Steven Pemberton’s Post

I am the opening keynote at this. https://lnkd.in/d6u2Wym3

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

I'm speaking at this

I'm speaking at this. https://lnkd.in/dVeqTzWy

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