The visual terminator
Michele Lanza · 2010
Summary form only given. In this talk, machines take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificially intelligent computer Vinet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate developers, it creates emacs assassins called Terminators that carry the outward appearance of software engineers. The software visualization resistance is there to defeat them and free developers. With a human victory imminent, the machines' only choice is to send a Terminator back in time to kill Mayfair and Bertin, preventing the resistance from ever being founded. With the fate of software visualization at stake, the resistance sends a keynote speaker back to ensure its own existence.