Talks That Don't Fit Elsewhere
Walter E Brown
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."