Notes

1. Florman, Samuel C., The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, 2d Ed., NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1994.

2. I call this "folklore" because several Canadian professional engineers have independently told me that the iron in the iron ring traditionally is thought to come from the wreckage of the iron bridge that collapsed in Quebec City in 1907. Published information about the Canadian iron ring ceremony contains no mention of the Quebec City bridge. The ceremony itself might contain mention of this bridge, but it is a secret ceremony.

3. The New York Times, May 3, 1999.

4. Digest subscription to this forum is available by e-mailing [e-mail] or on Usenet at comp.risks.

5. All the examples in this paragraph come from Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

6. This image was obtained from IMSI's MasterClips©/MasterPhotos© collection, 1895 Francisco Blvd. East, San Rafael, CA 94901-5506, USA.

7. This image was obtained from IMSI's MasterClips©/MasterPhotos© collection, 1895 Francisco Blvd. East, San Rafael, CA 94901-5506, USA.

8. Shaw, Mary, "Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software," IEEE Software, November 1990, pp. 15f.

9. Christopher Alexander, quoted in Glass, Robert L., Software Creativity, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 1994.

10. Simon, Herbert, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3d Ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

11. For more information, see Jones, Capers, Assessment and Control of Software Risks, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Yourdon Press, 1994.

12. Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3d Ed., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.