O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - March 6-9, 2006

Speaker

Bill Scott
Yahoo!

Bill Scott is the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist (part of the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelism Team) and a Design Manager for Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library (part of User Experience). Bill works closely with teams throughout Yahoo! to spread the goodness of "rich and sane" design for Ajax solutions. Before joining Yahoo! Bill co-founded Rico (openrico.org), an opensource Ajax framework while also founding a User Experience Team, architecting a JSP/Struts Web framework and a Java Swing framework for Sabre. Bill's 20+ years of experience in user interface production spans from the lowest to the highest levels across desktop and web. At the lowest level: assembly language line buffer algorithms, 3D graphics libraries, mapping systems built from scratch and numerous widget libraries. Applications include: highly interactive game development (Macintosh GATO), military war gaming, IDE tools. In the design world: interaction design, rapid prototyping, managing user experience teams, and creating design pattern libraries.