Category Archives: Software engineering

Thinking about coding

This week in the Boston Globe, Mike Orcutt writes about how old arguments over coding...

A critique of Privacy by Design

Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy...

BlackBerry Security Summit 2015

On July 23, BlackBerry hosted its second annual Security Summit, once again in New York...

There’s nothing precise about Precision Medicine

The media gets excited about gene therapy. With the sequencing of genomes becoming ever cheaper...

Obama’s Cybersecurity Summit

The White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was hosted at Stanford University on...

Revisiting software professionalism

The ongoing debate (or spat) on Twitter about the “No Estimates” movement had me reaching...

BlackBerry Security Summit, 29 July 2014

Summary: BlackBerry is poised for a fresh and well differentiated play in the Internet of...

Watson the Doctor is no laughing matter

For the past year, oncologists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York...

Security Heartache

For the second time in as many months, a grave bug has emerged in core...

gotofail and a defence of purists

‘The widely publicised and very serious “gotofail” bug in iOS7 took me back … Early...