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Edsger Dijkstra · 1983

On IPWs: A position paper for a panel discussion on Computers and Society

A critique of exaggerated claims about computers, advocating sceptical public understanding and questioning whether automation necessarily improves human activities.

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On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B

Steven Kerr · 1975

An examination of how reward systems encourage unintended behaviour when organisations reward measurable actions rather than the outcomes they seek.

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Marie Curie

Physicist and chemist · 1867-1934

Pioneering researcher on radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and won two Nobel Prizes.

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