I Know Many Songs, but I Cannot Sing

I Know What I Know

How important is software construction? Software construction has been the awkward stepchild of software engineering for decades. This puzzles me because software construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to be done on every project. Code is the center of the software universe. Process advocates tend to downplay coding, focusing more on the documentation that occurs before and after c...

"I know who, but not how many!" - Forgetting in Collaborative Settings

Forgetting is a natural mechanism that keeps our memory from overloading. In the past it had a large influence on the design of Human-Computer Interaction. Yet, its main focus was on single user tasks and systems. Collaborative settings introduce the secondary task of coordination which has to share the already scarce capacity of the working memory with the knowledge of the primary task. Second...

"I know I have arthritis but I don't know what type". Understanding and knowledge of this chronic condition

BACKGROUND "Arthritis" is a common musculoskeletal condition but the knowledge of what type of arthritis people have, may be limited but may have changed over time in response to campaigns, increased awareness and improved health literacy. This paper describes people who did not know what type of arthritis they had, by a range of relevant demographic and socioeconomic variables, and assesses ch...

A Professional and a Gentleman: the Enrico Drioli I know

"I know it when I see it".

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This i know it when i see it can help you ...