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.