[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[Steve Jenkin]

Links for those who’ve not read these articles. Open access, downloadable PDF’s.

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Peter J Denning in 2008 wrote about reforming CACM in 1982/83. [ extract at end ]
	<https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/dja-vu-all-over-again/>

The space shuttle primary computer system
	Sept 1984
	<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358234.358246>

The TWA reservation system
	July 1984
	<https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/358105.358192>

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After Editor in Chief of the ACM, in 1993 Denning established "The Center for the New Engineer" (CNE)
	<http://www.denninginstitute.com/cne/cne-aug93.pdf>

Great Principles of Computing, paper
	<https://denninginstitute.com/pjd/PUBS/ENC/gp08.pdf>

Website
	<https://denninginstitute.com/pjd/GP/GP-site/welcome.html>

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Denning, 2008

Another major success was the case studies conducted by Alfred Spector and David Gifford of MIT, 
who visited project managers and engineers at major companies and interviewed them about their projects, 
producing no-holds-barred pieces. 

This section was wildly popular among the readers. 
Unfortunately, the labor-intensive demands of the post got the best of them after three years, and we were not able to replace them. 

Also by that time, companies were getting more circumspect about discussing failures and lessons learned in public forums.

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> On 5 Jul 2024, at 09:31, Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com> wrote:
> 
> Alright, apologies for being late.
> 
> Back in 1984, David Gifford and Al Spector started a series of case studies for CACM.
> I think only two were published, on the TWA reservation system and on the Space Shuttle primary computer.


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