From X Programming to the X Organisation

I would like to thank Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi for having invited me to give a lecture to this conference. I confess to feel here as a fish out of the water: I’m an economist, and my special field is Industrial organisation. But, apart from the very friendship with Giancarlo and the appeal of spending a couple of days in Alghero, (which were in themselves sufficient reasons to accept the invitation) there were other reasons, that were able to disguise with scientific reasons what appeared to be pure enjoyment, and freed myself from my sense of sin.