Here's a short story:

Software engineering (SE) is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method. 

Typical formal definitions of software engineering include: 

When the first digital computers appeared in the early 1940s, the instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine. Practitioners quickly realized that this design was not flexible and came up with the "stored program architecture" or von Neumann architecture. Thus the division between "hardware" and "software" began with abstraction being used to deal with the complexity of computing. 

Programming languages started to appear in the early 1950s and this was also another major step in abstraction. Major languages such as Fortran, ALGOL, and COBOL were released in the late 1950s to deal with scientific, algorithmic, and business problems respectively. Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote his seminal paper, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", in 1968 and David Parnas introduced the key concept of modularity and information hiding in 1972 to help programmers deal with the ever increasing complexity of software systems. 

The origins of the term "software engineering" have been attributed to different sources, but it was used in 1968 as a title for the World's first conference on software engineering, sponsored and facilitated by NATO. The conference was attended by international experts on software who agreed on defining best practices for software grounded in the application of engineering. The result of the conference is a report that defines how software should be developed. The original report is publicly available. (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What is Software engineering?
Guess: the application of engineering to the development of software

Question: When were Languages like fortran and COBOL released?
Guess: 1950s

Question: How were the instructions to make the first digital computers operate implimented?
Guess: they were wired into the machine.

Question: Was the term Software Engineer used as early as 1968?
Guess: yes

Question: What did practitioners come up with to deal with the insturctions being wired into the machine not being practical?
Guess: stored program architecture

Question: Did this create a division between hardware and software?
Guess: yes

Question: In 1972 what did David Pamas introduce?
Guess: concept of modularity and information hiding

Question: Who sponsored the first Software engineering conference?
Guess: NATO

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: And who attended that conference?

international experts on software