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At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. We'll begin with these Expert to Expert episodes with a "standing" conversation (participants stand comfortably close to the whiteboard) with computer scientists Carl Hewitt, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, creator of the Planner programming language, inventor of the Actor Model (the topic of this conversation), Clemens Szyperski, an MSR scientist working in the Connected Systems Group and Erik.
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Tangential, but I wish there was a good tool for automatic video transcript creation. It would make text of all the speech, in a nice html format. Further, this tool would allow an editor to click a time tag for the speech, and grab a screen cap to insert as an image into the transcript (e.g. for slides, pertinent screen displays, or just amusement). If such a thing was easy enough to do, more people would hopefully provide (or crowdsource) good articles based on these videos.
The reason I would like to see this, is I just don't have the ability to spend 45 minutes on multiple interesting talks each day, but would love to skim the transcript for the bits that are new and interesting to me.
This was an excellent video for those interested in programming models for distributed systems. Hewitt explains the key features of the Actor Model and makes the case that it more closely matches the physics of distributed systems than other models(e.g. Petry Nets/CCS/Pi Calculus). The Q&A with whiteboard format was very nice -- I got a lot of what I would get by reading an introductory paper on the topic, but in a more entertaining fashion.
--- At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. We'll begin with these Expert to Expert episodes with a "standing" conversation (participants stand comfortably close to the whiteboard) with computer scientists Carl Hewitt, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, creator of the Planner programming language, inventor of the Actor Model (the topic of this conversation), Clemens Szyperski, an MSR scientist working in the Connected Systems Group and Erik. ---