Ellen Ullman

  • Warning. Warning. Warning. Fatal error. Stop.

    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

  • Bugged out

    "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

  • Hurrah for slow recounts

    Online voting is neat, efficient -- and robs the political process of its human spirit.
    By Ellen Ullman November 8, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    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

  • Letters to the editor

    "American Psycho": Trenchant social commentary? Plus: Linking to hate sites; techno-geeks debate libertarianism.
    April 18, 2000

  • Twilight of the crypto-geeks

    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

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
    By Ellen Ullman May 13, 1998

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts.
    By Ellen Ullman May 12, 1998

  • sliced off by the cutting edge

    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

  • 21st: Elegance and Entropy

    Ellen Ullman talks about what makes programmers tick.
    By Scott Rosenberg October 9, 1997

  • Disappearing into the code

    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

  • Sexing the Machine

    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
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