Your Assignment: Present to Nerds Who Know More Than You

The first "official" gathering of nerds around the world took place at the "IBM Cybercafe." This was a mixture of board games (only chess, backgammon, and checkers... nothing interesting), computers with internet access, and IBM presentations. The only presentation I was remotely interested was the one about the Just-In-Time compiler of the Java JVM (specifically, IBM's JVM). However, the person giving the talk was clearly some intern who knew nothing about the JIT. Between staring at the slides for 30 seconds before reading them to us, he failed to answer any question I asked in any useful form. It turned into a discussion between four contestants and coaches from three continents. We got more out of our hypothetical arguments than the presenter understood.