Presentation: "How To Avoid "We Never Even Thought of That!""

Time: Thursday 11:45 - 12:45

Location: Wordsworth Room

Abstract:

How often have we all seen solutions to problems and thought "Gee I would never have thought of that". Not surprisingly, people with similar backgrounds and approaches tend to come up with quite similar solutions to problems. One of the joys, and admittedly challenges, of interdisciplinary research and diverse teams is the breadth of possibilities brought to bear on problems. This talk will focus on how these dynamics can be applied in, and impact, development teams.

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Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks

 Rebecca  Parsons

Dr. Parsons has more than 20 years of application development experience in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. She has been published in language and artificial intelligence media, served on numerous program committees, and currently reviews academic articles for several journals.

Before coming to ThoughtWorks she worked as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida. She also worked as director's post doctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory researching issues in parallel and distributed computation, genetic algorithms, computational biology and non-linear dynamical systems.

Dr. Parsons holds a [Ph.D] in Computer Science from Rice University.