Trench-Based Practical Tips For Creative Solutions To Vexatious Programming Perplexities

Don L. Jewett , Abratech Corp., Sausalito

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Creative solutions to difficult problems are often retrospectively honored in our society (when the solution works). But there is also a mystery that seems to surround the process, and many think one must passively wait for inspiration to "strike". Many examples abound that show the Steps to creativity can be enhanced and even manipulated, and the examples come from programming, and from science. This talk is about those examples, and the generalizations that can be derived from them. One generalization: Very high intelligence is not a requisite, but there is one behavioral traitthat is absolutely necessary.