GEOLOGY: Breaking Early and Often

Test Early, Test Often

Nothing does a software company’s reputation more harm than poor quality. One significant contributor to delivered quality is how thoroughly the software is tested. In this issue of Strategic Software Engineering I will describe a test process that has a strategic impact on the organization.

Quit early, quit often.

Vote Early, Vote Often

Early animal evolution: emerging views from comparative biology and geology.

The Cambrian appearance of fossils representing diverse phyla has long inspired hypotheses about possible genetic or environmental catalysts of early animal evolution. Only recently, however, have data begun to emerge that can resolve the sequence of genetic and morphological innovations, environmental events, and ecological interactions that collectively shaped Cambrian evolution. Assembly of ...

Voting Early and Often Can Be a Good Thing

The current political climate has almost ruled out the use of Internet voting. Many politicians, led by vocal computer scientists, are pushing for voter verified paper receipts; which is likely to push us even further away from even electronic voting systems. On the other hand, cryptographers have created homomorphic encryption and non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs with features that can su...