The Shoulders We Stand On

Join us as we explore pivotal milestones in computer science, spotlighting visionary scientists and engineers whose work resonates in today's software landscape. From architecture to programming languages, GUI, web, and AI, we'll bridge historical breakthroughs to their enduring impact on modern software engineering. As we dive into Alan Turing's AI contributions, David Parnas's modular design principles, Grace Hopper's revolutionary compiler, Nasir Ahmed's image compression algorithm and more, we discuss how algorithms from the past continue to influence contemporary software practices and demonstrate how theoretical concepts from earlier eras manifest in today's complex distributed systems.

This talk transcends timelines, connecting past innovations to contemporary impacts. In light of the influential discoveries, we highlight how they impact what we build today in more ways than we can count and how this knowledge can inform our decision making process in our day to day jobs as we work on products that transform the world as we know it.