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The US IT Workforce Shortage

With all the attention now devoted to the year-2000 computer crisis and the EMU (European Monetary Unit) conversion, it is almost no surprise that a far larger crisis -- the IT workforce labor shortage -- is being overshadowed.

WHY PATENTS ARE CRITICAL TO TODAY'S PROGRAMMERS by Irving S.
FEAR AND LOATHING: ON THE TRAIL OF STOLEN SOFTWARE by Thomas W. Bragg and Laurance J. Ochs

This article is based on real events; names and places and certain aspects of the story have been changed as a matter of consideration to those involved.

PATENT POLICY PERVERSION: A PERSONAL PLEA by Michael Schrage

Now I love and respect intellectual property as much as the next creative person. I strongly believe that intellectual property deserves legal protection. No, I am not an intellectual property lawyer.

THE BIT AND THE PENDULUM: BALANCING THE INTERESTS OF STAKEHOLDERS IN DIGITAL PUBLISHING by Mark Stefik and Alex Silverman

Copyright 1997 by Mark Stefik and Alex Silverman. All rights reserved.

THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS by Shun-ichi Sakurai

In Japan today, software is protected under a copyright law. Whether it is appropriate to protect software under the current copyright law is debatable.

REINVENTING THE TESTING PROCESS: NEW COMMANDMENTS FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT by Jennifer S. Cole, Thomas Gorham, Mark P. McDonald, and J.
IMPROVING THE ATTITUDE TOWARD TESTING by San Murugesan Errors are more common, more pervasive, and more troublesome in software than with other technologies.

David L. Parnas