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36 relations: Academy, Battle Chess, Berkeley Software Distribution, Busy work, C. Northcote Parkinson, Derek S. Pugh, Dunning–Kruger effect, Fredkin's paradox, Hofstadter's law, Inflation, Interplay Entertainment, Jan Pen, Jeff Atwood, Jevons paradox, List of eponymous laws, Moral panic, Nuclear power plant, Parkinson's law, Peter principle, Philip Wadler, Poul-Henning Kamp, Procrastination, Programming language theory, Project manager, Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat, Queen (chess), Sayre's law, Semantics (computer science), Snackwell effect, Student syndrome, Syntax (programming languages), Theory of computation, Time management, Time to completion, Tyranny of small decisions, Video game industry.
Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.
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Battle Chess
Battle Chess is a video game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing.
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Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995.
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Busy work
Busy work (also referred to as make-work and busywork) can refer to activity that is undertaken to pass time and stay busy but in and of itself has no actual value.
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C. Northcote Parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced Parkinson's law, stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion",Parkinson, Cyril Northcote.
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Derek S. Pugh
Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD), and particularly the Pugh Matrix, a tool within OD.
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Dunning–Kruger effect
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
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Fredkin's paradox
Fredkin's paradox concerns the negative correlation between the difference between two options and the difficulty of deciding between them.
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Hofstadter's law
Hofstadter's law is a self-referential time-related adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter and named after him.
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Inflation
In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment Corp. is an American video game distributor, developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo, Troy Worrell, Jay Patel and Rebecca Heineman.
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Jan Pen
Jan Pen (15 February 1921 in Lemmer – 14 February 2010 in Haren) was a Dutch economist, professor and columnist.
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Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur.
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Jevons paradox
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.
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List of eponymous laws
This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, principles, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person.
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Moral panic
A moral panic is a feeling of fear spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society.
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Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
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Parkinson's law
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".
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Peter principle
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".
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Philip Wadler
Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory.
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Poul-Henning Kamp
Poul-Henning Kamp (born 1966) is a Danish computer software developer known for work on various projects.
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Procrastination
Procrastination (from Latin's "procrastinare", that translates in to: the prefix pro-, 'forward', and the suffix -crastinus, 'till next day' from cras, 'tomorrow') is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished.
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Programming language theory
Programming language theory (PLT) is a branch of computer science that deals with the design, implementation, analysis, characterization, and classification of programming languages and their individual features.
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Project manager
A project manager is a professional in the field of project management.
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Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat is a book, credited to the pseudonym Archibald Putt, published in 1981.
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Queen (chess)
The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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Sayre's law
Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter." Sayre's law is named after Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905–1972), U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.
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Semantics (computer science)
In programming language theory, semantics is the field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages.
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Snackwell effect
Snackwell effect is a phenomenon that states that dieters will eat more low-calorie cookies, such as SnackWells, than they otherwise would for normal cookies.
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Student syndrome
Student syndrome refers to planned procrastination, when, for example, a student will only start to apply themselves to an assignment at the last possible moment before its deadline.
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Syntax (programming languages)
In computer science, the syntax of a computer language is the set of rules that defines the combinations of symbols that are considered to be a correctly structured document or fragment in that language.
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Theory of computation
In theoretical computer science and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with how efficiently problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm.
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Time management
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
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Time to completion
Time to completion (TTC) is a calculated amount of time required for any particular task to be completed.
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Tyranny of small decisions
The tyranny of small decisions is a phenomenon explored in an essay of the same name, published in 1966 by the American economist Alfred E. Kahn.
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Video game industry
The video game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
