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Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 7 & 8, 2017Session

Numbers

Computers are machines that manipulate numbers. That is literally all that they can do, and yet they are now facilitating and mediating virtually all human activity. This is the story of numbers: where they came from, how they work, and where they may be going. Every programmer should know this story.

  • When 10:45 AM Saturday
  • Where Town Square B

About This Session

Computers are machines that manipulate numbers. That is literally all that they can do, and yet they are now facilitating and mediating virtually all human activity. This is the story of numbers: where they came from, how they work, and where they may be going. Every programmer should know this story.
  • Time 10:45 AM Saturday
  • Room Town Square B

The Speaker(s)

Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford

Discoverer, Virgule-Solidus

Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is also the author of _JavaScript: The Good Parts_. He has been called a guru, but he is actually more of a mahatma.

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