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....This process is called change propagation (abbreviated propagation ) In this paper, we describe a new tool RIPPLES, developed for servicing legacy systems. It supports both location and propagation and combines automatic static 231 code analysis with human intelligence, as advocated by Brooks [5]. Brooks claimed that intelligence amplifying systems can, at any given level of available systems technology, beat AI systems. That is, a machine and a mind can beat a mind imitating machine working by itself. Based on that philosophy, RIPPLES is a tool that helps the programmers in their ....

F. P. Brooks, Jr., "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith -- II", Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, pp. 281-287, November, 1994.

....the whole computer science area. Following the thread taken by Brooks, the whole computer science discipline is not a science but a synthetic, an engineering, discipline . As he states it, computer scientists are concerned with making things, be they computers, algorithms, or software systems [Broo96]. Others, like for example Hartmanis, have taken the opposite direction, defending the scienceness of the discipline, arguing that computer science is in fact a new species among the sciences that by means of scientific methods explores the world of information [Hart95] But what then, if ....

F. Brooks, Jr. The Computer Scientist as a Toolsmith II. Communications of the ACM, 39(3):61--68, March 1996.

....10 1.6 Contributions and overview 1.6. 1 Interdisciplinary approach Human computer interaction is inherently interdisciplinary; some would argue that computer science itself is inherently interdisciplinary, with (as Fred Brooks has put it) the computer scientist taking on the role of a toolsmith [20] who collaborates with others to develop useful tools. In my research, the collaboration of neurosurgeons, computer scientists, and psychologists has been essential. The input of neurosurgery domain experts validates the computer science research: rather than addressing a toy problem, the work ....

....shown that with a cursory introduction, users can understand and use the interface within about one minute of touching the props. Hitching our research to someone else s driving problems, and solving those problems on the owners terms, leads us to richer computer science research. Fred Brooks [20] Chapter 3: System Description 41 3.2 The application domain: neurosurgery and neurosurgeons Neurosurgeons are driven by a single goal: deliver improved patient care at a lower cost. While improving quality of care and reducing costs might seem to be at odds, in practice one can achieve both ends ....

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Brooks, Jr., F.P. "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II." Keynote/Newell Award address at SIGGRAPH 94, Orlando, July 1994. Communications of the ACM, March 1996, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp.61-68. Also Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 4 (November 1994), pp. 281-287.

....to decide whether they are on the right track. This paper presents such a process. We present a computer assisted search process, with different and alternating roles for the computer and for the programmer. The process belongs to the category of Intelligent Assistance as advocated by Brooks [3] who claimed that intelligence amplifying systems can, at any given level of available systems technology, beat AI systems. That is, a machine and a mind can beat a mindimitating machine working by itself. When dealing with feature location, we are convinced that a programmer assisted with tools ....

F. P. Brooks, Jr., "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith -- II", Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, pp. 281-287, November, 1994.

....is the employment of human editors for condensation, along with extensive tool support to lower editing overhead to an acceptable level. Humans are quite good at examining textual information and determining what is useful and what is not, while computers are good at queries across structured data [3]. Using human editors is also far more resource efficient because most mailing lists already have a set of gurus : subscribers who read all messages sent to the list and who are domain experts. Therefore, in MCS, humans do the editing using the MCS editing program which makes the process as ....

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The computer scientist as toolsmith II. Communications of the ACM, 39(3):61--68, March 1996.

....expansion (memex) inspired researchers for a half century in the development of what has become the World Wide Web. Engelbart s goal of augmenting human intellect (Engelbart and English, 1968) led to innovations such as the mouse and windows. Later, Brooks s belief in the importance of toolmaking (Brooks, 1996) led to innovations such as haptic feedback in 3 d graphical environments. Hiltz s recognition of the power of online communities (Hiltz, 1984) inspired early software development (Hiltz and Turoff, 1993) and the emergence of ideas such as the collaboratory (National Research Council, 1993) ....

Brooks, Frederick, Jr., The computer scientist as toolsmith II, Communications of the ACM 39, 3 (March 1996), 61-68.

....case, obvious practical applicability needs not be a research quality attribute. Note that the discrimination between problem solving research and research for understanding is not a sharp one, it is only a matter of emphasis; see also the article of Fred Brooks in the March 1996 issue of CACM [ Brooks 1996 ] and the responses in the July issue. Looking at actual CS research contributions, a large majority of them makes claims that clearly belong to engineering problem solving; a study conducted in 1994 found about 75 percent of all articles in a random CS article sample to be of this type [ Tichy ....

Fred P. Brooks. The computer scientist as toolsmith II. Communications of the ACM, 39(3):61--68, March 1996.

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F. P. Brooks, "The computer scientist as toolsmith II," CACM, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 61--68, 1996.

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Fred P Brooks, Jr. The computer scientist as toolsmith II. Ke note/newell award address at SIGGRAPH 94, Orlando, Jul 1994.

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F. P. Brooks Jr. The computer scientist as a toolsmith II. Communications of the ACM, 39(3):61--68, March 1996.

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