Douglas Crockford Speaking on Character Sets

For the August Meeting we have Douglas Crockford, author of Javascript The Good Parts (https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502484032&sr=8-1&keywords=javascript+the+good+parts) doing a talk on Character Sets. Character Sets will be the history of electronic character sets, including Morse, Baudot, Hollerith, BCDIC, ASCII, and Unicode. There were decisions that were made fore benefit of telegraphy which still have a huge influence over the way we construct programs.

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Douglas Crockford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford) was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He grew up in Newport Beach, and also did time in Lake Forest when it was still known as El Toro. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. This was an important and unexpected discovery. He also discovered JSON, the world’s most loved data interchange format.