I completely forgot about this. I was interviewed for a documentary about the internet, The People's Cloud, which has just come out. I'm in several episodes, but I start already at episode 1, at 1 minute 15. You can watch the full documentary at http://thepeoplescloud.org.
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Last year was surprisingly a top year for me academically, where I broke several personal records. One of those was "most talks given in a year", which was in no small amount helped by another broken record "most talks given at a single conference". The ACM Web conference had asked me to submit a paper, which I duly did, and I then thought if I was going to go all the way to Austin Texas to give a paper, I should try and submit something else as well. So, in order to raise my chances, I adopted a scatter-gun approach and submitted four. Unfortunately, all four got accepted. I say unfortunately because two of them were each three hours in length. Then to top it all, they added an invited talk to the list. Thus breaking another record, the number of minutes spent talking at a single conference. Silver lining: the past president of ACM was in the audience for two of the talks, and by the time I was back in Amsterdam, I had been nominated as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. This is a scheme where ACM lists you on their site, with the talks you are willing to give, and if anyone wants you to talk, and ACM agrees, ACM pays your travel costs (though not your housing costs). So I got ChatGPT to write me a bio, corrected the most glaring mistakes, curated the nearly 300 talks I've given in the last 20 years, and whittled it down to 14 I was willing to give, and so now I am an ACM Distinguished Speaker. https://lnkd.in/ekEASvwD
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I'm speaking at this
Check out so far confirmed speakers for Web Summer Camp, a great mix of know-how & experiences :) Stephanie Stimac, Vlatka Šipoš, Tanja Bulbuk Jergović, Steven Pemberton, Alex Net, Rob Allen, Noz Urbina, Nikola Vrdoljak, Jeffrey McGuire, Nicolas Grekas, Dave Liddament, Elvis Mehmedović, Christopher Hertel, Oliver Kossin, Nicolas FRIZZARIN, and others. All info: https://lnkd.in/d_ft-Rjr
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The last 3 months have been good for me on the media. I've been on BBC radio, on Dutch TV, and interviewed on 4 podcasts, one about the internet, one about structured data, one about AI, and now the last one, just published, on the concepts underlying the architecture of the web, such as separation of concerns and declarative techniques. https://lnkd.in/e4DNS5Mf
Podcast Ep. 35 – Fixing the fundamentals of the web: Sharing 55 years of omnichannel experience w/ Steven Pemberton
https://www.omnichannelx.digital
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AI produces crappy code. "We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited." https://lnkd.in/eTBFWqPp
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine
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I will be speaking (twice) at the Web Summer Camp in Opatia, Croatia in July. https://lnkd.in/dvqgviN8
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2ySteven, this is a highly informative series of short docs. Matt's gorgeous cinema-photography, sound design and animations transform it into an engaging watch. Many topics brought up resonate: how the global network is not one thing that can be managed, but must be managed by what in reality is only a few hundred people around the world; the sheer amount of energy needed to run the Cloud and how we are limited by access to electricity and our ability to cope with waste heat; who owns dark fibre; and perhaps my favourite topic as an Islander: submarine cables. It's great to see open conversations about the resource footprints, competitive advantages and just how big Big Data really is. And a fantastic resource for teaching - thank you for sharing.