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The JavaScript World Domination Plan at 16 Years
Brendan Eich recaps the major milestones and controversies in JavaScript’s history, the performance improvements, the current work on the next version of JavaScript, ending with some demoes.
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The Sequential Prison
Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency.
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"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision
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.
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A Brief History of the (Java) World and a Peek Forward
Neal Gafter reviews the long history of Java from its inception to the present and makes an incursion into what he thinks will be a great future and guessing what might come in Java SE 9+ after 2014.
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The Evolution of the Erlang VM
Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding recall the events leading to Erlang and its later evolution. They mention the Prolog interpreter, JAM, VEE, Strand88, OTP, TEAM, BEAM, and other technologies.
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Lean Thinking: What is Distinctive About It and Where is It Going?
The question of where lean came from and how it has developed into a complete business system is addressed.
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Test Driven Development: Ten Years Later
In this session, we review some of the landmarks in the history of Test-Driven Development and what they tell about how to develop software; the ideas, techniques, objections, and misunderstandings.
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Bindings, Platforms, and Innovation
This presentation focuses on the Internet and separating myth from fact, history from the future, and the mundane from the imaginative. Bob Frankston presents a vision of what could and should be.
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The Roots of Scrum
For 60 minutes Jeff Sutherland covers Scrum from creation to its use at Xerox, Honda, WildCard, Lexus, Google. He looks at Scrum types A, B C, and confirms that Kent Beck used Scrum practices for XP.