Recent Publications
The Valuation of
Technology-Based Intellectual Property in Offshoring Decisions,
with Gio Wiederhold, Amar Gupta, and David Branson Smith,
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol 24,
Issue 1, 2009. (28p)
Software Industry Globalization and Its Role in
Economic Development
National
Software Industry Development: Considerations for Government Planners. Examines
software as a key element of industrial infrastructure as well as an
industry in itself, with Nagy Hanna, World Bank, April 2003. Electronic
Journal of Information Systems in Developing
Countries (EJISDC), (2003) 13, 10, 1-17. (22p)
Korea
and the Global Software Industry. Study funded by the Korean IT
Industry Promotion Agency, with William F. Miller, Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University, Oct., 2002. (80p)
Developing
Sri Lanka’s Software Industry. A Report to the World
Bank. July, 2002. (13p)
Towards
a Professional Software School. A concept paper that argues
that software professionals should be educated like doctors, lawyers,
and architects, April, 2002. (3p)
Towards
a Knowledge-Level Software Platform. A position paper for the
first International Semantic Web Workshop at Stanford Univ., with
Buddy Kresge, BenefitsXML, July, 2001. (2p)
Software
Entrepreneurism in Korea. Working paper, December 1999.
Software
Entrepreneurism and Economic Development. Slides from
the talk presented at the US-Japan Technology Research Center, Stanford
University, December 2, 1999.
Software
Entrepreneurism in Korea. Slides from the talk presented at the
Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, October 19, 1999.
The Software Talent Shortage
The
IT Labor Shortage, Which Never Really Existed, Is Finally Over, Right?
Notes for a panel at the IT Services Executive Forum, San Francisco,
February, 2001.
Will
Componentware Save Us from the Software Talent Shortage? Web
Builder Conference, San Francisco, April 1998, slide presentation.
Letter
to the Editor, San Jose Mercury News, published February 22,
1998.
Strategies
for Survival. January 1998. (A version of this paper, entitled Treasuring
IT Talent, appeared in Compuware's InTelligence Magazine, Volume 2,
No. 1, 1998)
How
Will the Software Talent Shortage End? November 1997. (A
version of this article appeared in the January 1998 issue of American
Programmer.)
Notes
on Human Resource Issues in the Software Industry and Their
Implications for Business and Government. Talk presented
to the NSTC Presidential Advisory Committee on High-Performance
Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next
Generation Internet, Washington, DC, October 30, 1997.
The
Software Talent Shortage, the Impact on the Software Industry.
Slides from the talk presented to the Enterprise Software Roundtable,
September 4, 1997.
Outline
of Arguments About the Software Talent Shortage. Enterprise
Software Roundtable, Sept. 1997.
Report
on the SCIP Software Labor Roundtable: Discussions regarding the global
software labor supply. June 1997.
The
Software Shortage, March 1997. (A version appeared in
Distributed Object Computing in April 1997.)
Software
R&D Strategies of Developing Countries. Report for
the Council on Foreign Relations, January 1997.
The
Globalization of Software R&D: The Search for Talent. Report
for the Council on Foreign Relations, Dec. 1996.
Good
Programmers Are Hard To Find: An Alternative Perspective on the
Immigration Of Engineers. October 1996.
The Software Industry
Software
Sourcing Strategies. Slides from Strategic Uses of IT, Stanford
Executive Ed., May, 2000.
Ten
Keys to Failure as a Software Entrepreneur. Slides from
SoftExpo 2000, Seoul, Dec. 2000.
Silicon Valley: A Special Place for High-Tech
Innovation. Slides for Finnish Science & Technology Careers
Summer Camp, Stanford, CA, August 1998.
A Pilot Survey of
Software Product Management. In the Proceedings of the
Software Engineering Process Group '97 Conference, San Jose CA, March
1997.
Slides
from the talk at the Software Engineering Process Group '97 Conference.
San Jose CA, March 1997.
The
US Domination Of Worldwide Software Products Sales Increased in 1995.
October 1996.
Some Thoughts on Regulating the NII. In the
Proceedings of Infotech Malaysia '95, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November
1995.
US
Initiatives on the National Information Infrastructure.
Talk presented at Infotech Malaysia '95, Kuala Lumpur, November 1995.
US
Software Products Publishers: Trends and Issues.
Presentation, Stanford Computer Industry Forum, Sept. 1995.
An
Overview of the Software Industry Study, June 1995.
Revising
the Classification of the Software Industry, A Recommendation to the
Economic Classification Policy Committee of the US Office of Management
and Budget, with Brian Lent, March 1995.
IS
2000: A New Role for Corporate IS Departments and People. An
address to Software Development conferences in San Jose, 1993,
Washington, 1994, San Francisco, 1995.
AI and Expert Systems
Expert
Systems: A Technology Before Its Time, AI Expert Magazine, May
1995.
Qualitative Structural Analysis Using Diagrammatic
Reasoning, with Yumi Iwasaki and Kincho Law. In the proceedings of
the 1995 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Montreal, August 1995.
Active Information Systems: The Evolution of Expert
Systems Technology. IEEE Expert, July 1993.
Systems
That Know That They Don't Understand. Presented at Cognitiva
85: Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, Centre d'Etudes des
Systemes et des Technologies Avancees, Paris, June 1985.
Help Desk Automation and Knowledge Management
The
Central Role of Knowledge Technology in the Transformation of HR.
Working paper, September 1998.
Knowledge
Management in the Information Age. Slide presentation
for Documation '98 panel, "Whither Knowledge Management Technology,"
March 1998.
Six
Myths About Knowledge Management. Slide presentation,
April 1997.
Software
Trends at the Help Desk. Intelligent Software
Strategies, September 1992.
Knowledge
Distribution at the Help Desk: The Future of Corporate Information
Systems. Information Center Magazine, May 1991.
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