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Software is not just code. It is a precise specification of behavior under all possible conditions. When you say you want a simple e-commerce application, you are implicitly specifying thousands of decisions about user authentication, payment processing, inventory management, shipping calculations, tax handling, error recovery, accessibility, performance under load, and security against attacks. Most of these decisions are not obvious from a high-level description.
Holy Roman Emperor wrote of being targeted by Italian mercenary, among other topics.
Fascinating contrast to "neutrality" discourse in US librarianship.
Modern payment cards encompass a bewildering array of consumer technologies, from credit and debit cards to stored-value and loyalty cards. But what unites all of these financial media is their con...
Connects to a talk video at https://vimeo.com/71278954 Uncaptioned, unfortunately.
The conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers.
Dee Garrison’s classic history of American public libraries, Apostles of Culture , vividly describes the idealism that drove and shaped the work of American public libraries through the turn of the 20th century. The book seems to lead naturally to questions of what ideals have shaped American libraries in more recent periods. Specifically, as an academic librarian, I have long wondered what happened to our profession’s ideals in the midst of the social and political transformations that followed World War II.
The ordinary activities of librarianship—acquisition, cataloguing, and reproduction—became fraught with mystery
Empowering teachers & students to think critically about history & to understand the impact of their choices.
“Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” said Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the Internet, at an FTC workshop on the Internet of Things on Tuesday. Cerf, who’s currently Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, argued that privacy is a construct of the modern industrial age. In the past, his...
Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD