{"podcast":{"title":"ACM ByteCast","slug":"acm-bytecast-547158","podcast_index_feed_id":547158,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/acmbytecast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://acmbytecast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8265873/acm_bytecast_cover_art_2048px.jpg","author":"Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)","episode_count":85,"summary":"ACM ByteCast is a podcast series from ACM’s Practitioners Board in which hosts Rashmi Mohan and Jessica Bell interview researchers, practitioners, and innovators who are at the intersection of computing research and practice. In each episode, guests will share their experiences, the lessons they’ve learned, and their own visions for the future of computing.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/acm-bytecast-547158"},"episode":{"title":"Eric Allman - Episode 85","slug":"eric-allman-episode-85","published_at":"2026-05-14T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/acm-bytecast-547158/eric-allman-episode-85","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/acm-bytecast-547158","url":"https://acmbytecast.podbean.com/e/eric-allman-episode-85/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/gmmduxhuqwzn3hkv/ACM_Bytecast_-_Eric_Allman_-_Mix6d9am.mp3","summary":"In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Eric Allman, a foundational figure of the early Internet as the developer of Sendmail and its precursor Delivermail (for the original ARPANET) in the late 1970s at UC Berkeley. Sendmail is the mail transfer agent that powered a large portion of global email infrastructure through the formative years of the network and helped shape how messages move across the web. Allman is also an ACM Distinguished Engineer and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014.The conversation explores the origins of Internet email, the messy realities of building software that must operate at planetary scale, and what lessons today’s engineers can learn from the systems and design decisions that quietly underpin modern computing. Eric shares his work at UC Berkeley spanning a variety of domains, from user interfaces to neural networks. He and Scott touch on current AI capabilities, including their personal experiments in assistive coding with current models such as Claude, and discuss into the programming languages Python, C#, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Eric also shares candid thoughts on letting go of computing after retirement.","meta_description":"In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Eric Allman, a foundational fig…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1669,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/acm-bytecast-547158/episodes/eric-allman-episode-85/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/acm-bytecast-547158/eric-allman-episode-85.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}