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As Web technology moved from the laboratory to the public sphere, website design moved from being the product of a single individual to become the responsibility of a group. Article...
Step by faltering step, the front page has been vanishing from the American news industry.
Virtual machines are a technology that was invented in one era, overlooked in a second, and rediscovered in a third. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.200
Part 2: In addition to reducing the time it took to pay for purchases, bar codes and scanners provided a system that would track inventory, reduce theft, and provide data to help merchants...
In addition to reducing the time it took to pay for purchases, bar codes and scanners provided a system that would track inventory, reduce theft, and provide data to help merchants
Building an adaptive power grid requires cooperation, getting a common agreement among a large collection of engineers, investors, policy makers, corporate executives, and voters. Article...
The business community has long embraced the notion that progress is an evolutionary process that comes with markets, competition, and the survival of the fittest. Article link: ht
In just a handful of years, social networking tools have become part of our daily work and conversation. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2008.461
We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.
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We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.
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We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.
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We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.
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We are beginning to assess the impact of digital technologies and are starting to devise strategies to handle the changes that computers have wrought upon the environment. Article link:...
The technologies that we have deployed over the past two decades have given us new ability to manage activities at a distance. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1
The technologies that we have deployed over the past two decades have given us new ability to manage activities at a distance. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1
The technologies that we have deployed over the past two decades have given us new ability to manage activities at a distance. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1
The technologies that we have deployed over the past two decades have given us new ability to manage activities at a distance. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1
Hacking might occupy a special positionthat gray area between the darkness and the lightbecause it touches not only on ethical issues but also on the very nature of computing itself....
Hacking might occupy a special positionthat gray area between the darkness and the lightbecause it touches not only on ethical issues but also on the very nature of computing itself....
Hacking might occupy a special positionthat gray area between the darkness and the lightbecause it touches not only on ethical issues but also on the very nature of computing itself....
The story that takes India from the electrical infrastructure of 1966 to a modern infrastructure 40 years later is a parable for the free market.
The story that takes India from the electrical infrastructure of 1966 to a modern infrastructure 40 years later is a parable for the free market.
The story that takes India from the electrical infrastructure of 1966 to a modern infrastructure 40 years later is a parable for the free market.
The story that takes India from the electrical infrastructure of 1966 to a modern infrastructure 40 years later is a parable for the free market.
Embracing digital technology has had a profound impact on modern entertainment media, and can centralize the control over films and keep the producers in better touch with the audi
Even though a project achieves its goal, it also can have unintended consequences.
Even though a project achieves its goal, it also can have unintended consequences.
In unleashing our treasure ships of software bits and bytes upon the world, we have also opened it up to a new generation of pirates. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.o
Trust is a difficult thing to engineer, as it involves history, character, and an ability to put aside your own goals for the good of the whole. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomput
Computer security shares the methods and goals of computer science as a whole but has a couple of features that set it apart. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.11
Our educational system does little to prepare computer science students for making the transition to the working world. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.
The music industry's story is a vivid reminder that entire industries can fail to see shifts in the market. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2006.440
Our current body politic is looking for a more robust voting mechanism that is secured by technology rather than by the competence and integrity of bean counters. Article link: htt
The development of an information technology industry in the remains of the old Soviet Union brought the discipline of a market economy to the region. Article link: http://doi.ieee
American automakers adopted computer controls to deal with complicated engineering problems only when pushed by forces beyond their control. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputerso
More than any other piece of software, the spreadsheet demonstrated that the personal computer could be a useful business tool. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.
Much of the strategy to fix the Y2K Problem followed the standard cycle of quality engineering. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.254
A story about community, cooperation and the sharing of labor in the world of Information Technology. It begins with the story of an aged lefty, talks about the development of computer...
Linux and open source software represent a force that long predates the computer era: the notion of contributing to the common good. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.or
