Mary Shaw Shorb (1907-1990)

Ethical Decision-Making in Library Administration

A Cyber-Social Systems Approach to the Engineering of Ultra-Large-Scale National Health Information Systems

In previous discussions here at the IOM, a group that I have been working with, including Mary Shaw, William Knaus, and Richard Marks, has argued that work in the area of ultra-large-scale systems, or ULS systems, can help us to better understand how to define, design, deploy, operate and evolve a national health cyber-infrastructure system. The concept of ULS systems was first presented in a r...

Abstraction and verification in Alphard : a symbol table example

ION and VERIFICATION in ALPHARD: A Symbol Table Example Ralph L. London, USC Information Sciences Institute Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon University Wm. A. Wulf, Carnegie-Mellon University

The Helminthological Society of Washington

Informatics for a new century : computing education for the 1990s and beyond

Information technology and computer science have not only reshaped computation, communication, and commerce; they have expanded the basic models and paradigms of many disciplines. Informatics education has obligations to all the communities that rely on information technology, not just the computing professionals. Serving this extended audience well requires changes in the content and presentat...