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Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug."
By Ellen Ullman
May 16, 2003
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"The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
By Scott Rosenberg
May 16, 2003
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Online voting is neat, efficient -- and robs the political process of its human spirit.
By Ellen Ullman
November 8, 2000
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White House protest letter draws readers' derision Plus: Do music videos give blacks a bad rap? McCain's anti-Confederate flag talk doesn't fly.
April 24, 2000
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"American Psycho": Trenchant social commentary? Plus: Linking to hate sites; techno-geeks debate libertarianism.
April 18, 2000
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Lone-wolf digital libertarians are beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber alles and espouse suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas.
By Ellen Ullman
April 13, 2000
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Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
By Ellen Ullman
May 13, 1998
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Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts.
By Ellen Ullman
May 12, 1998
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A software engineer despairs at keeping up with every new techno-trend. Second excerpt from Ullman's 'Close to the Machine.'
By Ellen Ullman
October 16, 1997
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Ellen Ullman talks about what makes programmers tick.
By Scott Rosenberg
October 9, 1997
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A deadline brings programmers to the place of no shame. The body melts away, the mind
races. Only one thing matters: Can you fix that demon bug? First of two
excerpts from Ullman's "Close to the Machine."
By Ellen Ullman
October 9, 1997
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Three digital women debate gender, technology and the Net. An e-mail roundtable with authors Ellen Ullman and Sadie Plant.
By Laura Miller
September 11, 1997