Translation of the forewords to Emmy Noether and Jean Cavailles’
1937 Briefwechsel Cantor-Dedekind, an edition of exchanges between Georg
Cantor and Richard Dedekind, the foundations for set theory.

Research notes: The Matrix, Star Trek, Buffy, X-Files & co.

A combination of our previous research on the Tor network for PUT
2019 (the ‘small conference’ before PETS). Including additions.

This research covers the complete period from 2008, when Aaron
Swartz first joined GitHub, to just a few days before his death in Jan-
uary 2013. It includes, where available, relevant entries from his blog for
context (later entitled Raw thought) and other sources.

Translation of “Mathematiques et formalisme” by Jean Cavailles and
Georges Canguilhem; with introductions by two. Including a 1950 review
by Alonzo Church

A survey of contemporary computer science literature and themes.

Computer science and technology are both a scientific, technical and
technological as well a sociological, societal and political problem.

The transition from ’structured programming’ to ’object-oriented pro-
gramming’ is a canon of the computer science curriculum; traditionally
presented, or tacitly acknowledged, as the transition from beginner to
intermediate programmer, the passage from one programming language
to multiple ones (covering CS1 and CS2, in various ways). In this…[Read more]

Beginning or end of a culture? The old model of the journalist-turned-
historian by default. – a book review.

We trusted them, but they pulled their punches, so we punched back.
A series of letters that accompanied our research.

A quantitative approach to a historical problem. Sister publication to
“Fearless, 1000 days and still running : the ‘most resilient’ exit nodes of
the Tor network ”.

We make use of metrics to identify what we call ‘the most resilient exit
nodes of the Tor network’, and so gain an insight into their characteristics.
This first quantitative answer, we hope, will be of help, both to the users
and makers of this network.

And introduction to Volume 2 of The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault.

The two crises of computer science : a second, habilitation thesis.

This publication concludes our series “What is computer science? On
two crises.” Having covered, perhaps contributed to its current crisis, we
turn at last to the original : the birth of computer science as a constituted
discipline amidst questioned and defended scientificity in the 1960s and
1970s. We give a summary of our previous fin…[Read more]

Part 2 of our research into big tech’s “best pals” in academic computer
science. Preceded by : “They danced to all songs : double employments
and conflicts of interest within academic computer science.” (Part 1)

Part 1 of a research on double employments and conflicts of interest
within academic computer science, their effects on that science, both in
research and in education, and a comparison with and generalization of
similar phenomena in other sciences.

Historians will need to abandon their ideals of only working with books
and traditional sources, if they wish to do anything original in this century.
More references for the history and sociology of computer science and
technology; in the hopes, still, of creating many others.

Contribution to a tradition of similar texts within computer science
and technology, by computer scientists and programmers, and others, in
which we explain our beliefs about the tools – hardware, software, net-
works and programming languages – that we use as well as their socio-
political, philosophical implications.

History of “How I do my computing” by computer scientist and free
software activist Richard Stallman : a seminal text at the beginning of
a long tradition of similar texts within computer science and technology.
But, when did computer scientists start considering the software and hard-
ware they used as an object of both personal and pub…[Read more]