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  Agile Kata: patterns and practices for transformative organizational agility
Krebs J., Pearson, Hoboken, NJ, 2024. 208 pp.  Type: Book (9780138118303)

Question: In these turbulent times, is there a better way of work design for seeing systems and transforming organizations under stress? The answer: yes, there is a better way. Agile Kata: patterns and practices for transformative organizationa...

Nov 4 2025  
  Navigating uncertainty using foresight intelligence: a guidebook for scoping scenario options in cyber and beyond
Garvey B., Svendsen A., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2024. 283 pp.  Type: Book (9783031661143)

In an era when uncertainty increasingly dominates global landscapes--be it in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), or digital finance--Garvey and Svendsen’s Navigating uncertainty using foresight intelligence emerges...

Oct 20 2025  
  To post or not to post: AI ethics in the age of big tech
Sætra H. Communications of the ACM 68(8): 38-49, 2025.  Type: Article

The most “applied” area of philosophy is ethics. Its concerns encompass what it means to be a “good” person, including how one should live with others. When I first encountered this article, the title suggested that its sco...

Oct 17 2025  
  Effective software architecture: building better software faster
Goldman O., Pearson, Hoboken, NJ, 2024. 240 pp.  Type: Book (9780138249328), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Oliver Goldman’s Effective software architecture is a pragmatic, domain-focused book covering an essential--though not well-trod--aspect of software development: managing architecture as an ongoing team process. The book doe...

Oct 15 2025  
   Learning from one and only one shot
Yu H., Mineyev I., Varshney L., Evans J. npj Artificial Intelligence 11-10, 2025.  Type: Article

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have led to increasingly complex models, often comprising hundreds of layers and billions of parameters. While powerful, these models demand vast datasets and significant computational resources, making the...

Oct 13 2025  
  New mechanism: explanation, emergence and reduction
Vecchi D., Santos G., Cordovil J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 272 pp.  Type: Book (9783031469169)

Vecchi et al.’s New mechanism is a thought-provoking examination of the evolving landscape of scientific explanation, particularly focusing on the concepts of mechanism, emergence, and reduction. This book delves into the philosophica...

Oct 6 2025  
  Trustworthy distributed AI systems: robustness, privacy, and governance
Wei W., Liu L. ACM Computing Surveys 57(6): 1-42, 2025.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)

Artificial intelligence (AI) models require significant processing power for training data, and historically this processing has been centralized. An alternative to centralized processing is distributed AI, which allows geographically distributed ...

Sep 29 2025  
   The rational software engineer: strategies for a fulfilling career in tech
Chernenko M., Apress, New York, NY, 2023. 225 pp.  Type: Book (9781484297940)

This book offers a sober, organized, and experience-driven view of what software professionals can do to further their careers. The ideal reader is someone who is already in the field, possibly past junior level, but looking for greater clarity or...

Sep 25 2025  
   Where is science leading us? And what can we do to steer it?
Jaeger L., Dacorogna M., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2024. 340 pp.  Type: Book (9783031471377)

Unless there are posthumous manuscripts still being edited, this book is likely to be Lars Jaeger’s final contribution to the study of the history and philosophy of science. Lars Jaeger died in June 2024, at the age of 55. This book is a mas...

Sep 22 2025  
  Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work
Veselovsky V., Ribeiro M., Cozzolino P., Gordon A., Rothschild D., West R. Communications of the ACM 68(3): 42-47, 2025.  Type: Article

Large language model (LLM) and crowd-work platform tools offer both similar and different features for creating, annotating, administering, and summarizing survey data and experiments. But is there any robust, data-driven evidence of deficiencies ...

Sep 17 2025  
 
 
 
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