My high school counselor told me I should be an English major.  I chose electronic engineering...  but words are still my friends, and I am still in awe at their power, and the magic of communication  --which is a wonderful thing (when it happens!)

(See the next section for my professional papers.)

• 2024:   Thanksgiving Thoughts

• 2017:   Coming (someday)... Four Americas (I don't want to live in)

• 2016:   Early Google Home Impressions

• 2016:   Magical Thinking in Cyberspace: Rule Number Two Revisited

• 2015:   On Re-inventing TV: “You’re Doing It Wrong”

• 2013:   Death Spirals in Academia

• 2011:   PacMan Economics: Exploring the Republican/Democratic Divide

• 2009:   Health Care Heresy

• 2005:   On Milton Friedman

• 2003:   My Take on Higher Ed

• 2002:   On Music Sharing

• 1974:   Learning  --and the dark side of education

• 1963:   Assassination of the President

< I have over the years started other essays... but, alas, never finished them.>

Papers from my years in IT management at UW

Cloud Computing

• NB: Most of my cloud computing items are under UW Talks in the LECTURES section.

• 2014: 2014 Google Wishlist --Fifty Ideas For The Win

• 2013: Google's Schizophrenia on Interoperability

• 2013: Improving Google's Multiple Account Mess

• 2012: Google's Dis-Integration

• 2012:Chromebook Chronicles II

• 2010: A Tale of Two Clouds: the UW cloud computing program (Educause Quarterly)

• 2010: Open Questions (relating to UW's Cloud Computing program)

• 2009: Draft Cloud Offer Sheet

• 2008: Terry's Top Ten Things to Know about Cloud Computing

Diagnostics

• 2014: Design for Diagnosis

• 2003: DECAF: Dataflow Event Correlation for Anomolies and Faults

• 2001: "Finger Pointing Tools" for isolating Distributed System Performance Problems

• 2000: Diagnosing Transient Performance Problems

Email

• 1995: Message Access Paradigms and Protocols

• 1993: Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP vs. POP

Management

• 2014: Twenty Questions -Every CIO Should Be Asking

• 2014: Terry's Top Technology Leadership Challenges

• 2014: Design for Diagnosis

• 2014: GRACE-ful Governance

• 2014: UW-IT Strategies for Discovery (2014 Strategic Plan)

• 2013: Goals, Non-Goals, and Anti-Goals

• 2013: The Power of UNODIR

• 2013: Balancing Control and Chaos in the Age of DIY IT

• 2013: The Turf Trap: Moving from Authority to Influence

• 2013: Keeping Strategic Plans Alive

• 2013: The Document Creation Paradigm Shift

• 2012: MTTI: The Universal Metric

• 2011: UW IT: Strategies for Discovery (2012 Strategic Plan) 

• 2011: Sustaining innovation during hard times

• 2010: The Eternal Debates: IT = Inevitable Tensions

• 2009: UW-IT Enterprise Risk Assessment 

• 2008: My Leadership Journey  Graphic

• 2008: Leadership Haiku

• 2007: IT Strategy Initiative

• 2007: UW Technology: Vision and Change 

Networking

• 2014: IPS Policy and Architecture Issues

• 2007: On Network-based Copyright Enforcement

• 2007: Campus Network Infrastructure Directions (Co-authored with David Sinn, et al)

• 2003: UW Networking Overview

• 2001: Provisioning buildings with Wireless Only?

• 2000: Why Not ATM?

• 1999: Enterprise QoS Survival Guide: 1999 Edition

Security

• 2014: IPS Talking Points

• 2004: Security in the Post-Internet Era

• 2003: Security at the UW

• 2002: Firewalls: Friend or Foe?  (Educause-Review version)

• 2002: Network Security Credo

• 2002: The Challenge of Securing Networked Computers: Seven Axioms

•         (Or this copy of the original Windows on Computing version)

Other

• 1994 Book chapter on desktop computer management (Co-authored with Brad Greer)

• 1992: University of Washington Information Infrastructure (published in Windows on Computing, Issue 12)