Friday, October 16th, 2009
TimeEventLocation
10:00 am
– 4:00 pm
Job Fair
Siebel Atrium
4:45 pmOpening Remarks by Conference Chair, Mo Kudeki1404 Siebel
5:00 pmAlexis Ohanian: Lessons learned from 4 years of letting
readers choose the front page of the web
1404 Siebel
6:15 pmDinner provided by Biaggi's
Sponsored by Yahoo!
Siebel Basement
7:45 pmBrian Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman:
The Myth of the Genius Programmer
1404 Siebel
Robert Tsuk: Why webOS?1320 DCL
9:00 pmMechMania Opening Ceremony
Sponsored by IMC-Chicago
1404 Siebel

Saturday, October 17th, 2009
TimeEventLocation
9:00 amBreakfast OpensSiebel Basement
10:00 amSean O'Brien: Standards Deviation: running Ruby on Rails
inside the worlds largest PHP shop
1404 Siebel
Eric Gregori: Introducing the RobotVisionToolkit1320 DCL
11:15 amBart Trojanowski:
Tracking code changes in a distributed environment
1320 DCL
Raymond Chen: How Microsoft Is Different from School1404 Siebel
Suresh Karra: A walk in the clouds - one step closer to heaven?1310 DCL
12:30 pmLunchSiebel Basement
1:30 pmStefan Agamanolis: Slow Communication1404 Siebel
Bram Moolenaar: Zimbu, an experimental programming language1320 DCL
Bart Trojanowski: GIT Workshop2405 Siebel Center
2:45 pmRobert Lang:
From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes:
The Modern Science of Origami
1404 Siebel
Tony Chang: Google Chrome Development Stories1320 DCL
4:00 pmDouglas Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts1404 Siebel
Don Stewart:
Beautiful Parallelism: Harnessing Multicores with Haskell
1320 DCL
5:30 pmDinner from Papa Del'sSiebel Basement
6:30 pmAlex Martelli: Python for Programmers1404 Siebel
7:45 pmRyan North: GUYS, LOOKS LIKE IT'S WACKY TIME1404 Siebel

Sunday, October 18th, 2009
TimeEventLocation
12:00 pmLunch OpensSiebel Basement
1:00 pmMechMania Finals1404 Siebel
3:00 pmPalm Awards Ceremony 1404 Siebel