Colorado Springs
Software
Distinguished Speaker Series
Kent Beck
Founder and Director, The Three Rivers Institute,
Merlin, Oregon
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
University Center, Room 116
Refreshments: 4
p.m. - 5 p.m.
Most discussions of
software development are black and white.
The world, however, insists on radiating not just shades of gray, but
vivid, harmonious, clashing, subtle color.
The gardening discipline of Permaculture provides a dozen useful design
principles for living inside complicated, changing, interconnected systems. What is Permaculture, and how would we
program if a program was a garden? Most
intriguingly, how would we act if, "The theoretical yield of a garden is
unbounded, limited only by our imagination and design skill."?
Biography
Kent Beck is the founder and director of the Three Rivers Institute (TRI). TRI provides a harmonious environment for individuals from many disciplines to gather and investigate the principles underlying emergent software development and techniques for leveraging these principles. Mr. Beck has pioneered patterns for software development, the xUnit family of testing frameworks, the HotDraw drawing editor framework, CRC cards, refactoring, and most recently Extreme Programming. He is the author or co-author of Extreme Programming Explained (Addison-Wesley, 2000), Planning Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2000), and The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns (Prentice Hall, 1996). He lives on 20 acres in rural southern Oregon with his wife, five children, four dogs, two sheep, and a variable number of domestic fowl. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon.
Sponsored
by
Lockheed Martin; Sparks, Willson, P.C.; IEEE; and the UCCS College of Business
Organized by
Dr. Alan M. Davis
Next Events:
1. Grady Booch on September 17, 2002
2. Suzanne Robertson on "Project Sociology and Other Requirement
Success Factors" on November 4, 2002