ylfink@water.waterloo.edu (ylfink) (11/23/88)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES SYSTEMS SEMINAR - Friday, November 25, 1988 Professor Tom Anderson, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, will speak on ``Software Engineering through Diversity''. TIME: 2:30 PM ROOM: DC 1304 ABSTRACT Consider: There are three strategies for the provision of dependable software. 1) Get it right--make no mistakes. 2) Fix it up--root out your transgressions. 3) Keep it running--one way or another. Deduce: Which of these will the speaker advocate? The talk is likely to include a number of illustrative quotations as well as a savage attack on program verification.