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The Case for Evolvable Software
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Summary
Stephanie Forrest believes in applying evolutionary biology principles to the software process creating evolvable software through automated bug repair, improving code and creating new combinations of existing functionality.
Bio
Stephanie Forrest is Professor and Chairman of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where she is an external faculty member. Before that she was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.
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.
Feb 11, 2011