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Steven Pemberton (NL)

  • Researcher at CWI, author, public speaker, and broadcaster

  • First user of the open internet in Europe and long-time chair of the XForms groups

  • Based in Amsterdam, enjoys singing in an international choir and has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6

Meet Steven at

Open Source CMS conference 26

Presentation: TBD
Dates: 20 - 21 October
Location: Utrecht

Boye Aarhus 26 conference

Keynote speaker
Presentation: "Vibe coding": English as a programming language
Dates: 5 November

About Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton is a distinguished researcher in the fields of interaction, declarative programming, and web technologies, based at the Dutch national research centre CWI in Amsterdam. His university tutor was Dick Grimsdale, who built the world's first transistorised computer, and who was himself a tutee of Alan Turing, 'the father of AI'. After university, Pemberton -- coincidentally -- worked in Turing's old department on the 5th computer in the line of computers Turing had worked on.

He co-designed the ABC programming language that Python is based on, was the first user of the open internet in Europe when the CWI set it up in 1988, and has been involved with the web from its inception, co-designing several web standards, including HTML, CSS, XHTML, XForms, and RDFa. He now chairs the XForms and ixml groups at W3C.

In 2022 he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award, and in 2023 was named an ACM Distinguished Speaker. More details at http://www.cwi.nl/~steven

Steven Pemberton on stage in Aarhus for his 2020 keynote

Steven Pemberton on stage in Aarhus for his 2020 keynote

Past Boye community appearances

HE Connect 24 conference

Keynote: There’s no I in AI (yet) - view slides
Lightning talks: Meaning in AI and Moore’s Switch

CMS Experts - DX group

Location: NMQ, Amsterdam
Date: April 22, 2024
Talk: Open Source is Not Enough!

Boye Aarhus 23 conference

A doodle from the keynote kindly shared by Nina Horstra. Click on the doodle for a larger version

Keynote: There's no I in AI (yet) (slides as HTML)
Abstract: There's no intelligence in current AI systems, but apparently we think there is, and then get surprised when it gives wrong answers. 

Why is this, and what will happen when we get real intelligent systems?

This talk gives an introduction to AI as we currently know it, examines how we interact with it, and envisions the consequences of real AI emerging.

Lightning talk: An end to the paper internet (slides as HTML)

Steven on stage at the Boye Aarhus 23 conference talking about accelerating change. From his talk on “There’s no I in AI”. Photo: Ib Sørensen

Steven on stage in Aarhus in 2017. Photo: Ib Sørensen

Steven together with Jared Spool at the 2008 conference

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