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No, they are not superstars, or all-knowing super-powerful CEOs poised to control the world. Although one reader, and letter writer, thought that’s what I meant in my latest IEEE Software editorial titled The seven traits of superprofessionals.
The letter writer states that he has been researching the reasons of  the recent economic crisis and states that he’s found a strong indicator [...]

[ October 8, 2009 to October 10, 2009. ] October 8, 2009, Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Keynote address at Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium

For attendees: UYMS 2010 Keynote Slides (in Turkish)

[ September 8, 2009 to September 13, 2009. ]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keynote address and tutorial at Rio Info 2009 (Sep 9-10, 2009) and visit to COPPE at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

(September 8, 2009)
For attendees: RioInfo 2009 Bundle Erdogmus (slides of course, keynote and COPPE talk; supplementary materials)

The short answer is: yes it does. And I have some arsenal to back up this statement. Plenty of reasons can be found in the pages of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by University of Michigan professor Scott Page. Page makes a compelling case that diversity [...]