Are we going to fish or cut bait? Licensing and certification of software professionals

Cutter IT Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 4-8

  Mead, Nancy ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a Software Engineering Institute   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Loral Corp   (United States)

^d IBM's Software Eng Technology   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g IEEE   (United States)

^h CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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