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Kenneth O. Stanley considers that innovation is stifled when we are strictly following a high goal, and we would progress more when we are inclined to discovery rather than following an objective.

Bio

Kenneth O. Stanley is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. His Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an inventor of the Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) and HyperNEAT algorithms for evolving complex artificial neural networks. http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/.

About the conference

SPLASH's mission is to engage software innovators from all walks of life -- developers, academics and undeclared -- in conversations about bettering software. Bettering software involves new ideas about programming languages, tools, conceptual models, and methodologies that can cope with, evolve, and leverage, the complex software-intensive socio-technical system of systems that has emerged in front of our eyes during the past decades. Bettering software requires a deep understanding of the nature of these systems, an understanding that rides on the trends of the moment, but that goes well beyond. These are the topics of SPLASH.

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Feb 24, 2011

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    Very interesting and inspiring, thanks a lot!

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    by Alexander Yap,

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    Its great to listen to this very interesting talk on a novel topic, amongst all the other Agile/technology focused talks, on InfoQ.

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    Congratulations on one of the most amazing presentation I've seen in a while.

  • Profound

    by Jeremy Murphy,

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    This is one of the most profound ideas I've heard from computer science, but what happened to the video on this website? It doesn't seem available anymore!

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