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Sir Tony Hoare at QCon London 2009
By Therese Hansen | March 11, 2009
Today the QCon London conference was off to a good start. The opening keynote was by Sir Tony Hoare and what a great start to the day. He talked about the difference between the science and the engineering part of computing – the different goals and the different ways to get succes. We took only a few pictures but here they are:
Going on the big stage right after Sir Tony Hoare was probably not easy but Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer did a great job with their “The web platform” presentation. They don’t even look nervous:
March 13th, 2009 at 5:11 am
[...] (By the way, all the inflammatory statements in this post, such as tabs are evil, etc., are just jokes. Mostly.) [1] Pictures of Ben and Dion cribbed from the JAOO blog (http://blog.jaoo.dk/2009/03/11/sirtonyhoareatqcon/) [...]