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CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
If a tree casts a shadow is it telling the time?
Physical processes are computations only when we use them to externalize thought. Entities provide nature with a way to preserve structure over time. We think in terms of entities ...
Russ Abbott
FLOPS
2006
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Convergence in Language Design: A Case of Lightning Striking Four Times in the Same Place
What will a definitive programming language look like? By definitive language I mean a programming language that gives good soat its level of abstraction, allowing computer science...
Peter Van Roy
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
Scientific Workflows: More e-Science Mileage from Cyberinfrastructure
We view scientific workflows as the domain scientist's way to harness cyberinfrastructure for e-Science. Domain scientists are often interested in "end-to-end" fram...
Bertram Ludäscher, Shawn Bowers, Timothy M. M...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling and managing collective cognitive convergence
When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Extending software engineering research outside the digital box
Since software is developed to run on computers, there is a tendency to focus computer science and software engineering on how best to get software to run on computers. But, engin...
Barry W. Boehm