Michael A. Jackson

British computer scientist

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Heart Butte Reservoir 2001-2002 archeological test excavations, Grant County, North Dakota
Camp Grafton north 2002-2003 archeological test excavations, Ramsey County, North Dakota
Camp Grafton north 2001 archeological survey, Ramsey County, North Dakota
Keyhole Reservoir evaluative test excavations at sites 48CK2 and 48CK1278, Crook County, Wyoming, 1992 field season
Bivouac site (32RY189) evaluative test excavations within the Gilbert C. Grafton State Military Reservation, Ramsey County, North Dakota

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“A development method may be regarded as a path or a procedure by which the developer proceeds from a problem of a certain class to a solution of a certain class. In trivial cases, the method may be fully algorithmic; for example, there is an algorithmic procedure for obtaining the square root of a nonnegative number to any desired degree of accuracy.”
“After forty years of currency the phrase "software engineering" still denotes no more then a vague and largely unfulfilled aspiration.”
“The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. A program which does not work is undoubtedly wrong; but a program which does work is not necessarily right. It may still be wrong because it is hard to understand; or because it is hard to maintain as the problem requirements change; or because its structure is different from the structure of the problem; or because we cannot be sure that it does indeed work.”
“We follow two rules in the matter of optimization:”

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