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"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision

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Summary

Allen Wirfs-Brock discusses the various computing eras and the change we are currently going through, leaving the PC era and entering a new one characterized by mobility, clouds, HTML and content.

Bio

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Mozilla Research Fellow and currently spends most of his time thinking about the future of the JavaScript. He was project editor for ECMAScript 5, the latest edition of the JavaScript standard. He’s a reformed Smalltalker who was a technical and entrepreneurial leader during the slow rise and rapid decline of Smalltalk as a mainstream programming language.

About the conference

Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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Nov 22, 2011

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