31207: Mainframes, Movies and Me: A Journey through Hollywood, Computers, Aliens, and Mainframe Computing
Project and Program:
Professional Skills
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Proceedings,
2023,
SHARE New Orleans 2023
In this session, our speaker will show how while mainframes are mocked by rival
computing architectures as belonging in the 1060s, 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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