Gernot Heiser

John Lions Professor of Operating Systems School of Computer Science and Engineering The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia Leader of ERTOS, the Embedded Operating Systems Research Group at NICTA Founder and CTO of Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leader in high-performance protected operating systems and virtualisation technology for embedded systems Director of Redd Forests, a company that is demonstrating that it makes economic sense to use save the world's forests by using them as carbon sinks.

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	What I did in my last holidays: skiing to the South Pole (January 2009), Munda Biddi Trail (Dec 2006), Kimberleys (July 2006), Jatbula Trail (New Year 2006), Larapinta Trail (Sep 2004).

Macnamara Fallacy:

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is ok as far as it goes.
The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading.
The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness.
The forth step is to say that what can't be measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Last modified 2010-01-17, last validated 2010-01-17