DConf keynote speaker ideas

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/21/2015 11:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 07:27:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/21/2015 6:32 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 22:21:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> On 11/17/2015 10:48 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference
>>>>> keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei
>>>>
>>>> Maybe someone from JPL who can talk about software on space probes.
>>>
>>> Sounds like someone just watched The Martian.
>>
>> No, I'm waiting for it to appear on dvd.
>>
>> It comes from 20 years ago I attended a seminar given by the lead on the
>> Voyager project, and his discussion on how they developed the software and
>> fixed bugs in it and drastically improved it while it was traveling was
>> fascinating. For example, they figured out how to boost the resolution of the
>> cameras with a software improvement.
>
> It's going to be a lot harder to find a Voyager engineer now. ;)
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/technology/voyager-nasa/index.html
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Maybe Zottarelli is our man!