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QCon Keynote: Forty Years of Fun with Computers

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Dan Ingalls presents his journey through the world of software developing a number of core technologies over the last forty years, explaining what brought them forth and why they are fun even today.

Bio

Dan Ingalls was one of the creators of Smalltalk (at Xerox PARC) and later Squeak. His most recent work, the Lively Kernel, is a dynamic graphics and programming environment that runs entirely in a browser. Dan is a recipient of the ACM Grace Hopper Award, and the ACM Software Systems Award. Dan has recently joined SAP and is a key member of the Chief Scientist team.

About the conference

QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Jan 26, 2011

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  • slides not working

    by Chad Cummings,

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    are there slides available for this ?
    if so, the slides don't seem to be working or changing

  • Re: slides not working

    by razvan baciu,

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    Hi Chad,

    This is a Keynote. Sometimes there are no slides involved but talk and demos like in this case. That's why the slide download feature is not available for this keynote.

    Thanks.

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