Hola todos, Hoy estaba leyendo sobre Bob Bemmer (http://www.bobbemer.com/) que murio hace unos dias, fue el inventor del ASCII, de la secuencia de escape y otras genialidades. Me encontre con un documento de 1973, que fue presentado en una conferencia en Dinamarca. El paper completo esta aca: http://www.bobbemer.com/caostxt.htm Pero les extraigo estos parrafos donde cuenta la historia que en California en 1971 se consideró la idea de hacer una colegiatura profesional de informatica (como hay de medicina, de contadores, arquitectos, etc). La conclusion fue: "The committee arrived very quickly at the conclusion that there seemed to be no authoritative way to achieve certification." Aca van los parrafos mas representativos: SOME ACTIONS TAKEN FOR HUMAN PROTECTION Society long ago learned to impose minimum restrictions and educational or training requirements upon classes of workers whose operations affected the public safety or welfare. These constraints led to professions, with codes of ethics and a store of recommended practice often embodied in local law, such as building codes. Examinations by peers is a prerequisite to practice -- for doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, ad infinitum. Until now such restrictions have not been imposed upon the computer community; one can only suppose that the professions just mentioned did not materialize so abruptly before the social consciousness. Some public exposure of malfeasances moved the legislature of the State of California to consider, in 1971, the certification of computer programmers as a class. This was given attention by the press and, together with the fact that the legislature was in a quandary, it was sufficient for assistance to be asked of AFIPS (American Federation of Information Processing Societies). AFIPS convened a System Certification Committee in 1972 February. The committee arrived very quickly at the conclusion that there seemed to be no authoritative way to achieve certification. I proposed that a series of books of good practice should be conceived and constructed through AFIPS. This project is now underway. The first such book of good practice is on confidentiality and security, due to the very strong and justifiable interest in this topic at the moment, and is about to be field-tested. It is largely in checklist form. As a minor note, the committee has changed its name to "Systems Improvement", to emphasize the fact that it does not feel that any form of certification is feasible yet. ------------------------------------------------- Este mensaje se envio desde Telefax Webmail.