Hi, all, If you'll be in the SF Bay Area this weekend, Mark Burgess is giving a talk on Promise Theory at LinkedIn on Saturday at 5 P.M., would love to see you there.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thinking-in-promises-for-the-cyborg-age-tickets-17284050059 Event Details The traditional way of talking about all aspects of human organization is through commands, requirements, and obligations. However, this tradition is not only presumptuous but actually inconsistent in a logical sense. As we embrace more of the realities of distributed systems for a global world, we need a new way of thinking about intent. In this talk, Mark Burgess explains the motivation for Promise Theory (the subject of his new book Thinking in Promises), and what this means for our technology and interactions in a world of humans and machines. About the speaker Mark Burgess is the Founder and original author of CFEngine. He was senior lecturer and then professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College from 1994-2011. He was the first professor with this title and remains Emeritus Professor. Mark obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics in Newcastle, for which he received the Runcorn Prize. His current research interests include the behaviour of computers as dynamic systems and applying ideas from physics to describe computer behaviour. Mark is the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, and is the founder of the CFEngine company. He led theoretical and practical contributions to the theory of automation and policy based management, including the idea of Operator Convergence and Promise Theory. He is the author of numerous books and papers on Network and System Administration and has won several prizes for his work.
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