The presentations from what Alan vividly described as the "Old Farts"
conference are now online. I enjoyed seeing some live and will watch others
now.

Henrik

> The "Software Pioneers Conference" which was held in Bonn, Germany, in June
> 28-29, 2001, featured some of the top
> pioneers in the area of Software and Information Systems and attended by
> over 1000 software professionals.  The presentations by the software
> pioneers provide rich reading material for those teaching Software
> Engineering, 
> Software Design, Databases, Systems Analysis & Design, etc.
> 
> You could, if you so choose, use some of the material as additional reading
> material in our 
> course, if it is appropriate to the theme of the course, you are teaching.
> 
> The presentations (video and PDF files) are now available to you at
> http://www.sdm.de/conf2001/index_e.htm.
> 
> The following speakers, who have made truly outstanding contributions to
> this field, spoke at the conference:
> 
> (Listed in alphabetical order)
> Friedrich L. Bauer, From the Stack Principle to ALGOL
> Rudolf Bayer, B-tree and Relational DBMS (in place of E. F. Codd)
> Barry Boehm, Software Economics
> Fred Brooks, OS/360
> Peter Chen, Entity-Relationship Modeling, DB, Computer-Aided Software Eng.
> (CASE)
> Ole-Johan Dahl, The Root of Object-Oriented Programming: Simula 67
> Tom DeMarco, Structured Analysis
> Edsger W. Dijkstra, From "Goto considered harmful" to Structured Programming
> Michael Fagan, Inspections
> Erich Gamma, Design Patterns
> John Guttag, Algebraic Specifications of Abstract Data Types
> C.A.R. Hoare, Software Fundamentals: Assertions and Program Verification
> Michael Jackson, Data Structures & Algorithms
> Alan Kay, Graphical User Interfaces: Mice and Windows
> David L. Parnas, Decomposing Systems into Modules
> Niklaus Wirth, Teaching Programming Principles: PASCAL