Category: 1. Research

  • Author obfuscation

    Author obfuscation

    In the last few days, I’ve been reading up on author obfuscation. By “author obfuscation” I mean tools and techniques that will ensure an author’s anonymity when posting a blog entry or writing a document. You might think that not giving your name or writing under a pseudonym may be sufficient, but I don’t think…

  • Bertrand Meyer: Electrical engineering vs. computer science

    Bertrand Meyer: Electrical engineering vs. computer science

    Bertrand Meyer, at the 40 Years of Software Engineering panel at ICSE 2008, on May 16, 2008, 11:56am: “Electrical engineering is to computer science what making a bed is to making love.” I’m not entirely sure this is true, but it certainly makes for a memorable quote. UPDATE: I had mentioned my enjoyment of this…