Paper: Revisiting Information Hiding – Reflections on Classical and Nonclassical Modularity

25 August 2021 by Phillip JohnstonMany of the David Parnas papers we’ve reviewed have focused on the topic of information hiding. To balance that out, I selected a contemporary paper on the topic for the reading club: “Revisiting Information Hiding: Reflections on Classical and Nonclassical Modularity”, by Klaus Ostermann, Paolo G. Giarrusso, Christian Kästner, and Tillmann Rendel. This paper is certainly further into the “academic” spectrum than most of our reading club papers due to the discussion of formal logical systems and the philosophy of science. However, I think it provides a helpful look at the concept of information hiding …

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