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"Renegade Wandering Agents," 74K PDF (use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader as helper application in your browser) -- initially presented at SIGNIDR V, McLean, Virginia, August 4, 1994. (Cleared for open publication by OASD[PA] July 28, 1994.)
Thoughts on Teams,
14K, based on an e-mail sent to John Osterholz in June 1993 and
subsequently revised in minor ways when forwarding copies to others.
Letter on "Future of COBOL", 25K, written to Dr. Selden Stewart August 10, 1979, giving Jim Pottmyer's prognostications. You are invited to pay attention to the penultimate paragraph (where Jim takes early notice of Microsoft), but overlook the flakey stuff about COBOL-on-a-chip.
"Innovation in a Constrained Environment ," 16K + 11K illustration, foreword to the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the ACM, College Park, MD, June 18, 1981 -- how the information systems economy appeared to Jim in the days when the national debt as under a trillion dollars and inflation seemed to be the big problem.
"Letter W Considered Harmful," 4K -- initially published in Computopics and subsequently republished in Bits and Bytes 1:1 (Jun. 88) -- (With apologies to Edsgar Dijkstra and anybody whose name contains the letter w.)
"And Never the Trine Shall Meet,"
7K +8K illustration, initially published in Bits and Bytes
2:1 (Jan. 89).