Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People
Grace Hopper·1982·NSA·1 hrCaptain Grace Hopper's restored 1982 NSA lecture — including the nanoseconds wire demo — on why the future of computing is about people and information as much as machines.
The Future of Programming
"Uncle" Bob Martin·2016·Expert TalksBob Martin walks through 60 years of programming history and argues that almost nothing has actually changed.
The Future of Programming
Bret Victor·2013·Dropbox DBXBret Victor, in costume as a 1973 researcher, surveys the ideas the field once had — and the ones we quietly stopped pursuing.
All Questions Answered
Donald Knuth·2011·StanfordDon Knuth takes unscreened audience questions for an hour — on Wikipedia, on what's next in CS, on his most memorable mistakes, on how to write programs you can still read in twenty years.
Real Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg·2010·Lone Star Ruby ConfA historical look at what 'software engineering' was originally proposed to mean — and why what we practice today is barely related.
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
Alan Kay·1997·OOPSLAAlan Kay's OOPSLA keynote on how far we still are from the medium computers could be — and how much of what we call 'OOP' missed the point.
Crafting quality that endures
Karri Saarinen·2025·Figma ConfigThe Linear CEO on why software quality is something a company has to value out loud — and how Linear's process keeps the bar from drifting as it scales.