Joe Armstrong

Joe Armstrong is the inventor of the programming language Erlang. He has PhD in Computer Science and is Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has had a career in academic and industrial research, and as an entrepreneur and author.

Full Stack Fest 2016

Joe Armstrong

Computing: The first 100 years

The first program on a stored-program computer ran on on June 21st, 1948. Since then a lot has happened... This talk will look at the development of hardware and software from the birth of the first stored program computer in 1948 until today. That covers the first 68 years. Then I'll make a few guesses as to what will happen in the next 32 year…