Collected papersSlevin, Joseph Richard
Collected papers
by Slevin, Joseph Richard · first published 1919
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…Software engineering: Barry Boehm's lifetime contributions to software development, management and research. Ed. by Richard Selby. - Hoffman, Daniel M.; Weiss David M. (Eds.): Software Fundamentals – Collected Papers by David L. Parnas, 2001, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70369-6. - And his: The Design of Design. Start with Part II.
on “No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]” ↗Thank you. Every Software Engineer should read Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L.Parnas. People are nitpicking things and just parroting what is written in other books without really understanding the idea behind it all. For example what is a Interface/Class/Library/Framework/Module(logical…
on “Pretending OOP Never Happened” ↗A Classic. Folks interested in studying more of Parnas' foundational papers should checkout the book Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L.Parnas. A good antidote to "cargo culting".
on “On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (1971) [pdf]” ↗Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L. Parnas is an excellent compendium of Parnas' papers. You will find more wisdom here than most books on "Software Engineering" being published today.
on “On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972)” ↗…Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and remains the highest possible honor in the community of researchers dedicated to the field that he invented. His Collected Papers, published in 1993, contains 127 publications on topics ranging from communications to computing, and juggling to “mind-reading” machines."
on “Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)” ↗…arrest all intellectual growth as the blight of cocksureness; and ninety-nine out of every hundred good heads are reduced to impotence by that malady — of whose inroads they are most strangely unaware! Collected Papers, §1.13 He was the first to articulate the type/token distinction. He has truth tables ~40 years before Wittgenstein. He had diagrams of electrical circuits that could do basic logic. He was the first…
on “Peirce Edition Project” ↗