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| People who've known me for a long time are often surprised to hear that, in the waning days of the cold war, I consulted for NATO. Two years later, in 1989, I published an article about the experience, "A Spy In the House of War: My Life as a NATO Collaborator." Twenty two years later, in 2011, I found out that twenty years earlier, in 1991, I had won an Olive Branch award for the article, but was never told. |
| Programming As If People Mattered |
CACM column: Whose net is it anyway?
UNIX Emacs: a retrospective (lessons for flexible system design)
Cooperative work in the Andrew message system
Power, Ease of Use, and Cooperative Work in a Practical Multimedia Message System
Architectural Issues in the Andrew message system
Carnegie Mellon's Andrew: The Evolving User Interface of the Messages Program
An overview of the Andrew message system
Computational mail as network infrastructure for computer-supported cooperative work
Email with a Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail
Help texts vs. help mechanisms: A new mandate for documentation writers
Multimedia electronic mail will the dream become a reality?
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Weapons in the Fight Against Spam", Readwrite, August 31, 2015
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Human Error: Living With the Weakest Link", Xconomy, March 10, 2015
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Your Things Need the Cloud", GigaOM, February 14, 2015
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Robots to the Rescue," ILTA Peer to Peer, December, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Leveling Information Silos in the Workplace," Xconomy, October 3, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "What Will the Internet Look Like in 25 Years?," Forbes, April 4, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "WWW: Hope," Doubt, and Debate for the next 25 Years, Computerworld UK, March 27, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Web25: Three Predictions for the Future of the Web," Marketing Tech News, March 17, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Business and Personal Emails: Not the Same Privacy Game," Techradar Pro, February 18, 2014
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Business and Personal Email Are Not the Same," Xconomy, December 30, 2013
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The End of Personal Computers," Xconomy, October 1, 2013
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Inevitability of Archiving Social Networking Data,"" Xconomy, March 27, 2013
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "But This Internet Had Such Promise!,"" Xconomy, February 7, 2013
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Paper and Airplanes: The Long Road to Obsolescence," Xconomy, December 25, 2012
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME @ 20: A Happy Anniversary," Grinnell Magazine, Winter, 2012
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Maximizing Value and Minimizing Risk with Remote Workers," Xconomy, November 30, 2012
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Get Ready to Archive Everything," MSExchange.org, July 13, 2012
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Alternative Online Payments: The Dream That Refuses to Die," Xconomy, December 29, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Email Complexity and the March of Progress," MSExchange.org, December 22, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Easy Migration: An Added Benefit of Cloud-based Archiving," MSExchange.org, December 1, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Spam or Anonymity: We Don't Have to Choose," MSExchange.org, November 15, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry," Xconomy, October 6, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why is Email So Complicated? Reason # 501: Human Communication is Absurdly Complex!," MSExchange.org, October 3, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Underappreciated Email Pioneer: Einar Stefferud," 1930-2011, MSExchange.org, September 25, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Is Email So Complicated? Part 150: We Don't Know Who It's From," MSExchange.org, September 20, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Is Email So Complicated? Part 101: There's Just Too Much Of It," MSExchange.org, September 19, 2011
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Blake, "Cloud Computing Standards: Where's the Beef?", IEEE Internet, May/June, 2011.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Whose Net Is It Anyway?", CACM (Communications of the ACM), April, 1998.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "One Planet, One Net, Many Voices: The Story Behind CPSR's Principles for the Internet Era", The CPSR Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter, 1998.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "One Planet, One Net: CPSR's Campaign for Internet Governance", The CPSR Newsletter, Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 1997.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., et al., "Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Internet Commerce," in Readings in Electronic Commerce, Ravi Kalakota and Andrew Whinston, editors, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples", RFC 2049, December, 1996.
Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046, Internet Standard, December, 1996.
Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, Internet Standard, December, 1996.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "CMU's Andrew Project: A Retrospective", Communications of the ACM, Virtual Extension, December, 1996, Volume 39, No. 12. Pages 298-311.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., et al., "Perils and Pitfalls of Practical Cybercommerce," Communications of the ACM, June, 1996.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., et al., "Commerce on the Net: New Ways to do Business", EDI Forum: The Journal of Electronic Commerce, Volume 7, Number 4, 1995.
Medina, Manel, and Nathaniel S. Borenstein, editors, Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures, and Applications, North-Holland, 1994.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "EMail With A Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail", IFIP WG 6.5 conference, Barcelona, May, 1994, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1994. Reprinted in Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures, and Applications, M. Medina and N. Borenstein, editors, North-Holland, 1994. Reprinted in Readings in Agents, M. Huhns and M. Singh, editors, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The text/enriched MIME Content-type", RFC 1563, January, 1994.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", RFC 1524, September, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The text/enriched MIME Content-type", RFC 1523, September, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and Ned Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 1521, Draft Internet Standard, September, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", Multimedia Systems, Issue #1, June, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Fathers and Daughters", The Sun, May, 1993, p. 31.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and Mark Linimon, "The Extension of MIME content-types to a New Medium", RFC 1437, April 1, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: The New Internet Standard Format for Multimedia Email," EDD '92 Conference, Parsippany, New Jersey, October, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Enhanced Mail as Application Infrastructure: MIME, Metamail, and the Second Generation of Email", invited paper, Infocom '92, Bombay, November, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Enhanced Electronic Mail as Application Infrastructure: MIME, Metamail, and the Second Generation of Email", invited paper for Infocom '92 conference, Bombay, November, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Andrew & MIME: How Messages 8.5 Accomodates the New Mail Format Standard", Andrew Consortium Technical Conference, Pittsburgh, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): A Standard Format for the Second Generation of Internet Mail", OSN: The Open Systems Newsletter.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Electronic Mail", invited article for Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Colleges Need to Fix the Bugs in Computer Science Courses", Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Internet Multimedia Mail: Emerging Standards for Interoperability", Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.5 International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, Gerald Neufeld & Bernhard Plattner, editors, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Computational Mail as Network Infrastructure for Computer-Supported Cooperative work", CSCW '92 conference, Toronto, November, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Mail From the Bottom Up, or Teaching Dumb Mailers to Sing", USENIX Winter '92 conference. Reprinted in ConneXions magazine.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A Bottom-Up Approach to Multimedia Mail", ConneXions magazine, November, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Expanding Universe of Electronic Communications", Bellcore Exchange magazine, November/December 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions, Princeton University Press, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and Ned Freed, "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 1341, Proposed Internet Standard, June, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", RFC 1343, June, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways", RFC 1344, June, 1992.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and Chris A. Thyberg, "Power, Ease of Use, and Cooperative Work in a Practical Multimedia Message System", Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies, April, 1991. Reprinted in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware, Saul Greenberg, editor, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Reprinted in Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Ronald Baecker, editor, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Electronic Mail: Will the Dream Become a Reality?", Communications of the ACM, April, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MAGICMAIL: A Secure and Portable Language for Enhanced Email Services", Human Computer Interaction Consortium conference, Ann Arbor, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Do People Prefer FAX to Email?", IFIP WG 6.5 International Symposium on Message Handling Systems, Zurich, October 1990. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., chairman, "Report of the Multimedia Mail Workshop of the IFIP WG 6.5 MHS '90 Conference", in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., Multimedia Applications Development with the Andrew Toolkit, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A Spy in the House of War: My Life as a NATO Collaborator", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April, 1989.
Borenstein, et al, "Architectural Issues in the Andrew Message System", Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Message Handling Systems, October, 1988. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, E. Stefferud, O-J. Jacobsen, and P. Schicker, editors, North-Holland, 1989.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and Chris Thyberg, "Cooperative Work in the Andrew Message System", Proceedings of the CSCW '88 conference, Portland, Oregon, September, 1988.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Gosling, "UNIX Emacs as a Test-bed for User Interface Design", ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software, Banff, October, 1988.
Boyarski, D., C. Haas, and N. Borenstein, "Carnegie Mellon's Andrew: The Evolving User Interface of the Messages Program", Poster at CHI '88, Washington, May, 1988.
Borenstein, Nathaniel, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Adam Stoller, "A Multi-media Message System for Andrew", USENIX Technical Conference, Feburary, 1988.
Blower, et. al, "Embedded Training and Help: Opportunities for User Support", Final Report of NATO Workshop on Human Factors in Command and Control Systems, September, 1987.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Role of On-line Help in Command & Control Systems", invited position paper, Ibid.
Rosenberg, J., C. Everhart, and N. Borenstein, "An Overview of the Andrew Message System", SIGCOMM '87 Workshop, Stowe, August, 1987.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A House of Cards: A History of the Inorganic Evolution of the CMU BBoard System", Software Maintenance, Vol. 3, No. 11. (Also CMU-CS-TR-85-152.)
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is English a Natural Language?", in Foundation for Human-Computer Communication, North-Holland, 1986.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is Natural Language a Natural Command Language?", in Proc. IFIP Working Conference on the Future of Command Languages, Rome, September, 1985.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Help Texts vs. Help Mechanisms: A New Mandate for Documentation Writers", in Proc. SIGDOC Conference on System Documentation, Syracuse, NY, June, 1985. (reprinted in Asterisk, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 8-10, 1986.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., The Design and Evaluation of On-line Help Systems, Ph. D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1985.
Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Evaluation of Text Editors: A Critical Review of the Roberts & Moran Methodology Based on New Experiments", CHI '85, San Francisco, April, 1985.
Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Docu-matic: Improving Customer Access to Electronic Documents", Bellcore QIA '90 conference, October, 1990.
Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Electronic Publishing of Intelligent Documents", Bellcore Electronic Document Delivery conference, February, 1991.
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