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Busy at the open source research group
We had a busy first week over at the website of the Open Source Research Group: Fun! And don’t be shy, take a look!
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A license agnostic ACM digital library?
Most authors transfer their copyright to the ACM when having their papers published and archived in the ACM Digital Library. While the ACM allows authors to provide their papers on personal servers for non-commercial purposes, the goal recognizably is to make the DL not only the primary source of such material, but also the only…
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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…
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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…