Paul Dourish

I am a Professor (and one of the founding faculty) in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine . I've been here for quite a while and, like most people who hang around long enough in academia, I have accumulated other titles along the way, such as Chancellor's Professor or Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and…

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The Original Hacker's Dictionary (1988)

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[This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he…