Editorial: ICSE and the Incredible Contradictions of Software Engineering.

The article offers information on the changing timelines of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), highlighting a shift from a 7-month delay between submission and presentation to a 13-month delay, impacting the sharing of new ideas in the fast-evolving field of software engineering. Topics include the significance of software in the current technological revolution, with disciplines like AI, machine learning, and virtual reality being fundamentally software-based.