Back to the Future?

he bases this contention on several observations he has made over the years and suggests that there’s sufficient blame for this situation to go around the science and engineering community. significantly, he recommends that a practical step toward a future resolution of this problem might be to go back—not to the past, but to the basics. i want to draw attention to his arguments in this space, but i won’t challenge them—i leave that task to you, by sending me one of those cards or letters i’m always requesting. the reason i take this issue so seriously has to do with CiSE’s mission. let me quote here from our publication handbook (www.computer.org/portal/pages/cise/content/ handbook.xml):