Presentations

• Posted by Molham Aref  on  Mar 08, 2014
  Wavefront — Declarative Programming for the Cloud

  Molham Aref introduces LogicBox, a database that unites declarative programming (logic-based specifications) with cloud deployment over large datasets using the Datalog programming language.

  Molham Aref

  on  Mar 08, 2014

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• Posted by Philipp Haller  on  Mar 02, 2014
  The Next 700 Asynchronous Programming Models

  Philipp Haller explains how to make Rx programming more natural and intuitive by generalizing Scala's Async which, so far, has been used to program with non-blocking futures in a familiar direct style

  Philipp Haller

  on  Mar 02, 2014

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• Posted by Gilad Bracha  on  Mar 02, 2014
  Onward! — Does Thought Crime Pay?

  Gilad Bracha ponders how Lisp, Simula, Actors, Beta, Smalltalk and Self give us C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python and PHP, speculating what new wonders await programmers down the road.

  Gilad Bracha

  on  Mar 02, 2014

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• Posted by Keith Adams  on  Feb 26, 2014
  PHP, Seriously!

  Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.

  Keith Adams

  on  Feb 26, 2014

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• Posted by David Ungar  on  Feb 02, 2014
  Dancing with Symmetry to Harness the Power of Complexity: Subjective Programming in Context

  The authors introduce a new language paradigm meant to enhance OOP with multi-dimensional context, providing details on context-based dispatch, and showing a glimpse of their early prototype.

  David Ungar Harold Ossher

  on  Feb 02, 2014

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• Posted by Gilad Bracha  on  Feb 02, 2014
  Civilizing Web Programming with Dart

  Gilad Bracha presents the motivation behind building Dart, the current state of the Dart platform and where it is heading to.

  Gilad Bracha

  on  Feb 02, 2014

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• Posted by Kathryn S. McKinley  on  Jan 12, 2014
  The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?

  Kathryn S. McKinley discusses research approaches and results that abstract, choose, and exploit hardware heterogeneity providing computational power at low energy consumption levels.

  Kathryn S. McKinley

  on  Jan 12, 2014

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• Posted by Daniel Cukier  on  Dec 29, 2013
  DevOps Patterns to Scale Web Applications using Cloud Services

  Daniel Cukier shares insight in using cloud services to scale web applications, dealing with load balancing, session sharing, email, asynchronous processing, logging, monitoring, CD, RUM, etc.

  Daniel Cukier

  on  Dec 29, 2013

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• Posted by Luke Hoban  on  Dec 22, 2013
  TypeScript: a Type System for Toolability

  Luke Hoban introduces TypeScript and its implications for writing web applications and creating supporting tooling.

  Luke Hoban

  on  Dec 22, 2013

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• Posted by Indrajit Roy  on  Dec 15, 2013
  R for Big Data

  Indrajit Roy presents HP Labs’ attempts at scaling R to efficiently perform distributed machine learning and graph processing on industrial-scale data sets.

  Indrajit Roy

  on  Dec 15, 2013

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