Pictures from BSDCon 2003
Michi Henning gave the opening keynote at BSDCon '03:
Keynote: Computing Fallacies (or, What Is the World Coming To?)
Michi Henning, Chief Scientist, ZeroC, Inc.
This talk presents a look at the software industry and the practices that are rampant therein, muses about the utility (or otherwise) of current-generation computer systems, and challenges some of the so-called "accepted wisdom" that is passed down from generation to generation of engineers. Currently, creation of software is not an engineering discipline but akin to alchemy; this talk presents some of the problems the industry will have to solve in order to be taken seriously (and suggests to abandon the search for the Philosopher's Stone of software engineering).
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