Alternate title: Bragging about awesome speakers, Part One.
Maybe you haven’t heard of Dan Ingalls yet. Perhaps you’ve only just returned from a 30-year Spirit Journey. Perhaps you’ve been living in the Canopy Layer of the Amazonian Rain Forest without access to the internet. I don’t care. Well, you have the internet now, so let’s get started!
Try Wikipedia. Oh yes, he has a Wikipedia page. Better yet, it’s not a stub.
Have you heard of Object-Oriented Programming? He invented it with Alan Kay. How about Smalltalk? He was Smalltalk for years.
Ingalls is one of the world’s most influential software engineers, ever. Want to learn from the best? CUSEC 2009 is there for you. It will be the best conference for software engineers, ever.
Dan Ingalls will speak at CUSEC 2009. Boo-ya.
I am ready to take this man’s picture for the sole purpose of filling in the Wikipedia entry. By Crom, none shall stop me!
Seems you’ve been beaten to the punch.