Professional papers

These are some of the professional papers I've read since I graduated in 2003.

Last updated 2011-08-03.

Title Author(s) Year Source
1 A Complexity Measure Thomas J. Mccabe 1976 IEEE Transactions on SWE
2 Software Management Leon Presser 1975 ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting
3 Structured Design Methodologies G. D. Bergland 1978 ACM IEEE DAC
4 The Ups and Downs of Programmer Stress Robert L. Glass 1997 Communications of the ACM
5 The Air Force Software Manager Richard H. Thayer 1975 ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting
6 How Microsoft builds software Cusumano and Selby 1997 Communications of the ACM
7 Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History Larman and Basili 2003 Computer
8 On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules D. L. Parnas 1972 Communications of the ACM
9 Agile Software Process Model Mikio Aoyama 1997 IEEE COMPSAC
10 Agile Software Process and Its Experience Mikio Aoyama 1998 IEEE ICSE
11 The New New Product Development Game Takeuchi and Nonaka 1986 Harvard Business Review
12 SCRUM Development Process Ken Schwaber 1995 ACM OOPSLA
13 SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development Beedle et al. 1998 Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference
14 The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams Rising and Janoff 2000 IEEE Software
15 How Good Are Agile Methods? Donald J. Reifer 2002 IEEE Software
16 Managing the Development of Large Software Systems Winston W. Royce 1970 IEEE Wescon
17 Go To Statement Considered Harmful Edsger W. Dijkstra 1968 Communications of the ACM
18 The Geography of Programming Baniassad and Fleissner 2006 ACM OOPSLA
19 Program Development by Stepwise Refinement Niklaus Wirth 1971 Communications of the ACM
20 Learning Test-Driven Development by Counting Lines Vodde and Koskela 2007 IEEE Software
21 New Directions on Agile Methods: A Comparative Analysis Abrahamsson et al. 2003 IEEE ICSE
22 On the Development of Systems of Men and Machines H. D. Mills 1974 Informatik Symposium
23 A New Look at the Program Development Process P. Hiemann 1974 Informatik Symposium
24 Organizing for Structured Programming F. T. Baker 1974 Informatik Symposium
25 Software Engineering or Methods for the Multi-Person Construction of Multi-Version Programs D. L. Parnas 1974 Informatik Symposium
26 Get Ready for Agile Methods, with Care Barry Boehm 2002 Computer
27 The Agile Methods Fray DeMarco and Boehm 2002 Computer
28 Agile Software Development: The Business of Innovation Highsmith and Cockburn 2001 Computer
29 Agile Software Development: The People Factor Cockburn and Highsmith 2001 Computer
30 Interprocedural Analysis and the Information Derived by it F. E. Allen 1974 Informatik Symposium
31 Future of Scrum: Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects Jeff Sutherland 2005 IEEE ADC
32 The Department of Defense software initiative - a status report Edward Lieblein 1986 Communications of the ACM
33 The Psychological Study of Programming B. A. Sheil 1981 ACM Computing Surveys
34 Agile Software Development: Human Values and Culture Miller and Larson 2005 IEEE Technology & Society Magazine
35 A Case Study on the Impact of Scrum on Overtime and Customer Satisfaction Mann and Maurer 2005 IEEE ADC
36 How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results Fleming and Wallace 1986 Communications of the ACM
37 A paradigm for programming style research Oman and Cook 1988 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
38 A taxonomy for programming style Oman and Cook 1990 ACM CSC
39 Selecting a Project's Methodology Alistair Cockburn 2000 IEEE Software
40 Introducing an Agile Process to an Organization Cohn and Ford 2003 Computer
41 My Hairiest Bug War Stories Marc Eisenstadt 1997 Communications of the ACM
42 Software development of real-time systems Hassan Gomaa 1986 Communications of the ACM
43 Agile Methods for Large Organizations - Building Communities of Practice Tuomo Kähkönen 2004 IEEE ADC
44 Agile Software Development in Large Organizations Lindvall et al. 2004 Computer
45 Using A Behavioral Theory of Program Comprehension in Software Engineering Ruven Brooks 1978 IEEE ICSE
46 Studying Programmer Behavior Experimentally: The Problems of Proper Methodology Ruven E. Brooks 1980 Communications of the ACM
47 Agile Software Development: It's about Feedback and Change Williams and Cockburn 2003 Computer
48 A computer science perspective of bridge design Spector and Gifford 1986 Communications of the ACM
49 Microprocessor architectures: a comparison based on code generation by compiler Niklaus Wirth 1986 Communications of the ACM
50 Hardware/software co-design then and now Niklaus Wirth 2003 Information Processing Letters
51 A style analysis of C programs Berry and Meekings 1985 Communications of the ACM
52 Novice mistakes: are the folk wisdoms correct? Spohrer and Soloway 1986 Communications of the ACM
53 The Japanese and software: Is it a good match? Laszlo A. Belady 1986 Computer
54 Computer Science Education in the People's Republic of China John H. Maier 1986 Computer
55 Cleanroom Software Development: An Empirical Evaluation Selby et al. 1987 IEEE Transactions on SWE
56 A note on undetected typing errors James L. Peterson 1986 Communications of the ACM
57 The State of Software Maintenance Norman F. Schneidewind 1987 IEEE Transactions on SWE
58 Software Testing Research: Achievements, Challenges, Dreams Antonia Bertolino 2007 IEEE FOSE
59 Learning to program and learning to think: what's the connection? Mayer et al. 1986 Communications of the ACM
60 Software complexity measurement Kearney et al. 1986 Communications of the ACM
61 A Future for Software Engineering? Leon J. Osterweil 2007 IEEE FOSE
62 Investigating the Effects of Color Ellen D. Hoadley 1990 Communications of the ACM
63 Can Distributed Software Development Be Agile? Ramesh et al. 2006 Communications of the ACM
64 Ethical Concepts and Information Technology Kenneth C. Laudon 1995 Communications of the ACM
65 What Makes a Good Programmer? Cegielski and Hall 2006 Communications of the ACM
66 Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms Peter Wegner 1997 Communications of the ACM
67 Third time charm: Stronger prediction of programmer performance by software complexity metrics Curtis et al. 1979 IEEE ICSE
68 Software Design and Architecture - The once and future focus of software engineering Taylor and Hoek 2007 IEEE FOSE
69 Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination James D. Herbsleb 2007 IEEE FOSE
70 Rapid Software Development through Team Collocation Teasley et al. 2002 IEEE Transactions on SWE
71 Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context Tedre et al. 2006 Communications of the ACM
72 The Complexity of Songs Donald E. Knuth 1984 Communications of the ACM
73 Coping with the imprecision of the real world Lotfi A. Zadeh 1984 Communications of the ACM
74 Viewpoint: against software patents Stallman and Garfinkle 1992 Communications of the ACM
75 Debunking the Software Patent Myths Paul Heckel 1992 Communications of the ACM
76 DSP Processors Hit the Mainstream Eyre and Bier 1998 Computer
77 Computers and People with Disabilities Glinert and York 1992 Communications of the ACM
78 Building Objects Out of Plato: Applying Philosophy, Symbolism, and Analogy to Software Design Ray Giguette 2006 Communications of the ACM
79 Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List Boehm and Basili 2001 Computer
80 Geolocation and Assisted GPS Djuknic and Richton 2001 Computer
81 Will Japan Jack In? John P. Barlow 1992 Communications of the ACM
82 Nine Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating Lederer and Prasad 1992 Communications of the ACM
83 The Paradox of Digital Preservation Su-Shing Chen 2001 Computer
84 The World-Wide Web Berners-Lee et al. 1994 Communications of the ACM
85 How office space affects programming productivity Capers Jones 1995 Computer
86 The Linux Operating System Shahid H. Bokhari 1995 Computer
87 The Global Diffusion of the Internet: Patterns and Problems Goodman et al. 1994 Communications of the ACM
88 Women in Computing: Where Are We Now? Klawe and Leveson 1995 Communications of the ACM
89 Power: A First-Class Architectural Design Constraint Trevor Mudge 2001 Computer
90 Program style analysis: a natural by-product of program compilation Redish and Smyth 1986 Communications of the ACM
91 Pioneering Women In Computer Science Denise W. Gürer 1995 Communications of the ACM
92 A Plea for Lean Software Niklaus Wirth 1995 Computer
93 Lessons Learned Administering Netscape's Internet Site Mosedale et al. 1997 IEEE Internet Computing
94 NCSA's World Wide Web Server: Design and Performance Kwan et al. 1995 Computer
95 Charles Babbage - The Great Uncle of Computing? Maurice V. Wilkes 1992 Communications of the ACM
96 Source Code Analysis: A Road Map David Binkley 2007 IEEE FOSE
97 You and Your Research Richard Hamming 1986 Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
98 The Development of the C Programming Language Dennis M. Ritchie 1993 ACM HOPL
99 How To Give a Good Research Talk Jones et al. 1993 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
100 Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful Guy L. Steele 1977 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
101 The History of FORTRAN I, II, and III John Backus 1978 ACM HOPL
102 The Humble Programmer Edsger W. Dijkstra 1972 Communications of the ACM
103 Computer Programming as an Art Donald E. Knuth 1974 Communications of the ACM
104 History of LISP John McCarthy 1978 ACM HOPL
105 Recollections about the Development of Pascal Niklaus Wirth 1993 ACM HOPL
106 Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I John McCarthy 1960 Communications of the ACM
107 Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs John Backus 1978 Communications of the ACM
108 The UNIX Time-Sharing System Ritchie and Thompson 1974 Communications of the ACM
109 Password Security: A Case History Morris and Thompson 1979 Communications of the ACM
110 Crisis and Aftermath Eugene H. Spafford 1989 Communications of the ACM
111 Sixteen Questions About Software Reuse Frakes and Fox 1995 Communications of the ACM
112 Playout Buffering of Speech Packets Based on a Quality Maximization Approach Atzori et al. 2006 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
113 Listener Detection of Talker Stress in Low-rate Coded Speech Stephen Voran 2008 IEEE ICASSP
114 Playout Buffering Algorithm Using of Randomwalk in VoIP Hiroaki Hata 2004 IEEE ISCIT
115 Neural and Fuzzy Computation Techniques for Playout Delay Adaptation in VoIP Networks Ranganathan and Kilmartin 2005 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
116 The Case for Case Studies of Programming Problems Linn and Clancy 1992 Communications of the ACM
117 Making Work Visible Lucy Suchman 1995 Communications of the ACM
118 Trading MIPS and Memory for Knowledge Engineering Creecy et al. 1992 Communications of the ACM
119 Educating a New Engineer Peter J. Denning 1992 Communications of the ACM
120 A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks E. F. Codd 1970 Communications of the ACM

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