Walter Bright

Speaking Engagements

• Northwest C++ Users Group The Black Art of Code Generation Jan 16, 2025 Slides Video
• Northwest C++ Users Group Comprehensible Programming Feb 15, 2024 Slides Video
• Northwest C++ Users Group Adding Modules to C in 10 Lines of Code Apr 20, 2022
• PLDI 2021 "Origins of the D Programming Language" June 21, 2021
• DConf 2020 Destroy All Memory Corruption Nov 21, 2020
• NWCPP D at 20: Hits and Misses Oct 16 2019 at nwcpp.org 2019. slides
• Keynote Allocating Memory with the D Programming Language May 8 at DConf 2019.
• Keynote Taking Advantage of D Within Existing C Code May 8 at Code Europe 2018.
• Keynote Taking Advantage of D Within Existing C Code May 2 at DConf 2018.
• Keynote Pointers Gone Wild: Memory Safety and D May 4 at DConf 2017.
• Memory Safety and the D Programming Languge at NWCPP Nov 16, 2016. slides
• Keynote at Dconf May 2-4, 2016.
• Conjugo Events on Nov. 8
• Appearance on iLike IT on Romania ProTV morning news.
• Interfacing D to legacy C++ code at Curious Minds on Oct 9, 2015 in Brasov, Romania.
• Keynote at Dconf May 27-29, 2015.
• At DigiPen on Feb 27, 2015.
• Interfacing D To Legacy C++ Code at NWCPP Jan 21, 2015. slides partial transcript by Daniel Keep
• The D Language at TTI/Vanguard Sep 30, 2014.
• Keynote at Dconf 2014.
• Keynote at Dconf 2013.
• Component Programming in D on Feb. 20, 2013.
• D Programming Language at Sioux June 6, 2012
• The D Programming Language at Lang.NEXT April 4, 2012
• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages Apr. 3, 2012
• GoingNative 6: Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu - D Programming Language Feb. 21, 2012
• Patterns Of Human Error at Washington DC chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery April 26, 2011. review
• The D Programming Language at Software GR March 22, 2011
• The Many Faces of D at Northwest C User's Group September 15, 2010 slides
• The D Programming Language at the Emerging Languages Camp at OSCON July 22, 2010 slides
• Compiler Construction at ACCU 2010 in Oxford. slides
• The D Programming Language: n00b to h4x0r in One Day with Andrei Alexandrescu at ACCU 2010 in Oxford.
• Concurrent Programming in the D Programming Language at ACCU 2009 on April 24
• Compiler Construction in Astoria, Oregon, Sep 20-22, 2009
• Metaprogramming in D at Northwest C User's Group January 21, 2009 video
• What Makes a Programming Language Productive? at Øredev Nov 17-21, 2008
• Extraordinary C++ in Astoria, Oregon, Sep 23-26, 2007
• D Programming Language Conference in Seattle at Amazon, Aug 23-24, 2007
• Advanced D Programming at the NWCPP Jan 17, 2007

Interviews

• FLOSS Weekly 311 - The D Language on Oct 8, 2014.
• GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

Resume

• The D Programming Language
  Digital Mars D compiler
  D Programming Language Specification

• C and C++ compilers:
  • Digital Mars C++
  • Symantec C++
  • Zortech C++ (the first native C++ compiler)
  • Zorland C
  • Datalight C
  • Northwest Software C

• Empire the Wargame of the Century
  The first and often imitated classic strategic computer wargame.

• ABEL Advanced Boolean Expression Language compiler
  Walter designed this language in the 80's for Data I/O, there are now an estimated 50,000 users of it

• DMDScript ECMA 262 Script compiler/interpreter
  20 times faster than Netscape Javascript, and twice as fast as Microsoft jscript. Walter is the primary author of Sun's ECMA 262 Script engine.

• Symantec Visual Cafe's Java compiler. Still the fastest.

• Las Vegas Roulette
  for Mattel Intellivision

Publications

• Origins of the D programming language, Proceedings of the ACM on..., Volume 4, Issue HOPL
• The Linker Is not a Magical Program, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• Dr. Dobb's Author
• D Programming Language Specification
• C/C++ User's Journal May 2004, "Nested Functions" by Walter Bright, pg. 36
• SDWest 2004, The D Programming Language by Walter Bright
• Dr. Dobb's Mar 2004 pg. 36, "Collection Enumeration: Loops, Iterators, & Nested Functions" by Walter Bright and Matthew Wilson
• Dr. Dobb's Feb 2002, "The D Programming Language" by Walter Bright
• The C Users Journal, Jul 1990, pg. 37 Virtual Memory For 640K MS-DOS by Walter Bright
• Micro Cornucopia, Mar 1990 pg. 21 "Debugging C Pointers Using MEM" by Walter Bright
• Micro Cornucopia Jan 1989 pg. 26 "The Secrets Of Compiler Optimization" by Walter Bright

United States Patents

• Patent 7831208 Wireless mobile phone having encoded data entry facilities
• Patent 7812993 Lossy method for compressing images and video
• Patent 7711748 Method and apparatus for simplified access to online services
• Patent 7028033 Method and apparatus for simplified access to online services
• Patent 6897977 Lossy method for compressing pictures and video
• Patent 6850782 Wireless device with vibrational communication capabilities
• Patent 6657647 Controlling the order in which content is displayed in a browser
• Patent 6418323 Wireless mobile phone with Morse code and related capabilities

Of Interest

• Trip Around the World Charles Taylor Bright travels around the world at the turn of the century.
• 1986 Obfuscated C Code Winner proving that I can write code as bad as anyone's.

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