PASS Data Community Summit

In person. In Seattle

14-17 November

Richard Morris

Richard Morris is a journalist, author and public relations/public affairs consultant. He has written for a number of UK and US newspapers and magazines and has offered strategic advice to numerous tech companies including Digital Island, Sony and several ISPs. He now specialises in social enterprise and is, among other things, a member of the Big Issue Invest advisory board. Big Issue Invest is the leading provider to high-performing social enterprises & has a strong brand name based on its parent company The Big Issue, described by McKinsey & Co as the most well known and trusted social brand in the UK.

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26 May 2010
26 May 2010

Erland Sommarskog: DBA of the Day

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Erland is best known for his famous SQL Server site http://www.sommarskog.se/. It is plain, it has eight articles in it, it is short on jokes: However, it is hugely popular and one of the great 'essential' SQL Server sites. We sent Richard Morris to find out more about Erland, and he discovered a diligent and energetic teacher and mentor in the SQL Server Community.… Read more
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19 May 2010
19 May 2010

Brian Kernighan: Geek of the Week

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When anyone mentions 'Kernighan and Ritchie', we all know what they are referring to: that brief book that introduced the C language to programmers, and set a high standard for all subsequent books on computer languages. Now over thirty years later it is still in print and translated into over 20 languages, being required reading for undergraduates. We sent Richard Morris to interview Professor Brian Kernighan… Read more
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26 April 2010
26 April 2010

Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week

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The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts, 'informative' asserts, generics, Compile-time nil/null tracking, lambda expressions, closures, list comprehensions and generators. Even if it had been developed by a team, it would have been a remarkable achievement. The surprise is that it is the work of one programmer with help from a group of users. We sent Richard to find out more about that one programmer.… Read more
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17 March 2010
17 March 2010

Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week

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Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the development of Javascript on the ECMA Standards Committee, as well as being the senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! He is also the author of the popular 'JavaScript: The Good Parts'. Richard Morris was dispatched to ask him which the good parts were.… Read more
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15 March 2010
15 March 2010

Bernie Cosell: Geek of the Week

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Bernie Cosell is a networking guy, a careful programmer, and an outstanding debugger who gets the credit, along with Dave Walden and Will Crowther, for the early programming of the IMP, the Interface Message Processor, that was the key mechanism in the building of the first computer networks. Bernie's contribution was his skill as a programmer: he could be thrown into any situation and make the software work.… Read more
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16 February 2010
16 February 2010

Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week

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If one were to close one's eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He is one of the greatest experts in cryptography, and a well-known mathematician. He even got a brief mention in thebook 'The Da Vinci Code'. He also remains an outspoken and articulate critic of the way that security is actually implemented in applications, as Richard Morris found out when we dispatched him to interview him.… Read more
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03 February 2010
03 February 2010

Peter Norvig: Geek of the Week

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It's likely that you are already using the results of Peter Norvig's work every day, if you search the internet with Google. One of the smartest moves that Google ever made was to hire the man who not only was a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, but was an expert application developer. Now he leads a team of over a hundred researchers to discover better ways of handling issues such as the machine-understanding and machine-translation of language in the quest for semantic search. … Read more
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19 January 2010
19 January 2010

Don Syme: Geek of the Week

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It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form of an exciting, radical, language that offers an effective alternative to the Object-oriented orthodoxy. The creative force behind this language, F#, turns out to be a brilliant Cambridge-based Australian called Don Syme, already well known for his work on generics in .NET. F# has taken the specialised power of ML and OCaml and developed a versatile general-purpose .NET language. We sent Richard Morris across the road to investigate. … Read more
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14 January 2010
14 January 2010

Robin Milner: Geek of the Week

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Although Robin Milner is best known for creating ML, which has evolved into Microsoft's new F# language, he would, had this never happened, still be renowned for developing LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving, and for calculus of communicating systems (CCS), a theoretical framework for analyzing concurrent systems. Richard Morris went along to find out more.… Read more
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06 January 2010
06 January 2010

Itzik Ben-Gan: DBA of the Day

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Itzik Ben-Gan, who was one of our first Geeks of the Week in 2005, is so well known and popular because he has all the instincts of a database developer and teacher, as well as being a certified DBA. His books and articles on Transact SQL are memorable because they relish the techniques of solving practical problems with SQL. His classes have been described as 'the mental equivalent of drinking Red Bull'. We sent Richard Morris to savour the adrenaline kick.… Read more
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21 December 2009
21 December 2009

Guillaume Laforge: Geek of the Week

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Guillaume Laforge is the project manager for the development of Groovy and Grails, and the creative force behind it. He has since shown, in a number of projects, how veratile Grails can be for the rapid development of web applications. Groovy is a dynamic language in a similar mould to Java, but with a malleable syntax and a greater economy. We asked Richard Morris to ask Guillaume about Groovy and Grails; and their context in the new wave of dynamic languages.… Read more
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26 November 2009
26 November 2009

Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week

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Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming algorithms, he is also famous for designing and programming one of the most widely-used digital typesetting systems ever, even designing the fonts that went with it. He also pioneered the use of 'Open-source' software. Knuth is a man of engaging charm and enthusiasms who combines a knowledge of history, music, art and mathematics with a unique insight into the art of computer programming.… Read more
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17 November 2009
17 November 2009

Dave Moore: DBA of the Day

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Dave Moore is one of the world's top DBAs and best-known for being the architect of the famous DBXray(tm) product by BMC Software, Dave Moore has a reputation for his substantial knowledge of Oracle internals. He has developed many products that assist Oracle DBAs and Developers. He has experience as a developer specializing in Oracle, Java and PL/SQL, and responsible for Space Expert, SQL Explorer and SmartDBA Cockpit.… Read more
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13 November 2009
13 November 2009

Simon Peyton Jones: Geek of the Week

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Simon Peyton Jones is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research's lab in Cambridge. Although he is best known as the developer of the definitive Haskell Compiler, his influence on the development of the new generation of functional languages such as F# has been profound. He has also been in the forefront of the development of parallel programming using Software Transactional memory. We sent Richard Morris across the road to find out more.… Read more
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