Andy Hunt
see also Andrew Hunt
Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher.
He co-authored the best-selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer",
was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded
the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically
acclaimed books for software developers.
Andy started writing software professionally in early 80's across
diverse industries such as telecommunications, banking, financial
services, utilities, medical imaging, graphic arts, and of course,
the now-ubiquitous web.
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Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for three different projects - the QTM Project (19 -
David Durocher
David DuRocher is a web design instructor, author, and 10+ year veteran at a Fortune 500 tech company. With extensive web development education experience, David knows how to get results and distill his experience into actionable learning insight. Under his guidance, David’s students have built practical HTML, CSS, and other coding language skill sets. His results-oriented teaching methods, extensive hands-on experience, and engaging style deliver time and again on his promise that truly anyone can learn the skills needed to build a professional tech career.
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He is currently a technical account manager for Adobe, an industry-leading Fortune 500 company, and a web development instructor at Noble Desktop. Before his current roles, David taught -
David Bryant Copeland
David Copeland is a programmer and author. He wrote "The Senior Software Engineer" and "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby", and has over 16 years of professional development experience. He's managed high-performance, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial, helped build the engineering team at Opower, and worked consulting gigs both large and small. Currently, he's a lead engineer at fashion start-up Stitch Fix, building a platform that will change the retail shopping experience.
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Matthew A. Titmus
Matthew Titmus is an academic refugee and veteran of the software development industry who can currently be found serving as an SRE technical lead at Flatiron Health in New York. He's an organizer for the DevOpsDays NYC Conference, the founder of NYC CoffeeOps, and the author of Cloud Native Go (coming this May from O'Reilly Media).
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Since teaching himself to build virtual worlds in LPC, he's earned a surprisingly-relevant degree in molecular biology, written tools to analyze terabyte-sized datasets at a high energy physics laboratory, developed an early web development framework from scratch, wielded distributed computing techniques to analyze cancer genomes, and pioneered machine learning techniques for linked data. He was an early adopter -
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. He is a frequent invited speaker at international software conferences and user groups. He's author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), coauthor of the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
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John Carnell
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Luis G. Serrano
Luis G. Serrano is a research scientist in quantum and classical machine learning, living in Toronto, Canada. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, has taught at the University of Quebec and Quest University, and has worked in machine learning at Apple, Google, and Udacity. He maintains a popular educational youtube channel, www.youtube.com/c/LuisSerrano.
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Jake VanderPlas
Jake VanderPlas is a well-known data scientist, researcher, and educator. He is recognized for his contributions to the fields of machine learning, data science, and astronomy. VanderPlas is particularly famous for his work in Python programming for data analysis and scientific computing.
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He is the author of several popular resources, including:
"Python Data Science Handbook": A highly regarded book that provides a comprehensive guide to data science with Python, covering topics such as data manipulation, visualization, and machine learning.
He has also contributed to open-source projects related to data science and scientific computing, particularly within the Python ecosystem.
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Tomas Tulka
I’m a software developer, both by profession and passion. I’ve worked on a wide range of software products, from small startups to big corporations, and I've contributed to several open-source projects along the way. My journey hasn’t just been about writing code, though—I’ve also taken on management roles, growing from team leader to head of development.
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Regardless of my position, I’ve worked alongside many software development teams, collaborating closely with both developers and non-developers.
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Fernando Doglio
Technical writer, mainly focusing on Node.js and microservices architecture. Also working as a Technical Manager for BigData projects.
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William Kennedy
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Bill Moggridge
Bill was the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. He designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.
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Saša Jurić
Software developer with many years of experience building server systems, as well as desktop applications, with a special focus on developing backend systems using Elixir and Erlang.
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Ethem Alpaydin
Ethem ALPAYDIN received his BSc from Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University in 1987 and the degree of Docteur es Sciences from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1990. He did his postdoctoral work at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1991 and afterwards was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2002 in the same department.
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As visiting researcher, he worked at Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT in 1994, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1997, IDIAP, Switzerland in 1998, and TU Delft in 2014.
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Graham Hutton
I'm from Glasgow in Scotland, and received a BSc and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. I then spent a few years in research positions in Gothenburg and Utrecht, before moving to Nottingham where I am now Professor of Computer Science. I'm married to Annette, and we have two lovely boys. In my spare time I enjoy cars, cooking, and football. Both of our boys play in football teams, and we are all season ticket holders for Nottingham Forest.
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I'm Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, where I co-lead the Functional Programming Lab and am the Director of Research.
My research interests are in functional programming, with an emphasis on formally-based approaches to program construction and verificatio -
John Dyer
John Dyer (PhD, Durham University) is VP for enrollment and educational technology and professor of theology and sociology at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has also been a technology creator for more than 20 years, building tools used by Facebook, Google, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, the Department of Defense, and the Digital Bible Society, and his open source code is used on more than 40% of all websites. Dr. Dyer speaks and writes on technology, faith, and education for several publications including Gizmodo, Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and in books such as From the Garden to the City, Ecclesiology for a Digital Church, and People of the Screen.
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