Links for "The Profession," 2006
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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Bertrand Meyer   The Unspoken Revolution in Software Engineering,   2006 January
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The Farmer, the Fairies, and the Computers,   2006 February

This essay is a fairy tale, so there are no links.
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Janusz Kowalik   The Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Schism,   2006 March
In Praise of Professional Precision,   2006 April

The following are links in the essay.

Information technology - Vocabulary - Part 1: Fundamental terms, ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 (This is not the URL in the paper; it seems more than usually subject to alteration)
Tech jargon "confuses workers" (the majority of office workers are bamboozled by technical terms and computer jargon)
Acronyms and Initialisms, Wikipedia

A variously relevant and relatively disorganised collection of other URLs is available here.
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Veljko Milutinovic   Our Profession Needs a Reminder,   2006 May
The Data Doughnut and the Software Hole,   2006 June

The following are links in the essay.

Robert S Charette, Why Software Fails
Philip E Ross, The Exterminators

Qusay Mahmoud and Leslie Yu   Making Software Agents User-Friendly,   2006 July
Quasireform of English Spelling,   2006 August

The following are links in the essay.

Research questions phonics policy, BBC, 2006 January 31 (research has questioned the impact of synthetic phonics teaching, which was backed by a government literacy review)
Spelling reform, Wikipedia (but content is disputed; see talk page)
Doug N Everingham, The Case for SR1 and Nothing Else, Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, 1988, No.3, pp.27-29
Toma TasovacSpelling Reform Spells Trouble for Germany, Deutche Welle, 2006 March 3 (Germany is changing its orthography for the second time in 10 years; politicians are praising the revised set of rules, but it is unlikely that the second-hand reform will put an end to German spelling woes)
Megan Lane, Educashunal lunacie or wizdom?, BBC, 2001 September 5 (it's 40 years since the introduction of the Initial Teaching Alphabet, which was devised to teach young children to read; but many people found it did them no favours in the long run)
Neville Holmes, Toward Decent Text Encoding, Computer, 1998 August. pp.108-109

A variously relevant and relatively disorganised collection of other URLs is available here.

Kai A Olsen   Computer Intelligence and Formalization,   2006 September
The Technology of Data Stashing,   2006 October

The following are links in the essay.

(Not available right here yet, though they are in the next URL)

A variously relevant and relatively disorganised collection of other URLs is available here.

Stephen Jenkins   Concerning Interruptions,   2006 November

A relevant link: Eradicate interruptions.

Simone Santini   Standards: What Are They Good For?,   2006 December
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