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== Deletion discussion about ] ==
Hello, Markbassett,


== Software engineering ==
I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Intelligent design (historical) should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at ].


Starting talk to give notes to myself .... re Hamilton claim she invented software engineering, or the term ...
If you're new to the process, ] is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on ]. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.
Think she was the team lead for Apollo modules software (team grew up to 'have almost 100 software engineers' so not trivial but ...)


Also credited to Oettinger's 1966 letter as President of the ACM
Thanks, ] (]) 14:36, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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"We must recognize ourselves-not necessarily all of us, and not necessarily any one of us all the time-as members of a engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering, a profession without artificial and irrelevant boundaries like that between "scientific" and "business" applications."


] - President 1966-1968 of the , founded the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences and chaired it for six years starting in 1967.
== Reinstating edit on Creation-evolution controversy ==
In Dec 1966 ""The notion of software engineering is, thank goodness, beginning to be heard of more and more". and "Unless economic and engineering criteria are brought into the picture, sterile monsters result."


-- here we have the benefit of the exact item being talked about on google docs, yet guy misquotes a misquote from popper and ... claims that is the better way ... Theories then are ''never'' empirically verifiable." and "These considerations suggest that not the ''verifiability'' but the ''falsifiability'' of a system is to be taken as the criterion of demarcation."; , Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935; Engl 1959) pg 18


, Princeton CWI quarterly 1990 (325-334)
Hi Markbasset,
(An expanded version of a lecture presented at CWI on 1 February 1990. It is based on researchgenerously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.)
I see you reinstated I had reverted previously, which removes the word ''pseudoscience''. That word is backed by the ] used and quoting Popper directly could actually be considered ] since it's a primary source. It'd be great if you could give ] a read. When an edit you make is reverted you go to the talk page, open a new thread about it and then wait to hear from other editors' input on the issue. Reverting back is considered bad practice and doing so more than three times in less than 24 hs (I'm not saying you did BTW) is considered ].
Begins wanting the context not just listing names, dates, and places of firsts.
I'd really appreciate it if you could self revert your last edit and open a new thread so we can discuss it. Thank you very much. Regards. ] <sup><font color="green">]</font></sup> 02:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
So trying to determine what people thought when they first began to talk about "software engineering".
- one writer suggested originated 1965
* Brian Randell ("Software Engineering in 1968", Prof. 4th Intern. Conf. on Software Engineering , 1) ascribes it to J.P. Eckert at th e Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1965, but th e transcript ofthe one panel discussion in which Eckert participated shows no evidence of the term "software engineering". D.T.Ross claims the term was used in courses he was teaching at MIT in the late '50s; cf. "Interview: Douglas RossTalks About Structured Analysis", Computer (July 1985), 80-88
- first came into common currency in 1967 when the Study Group on Computer Science of the NATO Science Committee called for an international conference on t he subject
- As Brian Randell and Peter Naur point out in the introduction to theiredition of the proceedings, "The phrase 'software engineering' was deliberately chosen as beingprovocative, in implying the need for software manufacture to be on the types oftheoretical foundations and practical disciplines that are traditional in the established branchesof engineering."
* Peter Naur, Brian Randell, J.N. Buxton (eds.), Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques (NY:Petrocelli/Charter, 1976; hereafter NRB)


-Michael S Mahoney, "The History of Computing in the History of Technology", Annals of the History of Computing 10, no. 2 (April 1988):113-125
Please try the article talk since the re-creation means I've really looked and still think the edit is appropriate and so posted there. But first, please consider the desireability of having the primary source on the section topic Falsifiability (the Popper book) in favor of a lesser secondary source and on what wording would convey what is modern application or re-interpretation and where it will have gone too far in rephrasing the secondary source. To be precise, Popper defines falsifiability as a separator for science from all else, not saying the all-else is pseudoscience. Even the secondary source seems to not be making it the determinant for pseudoscience but noting it as a criteria (one of many?) for distinguishing science from psuedoscience is the Stanford extension of modern discussions. Saying a test mentioned in modern discussions is correct of STanford, but saying it as the determination of a duality was not in Stanford. Non-falsifiable pieces might equally well be poetry, law, music, acconting etcetera. And while Popper used the word pseudoscience, to him Pseudoscience usage differs from that of modern day -- he used that for Bolsheviks as epithet for his fellow Jews having to teach politically-correct Marxist views in what we now would call 'soft' sciences. ] (]) 11:50, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
"To emphasize the need for a concerted effort along new lines, the committee coined the term “software engineering”, reflecting the view that the problem required the combination of science and management thought characteristic of engineering. "


-Andrew L. Friedman and Dominic S Cornford’s 1989 book Computer Systems Development: History, Organization and Implementation. ...
- Martin Boogard’s 1994 thesis, Defusing the Software Crisis ...
- 1996 Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray published their overview of the history of computing, Computer: A History of the Information Machine
- two conferences on the history of software held in Germany around this time. The first, at Scholss Dagstuhl in 1996, was dedicated to the history of software engineering and included veterans of the 1968 conference


] has
== School and student project pages ==
"Early usages for the term software engineering include a 1965 letter from ACM president Anthony Oettinger, lectures by Douglas T. Ross at MIT in the 1950s, and Margaret H. Hamilton as a way of giving it legitimacy during the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer. "


] had
Odd -- at illegal immigration, a Talk post mentioned being a senior at Rice University and intending to craft a page.
"The term "software engineering" was coined by Anthony Oettinger and then was used in 1968 as a title for the world's first conference on software engineering, sponsored and facilitated by NATO. "
] She was/is
and gotten a barnstar about ] .


The origins of the term "software engineering" have been attributed to various sources. The term "software engineering" appeared in a list of services offered by companies in the June 1965 issue of and was used more formally in the August 1966 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 9, number 8) “letter to the ACM membership” by the ACM President Anthony A. Oettinger, it is also associated with the title of a NATO conference in 1968 by Professor ], the first conference on software engineering. ] described the discipline "software engineering" during the Apollo missions to give what they were doing legitimacy.
Looking at her activity history led to finding another student at and a general search for 'senior at rice' with site:wikipedia.org' turned up
(and many others) who mentioned a class page


Springer by O'Regan starts
Love it ? Hate it ? Maybe systematically such will flush out due to low hits ... but then many small topics are in same kind of situation. Hmm.
"This chapter presents a short history of software engineering from its birth at the Garmisch conference in Germany, and it is emphasized that software engineering is a lot more than just programming. "


IEEE, N. Wirth "A Brief History of Software Engineering"
- - -
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.pdf here]
The difficulties brought big companies to the brink of collapse. In 1968 a conference sponsored by NATO was dedicated to the topic (1968 at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) . Although critical comments had occasionally been voiced earlier , it was not before that conference
that the difficulties were openly discussed and confessed with unusual frankness, and the terms software engineering and software crisis were coined.
1. P. Naur and B. Randell, Eds. Software Engineering.
Report on a Conference held in Garmisch, Oct. 1968, sponsored by NATO
2. E.W. Dijkstra. Some critical comments on advanced programming. Proc. IFIP Congress, Munich, Aug. 1962.
3. R.S. Barton. A critical review of the state of the programming art. Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963, pp 169 – 177.


Grady Booch
: p.s. looking at contributor led to another class ] which says it is autogenerated class page ... hunh. ] (]) 18:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
The Origins of the Term
Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer.
Others have pointed to the 1966 letter by Anthony Oettinger in Com�munications of the ACM, wherein he used the term “software engineering”
to make the distinction between computer science and the building of software-intensive systems.1
Even ear�ier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation, there appeared a classified ad seeking a “systems software engineer.”
All the data I have points to Margaret Hamilton as the person who first coined the term. Having worked on the SAGE
(Semi-automatic Ground Environment) program, she became the lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Lab.
According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term “software engineering” sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work
from the hardware engineering taking place in the nascent US space program


mentions him
:pps now there is


IEEE post says
"Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer. Others have pointed to the 1966 letter by Anthony Oettingger in Communications of the ACM wherein he used the term "software engineering" to make the distinction between computer science and the building of software-intensive systems. Even earlier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation there appeared a classified ad seeking a "systems software engineer." "


And pg 13 background
"The phrase ‘software engineering’ was deliberately chosen as being provocative, in implying the need for software manufacture to be based on the types of theoretical foundations and practical disciplines, that are traditional in the established branches of engineering"
and pg75 mentions others already at
"In the United States National Academy of Sciences Research Board one education committee being formed is precisely to study software engineering
as a possible engineering education activity."


Princeton in starts
== Perennial sources ==
"Dating from the first international conference on the topic in October 1968, software engineering just turned thirty-five."


John W. Tukey, a chemist and statistician, is credited with the first printed use of the term "software" when he wrote a scientific article in 1958.
Not sure if you saw my suggestion re changing the name of that page to clarify its intent. Also note my cmt that "The issue perhaps is how to most appropriately and clearly indicate the value-add of 'existing consensus'." You can vote on that
Elsewhere saw
]. I my willingness to change my vote if that clarification is implemented. In any case, I'd appreciate your thoughts. ] (]) 20:27, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
"From soft +‎ -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined 1953 by Paul Niquette; first used in print by John Tukey 1958."
:] - I can see the title of it is wrong, being ‘repeatedly checked sources’ or something else. But then it seems a half-baked effort to what I am thinking seems a bad idea, so a poor title is not much surprise. Cheers ] (]) 01:05, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
::I think we’re largely on the same page — see item 1 in my to the Template:Supplement RfC. In anticipating the support this RfC would likely garner, I thought it best to make things a bit less inedible. That led to ] where my last adjustment to the proposal was prompted by your cmt that “Ultimately a source is only judged RS in some context …”. I see that proposal as a nudge and perhaps a step away from totally inedible. ] (]) 11:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)


Bertrand Meyer writes that the term was not coined in 1968 during the famous NATO conference


A different blog has
"The term “software engineering” was first coined in 1972 by Dr. David Parnas when he published the paper, “On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules.” This paper — and the dawn of software engineering — was the result of several notable innovations that happened years prior."


==Talkpage disruption==


History of Software Engineering includes
snip
"Margaret Hamilton became the lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Lab. According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term "software engineering" sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work from the hardware engineering taking place in the nascent US space program."
* is where this all started. <strike>My notification is a courtesy since others seemed unobligated to alert you.</strike>--] (]) 18:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Though elsewhere
:] Thank you for the link. Since it was phrased as a shut up or else, it's seeming par for the course of censorship attempt. If they did not understand my post it would hardly be so violently opposed, it would just be ignored or more detail asked for -- although at some point, I think MrX and Starship do actually know what I am saying, they're perhaps just unwilling to ] concerns. Cheers ] (]) 18:49, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
also says 1963 "In 1963, Margaret Hamilton, coined the term software engineering while working on developing the software for the Apollo spacecraft." (though this is flawed by here was no Apollo program in 1963)
::A lot of those talkpage comments require no response. As much as possible, always go armed with a load of references, especially from their approved venues....and keep things as short and sweet as possible to avoid acrimonious entanglements. In verbal conversations, few ever listen anyway, often talking past each other...but in online written discussions, this is even worse. At my job I have found that most people I chat with require me to repeat something twice if communicated verbally, and 4 times if done by email, and I even try to dumb things down for them so they get it. Misplaced Pages is worse even than that many times.--] (]) 19:14, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
<strike>::Also, Bishonen did ping you but me thinks as a courtesy, the reporting party, while not obligated since its not reported to a complaint board, should have done so...or</strike>better yet, AGF and simply come here and try to work things out directly beforehand.--] (]) 19:17, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
snip
:::] good hints. Though I still suspect there may be cases of topic selectivity, where some folks just don't want to or are congitively unable to talk about some concerns. That seems just the nature of the world these days Thanks again, the tips might help where it's not a strong block. Cheers ] (]) 19:27, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


Niklaus Wirth wrote (2008) which includes "The term
== stonkamets ==
Software Engineering became known after a conference in 1968, when the difficulties and pitfalls of designing complex systems were frankly discussed."
...
"In 1968 a conference sponsored by NATO was dedicated to the topic (1968 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) .
Although critical comments had occasionally been voiced earlier , it was not before that conference that the difficulties were
openly discussed and confessed with unusual frankness, and the terms software engineering and software crisis were coined. "
1. P. Naur and B. Randell, Eds. Software Engineering. Report on a Conference held in Garmisch, Oct. 1968, sponsored by NATO
2. E.W. Dijkstra. Some critical comments on advanced programming. Proc. IFIP Congress, Munich, Aug. 1962.
3. R.S. Barton. A critical review of the state of the programming art. Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963, pp 169 – 177.


- but I didn't see the topic or SE term in the (Aug 27-Sep 1)
Happened to see talk page of ...
The
.. I do see Barton found
and criticism of the term 'software' but no mention of 'software engineering'


Grady Booch wrote
Not sure of wp usage, but memes as topical policy/guidance might be good - philosophical stance is generally policy, and explanation or details is guidance
"Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer4. Others have pointed to the 1966
letter by Anthony Oettinger in Communications of the ACM wherein he used the term “software engineering” to make the distinction between
computer science and the building of software-intensive systems5. Even earlier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation, there
appeared a classified ad seeking a “systems software engineer” 6
.
All the data I have points to Margaret Hamilton as the person who first coined the term. Having worked on the SAGE program, she became the
lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Labs. According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term
“software engineering” sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work from the hardware engineering taking place on the nascent US space
program7"
4 Naur, Peter and Randell, Brian. Software Engineering: Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science
Committee. Brussels, Belgium: NATO Scientific Affairs Division, January 1969.
5 Oettinger, Anthony. “President’s Letter to the ACM Membership.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 9, No. 12,
1966.
6 Computers and Automation. New York, New York: Edmund Berkeley and Associates, June 1965.
7 NASA. Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. 6 August 2017.


tiny gods (religion), follow your bliss, feeling your way in (history), etc...
though under misc depressing “It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.”


tiny gods ...
it matters what vibes you spread, it matters which tiny gods you make more real through worship


Maybe the ngram corpus helps, at least it shows that Software Engineer peak (in print) in 1990,
We make the world real through actions that open the heart.


says
<blockquote>You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
"The term software engineering first was used in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Programmers have always known about civil, electrical and computer engineering and debated what engineering might mean for software." ] (]) 22:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.


Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.


== It depends on context ==


For RSN discussions
They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.</blockquote>


*'''It depends''' on context of what specifically is being cited for what specific article content. One couldn't cite them for medical advice for example, and information in a 1991 article may have become outdated. And I'd really like a link to what prior discussion was not resolved so it needed to come to this RFC for conflict resolution. Cheers


*'''No consensus'''. From the gigantic banner which appears at the top of this page -- '''Context is important: supply the source, the article it is used in, and the claim it supports.''' This is not supposed to be some kind of official council where we decide which sources are "good" and "bad".


*:Is there an actual live issue? Where are you thinking of its use and how?
== LISTGAP ==


*'''It always depends on context''' - of what specific piece is being cited for what specific WP content. See ], specifically ] "Each source must be carefully weighed to judge whether it is reliable for the statement being made in the Misplaced Pages article and is an appropriate source for that content." And remember that while ] is an important policy, RS is a guideline and not a policy, so a page does not necessarily follow it. RS even says it "is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though ] may apply." Cheers
Re:
] (]) 17:15, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


Per ] (which I linked for you in my edit summary), please don't use leading bullets in unbulleted sections. Thanks. &#8213;]&nbsp;] 20:33, 29 July 2020 (UTC)


== Academic accreditation ==
OK, it got put back though due to the edit conflict ... ] (]) 22:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)


Note to self -- like many things, answer #3 - it's complicated ...
== Article talk page concerns ==


I input at a RFC for Ralston college over accreditation
Hi Markbassett. I would like to discuss the quantity and quality of your article talk page edits with you (and only you—No MONGO/Atsme/Levivich/PackMecEng, please and thank you). I'm hoping that I can convince you to earnestly strive for clarity, brevity, and relevance in your article talk page comments, especially at ]. I'm sorry to have to put it this way, but I find that you post a large number of comments that make little sense and do little to advance the purpose of refining content. For example, you have made in the discussion about COVID-19 in the lead. Not a single one of those comments has moved the discussion closer to resolution.
: Many do mention it in the first line, though to me that does not seem per ] guidance or any distinct WP policy ... just a c ommon choice
{{cot|Here are some examples from the past couple of weeks. Collapsed for convenience.}}
:Some do not mention it at the start, e.g. going thru the WP ]
1. You created a new section to falsely claim that an edit proposal is "Generally running “Oppose all”". You provide no substantiation to the claim. At that point, 13 editors supported the content and 11 opposed it. I asked you to "PLEASE strive for clarity, brevity, and complete sentences in your comments?". MelanieN responded to your comments: "No, Mark, "Oppose all" is certainly not a consensus takeaway from the above discussion." With a 13:11 support:oppose ratio, I have a hard time believing that this was anything other than ] or simply lack of competence. I've highlighted portions that are ungrammatical to the point of being incomprehensible. The post was disruptive.
::Did input that seems could see that being part of a category or list - and there seems some flux or gaps in categorization running about
{{tq2|Generally running “Oppose all” so now what ?
::BTW noted Ashford became UAGC ... which now is but seems shouldn't be ...
::And BTW is online new/separate topic? MOOCs accreditation in the US is ] but that list of accredited and ] seem an alignment challenge. Plus -- it's just cannot use the same evaluation criteria, plus available RS markedly change in tone pre-2013 vs post-2022 as the field was rapidly altering. There is obvious prior comparison to degrees from by-mail or equivalency/evaluation programs such as ] Regents College, evolved into ]...


*] liberian .. umm accredited by legislature but "no degree-granting authority" ?
Things above seem to have gotten lots of pushback and diverging into side topics, so I thought it time to open a subthread looking for the now what...
*] ! not at all but obvious
*] ! second para
*] starts 'diploma mill' and says unaccredited only as part of para 3 quote
*] not until the body
*] ! very similar situation did say at start; and later alterd w some talk fuss
*] no mention - but seems no degrees either
*] first line - later mentions lost it but still part of Historically Black College program...
*] at end of section Academic programs
*] second para
*] Ashford led to seeing this - only some degrees are ...


Googling various, seeking unaccredited good schools
1. Can we agree that response above is generally or commonly running to “Oppose all” ?
*] - there are unrecognized accrediting agencies ;


apparently Michigan had a list but discontinued as burden
Not to do the !count thing, it just seems to me..... a lot of oppose “all” (unusually broad), {{hl|does not seem anywhere near any one proposed line favored or a progress for defining need or approach to a consensus edit on even a part-line tweak.|#ffeeee}}
:
: shows some reasons why might not be accredited
:::e.g. - religious so exempt ; too new; financial difficulty;


googling 'unaccredited colleges that are good' and 'list of unaccredited colleges and universities'
2. If so, then now what ?


And looking at 'best online colleges of 2024' seems loosely interesting too
I think the original thread and all proposals are toast, and this one can close soon. But maybe there are some items worth note ? Maybe noting what general LEAD principles are of interest, such as edit body first? Or a side discussion worth spinning a new thread for ?
*] was degree-granting but not accredited for decades ?
*] also was in operation for 1902 until accreditation in 1959 ... no mention of online standing
*] mentions accrredite; no details


== Topicban ==
- - - -|source=}}


Are you still topicbanned from post-1932 politics of the United States, broadly construed? ] (]) 11:25, 16 January 2025 (UTC)


:Why do you ask ? ] (]) 04:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
2. This doesn't make much sense. I guess it could have been summed up as "I agree."
::Curiosity. ] (]) 19:03, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
{{tq2|User:Rusf10 Good points, that the word ‘false’ is presented an UNDUE number of times. That WP is giving unequal treatment would need to refer to some standard though for any correction - to determine if it should be less white-washing there or less tar-and-feathers here. {{hl|Also —- perhaps you would want to present article content about the external view of ‘false’, of it being a POV narrative and unprecedented posturing over nits.|#ffeeee}} WP doesn’t need to say the ‘false’ claims as if that is factual or at all important to BLP - it is also a context of being under partisan attack and biased media coverage. To some extent, having it seems just a partisan talking point - something pushed vaguely in every opportunity, regardless of relevance. To some extent it seems just media infotainment selling to a niche - something done by deeply adversarial New York Times and Washington Post and Toronto Sun. Finer discussion of ‘false’ seems more something for the Presidency article, but the frequency here and wording here deserves extra scrutiny and context if it’s going to be said so, so often. |source=}}
:::Oh. Well, I do not really know. It was several years ago, though it was for an indefinite period so there was no end date as such. I did not get a specific thing or action stated to end it either, nor seen any notification it is gone, so suspect it's still there pending review. The proximate cause back when was a lengthy post in my TALK page from someone where an admin felt my response was inadequate. I think both those folks left a few years ago -- my impression is the other editor was themselves banned -- so I cannot ask them. I think there is a way to check within WP if you're curious enough to hunt for it - but as the other user had not made a ban request, it might not be in the usual spot. Cheers ] (]) 21:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

::::Yeah I tried looking for it and then I couldn't find it and then dinner was served so I got distracted. ] (]) 21:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

:::::{{tps}}. The topic ban, logged ], is still in force. The notice of it to you, Mark, is ] on this page. AFAIK, Mark has never appealed this ban, and has always abided by it. This, IMO, puts him in a good position to appeal the ban now. Mark, I still think t-banning you was a good thing for the quality of discussion in American politics at the time, but after more than four years of useful and harmless editing in other topics, it may be time for a second chance. Might you be interested in writing up a plan for how you would contribute in the area of American politics going forward, if the ban was lifted? ] &#124; ] 22:43, 17 January 2025 (UTC).
3. This example is more rambling than incoherent, but it stands out as a serious ] concern. You refer to starship.paint's of reliable source articles as "useless" and then you go on to cite townhall.com which is considered an inferior source full of opinion columns.
::::::{{ping|Bishonen}} Bish still stalking after 5 years? Isn't that more 'zilla's style? Maybe it would be time to give them a chance without asking them to write fanfiction first? And then keep an eye on it and gently steer them in the right direction if necessary? If it turns out to be a mistake its easy to reinstate the topicban. ] (]) 23:24, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
{{tq2|User:Starship.paint “cherry picked” is your word, and thank you for collapsing the useless lists. {{hl|But what you need to respond to is that those failed ONUS because they’re not applied towards anything and because one can google up 10 cites for just about every POV, and it is a bit unusable for the thread to just drop in ‘here are some urls’ without context of how gotten and which proposed wording is intended to be cited for what.|#ffeeee}} We’re not going to give 40 cites for any line chosen, and LEAD really should be from body content and cites not an unrelated score of urls. Just umpteen hits at undefined randomness is basically useless and TLDR. There are billions of links on web - saying a number like 10 or 15 as if that is at all significant is just silly, you need to show something like appearance in all POV publications or WEIGHT in millions for a topic, and explain the phrase it is intended to go to. I can equally turn up URLs for say . That you did an example (or above several) simply does nothing for DUE or OFFTOPIC or picking which particular hit for relevance and information instead of SENSATION or POV. So show a few million hits and maybe you’ve got DUE. Show it from BBC and not just NYT and maybe you’ve got widely said. Show it actually is part of an impact on President Trumps life and you’ve got BLP instead of OFFTOPIC. But showing me just 10 hits from the usual partisan sources NYT et al.... just isn’t anything. Not even showing enough DUE for a ‘critics said’. |source=}}


4. This is virtually incomprehensible, but it does seem to insult an editor who went out of their way to cite sources to support a content proposal '''''which is exactly what we are supposed to do on article talk pages'''''.
{{tq2|User:Starship.paint {{hl|Thank you for collapsing that, but nope this cherry-picking google only shows that gives situation is unclear result - it included (a) “government slow”, as in Congress etc not “Trump”, and (b) demonstrated “critics” claim this, plus (c) did not consider the RS saying otherwise.|#ffeeee}} Such as it being a mix of good and bad - e.g. Politifact saying “slow” is incorrect or BBC descriptions of things gotten right and wrong. Cheers Markbassett|source=}}


5. This one is blatant ] and ]. starship.paint meticulously compiled a list of high quality sources ('''20''', not 10); categorized them according to each element of the proposed content; and quoted each one. Somehow that wasn't good enough for you. You wrote:
{{tq2|] again you did not get the point -- {{hl|that this dumping unexplained lists of about 10 cites is unusable and just meaningless.|#ffeeee}} You didn't give context of how that was crafted; or which edit wording it was intended to support; or even if those are cites in this article or the other one or intended to be added somehow. You just dumped a load into TALK. thank you for at least hatting it, but of circa one billion hits in Google finding a dozen for any particular POV does not do anything to show it is significant or that other POVs do not exist. {{Just say what was the point of the list and how you made it and how you intend it to be used -- and if your answer is to show 'only my view is right' then I'll be glad to come back with ELEVEN cites about other view, or maybe 10 cites to places saying silly stuff like that's a chihuahua on his head or he's really the love child of a werewolf.|#ffeee}} Again, just dropping 10 urls just doesn't ring as if that's a significant portion let alone as all the POVs.|source=}}


6. Here you repeat the falsehood that "Oppose all seems the consensus", even though six days earlier I had already documented 17 editors supporting the material and 12 opposing it (17:12). ValarianB and Emir of Misplaced Pages commented in the interim increasing the numbers to 18:13 in support.
{{tq2|'''Oppose all (seems the consensus)''' - while there were variations in the opposition, the prior discussion of this thread seemed the proposals 1 2 3 had a consensus of 'oppose' and phrasing of 'oppose all' was commonly said as each one was mostly opposed by folks rather than anything having a consensus. The A B C ... through P are topics and if you're asking are they contentious then I'd have to say it depends on the phrasing and the context. {{hl|A topic of "slow" is different depending on if the proposed phrase is "initially slow" or "criticized as slow" or "falsely said slow"; and if the context is for a LEAD edit or a body edit, and whether the sole part of the paragraph of has more there.|#ffeeee}}|source=}}


7. Then you double down on the first false "oppose all" claim.
{{tq2|User:MelanieN Factually the answers above *did* run to a lot of "Oppose All" -- with that exact phrasing in many cases and the general theme in many more of the discussions also having a strong 'no not that' flavor. {{hl|The phrasings as shown in proposals seem toasted enough to me, and note the discussion moved along from there.|#ffeeee}}|source=}}


8. And again. This is now the '''fourth time''' you claimed that Oppose all seems the consensus.
{{tq2|] - '''Oppose all (seems the consensus)''' - factually is part of my input. Yes 'none of the above' isn't desired, but that doesn't mean 'none of the above' isn't part of my input - and the above snippet of MrX is a different flavor of intent that seems simply incorrect since this thread isn't yet looking at the "determine specific wording", which was part of why I'm at Oppose all. Where the thread was looking for some sense of what's more or less contentious -- I have explained that depends on the phrasing and position -- and where the ending question of which is "notable enough for Lead" -- I give oppose all because that's not a valid basis for Lead content. While I could try to give some ranking as to what seems body larger or WEIGHT more prominent -- even that wraps into it depends on phrasing and position and would still leave all these selections as 'oppose' for content and conflict reasons. {{hl|My responses would be 'not X: blah bla bla, it should ask bla beeh bla'.|#ffeeee}}
Although the phrasing topic is not the question asked, that seemed to me an important sidenote to mention and it seems evidenced at F/G and I, J, and L. I also see A as conflicting with or competing with M because of the wording, both being some prominence to a sub-area of criticism and how it's phrased. So !vote is oppose all, bu good for eliciting concerns.|source=}}


9. Here you feed and use it as an opportunity undermine every other editor who has collaborated to improve the article. I also have no idea why you need four space between each sentence.
{{tq2|ser:Mitchellindahouse - Welcome. I agree the article is biased, mostly written by critics and heavily based on sources that are critics, and has had many remark about the bias. I figure it as largely due to WP goes by WEIGHT supposed to convey in proportion to the coverage and mainstream media -- is what it is. Plus WP editors here go a bit beyond that in selection bias and phrasing, but then everyone comes with their own Bias. I suggest that if you see something specific and clearly wrong go ahead and make a ] edit on that, and be prepared to TALK about it here as it may well get reverted.|source=}}


10. Here, you make the blatantly false statement that {{tq|"Version 3 was already and emphatically rejected."}} against clear evidence posted to the contrary here: ] (options A-E) and here:
{{tq2|User:Bdushaw - For what help it may be, I think the “version 3” refers to the first subthread of “We have to agree and specify wording”. The top thread “Covid-19 in the lead” was originally about whether to mention “Obamacare” or to use “Affordable Care Act” and had a few variants of one proposal, then came a “We have to agree” section with 5 variants of a different proposal. That whole “We have to” section had mostly objections, and unusually said “all” in many “Oppose all” feedbacks. Version 3 was already and emphatically rejected. This part is maybe getting some info for what bits the supporters felt most positive towards. Covid has substantial articles and is at ] - and it has a section here in his biographical article, but Lead position was decided against. In the last rfc, (and this one seems headed the same way) noted at the top of this thread:
"This RfC doesn't reach a consensus about whether to mention coronavirus in the lead of Trump's article." It also doesn't reach a consensus about what to say if we did mention it.|source=}}


11. Literally no one in this discussion mentioned deplorables but you. The subject of the subthread was whether Misplaced Pages's voice was appropriate for .
{{tq2|Folks - you are perhaps having fun in that echo chamber, but it might work out better to address the concerns of other views or to at least acknowledge and show hearing in ways that aren’t dismissive and shows restraint about calling them deplorables. FWIW - is there anything of a purely factual and/or neutral content that you think could actually get widespread support now? |source=}}


12. ]
{{tq2|Well, try 2 got reverted ... {{hl|in lack of anything feedback|#ffeeee}} I tried a second time with different edit but the wikilink was disliked, so will try it without wikilink. Just keep it simple.|source=}}


13. ] and tell the truth.
{{tq2|User:Bdushaw a few facts off in that review, let me restate.
Awiley did some paraphrasing of bits for A-M {{hl|from a casually said from prior TALK as well as article.|#ffeeee}} That later expanded a bit and he later added P. It’s not a careful examination of article nor all from him.
{{hl|Starship had previously done unrelated 5 sets of urls titled with kinds of “slow”,|#ffeeee}} they were not part of the current A thru P items and only A is about “slow”.
MrX summarised only the minority of editors who wanted anything as to what bits they’d like. Those opposed were expressly disinvited and their inputs are not reflected.
The question of whether there is to be Covid in the lead is not unanswered. {{hl|The answer in the consensus list is “no”.|#ffeeee}}
Those who object have no “obligation to suggest appropriate text”, that is kind of the point. If anything, the BRD guidance is for the *proposer* to listen to the objections already given. |source=}}


14.] and tell the truth.
{{tq2|Tsk. Well, I could use your phrasing and frame it there’s ''clearly'' significant opposition, and that clearly there is no consensus to include anything. I however can back that up with {{hl|fact of a numbered consensus said that twice, and by this thread the revert and amount of oppose in the top with unusual amount of ‘oppose all’.|#ffeeee}} So that should be your starting point. And that WP guidance the ONUS is on proposer, along with BRD to address the concerns. Instead there seems a persistent behaviour of presumptive declaration, denying or simply ignoring any other views even exist and overstating support. (This apparent announcing a count limited to non-opposition as a ‘consensus’ being a case in point.) Well, it’s an approach I don’t think improves content or leads to consensus, but for now I don’t see any willingness to address things so think it will remain at no consensus for anything. |source=}}

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I would happy to elaborate on any of these examples if you like.

I know that numerous editors have given you feedback about the quality of your comments in the threads in which they occur. Do you need me list those as well?
There have been a few discussions, requests, warnings, and a sanction, yet it seems that you have not adapted your approach. In fact, I think it's becoming worse.
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I am asking one final time for you to ''please'' practice good talk page communication going forward. I believe that would entail posting less often; writing in complete, non-slang English sentences; citing sources to help resolve disputes; not posting false comments; not repeating your arguments; not making outlandish demands of other editors; not giving remedial instructions to experienced editors; not disparaging high quality sources that are used extensively throughout Misplaced Pages; not using troll comments as a springboard for criticizing your fellow editors; not using bizarre formatting in your comments; and basically just following common practice and ]. Sometimes it helps to read your comments out loud before you click submit. I hope this helps. Thank you. - ]] 18:17, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

:I strongly concur with all of {{u|MrX}}'s comments. I have found your Talk style to be so disruptive that I have abandoned disussions in exasperation, in cases I otherwise would not. I hope that isn't your intent. ] (]) 00:57, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

:] Sorry, too much length and diversity made that post unmanageable. I get that you’re having general trouble reading my posts but otherwise it’s a bit vague plus TLDR in getting to something specific it is looking for. It seems too much a laundry list of just complaining which of my points you don’t like rather than engagement. I in turn fuss over your numerical errors and such, but that’s how it goes. I suggest if you pick one item to discuss or one point or change, things might go better. Meanwhile, in semi-response to what I can see among the various bits, I’ll respond to a few

:1. I never got a response when I asked
“user:MrX OK, you're being unclear. Was that 'No' for #1 ? Cheers Markbassett (talk) 05:12, 14 July 2020 (UTC)” I did not feel you were directly responding, and this post makes me think you did not understand.

:2. I don’t know why you were interested in a count but I can see your method needs work as it’s hugely off. Your link says 32 edits (this month?) as COVID, but auto-counting instead of looking has misled you. If you look at your link you will see a lot of Lafayette park and Deployment of troops to Portland among the several sub threads discussing Covid, and about 15 posts overall. When some are a near-simultaneous grouping of a large one followed by one or two tiny ones (some even have a comment like “tweak” or ‘forgot signature’) that’s a single post. Perhaps count signature lines or total bytes edited.
And then check your own totals and those of others - this came off as “I wish inconvenient truths would shut up” rather than “you post almost as much as SPECIFICO” or why frequently having something to say or someone asking for something would matter.

:3. If you don’t feel that “1. Can we agree that response above is generally or commonly running to “Oppose all” ?” That’s your take. I however saw four “oppose all” in a row, (preceded by an “oppose”, support 1, support 3, and two more “oppose all”...). I think oppose “all” is unusual, especially when that’s being the general run in responses. As to your remark of 13 and 11 ... that’s far from the right count for the context - at the time of that post I think “Oppose all” was the most common response at 6 of 15, the others being something like a mix five for version 3, three version 2, one version 4, and one simple “oppose”.

:4. For the post mentioning rusf, one would need to read it in context of his post. Generally I don’t think you should read the post as just “I agree” or it would have been shorter.

:5. For the post about the long listing of cites in an argument as useless. They were noted as only an example that one can Google, not providing a relevant context or POINT. Volumes of copy-paste need not apply.

: Finally, I ask you to note D in BRD is for “discuss”, and try harder to let people TALK and value their inputs. If you’re not getting something, please ping me then so we clarify it in the TALK and the TALK winds up understanding all inputs. Saving it all up and posting here will not help the TALK content of weeks ago. Cheers ] (]) 04:44, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
::This is not the response I was hoping for after spending a large amount of time providing evidence and explanations of how your talk page comments are far more ] than helpful. I was expecting at least some self-examination and a commitment to communicate better. Your response is tantamount to ignoring the concern altogether. I'm astonished that that you believe I should have to ping you for a clarification of each of your unintelligible comments, rather than you accepting some responsibility for writing them in reasonably clear English in the first place. It's ironic that you find my appeal to be "too much length and diversity", yet almost all of the this consists of your own posts from just the past two weeks.

::I believe your talk page participation is disruptive, for these reasons taken directly from ].
{{blockquote|style=background-color:#ffffee; font-size:85%;|
::4. Does not engage in consensus building:
:::a. repeatedly disregards other editors' questions or requests for explanations concerning edits or objections to edits;
:::b. repeatedly disregards other editors' explanations for their edits.
::5. Rejects or ignores community input: resists moderation and/or requests for comment, continuing to edit in pursuit of a certain point despite an opposing consensus from impartial editors.
:In addition, such editors might:
::6. Campaign to drive away productive contributors: act counter to policies and guidelines such as Misplaced Pages:Civility, Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks, or Misplaced Pages:Ownership of articles—or sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry that might not exhaust the general community's patience but still operates toward an end of exhausting the patience of productive, rule-abiding editors on certain articles.}}

::I also believe that you have been gaming the consensus building process by ] and ].

::I brought this to your talk page out of respect, to give you an opportunity to objectively understand the concerns about your pattern of talk page editing. I had hoped that you would adjust your approach so that the disruption would abate. Regretfully, ] - ]] 12:36, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
::You should give careful consideration to ] and ]. - ]] 12:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

== Article talkpages ==

Based on the above thread, MrX believes that your talkpage arguments are both incoherent and excessive. I don't necessarily agree with this assessment in totality but recommend you work to streamline your commentary and use reliable source references as much as possible to back your arguments and...restrict yourself to only one or two comments per Rfc or discussion. I also recommend for your own sanity that you venture outside the realm of politics and current events and find arenas that bring you more joy. Revisit the political arenas only when totally necessary to ''vote'' in an Rfc or make a singular standalone point perhaps not more than once even would be best. Long ago when I first started I noticed there was usually a lot more ability to work out ''deals'' or compromises, but over the last half dozen years Americans in particular have become much more polarized in their politics and consequently this is evident in the current editing environment on this site. During this transformation, I also noticed that ''deals'' are hard won, even in most cases not possible and arguing is usually a waste of time as no one is changing their minds ever. Therefore, your comments might be 10 but your ''vote'' is still just one, so repeated back and forths do little more than clog up talkpages, lead to further frustrations and contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome!--] (]) 16:05, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 23:24, 17 January 2025


Software engineering

Starting talk to give notes to myself .... re Hamilton claim she invented software engineering, or the term ... Think she was the team lead for Apollo modules software (team grew up to 'have almost 100 software engineers' so not trivial but ...)

Also credited to Oettinger's 1966 letter as President of the ACM President's Letter to the ACM Membership - 

 "We must recognize ourselves-not necessarily all of us, and not necessarily any one of us all the time-as members of a engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering, a profession without artificial and irrelevant boundaries like that between "scientific" and "business" applications."

Anthony Oettinger - President 1966-1968 of the , founded the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences and chaired it for six years starting in 1967. In Dec 1966 ""The notion of software engineering is, thank goodness, beginning to be heard of more and more". and "Unless economic and engineering criteria are brought into the picture, sterile monsters result."

NATO Software Engineering

The Roots of Software Engineering, Princeton CWI quarterly 1990 (325-334) (An expanded version of a lecture presented at CWI on 1 February 1990. It is based on researchgenerously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.) Begins wanting the context not just listing names, dates, and places of firsts. So trying to determine what people thought when they first began to talk about "software engineering". - one writer suggested originated 1965

  • Brian Randell ("Software Engineering in 1968", Prof. 4th Intern. Conf. on Software Engineering , 1) ascribes it to J.P. Eckert at th e Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1965, but th e transcript ofthe one panel discussion in which Eckert participated shows no evidence of the term "software engineering". D.T.Ross claims the term was used in courses he was teaching at MIT in the late '50s; cf. "Interview: Douglas RossTalks About Structured Analysis", Computer (July 1985), 80-88

- first came into common currency in 1967 when the Study Group on Computer Science of the NATO Science Committee called for an international conference on t he subject - As Brian Randell and Peter Naur point out in the introduction to theiredition of the proceedings, "The phrase 'software engineering' was deliberately chosen as beingprovocative, in implying the need for software manufacture to be on the types oftheoretical foundations and practical disciplines that are traditional in the established branchesof engineering."

  • Peter Naur, Brian Randell, J.N. Buxton (eds.), Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques (NY:Petrocelli/Charter, 1976; hereafter NRB)

-Michael S Mahoney, "The History of Computing in the History of Technology", Annals of the History of Computing 10, no. 2 (April 1988):113-125 "To emphasize the need for a concerted effort along new lines, the committee coined the term “software engineering”, reflecting the view that the problem required the combination of science and management thought characteristic of engineering. "

-Andrew L. Friedman and Dominic S Cornford’s 1989 book Computer Systems Development: History, Organization and Implementation. ... - Martin Boogard’s 1994 thesis, Defusing the Software Crisis ... - 1996 Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray published their overview of the history of computing, Computer: A History of the Information Machine - two conferences on the history of software held in Germany around this time. The first, at Scholss Dagstuhl in 1996, was dedicated to the history of software engineering and included veterans of the 1968 conference

History of software engineering has "Early usages for the term software engineering include a 1965 letter from ACM president Anthony Oettinger, lectures by Douglas T. Ross at MIT in the 1950s, and Margaret H. Hamilton as a way of giving it legitimacy during the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer. "

Software engineering had "The term "software engineering" was coined by Anthony Oettinger and then was used in 1968 as a title for the world's first conference on software engineering, sponsored and facilitated by NATO. "

The origins of the term "software engineering" have been attributed to various sources. The term "software engineering" appeared in a list of services offered by companies in the June 1965 issue of COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION and was used more formally in the August 1966 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 9, number 8) “letter to the ACM membership” by the ACM President Anthony A. Oettinger, it is also associated with the title of a NATO conference in 1968 by Professor Friedrich L. Bauer, the first conference on software engineering. Margaret Hamilton described the discipline "software engineering" during the Apollo missions to give what they were doing legitimacy.

Springer History of Software Engineering by O'Regan starts "This chapter presents a short history of software engineering from its birth at the Garmisch conference in Germany, and it is emphasized that software engineering is a lot more than just programming. "

IEEE, N. Wirth "A Brief History of Software Engineering" https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.pdf here] The difficulties brought big companies to the brink of collapse. In 1968 a conference sponsored by NATO was dedicated to the topic (1968 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) . Although critical comments had occasionally been voiced earlier , it was not before that conference that the difficulties were openly discussed and confessed with unusual frankness, and the terms software engineering and software crisis were coined. 1. P. Naur and B. Randell, Eds. Software Engineering. 

Report on a Conference held in Garmisch, Oct. 1968, sponsored by NATO

2. E.W. Dijkstra. Some critical comments on advanced programming. Proc. IFIP Congress, Munich, Aug. 1962. 3. R.S. Barton. A critical review of the state of the programming art. Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963, pp 169 – 177.

Grady Booch The History of Software Engineering The Origins of the Term Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer. Others have pointed to the 1966 letter by Anthony Oettinger in Com�munications of the ACM, wherein he used the term “software engineering” to make the distinction between computer science and the building of software-intensive systems.1 Even ear�ier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation, there appeared a classified ad seeking a “systems software engineer.” All the data I have points to Margaret Hamilton as the person who first coined the term. Having worked on the SAGE (Semi-automatic Ground Environment) program, she became the lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Lab. According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term “software engineering” sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work from the hardware engineering taking place in the nascent US space program

A Brief History of Software Engineering — Part 1 mentions him

IEEE post The Origins of the Term says "Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer. Others have pointed to the 1966 letter by Anthony Oettingger in Communications of the ACM wherein he used the term "software engineering" to make the distinction between computer science and the building of software-intensive systems. Even earlier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation there appeared a classified ad seeking a "systems software engineer." "

1968 Report on the NATO conference And pg 13 background "The phrase ‘software engineering’ was deliberately chosen as being provocative, in implying the need for software manufacture to be based on the types of theoretical foundations and practical disciplines, that are traditional in the established branches of engineering" and pg75 mentions others already at "In the United States National Academy of Sciences Research Board one education committee being formed is precisely to study software engineering as a possible engineering education activity."

Princeton in Finding a History for Software Engineering starts "Dating from the first international conference on the topic in October 1968, software engineering just turned thirty-five."

John W. Tukey, a chemist and statistician, is credited with the first printed use of the term "software" when he wrote a scientific article in 1958. Elsewhere saw "From soft +‎ -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined 1953 by Paul Niquette; first used in print by John Tukey 1958."

his blog post titled The origin of “software engineering” Bertrand Meyer writes that the term was not coined in 1968 during the famous NATO conference

A different blog The Beginnings of Software Engineering has "The term “software engineering” was first coined in 1972 by Dr. David Parnas when he published the paper, “On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules.” This paper — and the dawn of software engineering — was the result of several notable innovations that happened years prior."


Slideshare History of Software Engineering includes "Margaret Hamilton became the lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Lab. According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term "software engineering" sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work from the hardware engineering taking place in the nascent US space program." Though elsewhere History of Software Engineers also says 1963 "In 1963, Margaret Hamilton, coined the term software engineering while working on developing the software for the Apollo spacecraft." (though this is flawed by here was no Apollo program in 1963)

Niklaus Wirth wrote A Brief History of Software Engineering (2008) which includes "The term Software Engineering became known after a conference in 1968, when the difficulties and pitfalls of designing complex systems were frankly discussed." ... "In 1968 a conference sponsored by NATO was dedicated to the topic (1968 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) . Although critical comments had occasionally been voiced earlier , it was not before that conference that the difficulties were openly discussed and confessed with unusual frankness, and the terms software engineering and software crisis were coined. " 1. P. Naur and B. Randell, Eds. Software Engineering. Report on a Conference held in Garmisch, Oct. 1968, sponsored by NATO 2. E.W. Dijkstra. Some critical comments on advanced programming. Proc. IFIP Congress, Munich, Aug. 1962. 3. R.S. Barton. A critical review of the state of the programming art. Proc. Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963, pp 169 – 177.

- but I didn't see the topic or SE term in the IFIP abstracts of papers (Aug 27-Sep 1) The session list .. I do see Barton in 1963 found here and criticism of the term 'software' but no mention of 'software engineering'

Grady Booch wrote The History of Software Engineering "Many suggest it came from the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, coined by Friedrich Bauer4. Others have pointed to the 1966 letter by Anthony Oettinger in Communications of the ACM wherein he used the term “software engineering” to make the distinction between computer science and the building of software-intensive systems5. Even earlier, in the June 1965 issue of Computers and Automation, there appeared a classified ad seeking a “systems software engineer” 6 . All the data I have points to Margaret Hamilton as the person who first coined the term. Having worked on the SAGE program, she became the lead developer for Skylab and Apollo while working at the Draper Labs. According to an (unpublished) oral history, she began to use the term “software engineering” sometime in 1963 or 1964 to distinguish her work from the hardware engineering taking place on the nascent US space program7" 4 Naur, Peter and Randell, Brian. Software Engineering: Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. Brussels, Belgium: NATO Scientific Affairs Division, January 1969. 5 Oettinger, Anthony. “President’s Letter to the ACM Membership.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 9, No. 12, 1966. 6 Computers and Automation. New York, New York: Edmund Berkeley and Associates, June 1965. 7 NASA. Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Software Engineer, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. 6 August 2017.


Maybe the ngram corpus helps, at least it shows that Software Engineer peak (in print) in 1990, here

says "The term software engineering first was used in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Programmers have always known about civil, electrical and computer engineering and debated what engineering might mean for software." Markbassett (talk) 22:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


It depends on context

For RSN discussions

  • It depends on context of what specifically is being cited for what specific article content. One couldn't cite them for medical advice for example, and information in a 1991 article may have become outdated. And I'd really like a link to what prior discussion was not resolved so it needed to come to this RFC for conflict resolution. Cheers
  • No consensus. From the gigantic banner which appears at the top of this page -- Context is important: supply the source, the article it is used in, and the claim it supports. This is not supposed to be some kind of official council where we decide which sources are "good" and "bad".
  • Is there an actual live issue? Where are you thinking of its use and how?
  • It always depends on context - of what specific piece is being cited for what specific WP content. See WP:RS, specifically WP:RSCONTEXT "Each source must be carefully weighed to judge whether it is reliable for the statement being made in the Misplaced Pages article and is an appropriate source for that content." And remember that while WP:V is an important policy, RS is a guideline and not a policy, so a page does not necessarily follow it. RS even says it "is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though occasional exceptions may apply." Cheers

Markbassett (talk) 17:15, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


Academic accreditation

Note to self -- like many things, answer #3 - it's complicated ...

I input at a RFC for Ralston college over accreditation here

Many do mention it in the first line, though to me that does not seem per WP:LEAD guidance or any distinct WP policy ... just a c ommon choice
Some do not mention it at the start, e.g. going thru the WP List of unaccredited institutions of higher education
Did input that seems could see that being part of a category or list - and there seems some flux or gaps in categorization running about
BTW noted Ashford became UAGC ... which now is but seems shouldn't be ...
And BTW is online new/separate topic? MOOCs accreditation in the US is Distance Education Accrediting Commission but that list of accredited and List of MOOC providers seem an alignment challenge. Plus -- it's just cannot use the same evaluation criteria, plus available RS markedly change in tone pre-2013 vs post-2022 as the field was rapidly altering. There is obvious prior comparison to degrees from by-mail or equivalency/evaluation programs such as University of the State of New York Regents College, evolved into Excelsior University...

Googling various, seeking unaccredited good schools

  • ed.gov] - there are unrecognized accrediting agencies ;

apparently Michigan had a list but discontinued as burden

scholero Unaccredited Universities
awalis shows some reasons why might not be accredited
e.g. - religious so exempt ; too new; financial difficulty;

googling 'unaccredited colleges that are good' and 'list of unaccredited colleges and universities'

And looking at 'best online colleges of 2024' seems loosely interesting too

Topicban

Are you still topicbanned from post-1932 politics of the United States, broadly construed? Polygnotus (talk) 11:25, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Why do you ask ? Markbassett (talk) 04:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Curiosity. Polygnotus (talk) 19:03, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Oh. Well, I do not really know. It was several years ago, though it was for an indefinite period so there was no end date as such. I did not get a specific thing or action stated to end it either, nor seen any notification it is gone, so suspect it's still there pending review. The proximate cause back when was a lengthy post in my TALK page from someone where an admin felt my response was inadequate. I think both those folks left a few years ago -- my impression is the other editor was themselves banned -- so I cannot ask them. I think there is a way to check within WP if you're curious enough to hunt for it - but as the other user had not made a ban request, it might not be in the usual spot. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 21:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Yeah I tried looking for it and then I couldn't find it and then dinner was served so I got distracted. Polygnotus (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
(talk page stalker). The topic ban, logged here, is still in force. The notice of it to you, Mark, is here on this page. AFAIK, Mark has never appealed this ban, and has always abided by it. This, IMO, puts him in a good position to appeal the ban now. Mark, I still think t-banning you was a good thing for the quality of discussion in American politics at the time, but after more than four years of useful and harmless editing in other topics, it may be time for a second chance. Might you be interested in writing up a plan for how you would contribute in the area of American politics going forward, if the ban was lifted? Bishonen | tålk 22:43, 17 January 2025 (UTC).
@Bishonen: Bish still stalking after 5 years? Isn't that more 'zilla's style? Maybe it would be time to give them a chance without asking them to write fanfiction first? And then keep an eye on it and gently steer them in the right direction if necessary? If it turns out to be a mistake its easy to reinstate the topicban. Polygnotus (talk) 23:24, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
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