[cap-talk] Butler Lampson's upcoming talk

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

This is the same keynote-like talk he has been giving for years.

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:16 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:23:41AM -0700, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> > At 08:00 AM 4/9/2008, Winnie Cheng wrote:
> > >Speaker: Butler Lampson
> > >Date: 4-17-2008
> > >Location: MIT Room 54-100
> > >
> > >Gold and Fool's Gold: Successes, Failures, and Futures in Computer
> > >
> > >...Other promising ideas have not worked out: capabilities, distributed
> > >computing, RISC, and persistent objects. And the fate of some is still
> > >in doubt: parallel computing, formal methods, and software reuse. The
> > >Web was not invented by computer systems researchers. In the light of
> > >all this experience, what will be exciting to work on in the next few years?

shap