a letter published in the June Computer.

    Mary O'Hara, Dangerous liaisons, The Guardian, 2005 May 4 (Donal McIntyre's fly-on-the-wall TV documentaries give startlingly edgy insights into links between injustice, poverty and crime; by way of contrast, then read England has 230,000 second homes)

    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Qusay Mahmoud       Revitalizing Computing Science Education,   2005 May
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    Rob Schaaf       What's All This about Systems?,   2005 June
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    The Turning of the Wheel,   2005 July
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    Citations

    David Geer, Chip makers turn to multicore Processors, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.11-13
    Renato Figueiredo, Peter A Dinda and José Fortes, Guest Editors' Introduction: Resource Virtualization Renaissance, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 May, pp.28-31 (Abstract)
    Thomas Anderson et al., Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization, Computer, Vol.38, No.5, 2005 April, pp.34-41 (Abstract)

    Steve Ulfelder, Virtualization: Is it Virtually Irresistable?, 2005 April 1 (opens quoting TJ Sylvester: "No doubt about it, virtualization is the sweetest thing to come along in a long time")
    Jack Schofield, Square pegs for full circles, The Guardian, 2005 May 12 (Yahoo's 360 service hopes to offer newcomers a home on the web)

    Bobbie Johnson, Gloves come off in console wars, The Guardian, 2005 March 13 (Microsoft unwraps its next generation Xbox 360 games in latest round of fight to dominate £6bn market)
    Susan Topol and Josh Simon, Michigan Terminal System (mostly about what made MTS successful (people))

    Melinda Varian, VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future (68pp. PDF; an informal, heavily footnoted, narrative compiled by querying many of the main players)
    Tom Van Vleck, The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS (a very useful summary of how it all went)

    Virtualization, Forbes, 2005 January 3 (running different operating systems on the one chip, IBM's PowerPC 970)

    RL Taylor, Low-End General-Purpose Systems, IBM J. Res. Develop., Vol.25, No.5, 1981 September, pp.429-440 (describes IBM's small commercial systems from the System/3 in 1969 to the System/38 in 1978)
    GG Henry, IBM small-system architecture and design---Past, present, and future, IBM Sys. J., Vol.25, Nos.3/4, 1986 September, pp.321-333 (describes IBM's small systems, of all kinds)
    DL Schleicher and RL Taylor, System overview of the Application System/400, IBM Systems Journal, Vol.28, No.3, pp.398-413 (AS/400 succeeded the System/38)
    iSeries Overview, IBM (where the System/38 has got to now; iSeriesnetwork.com is not IBM's)

    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Victor Skowronski       Talking to the Solitary Genius,   2005 August
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    The Internet, the Web, and the Chaos,   2005 September
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    Citations

    One in seven new mobiles "faulty", BBC, 2005 August 1 (at least two million of the 18 million mobiles sold last year in the UK could have been faulty)

    US holds onto key internet role, BBC, 2005 July 1 (the US government has said it intends to maintain its role in overseeing how the internet works)

    Helena Norberg-Hodge, Learning from Ladakh, Trumpeter 1993
    David Leser, Global Warning, Good Weekend, 2000 May 27 (an interview with Helena-Norberg-Hodge that touches on the problems of the Ladakh people and includes links to further interviews; the site also has an
    article by Norberg-Hodge with details of the Ladakh problem)
    Robert Gilman, Ladakh, In Context, Iss.17, 1987 Summer, Being Global Neighbors, (an interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge; and another of 1992 Spring)

    Project Gutenberg
    Wikipedia

    Ben Hammersley, A moral imperative, Guardian, 2005 July 7 (nearly two years since the BBC announced plans to open its archives to non-commercial use, what has happened?)

    IFIP (International Federation for Information processing)

    IBM Journal of Research and Development (also IBM Systems Journal)

    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Dimitris Kalles       Improving Professional Conduct in Publishing,   2005 October
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    Digital Technology, Age, and Gaming,   2005 November
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    Citations

    Video gaming, The Economist, 2005 August 4 (as video gaming spreads, the debate about its social impact is intensifying; Letters: August 25)

    John Sutherland, The ideas interview, Guardian, 2005 September 19 (Edward Castronova says computer gaming is so powerful a tool we could use it to meet emotional needs and even spread democracy)

    Michael Zyda, From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games, Computer, 2005 September

    Wikipedia, Computer and video games (also, personal computer and console)
    Michele E Davis, The Secrets of PlayStation 2 (the only book on gaming in my city library)
    Mark Prensky, Games2train.com (serious training in a game environment)

    AAMI, Traffic congestion fuelling aggression on our roads, 2005 September 28 (press release of Congestion rage in which see particularly the subsections by John Cheetham and Con Stavros which raise issues other than congestion)
    Road rage murderer loses appeal, The Australian, 2005 September 27 (a Melbourne man who shot dead an L-plate motorcyclist in a road rage murder has lost an appeal against his 20-year jail term)
    25 years' jail for "brutal" murder, The Advocate, 2005 September 13 (a 27-year-old man was jailed for at least 14 years for the unprovoked hit-and-run murder of a 19-year-old student; the formal judgement)

    ISAGA (International Simulation And Gaming Association; affiliates, including many more than the following)
    ABSEL (Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning)
    NASAGA (North American Simulation and Gaming Association)
    SAGSET (the Society for the Advancement of Games and Simulations in Education and Training)
    Neville Holmes, The Myth of the Educational Computer, Computer, 1999 September (PDF)

    Peter Cockbain, Engineering Skills Forecast, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2005 September 21
    The National Academies, Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (Press Release; in particular notes bad learning of maths and science)

    Other URLs of mixed relevance are available.
    Simone Santini       We Are Sorry to Inform You . . .,   2005 December
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