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I wrote a series of articles in the 1990s when I was Chief Technology Officer at American Management Systems (now merged into CGI). Few of these articles are available online but are listed to give you an idea of the topics I am interested in (or was interested in at the time I wrote them). Please contact me if you would like a copy of the text.
Computerworld	User interface design for web applications is a real problem for most organizations: "When the Whole World Is Watching You" (9/2/96) "What a long, strange trip (dream along with me...)" (9/4/95) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs applied to computer users (8/1/94)
eWeek (formerly PC Week).	Changing jobs: If not a dot-com, then where? (9/4/2000) Taking the measure of our systems (3/27/2000) The Y2K diploma: What it means (12/20/99) Remember: Risk nothing, gain nothing (11/1/99) The circle of software life: starting with ticks (9/27/99) Productivity and the IT personnel shortage (8/23/99) MIT's LCS: A Whiff of 'Oxygen' (5/10/99) The path to the CTO's office (3/22/99) Typing apps and pipes: the next big thing (1/4/99) Feel like all your project plans are for naught? (11/23/98) Plan now to pick up the Y2K pieces (10/5/98) E-commerce: If it's unuable, who's going to use it? (8/31/98) I don't want much: just a big, light, cheap laptop (6/29/98) KISS: Keep it simple, sysop (4/20/98) Gone fishing, our computers are down (3/02/98) The column that received the largest number of flaming emails: A new bastion of male supremacy? (1/19/98) It's deja vu all over again (11/17/97) Position wanted: Techno-business strategist (9/15/97) The ins and outs of centralization (8/11/97) The 'M*A*S*H' Unit approach to Year 2000 (6/23/97) Remote access: How close is the Internet? (5/19/97) E-commerce: A fundamental shift in doing business (4/28/97) The 'futzing factor' and the network computer (3/17/97) There's never enough information (2/10/97) Something a little extra for intranets (12/23/96) Year 2000 crisis: Another solution (9/23/96) Chaos theory and project estimates (8/5/96) Come celebrate the Web fantastic (7/8/96) Myth Surrounding Those Open Systems (5/21/96) The Reincarnation Of The Mainframe (4/8/96) Lowdown on the Skinny Client (3/11/96) Some Software Kits Are Bundles of Joy (2/5/96) Stop Pulling Those Rabbits Out of Hats (1996)
Datamation (Now defunct)	Data Warehouse artice (January 15, 1995) One-Three-Five Prediction on Object Technology (August 15, 1995). [BTW, my predictions were mostly correct!]
Software Magazine (Now defunct)	Competing objectives: a language barrier (September 1996) Take a little tohubohu off the top (reduce chaos in the software industry) (November, 1995) In case you aren't familiar with "tohubohu," this article cited as the example in Wordsmith's "A Word A Day" C/S answer lies in objects - client/server application development should be object oriented (March 1994)
Others...	"So Many Messages, So Little Time" (Washington Post Interview about information overload - back in 1997!) I wrote a chapter in "The Great IT Workforce Shortage" published by the Cutter Consortium ...and wrote comments for the Report of the Software Productivity and Quality Issues Task Force of the Information Technology Association of America. ...and spoke on the same topic at the 1998 World Congress on Information Technology panel on the Global Workforce held at George Mason University