52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
Here are just a few of the folks who are scheduled to appear:
Dan Bornstein Dan Bornstein is the tech lead at Google for Android's virtual machine and core library efforts, where he developed the specification for the Dalvik virtual machine. He continues to contribute to its implementation along with several coworkers. He studied computational linguistics as an undergrad, earning a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Brown University. Dan lives in San Francisco, where he particularly enjoys participating in the experimental electronic music scene.
Jeff Dean Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Fellow in Google's Systems Infrastructure Group. While at Google he has worked on Google's crawling, indexing, query serving, and advertising systems, implemented a number of search quality improvements, designed and built various pieces of Google's distributed computing infrastructure such as MapReduce and BigTable, and worked on a variety of internal and external developer tools.
Ben Galbraith Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of AJAXian.com, an experienced Chief Technical Officer and Enterprise Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in enterprise architecture and Swing/AJAX development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he's been professionally coding in Java. In 2005, Ben delivered over a hundred technical presentations at venues including JavaOne, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums.
Bruce Johnson Bruce Johnson is an engineering manager at Google, and the co-creator and tech lead of Google Web Toolkit (GWT). He joined Google in 2005, founding Google's engineering office in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to Google, Bruce was the Director of Engineering at AppForge, an Atlanta startup specializing in cross-platform mobile development tools. Despite his recent Java focus, Bruce will always be a Bjarne Stroustrup devotee, and he keeps a copy of D&E in his night-stand.
Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major programming languages on and off the web. The Python community refers to him as the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), a title straight from a Monty Python skit. He moved from the Netherlands to the USA in 1995, where he met his wife. Until July 2003 they lived in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC with their son Orlijn, who was born in 2001. They then moved to Silicon Valley where Guido now works for Google (spending 50% of his time on Python!).
Steve Souders Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about web performance on Yahoo! Developer Network.
Google I/O will feature over 70 sessions on Ajax and JavaScript, App Engine, Web APIs, OpenSocial, Mobile development, and more. They're holding 8 talks on Android alone! In addition to the regular sessions there will be tech talks, informal fireside chats, and code labs.
Attendees will even be able to host their own "lightning talks" using an unconference format. On day one anyone can submit topics for inclusion, which are voted on by attendees. The ones with the most votes will get a 20-minute slot on day two.
I already have my ticket, how about you? Hope to see you there.