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| Ned Chapin has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since it started in 1960. Ned has served as an information systems consultant and as a professor of information systems. His more than four decades of experience in the information systems field have covered a breadth of industries (financial, manufacturing, insurance, extractive, distribution, services, and governmental organizations) in many areas (commercial, industrial, managerial, process control, operations, engineering, and research applications and systems software), both in the USA and internationally. He has worked with computers from large to small, in various languages, software environments, and operating systems. He has been active in and contributed to systems, techniques, methods, and management in all phases of the life cycle of systems, including feasibility, systems proposals and evaluations, analysis, design, programming, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, conversion, operation, maintenance, and post-installation audit. He has served as an expert witness in litigation in both state and federal courts, and contributed to the computer field in the areas of software engineering, databases, computer programming, software metrics, software maintenance, and management technology. Chapin has been a published author in the computer field since 1954. Ned is the author of more than 200 papers and articles, and more than a half-dozen books published on aspects of the computer field. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, as the conference chair of professional meetings, as a member of the program committee of both national and international conferences, as an ACM national lecturer and national seminar leader, and on the advisory and editorial boards of professional journals and trade magazines. He has been active in professional societies at the local, national, and international levels, and has been a member of more than a dozen of them, including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, the British Computer Society (BCS), the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP, formerly DPMA), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He is also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and of Sigma Xi--the Scientific Research Society. Chapin earned an MBA from the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and a PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology. He also has been awarded the following certifications: Certificate in Computer Programming (CCP); Certified Data Processor (CDP); Certified Data Educator (CDE); Certified Systems Professional (CSP), with honors; Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA); and Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in California. Chapin works from Menlo Park, CA. --Read our Q&A with Ned Chapin here. |
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Application administrators handbook: installing, updating and troubleshooting software Bourne K., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2013. 626 pp. Type: Book (978-0-123985-45-3)
As described in this book, an application administrator’s job is to keep existing computer applications running. For even one computer application, there is a lot involved in doing that job, as this book explains. Fortunately...
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Database administration: the complete guide to DBA practices and procedures (2nd ed.) Mullins C., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013. 936 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321822-94-9)
The subtitle of this second edition is a very brief but good summary of the book: “the complete guide to DBA practices and procedures.” The author focuses on building, using, and maintaining traditional third normal...
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Jul 24 2013 |
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Eliciting caregiving behavior in dyadic human-robot attachment-like interactions Hiolle A., Cañamero L., Davila-Ross M., Bard K. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 2(1): 1-24, 2012. Type: Article
Could some of the interactions between a young child and his or her caregiver (such as a parent) be a useful model source for some of the interactions between a robot and a person? This paper reports on some experiments like that, done...
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Feb 6 2013 |
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Internet voting in the U.S. Simons B., Jones D. Communications of the ACM 55(10): 68-77, 2012. Type: Article
The pros and cons of using the capabilities of the Internet to vote in elections are broadly addressed in this lengthy article. Topics include the many varieties of Internet voting means, situations, and environments. As the title sugg...
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Feb 4 2013 |
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Yield management of workforce for IT service providers Kim J., Altinkemer K., Bisi A. Decision Support Systems 53(1): 23-33, 2012. Type: Article
Medium and large commercial software and information technology (IT) consulting suppliers have to manage their use of skilled workers under varying business conditions. Business ups and downs for such organizations can help or hinder t...
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Jun 25 2012 |
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On the greedy walk problem Bordenave C., Foss S., Last G. Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications 68(3-4): 333-338, 2011. Type: Article
The word “problem” in the paper’s title should be “problems.” Thirteen open problems from binomial and Poisson algorithms are discussed mathematically. The term “greedy...
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Mar 28 2012 |
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Rebooting the CS publication process Wallach D. Communications of the ACM 54(10): 32-35, 2011. Type: Article
This paper presents CSPub, Wallach’s “proposal for a new cost-free open-access publication model for computer science papers” that could facilitate the work done by authors and reviewers. In explaining his...
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Dec 27 2011 |
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Information search and retrieval in microblogs Efron M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62(6): 996-1008, 2011. Type: Article
Information retrieval (IR) has been a useful computing tool for more than three decades. This 13-page journal paper describes some of the changes in IR associated with using IR from microblogs, such as, for instance, from the tweets ge...
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Dec 1 2011 |
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Information systems for eGovernment: a quality-of-service perspective Viscusi G., Mecella M., Batini C., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 275 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642135-70-5)
Experience with planning for service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems at governmental facilities from 2003 to 2009 in Italy, Tunisia, and Morocco is the context for this book. The book centers on using the multidisciplinary planning...
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Aug 4 2011 |
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Recognizing authors: an examination of the consistent programmer hypothesis Hayes J., Offutt J. Software Testing, Verification & Reliability 20(4): 329-356, 2010. Type: Article
The 29 pages of this paper provide a more detailed “what we did” report than usual for research papers. What the researchers attempted to do was to empirically assess the validity of the consistent programmer hypoth...
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Jul 14 2011 |
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