Joe Armstrong
History of Erlang, right from the horse's mouth.
http://www.meetup.com/ErlangChicago/events/124283112/
You are seeing it right! Joe Armstrong, the Father of Erlang will be here, in Chicago! In July! 2013! This is a fantastic opportunity to hang out with one of Computer Science's luminary thinkers and personalities.
Joe will be speaking on "Sherlock's Last Case" - from a chapter of his recently released 2nd edition of Programming Erlang.
If you're even remotely interest