Technical Publications

I haven't always kept track of my publications as well as I should, but I think this is most of them! UNIX Emacs: a retrospective (lessons for flexible system design)

Cooperative work in the Andrew message system (Proceedings of the CSCW '88 conference, Portland, Oregon, September, 1988.)

Power, Ease of Use, and Cooperative Work in a Practical Multimedia Message System (Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies, April, 1991. Reprinted in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware, Saul Greenberg, editor, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Reprinted in Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Ronald Baecker, editor, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.) Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Message Handling Systems, October, 1988. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, E. Stefferud, O-J. Jacobsen, and P. Schicker, editors, North-Holland, 1989.

Architectural Issues in the Andrew message system (Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Message Handling Systems, October, 1988. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications, E. Stefferud, O-J. Jacobsen, and P. Schicker, editors, North-Holland, 1989.)

Carnegie Mellon's Andrew: The Evolving User Interface of the Messages Program (Poster at CHI '88, Washington, May, 1988.)

An overview of the Andrew message system (SIGCOMM '87 Workshop, Stowe, August, 1987.)

Computational mail as network infrastructure for computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW '92 conference, Toronto, November, 1992.)

Email with a Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail( IFIP WG 6.5 conference, Barcelona, May, 1994, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1994. Reprinted in Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures, and Applications, M. Medina and N. Borenstein, editors, North-Holland, 1994. Reprinted in Readings in Agents, M. Huhns and M. Singh, editors, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.)

Help texts vs. help mechanisms: A new mandate for documentation writers (in Proc. SIGDOC Conference on System Documentation, Syracuse, NY, June, 1985. (reprinted in Asterisk, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 8-10, 1986.)

Additional Publications

(This was an old attempt at an exhaustive list. A few of these probably duplicate entries listed elsewhere. Some articles were republished in multiple places.)

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Weapons in the Fight Against Spam", Readwrite, August 31, 2015

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Your Things Need the Cloud", GigaOM, February 14, 2015

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Robots to the Rescue," ILTA Peer to Peer, December, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Leveling Information Silos in the Workplace," Xconomy, October 3, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "What Will the Internet Look Like in 25 Years?," Forbes, April 4, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "WWW: Hope," Doubt, and Debate for the next 25 Years, Computerworld UK, March 27, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Web25: Three Predictions for the Future of the Web," Marketing Tech News, March 17, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Business and Personal Emails: Not the Same Privacy Game," Techradar Pro, February 18, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Business and Personal Email Are Not the Same," Xconomy, December 30, 2013

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The End of Personal Computers," Xconomy, October 1, 2013

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Paper and Airplanes: The Long Road to Obsolescence," Xconomy, December 25, 2012

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME @ 20: A Happy Anniversary," Grinnell Magazine, Winter, 2012

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Alternative Online Payments: The Dream That Refuses to Die," Xconomy, December 29, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Email Complexity and the March of Progress," MSExchange.org, December 22, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Easy Migration: An Added Benefit of Cloud-based Archiving," MSExchange.org, December 1, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Spam or Anonymity: We Don't Have to Choose," MSExchange.org, November 15, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry," Xconomy, October 6, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Underappreciated Email Pioneer: Einar Stefferud," 1930-2011, MSExchange.org, September 25, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Blake, "Cloud Computing Standards: Where's the Beef?", IEEE Internet, May/June, 2011.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "CMU's Andrew Project: A Retrospective", Communications of the ACM, Virtual Extension, December, 1996, Volume 39, No. 12. Pages 298-311.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., et al., "Commerce on the Net: New Ways to do Business", EDI Forum: The Journal of Electronic Commerce, Volume 7, Number 4, 1995.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", Multimedia Systems, Issue #1, June, 1993.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: The New Internet Standard Format for Multimedia Email," EDD '92 Conference, Parsippany, New Jersey, October, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Enhanced Electronic Mail as Application Infrastructure: MIME, Metamail, and the Second Generation of Email", invited paper for Infocom '92 conference, Bombay, November, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Andrew & MIME: How Messages 8.5 Accomodates the New Mail Format Standard", Andrew Consortium Technical Conference, Pittsburgh, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): A Standard Format for the Second Generation of Internet Mail", OSN: The Open Systems Newsletter.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Electronic Mail", invited article for Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Colleges Need to Fix the Bugs in Computer Science Courses", Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Internet Multimedia Mail: Emerging Standards for Interoperability", Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.5 International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, Gerald Neufeld & Bernhard Plattner, editors, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Mail From the Bottom Up, or Teaching Dumb Mailers to Sing", USENIX Winter '92 conference. Reprinted in ConneXions magazine.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A Bottom-Up Approach to Multimedia Mail", ConneXions magazine, November, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Expanding Universe of Electronic Communications", Bellcore Exchange magazine, November/December 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MAGICMAIL: A Secure and Portable Language for Enhanced Email Services", Human Computer Interaction Consortium conference, Ann Arbor, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Do People Prefer FAX to Email?", IFIP WG 6.5 International Symposium on Message Handling Systems, Zurich, October 1990. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., chairman, "Report of the Multimedia Mail Workshop of the IFIP WG 6.5 MHS '90 Conference", in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Gosling, "UNIX Emacs as a Test-bed for User Interface Design", ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software, Banff, October, 1988.

Borenstein, Nathaniel, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Adam Stoller, "A Multi-media Message System for Andrew", USENIX Technical Conference, Feburary, 1988.

Blower, et. al, "Embedded Training and Help: Opportunities for User Support", Final Report of NATO Workshop on Human Factors in Command and Control Systems, September, 1987.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Role of On-line Help in Command & Control Systems", invited position paper, Ibid.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A House of Cards: A History of the Inorganic Evolution of the CMU BBoard System", Software Maintenance, Vol. 3, No. 11. (Also CMU-CS-TR-85-152.)

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is English a Natural Language?", in Foundation for Human-Computer Communication, North-Holland, 1986.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is Natural Language a Natural Command Language?", in Proc. IFIP Working Conference on the Future of Command Languages, Rome, September, 1985.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Help Texts vs. Help Mechanisms: A New Mandate for Documentation Writers", in Proc. SIGDOC Conference on System Documentation, Syracuse, NY, June, 1985. (reprinted in Asterisk, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 8-10, 1986.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Evaluation of Text Editors: A Critical Review of the Roberts & Moran Methodology Based on New Experiments", CHI '85, San Francisco, April, 1985.

Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Docu-matic: Improving Customer Access to Electronic Documents", Bellcore QIA '90 conference, October, 1990.

Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Electronic Publishing of Intelligent Documents", Bellcore Electronic Document Delivery conference, February, 1991. (This was an old attempt at an exhaustive list. Some of these probably duplicate entries above. Some articles were republished in multiple places.)

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Weapons in the Fight Against Spam", Readwrite, August 31, 2015

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Your Things Need the Cloud", GigaOM, February 14, 2015

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Robots to the Rescue," ILTA Peer to Peer, December, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Leveling Information Silos in the Workplace," Xconomy, October 3, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "What Will the Internet Look Like in 25 Years?," Forbes, April 4, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "WWW: Hope," Doubt, and Debate for the next 25 Years, Computerworld UK, March 27, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Web25: Three Predictions for the Future of the Web," Marketing Tech News, March 17, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Business and Personal Emails: Not the Same Privacy Game," Techradar Pro, February 18, 2014

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Business and Personal Email Are Not the Same," Xconomy, December 30, 2013

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The End of Personal Computers," Xconomy, October 1, 2013

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Paper and Airplanes: The Long Road to Obsolescence," Xconomy, December 25, 2012

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME @ 20: A Happy Anniversary," Grinnell Magazine, Winter, 2012

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Alternative Online Payments: The Dream That Refuses to Die," Xconomy, December 29, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Email Complexity and the March of Progress," MSExchange.org, December 22, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Easy Migration: An Added Benefit of Cloud-based Archiving," MSExchange.org, December 1, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Spam or Anonymity: We Don't Have to Choose," MSExchange.org, November 15, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry," Xconomy, October 6, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Underappreciated Email Pioneer: Einar Stefferud," 1930-2011, MSExchange.org, September 25, 2011

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Blake, "Cloud Computing Standards: Where's the Beef?", IEEE Internet, May/June, 2011.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "CMU's Andrew Project: A Retrospective", Communications of the ACM, Virtual Extension, December, 1996, Volume 39, No. 12. Pages 298-311.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., et al., "Commerce on the Net: New Ways to do Business", EDI Forum: The Journal of Electronic Commerce, Volume 7, Number 4, 1995.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", Multimedia Systems, Issue #1, June, 1993.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME: The New Internet Standard Format for Multimedia Email," EDD '92 Conference, Parsippany, New Jersey, October, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Enhanced Electronic Mail as Application Infrastructure: MIME, Metamail, and the Second Generation of Email", invited paper for Infocom '92 conference, Bombay, November, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Andrew & MIME: How Messages 8.5 Accomodates the New Mail Format Standard", Andrew Consortium Technical Conference, Pittsburgh, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): A Standard Format for the Second Generation of Internet Mail", OSN: The Open Systems Newsletter.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Electronic Mail", invited article for Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Colleges Need to Fix the Bugs in Computer Science Courses", Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Internet Multimedia Mail: Emerging Standards for Interoperability", Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.5 International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, Gerald Neufeld & Bernhard Plattner, editors, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1992.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Multimedia Mail From the Bottom Up, or Teaching Dumb Mailers to Sing", USENIX Winter '92 conference. Reprinted in ConneXions magazine.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A Bottom-Up Approach to Multimedia Mail", ConneXions magazine, November, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "An Expanding Universe of Electronic Communications", Bellcore Exchange magazine, November/December 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "MAGICMAIL: A Secure and Portable Language for Enhanced Email Services", Human Computer Interaction Consortium conference, Ann Arbor, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Why Do People Prefer FAX to Email?", IFIP WG 6.5 International Symposium on Message Handling Systems, Zurich, October 1990. Reprinted in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., chairman, "Report of the Multimedia Mail Workshop of the IFIP WG 6.5 MHS '90 Conference", in Message Handling Systems, P. Schicker and E. Stefferud, editors, North-Holland, 1991.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., and James Gosling, "UNIX Emacs as a Test-bed for User Interface Design", ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software, Banff, October, 1988.

Borenstein, Nathaniel, Craig Everhart, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Adam Stoller, "A Multi-media Message System for Andrew", USENIX Technical Conference, Feburary, 1988.

Blower, et. al, "Embedded Training and Help: Opportunities for User Support", Final Report of NATO Workshop on Human Factors in Command and Control Systems, September, 1987.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Role of On-line Help in Command & Control Systems", invited position paper, Ibid.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "A House of Cards: A History of the Inorganic Evolution of the CMU BBoard System", Software Maintenance, Vol. 3, No. 11. (Also CMU-CS-TR-85-152.)

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is English a Natural Language?", in Foundation for Human-Computer Communication, North-Holland, 1986.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Is Natural Language a Natural Command Language?", in Proc. IFIP Working Conference on the Future of Command Languages, Rome, September, 1985.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "Help Texts vs. Help Mechanisms: A New Mandate for Documentation Writers", in Proc. SIGDOC Conference on System Documentation, Syracuse, NY, June, 1985. (reprinted in Asterisk, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 8-10, 1986.

Borenstein, Nathaniel S., "The Evaluation of Text Editors: A Critical Review of the Roberts & Moran Methodology Based on New Experiments", CHI '85, San Francisco, April, 1985.

Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Docu-matic: Improving Customer Access to Electronic Documents", Bellcore QIA '90 conference, October, 1990.

Clitherow, Peter, Michael Muller, and Nathaniel Borenstein, "Electronic Publishing of Intelligent Documents", Bellcore Electronic Document Delivery conference, February, 1991.