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Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

by Tom DeMarco

We’re now just past the 40th anniversary of the NATO Conference on Software Engineering in Garmisch, Germany, where the discipline of software engineering was first proposed. Because some of my early work became part of that new discipline, this seems like an appropriate moment for reassessment.

The Task-Based Interface: Not Your Father's Desktop

by Greg Goth

The typical desktop computing environment hasn't changed much since the mass adoption of the GUI. No matter what operating system your computer might feature, no matter what occupation you pursue, the files-and-folders paradigm is ubiquitous, accepted, and tolerated as so much digital dogma. But for a handful of researchers, this model isn't quite right.

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21. Software Abundance in the Face of Economic Scarcity, Part 1
Software-intensive systems are an inescapable and necessary element in helping us operate, innovate, and even thrive in the face of lean economic times.

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How Effective Is Your Software Architecting Process?

by Scott Brookhart

Many software developers have a notion of the software architecting process, but I would guess that few of them have a text that adequately describes it in a readable style with effective practices. More »

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