Talks That Don't Fit Elsewhere

Walter E Brown

⏱ 90 minute session
beginner
intermediate
advanced
11:00-12:30, Wednesday, 3rd July 2024

This is a collection of presentations that are individually too short for a full session, yet too long for a 5-minute lightning talk. Come join us as we explore the following topics for 15-20 minutes each:

  • "Exploring C++ Value Categories and Their Taxonomy"
  • "An Adventure in Applied Detection"
  • "Tales of Subscripting"
  • "Neither East nor West const"
  • "Tips to Improve Technical Writing"

Walter E Brown

With broad experience in industry, academia, consulting, and research, Dr. Walter E. Brown has been a computer programmer for over 60 years, and a C++ programmer for nearly 45 of those years.

He joined the C++ standards effort in 2000, and has since written circa 175 proposal papers. Among numerous other contributions, he is responsible for introducing such now-standard C++ library features as cbegin/cend, common_type, gcd/lcm, void_t, and <cmath>'s mathematical special functions, as well as the headers <random> and <ratio>. He has also significantly impacted such C++ core language features as alias templates, contextual conversions, variable templates, static_assert, and operator<=> (the C++20 "spaceship operator").

When not playing with his grandchildren, Dr. Brown continues as an Emeritus participant in the C++ standards process and as a frequent speaker at C++ conferences and meetups worldwide.

Attendees and video viewers have described his many conference presentations with such accolades as:

  • "Fantastic speaker"
  • "Awesome!"
  • "Impressive. Thank you"
  • "As usual very clear presentation. Content is great, slides have the right level of complexity."
  • "I think Walter E. Brown is the teacher I never had."
  • "For a moment I was like I know these issues but thankfully I ignored that thought."