Becca ReffordAbstract This talk chronicles the heroic story of the development of CHIME, a pandemic modeling tool created at Penn Medicine to assist in hospital capacity planning. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to develop software during an emergency, this is the session for you! In this session I’ll cover: How Open Source Software (OSS) … Read More
About Jessica Kerr Jessica Kerr is a symmathecist, in the medium of code. She believes in learning systems made of learning parts: enthusiastic people and evolving software. She podcasts on Greater than Code and Arrested Devops. Currently, she spends much of her time building symmathesies through Industrial Logic. She has worked at startups (Atomist, Stripe, … Read More
Abstract Our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a desktop computer. Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary. Calm technology describes a state … Read More
About Dr. Alan Kay Alan Kay likes to say: “No one owes more to his research community”. He is a pioneer computing scientist and designer who helped invent personal computing, the graphical user interface, object-oriented programming, and helping children learn powerful ideas. Honors include the 2003 Turing Award “for pioneering many of the ideas at … Read More
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Rarely seen miscalculations now cropping up frequently at cloud hyperscale, and ‘React 18: A Summary in 12 Tweets.”
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Social engineering lives on, Terraform turns 1.0, and more. Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia discuss this week’s dev news.
Reflecting on another successful year of Philly ETE: the logistics, the community, and the unexpected benefits of being virtual.
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Intel says chip shortages could last for years, SolarWinds hackers are at it again, and a Google I/O 2021 recap.
Join our CMO, Tracey Welson-Rossman, on a virtual roundtable covering the resources available to women of all ages who are interested in a career in STEM.
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Scala 3 is out, how to turn off Amazon’s Sidewalk mesh network, and why the M1 Macs are so fast. Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia discuss.
