During his industry career, Joel published both research and “how to” articles related to computer science and computer programming topics.

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Computer Science

Joel West and Alasdar Mullarney, “ModSim: A Language for Distributed Simulation,” Proceedings of Distributed Simulation 1988, Society for Computer Simulation, 19, 3 (July 1988): 155-159.

Joel West, Object-Oriented Distributed Simulation, JPL Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., 1985 (part of the JPL Time Warp research project).

Computer Programming Topics

Books

Joel West, Programming with Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop, New York: Bantam Computer Books, 1987, ISBN: 0-55334436-6.

Book Reviews

Joel West, “Book Review: The World of Programming Languages,” Byte, June 1987.

Programming Articles

• Joel West, “20 Steps to Printing Incompatibility,” MacTutor, 5, 6 (June 1989).
• Joel West, “System Sleuthing II: The Sequel,” MacTutor, 4, 7 (July 1988).
• Joel West, “Comments about PICTs,” MacTutor, 4, 6 (June 1988).
• Joel West, “Sleuthing the New System File,” MacTutor, 3, 8 (August 1987).
• Joel West, “Printer Sleuthing,” MacTutor, 3, 3 (March 1987).
• Joel West, “No Rez-ervations Needed!,” MacTutor, 3, 2 (February 1987).
• Joel West, “Be a Keyboard Sleuth!” MacTutor, 2, 8 (August 1986).
• Joel West, “All About Resource Editors,” MacTutor, 2, 5 (May 1986).

Columns

• Joel West, "Don't rewrite your application, extend it," MacWEEK, December 18, 1990.
• Joel West, "Your system may not support virtual memory," MacWEEK, November 20, 1990.
• Joel West, "New low-cost Macs: how will they fare?" MacWEEK, November 6, 1990.
• Joel West, "Consider CD-ROM for internal publishing," MacWEEK, October 23, 1990.
• Joel West, "Reading the fine print in Apple-Adobe truce," MacWEEK, October 9, 1990.
• Joel West, "New salvos on the home-computing front," MacWEEK, September 25, 1990.
• Joel West, "Color accuracy: Still a long way to go," MacWEEK, September 11, 1990.
• Joel West, "The shape of in-house development," MacWEEK, August 14, 1990.
• Joel West, "System 7.0 may leave average user behind," MacWEEK, July 31, 1990.
• Joel West, "At last: a way to test Mac software," MacWEEK, June 26, 1990.
• Joel West, "Quenching the quest for quicker QuickDraw," MacWEEK, May 8, 1990.
• Joel West, "OOPS: waiting for the other shoe to drop," MacWEEK, April 17, 1990.
• Joel West, "Here's hoping Apple's new pirates are at work," MacWEEK, April 10, 1990.
• Joel West, "Ins and outs of buying a Mac fax modem," MacWEEK, March 20, 1990.
• Joel West, "Factoring System 7.0 into buying decisions," MacWEEK, February 20, 1990.
• Joel West, "Comm Toolbox: bonanza for big sites," MacWEEK, December 12, 1989.
• Joel West, "Should you invest in Adobe Type Manager," MacWEEK, November 21, 1989.
• Joel West, "Made in the United States," MacWEEK, November 7, 1989.
• Joel West, "Advice to the in-house Macintosh developer," MacWEEK, October 17, 1989.
• Joel West, "Font wars on the computer front," MacWEEK, October 13, 1989.
• Joel West, "Apple and Adobe go their own ways," MacWEEK, August 15, 1989.
• Joel West, "Apple needs low-cost Mac as much as we do," MacWEEK, August 1, 1989.
• Joel West, "System 7.0 draws outline of a font solution," MacWEEK, June 13, 1989.
• Joel West, "System 7.0: A developer's perspective," MacWEEK, May 23, 1989.
• Joel West, "RenderMan: The PostScript of 3-D imaging," MacWEEK, May 9, 1989.
• Joel West, "Peripherals will be on center stage at developers' conference," April 25, 1989.
• Joel West, "More from Apple equals less from third parties?" MacWEEK, April 11, 1989.
• Joel West, "At the trailing edge of technology," MacWEEK, March 28, 1989.
• Joel West, "Engineering: More than just CAD," MacWEEK, March 14, 1989.
• Joel West, "Desktop engineering playing from strengths," MacWEEK, February 28, 1989.
• Joel West, "Will every user become a programmer?" MacWEEK, February 14, 1989.
• Joel West, "Apple's tool development is important cog," MacWEEK, January 31, 1989.
• Joel West, "Five great moments in Macintosh history," MacWEEK, January 17, 1989.
• Joel West, "The '030's advantages for business users," MacWEEK, January 3, 1989.
• Joel West, "Screen fonts: still not there," MacWEEK, December 8, 1988.
• Joel West, "Jobs asks the right questions; are computers to complex?" MacWEEK, November 8, 1988.
• Joel West, "The elegant Mac isn't an 'ugly American'," MacWEEK, October 11, 1988.
• Joel West, "Mac needs color coordination," MacWEEK, September 13, 1988.
• Joel West, "When a word is worth a thousand pictures," MacWEEK, August 16, 1988.
• Joel West, "A year's worth of software," MacWEEK, August 9, 1988.
• Joel West, "Can third parties set technical standards?" MacWEEK, August 2, 1988.
• Joel West, "When writing software, easier is better," MacWEEK, June 28, 1988.
• Joel West, "Macintosh software needs a diet," MacWEEK, May 24, 1988.
• Joel West, "From a technical standpoint, Apple has a case," MacWEEK, April 26, 1988.
• Joel West, "Apple sees its future in QuickDraw, not PostScript," MacWEEK, March 29, 1998.

Other Articles

Joel West, “MacHack West,” MacTutor, 3, 12 (December 1987)

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