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Abstract:
Fifty years into the First Computing Era some of us in the computing
arena have come to realize we’ve made a false start, and for us
to finally be able to produce lasting, correct, beautiful, usable,
scalable, robust, enjoyable software that stands the tests of time
and moral human endeavor, we need to start over. Perhaps we’ll be
able to salvage some of what we’ve learned from the First Era. Perhaps
not.
The
Feyerabend Project is our attempt to re-examine some of the basic
assumptions of computing and see if we can’t do better. The Feyerabend
Project is a fractal, grassroots effort..
Ron Goldman is a researcher working at Sun Microsystems on alternative
software development methodologies and new software architectures.
He is currently finishing up a book on how companies can participate
in open source software development. Prior to Sun, he developed
a program to generate and manipulate visual representations of
complex data for use by social scientists as part of a collaboration
between NYNEX Science & Technology and the Institute for Research
on Learning. He has a continuing interest in the design of programming
languages and has developed various programming environments (IDEs).
He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University where
he was a member of the robotics group.
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