Mitch Kapor · ON Technologies and Electronic Frontier FoundationInventing Software Design
January 22, 1992
Software Design, as distinct from software engineering, computer
programming, engineering design, or any other computing profession,
is now emerging as a profession in its own right, concerned with
mediating between the subjective world of human needs and values
and the objective world of computing substrates. What are the
theoretical and practical concerns giving rise to this new field?
What justifies its stance as the newest member of the family
of design disciplines? What are the implications for the training
and education of software designers?
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Mitch Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation and served
as its Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman. He is
the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, Agenda, and many other software
applications. Currently, he serves as Chairman of ON Technology,
Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a developer of local-area network
applications for collaborative computing. He is the co-founder
and President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization
which works to develop and implement public policies to promote
openness, diversity, and innovation in emerging electronic social
environments. He is Chairman of the Commercial Internet Exchange
(CIX), a not-for-profit association involved in the development
of arrangements and facilities which connect independent networking
carriers into a global information infrastructure and serves
on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National
Research Council. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government in the area of information technology
policy. He has also been active in the creation of the Association
for Software Design, a professional organization for software
designers.
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