Closing keynote
summary
A history of concrete surprises: a 1960s firm starts with £6 capital, grows to an IPO in 1996 after giving a controlling share to staff so that 70 employees become millionaires, and of its first 300 hires 297 are women; the ENIAC “Bettys” configure 3,000 switches to run a demo in 20 seconds and invent programmed computation; Grace Hopper ships A0, the first compiler, in 1951 and a PDQ committee produces COBOL in three months, later accounting for roughly 80% of production code in 2000.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and perspective
- 3:04The story of Steve Shirley
- 7:46Grace Hopper and the Mark 1
- 13:26The Eniac Six and their legacy
- 17:52Compiler history and COBOL
- 20:31Systemic barriers in tech
- 24:11Challenging the status quo
- 27:37Addressing fear and behavior
- 32:12Call to action for leaders
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