Selected Publications


Peter J. Denning



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CACM IT Profession columns Since 2001, PJD's IT profession columns for the ACM Communications have addressed a variety of topics of for practicing professionals.
Encyclopedia and Handbook Articles PJD prepared over a dozen articles for the new Encyclopedia of Computer Science (Wiley, 2008), and for other handbooks.
American Scientist Columns Classics from PJD's library of 47 "Science of Computing" columns written for American Scientist magazine during 1985-1993.
Computing Science Other articles about the science behind computing and the implications of the computing field's being a science.
Working Sets and Virtual Memory PJD's seminal and classic papers on working sets, thrashing, locality of reference, and virtual memory, from 1968 onwards.
Great Principles of Computing A project to write down the fundamental principles of computing in a language useful in all scientific fields.
Learning Articles addressing fundamental issues in the philosophy of engineering and computing education.
Professions and Futures Articles relating to the IT profession, its core, its related fields, its structure, its practices, and its future.
Software Articles relating to software engineering, reliability, education of software engineers, software architecture, reuse, and quality.
Workflow and Commerce Articles relating to workflow modeling and technology, based mainly in the language-action perspective of work.