Back in the days when it was just engineers, things like the web, email, USENET, IRC and so on were born. They became essentially public networks, controlled by nobody. Then the corporates got involved. IM was invented at the wrong time, and it's been a battleground ever since.
Invented at the wrong time? Hmm... I seem to remember write(1) and talk(1) from the "good 'ole days."
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I find automatic logging of conversations an indispensable feature of any IM client.
Genamics lists 989 journals related to Computer and Information Sciences. Surely some of them are good.
How about the Journal of Functional Programming or Theoretical Computer Science, or perhaps the Journal of Algorithms. And, for a more general approach, there's always the Journal of the ACM.
I haven't read any of these extensively, but surely some of them will have the kind of articles you'll enjoy.
Back in the days when it was just engineers, things like the web, email, USENET, IRC and so on were born. They became essentially public networks, controlled by nobody. Then the corporates got involved. IM was invented at the wrong time, and it's been a battleground ever since.
Invented at the wrong time? Hmm... I seem to remember write(1) and talk(1) from the "good 'ole days."