Opening Keynote

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A rapid survey of computing lineage that ties concrete origins to modern tools: Jean Bartik and INIAC pairing dating to 1946, Charles Hamblin inventing RPN and stacks, Alan Kay’s roots of OO, plus hands-on mentions of Nokogiri, RSpec, Cucumber and MongoDB. Claims history explains repeated debates, and a concrete challenge — emulation march: two open‑source contributions per week — anchors the keynote with an actionable practice rather than abstract platitudes.

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1. 0:00First impressions in Australia
2. 2:00Programming pioneers honored
3. 6:39Cory Haynes introduction
4. 7:44Alan Kay and OOP origins
5. 13:18Programming paradigms history
6. 17:54Wing Chun philosophy
7. 20:18RSpec's impact on testing
8. 22:03MongoDB and Lotus Notes
9. 24:06Cucumber and domain-specific languages
10. 25:12COBOL design goals
11. 27:40Law of Demeter explained
12. 31:13Finding role models
13. 33:39Aaron Patterson contributions
14. 37:10Emulation March challenge

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