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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
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Thompson says Plan 9 "the best operating system out there" but will "never make it, ever, ever."
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Thompson on the origins of C: "if it was a good suggestion, I would steal it in a minute."
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Thompson on how a disk scheduling algorithm accidentally became Unix.
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Thompson: Multics was a horrible platypus!
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Lampson: DEC was killed by the Wall Street Journal.
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Lampson: The Alto we designed at PARC in 1972 would have been unthinkable any earlier in history.
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Lampson on discovering Project Genie and Peter Deutsch in a secret room at Berkeley in 1964.
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Lampson: I learned many lessons on "what not to do" by designing the Cal capabilities based OS.
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Pearl on the tradeoff between quality of search and quality of perception.
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Pearl: "I apologize for being so stupid" by treating causality as a probabalistic relationship.
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Pearl: "a system that works in a crazy way" - defining the Bayesian belief network.
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Scott on inventing the Logic of Computable Functions to win an argument with Christopher Strachey.
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Scott on the origins of computer science at Stanford and teaching Barbara Liskov.
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Scott explains the thesis he wrote for Alonzo Church on proof in infinite dimensional geometries.
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Scott tells how he discovered nondeterministic automata with Michael Rabin in a classic paper.
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Aho explains how Lex and YACC revolutionized compiler creation by uniting theory and practice
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Aho on inventing indexed grammars and the nested stack automaton for his Ph.D. thesis.
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Aho: "I'm the A in AWK."
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Aho: Seeing the Dragon Book in Hackers convinced his children that he was "really something."
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Aho on the "great crime" of confusing algorithms and procedures.
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Wirth on the importance of abstraction to language design
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Wirth on Lillith and Modula
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Wirth on the implementation and spread of Pascal
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Wirth on his first Algol compiler
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Kahan on creating  IEEE Standard Floating Point
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Kahan on HP calculators: Solve, Integrate and Matrix Operations
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Kahan on the 8087 and designing Intel's floating point
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Kahan remembers JCP Miller, Maurice Wilkes & Jim Wilkinson
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Kahan on the FERUT, the first computer he programmed
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