Will there be a video available? On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Joseph A Kern [email protected]
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