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Marc Donner
Union Bank of Switzerland

How to Succeed in Software?

Thursday, November 7, 1996

4:00 pm, Wean Hall 7500

3:45 pm - Refreshments Outside Wean Hall 7500

ABSTRACT
Software development methodologies are effective but somehow unsatisfying. Our intuition about how *we* program and how really good programmers program is at odds with widely recognized best practices. This dissonance is disturbing and results in a failure to accept the validity of software engineering methods on one hand and to consider alternative models and techniques on the other. In this talk I will discuss my observations over the past fifteen or twenty years of the software development community, with some particular opinions about the ways in which financially successful software is developed.

SPEAKER BIO
Marc was born in a log cabin in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the second half of the twentieth century. He was educated at Caltech in Electrical Engineering, and at CMU in Computer Science (PhD). He has worked on planetary radar, display technologies, software engineering, robotics, large-scale distributed systems, and the Internet. He introduced UNIX at IBM in the early 1980s while building a juggling robot, and the World Wide Web at Morgan Stanley in the early 1990s, work that some argue built one of the first Intranets. He is now at Union Bank of Switzerland, where he heads the department that provides all computer infrastructure for UBS in the Americas.

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