PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | July 5, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | June 12, 2023 at 09:51 AM
Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | March 2, 2023 at 09:45 AM
Numbers don't mean anything if people don't understand, or trust, the computation behind them.
Doug Meil and Michael Onders From BLOG@CACM | February 2, 2023 at 09:47 AM
The balancing of the chaos of no data tension and too much tension on data assets is what data governance frameworks and processes attempt to manage.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | October 18, 2022 at 11:03 AM
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | June 2, 2022 at 09:10 AM
In software engineering, many technical decisions are context-dependent, and there are often complex edge cases to consider.
Doug Meil From BLOG@CACM | March 4, 2022 at 11:14 AM