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The History of Women in Technology
Sarah Dutkiewicz takes a trip through the history of computing and presents some of the women that have been instrumental in advancing the computing industry.
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Continuations on the Web and in your OS
Jay McCarthy provides a basic introduction to delimited continuations, their traditional application on the Web, and then shows more advanced techniques using examples from Web interaction.
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Dissecting Clojure Reducers
Renzo Borgatti discusses implementing parallel solutions with reducers in Clojure, doing live coding that show what functional abstractions are involved and why.
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Enso: Composing DSL Interpreters, Languages & Aspects
William Cook introduces Enso, an external language workbench with both graphical and textual editing capabilities.
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Servo: Designing and Implementing a Parallel Browser
Jack Moffitt discusses where and how to achieve parallelism in a browser, how it is done by Servo, and how Rust has helped.
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Generation Minecraft - Kids Building Software
Seth Schroeder discusses how adults can motivate kids to create stuff on a computer rather than just consuming it, and shares the approach that has worked in his family.
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Chrome Security
Parisa Tabriz presents current online threats and some of the ways Chrome protects users, along with Chrome's philosophies, successes, and ongoing challenges to doing security in a browser.
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Patterns for Scalable Web Services in Go
Richard Crowley introduces Go standard library's HTTP packages, the relationship between JSON and Go's data structures, and Go's support for reflection, useful to create safe APIs.
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Java Puzzlers: Something Old, Something Gnu, Something Bogus, Something Blew
Josh Bloch, Bob Lee point out to the dangers that lurk in Java’s dark corners, so they can be avoided or eliminated from programs and designs.
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How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopscotch
Samantha John explains the design considerations for creating a visual language for children and demoes Hopscotch, presenting techniques and sample projects for teaching kids to code.
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Software for Programming Cells
Colin Gravill discusses programming living cells, demonstrating a software tool chain for characterizing genetic parts that can be combined into genetic devices for programming cell function.
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Finding a Way Out
Chris Granger attempts to imagine what programming would look like if it was created today.