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Title:None of the ideas presented here are new; they are just forgotten from time to time
Proposer: Giovanni Asproni
Type: Tutorial
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
The title is a quote from Alan Perlis' Turing Award Lecture. The idea is to talk about things in sw development that we keep rediscovering all the time, often because we forget our past, but also because we don't seem to look for inspiration in the right places–a case in point are people re-discovering some management principles and re-branding them “agile”, but there are quite a few other examples around. This could be organised as a talk, but I was thinking we could come up with a kind of quiz game with some selected participants, and make it something fun. I haven't got a fully formed idea yet, but I'm open to discussions and suggestions. I hope this is a good enough description for now (if accepted I'll have to produce a proper abstract)