Historical perspective on personal computing, programming languages, from one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers. [ACM Queue]

Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.

Michi Henning argues why this distributed computing technology fell short and what can be learned from it.

Compares Java and Smalltalk, in text and table. By Rodney Bates. [ACM Queue]

Is an open, more flexible programming environment just around the corner? Article by Gregory V. Wilson. ACM Queue.

Focuses on the implications of concurrency for software and its consequences for both programming languages and programmers. (Herb Sutter and James Larus)

Describes some key principles that will help mastering the "black art" of writing multithreaded code.

Article discussing steganographic techniques and methods for detecting data hidden by them.

Critical history of the CORBA standard for object request brokers.