A Personal Pantagraph

As a longtime Unix user, I have enjoyed working in an environment carefully built around small tools that do one job well and that can be combined easily to the task at hand. For example, as part of a mail server migration I recently had to move email files from a Windows 2003 POP [...]

The November 2005 issue of the Communications of the ACM includes a provocative article by Peter Denning and Andrew McGettrick on “Recentering Computer Science.” This article responds to the declining enrollment in computer science by offering a startling suggestion: Use “innovation” as the central theme of computing. While I agree with innovation as [...]