Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Imagine an organization so secretive, the index and bibliographies of their internal publications were hidden from the public, for the last 40 to 50 years, until just recently.

Browsing through the PDFs, I’m surprised (and a little sad) to find topics about software engineering that may still be relevant today.

• Prototyping Man-Machine Interface to Facilitate Early Identification of Software Deficiencies - Winter 1986
• Structured Testing as a Learning Tool - Winter 1991
• Error Messages: The Importance of Good Design - Spring 1992
• Designing Secure Reliable Software -A Methodology - Fall 1976
• FUZZY: An Evolutionary Model for Data Structures - Summer 1979
• Software Maintenance -The Other Side of Acquisition - Summer 1978
• Software Maintenance: Putting Life Back into the Life Cycle - Winter 1987
• Work Breakdown Structure: A Better Implementation to Manage Software Overruns - Fall 1980

Some other topics relating to data mining and information retrieval.

• The Apparent Paradox of Bayes Factors - Winter 1965
• Full-Text Searching: Coming of Age - Fall 1989
• The Association Factor in Information Retrieval - Winter 1961
• Information Storage and Retrieval - Fall 1963
• The use of the B-Coefficient in Information Retrieval - Fall 1968
• Probabilities of Hypotheses and Kullback-Leibler Information-Statistics in Multinomial Samples - October 1956. (When creating decision trees, KL can be used to partition the datasets.)
• Reference Patterns for Nearest Neighbor Rule - Winter 1977
• So You Want to Correlate - Spring 1965

Looks like they also did book reviews.

• Book Review: Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs - Fall 1990