{"code":"78ZAJJ","speakers":[{"code":"8W7VEK","name":"Mária Kamilla Huszár","biography":"I studied at the 42 Vienna coding school, which is in Heiligenstadt, and work at RBI, which is also there. I am also doing MA in Philosophy at University of Szeged (Hungary).","avatar":"http://cfp.bsidesvienna.at/media/avatars/144024891_vipJl2T.jpg"}],"title":"What is software?","submission_type":{"en":"Talk"},"track":{"en":"Kreativraum 3.1 (Track 3 - 50 pax - Women4Cyber/Rookie)"},"state":"confirmed","abstract":"The answer to this question seems quite straightforward until we really start to think about it. My talk is inspired by a concept of Fred Brooks' 1986 paper \"No Silver Bullet\": the difference between essential and accidental complexity of software, only the first of which is an inherent and unremovable part of it. I want to investigate if such an \"essence\" of software really exists, and what follows if we take this view seriously.","description":"","duration":60,"slot_count":1,"do_not_record":false,"is_featured":false,"content_locale":"en","slot":{"room":{"en":"Kreativraum 3.1 (Track 3 - Women4Cyber/Rookie)"},"start":"2026-06-27T16:10:00+02:00","end":"2026-06-27T17:10:00+02:00"},"image":null,"resources":[{"resource":"/media/bsidesvienna-0x7ea/submissions/78ZAJJ/resources/what_is_software_PZ01Lhb.pdf","description":"These are the slides from the presentation."}]}