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Sam Adams
I first saw Smalltalk-80 on a Tektronix 4404 when I joined Tekronix in 1984.
It changed my life and redirected my professional career.
After a couple of years at Tekronix, I moved to North Carolina and helped found Knowledge Systems Corporation with Reed Phillips.
After about 8 years of helping advance the commercial cause of Smalltalk via tools development, education and consulting, I left KSC to join Tom Love, then a VP at IBM, to found the Object Technology Practice. This group flourished for a couple of years at the height of Smalltalk's first wave of commerical popularity. After a few more years working in various parts of IBM, I have returned to IBM Research to focus on what I call "semantic processing".
And of course, I am using Squeak for my work.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Squeak Central and the community for returning Smalltalk to its wonderful roots as a truly personal computing environment for the future!