Presents its 1st Annual Benefit
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PyData, Seattle, presents its 1st annual charity event. The event will feature the creators of C#, Java, Perl, Python, TypeScript, and Smalltalk in a conversation about programming language design.
The charity event brings together this unique group of computer science pioneers, unlike any event held before. These great minds come together for what will surely be a fantastic night of discussion, as the panel delves into the past and future of programming language creation. The event will attract innovators and engineers from Seattle, the nation’s fastest growing technology hub.
The event is a benefit for Last Mile Education Fund and NumFOCUS
About the fundraiser beneficiary organizations
Last Mile Education Fund has provided underrepresented students of CS, over $3M in grants, no questions asked, so students can complete their CS degrees. Majority of recipients are women, 40% of recipients are Black women, 20% are Hispanic women. Over 40% of grant recipients report anxiety about hunger. (Last Mile founder Ruthe Farmer mention https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/business/tech-internship-application-grind.html?smid=nytcore-android-share)
NumFOCUS is a foundation to promote open practices in research, data, and scientific computing by serving as a fiscal sponsor for open source projects and organizing community-driven educational programs. The foundation was founded by friend Travis Oliphant, the creator of NumPy. Joining him in founding NumFocus were Fernando Perez (created Jupyter), and John Hunter (created Matplotlib).
About The Creators
Adele Goldberg - Smalltalk
Adele Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and of various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, in the 1970s.
Adele began working at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in 1973 as a laboratory and research assistant. Later, she went on to become the manager of the System Concepts Laboratory and developed the programming language ‘Smalltalk-80’ with her team. This programming language was used to create one of the first modern graphical user interfaces (GUIs) featuring windows, icons, and menus.
James Gosling - Java
James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955, near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his doctoral thesis was titled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of emacs (gosmacs), and before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-processor version of Unix[1] while at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as several compilers and mail systems. Since 1984, Gosling has been with Sun Microsystems.
He is generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1991. He did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. He has also made major contributions to several other software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs. He also co-wrote the "bundle" program, a utility thoroughly detailed in Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike's book, "The Unix Programming Environment".
Anders Hejlsberg - Turbo Pascal, C#, TypeScript
Anders Hejlsberg is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and has been designing and implementing programming languages and development tools for over 35 years. Anders is the lead architect of the TypeScript open-source project and the original designer of the C# programming language. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Anders was a Principal Engineer at Borland International. As one of the first employees of Borland, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal and later worked as the Chief Architect of the Delphi product line. Anders studied Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.
Guido van Rossum - Python
Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web. Recently Guido retired as Benevolent Dictator For Life (“BDFL”) of Python, a title seemingly stolen from a Monty Python skit. Details of his decision were featured in an Economist article. Guido thankfully has joined the Python Steering Council. This five-person group will give guidance to the future roadmap of the Python programming language.
Van Rossum moved from the Netherlands to the USA, in 1995. He met his wife after his move. Until July 2003 they lived in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC with their son Orlijn, who was born in 2001. They then moved to Silicon Valley where Guido worked for a variety of companies including Google in the past and currently at Dropbox (spending 50% of his time on Python!).
Carol Willing - Moderator
Carol serves as a Steering Council member for Project Jupyter. She received the 2017 ACM Software System Award for Jupyter's development. She is also a member of the inaugural Python Steering Council, a Python Software Foundation Fellow and former Director; a core developer on CPython, Jupyter, nteract, AnitaB.org’s open source projects, and PyLadies; a co-organizer of PyLadies San Diego and San Diego Python User Group; an independent developer of hardware and software. Weaving her love of art, music, and nature with wearable soft circuits, she is developing an open hardware project to assist an in-home caregiver with gentle, compassionate support of a loved one with Alzheimer’s.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
- HOST
- SUPPORTING
Sponsorship Prospectus
Contact us:
pydataseattle@gmail.com
admin@pydata.org
Chair Ruthe Farmer
Co-Chair Eloisa Elias T
Vice-Chair Don Sheu