Presentation
Mainframe, Movies and Me: A Journey Through Hollywood, Computers, Aliens and Mainframe Computing
DescriptionIn this session our speaker will discuss how while mainframes are mocked by rival computing architectures as belonging in the 1960s, Hollywood understands us and promotes the mainframe as the superheroes's IT platform of choice. From Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, and countless others that have saved the world against aliens, dinosaurs or supervillans, these are the true hero in every Hollywood plot! This presentation is either going to get an award for being the funniest thing SHARE has ever presented, or else the speaker is going to get the record lowest score and the most number of social media dislikes for being extremely unfunny. Either way folks seeing it hopefully won't forget it. With any luck they'll remember it for the right reasons and come away reflecting on what motived them to enter mainframe computing and have a fresh to-do list of movies to catch up with and music tracks to listen to next time they're struggling to read a syslog or debug an abend.
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Event Type
Technical Session
TimeThursday, February 2610:30am - 11:30am EST
LocationSalon 23
Professional Skills
Career Toolkit Essentials: Skills for the Future
Professional Development
Training
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