A Globally Recognized Pioneer of Rich Internet Applications David Temkin is CTO & Founder of Laszlo Systems. In this role, he has positioned the company to become the next technology standard for rich Internet applications. Under his direction, Laszlo developed its patent-pending open-source product suite and extended operations to both coasts of the United States. Before founding Laszlo, Temkin was senior director of Engineering at Excite@Home where he led a team of 55 engineers, designers and technical writers responsible for developing the company's consumer software. Prior to Excite@Home, he was an engineering manager in the Newton division at Apple Computer and developed enterprise software at EDS. He graduated from Brown University with a double major in Computer Science and History, and is named on four software patents.
Before Copernicus, the sun was thought to revolve around the earth; to speak
otherwise was to invite charges of heresy. Copernicus eventually reversed
this popular notion by showing that earth in fact revolves around the sun.
Similarly on the Web, the server has always been the center of the universe,
with the client relegated to being more or less a dumb terminal, revolving at
the periphery of a server-oriented architecture. Using the OpenLaszlo Ajax
platform as an example, Laszlo Systems’ founder David Temkin will show
how SOA, coupled with advanced Ajax applications, are changing the Web's
center of gravity from the server to the client. Heresy or not, this session
will prove that the client is becoming the center of today’s new Web
architecture.
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A Globally Recognized Pioneer of Rich Internet Applications
David Lucas
Cathy Lopez
Shaul Efraim
Terence Martin Breslin
Cory Marchand
David Hughes
James Carlini
John Iffert
Dan Stolts
Joe Zeto
