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Project Lambda in Java SE 8
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Summary
Daniel Smith discusses Project Lambda including lambda expressions, default methods, and parallel collections to be soon part of Java SE 8.
Bio
Daniel Smith is a Java language designer and compiler developer at Oracle. He currently leads the specification efforts for JSR 335: Lambda Expressions. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University, doing research on type inference in object-oriented languages. He previously worked at LogicBlox, developing a database query language grounded in logic programming.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web. Strange Loop was created in 2009 by software developer Alex Miller and is now run by a team of St. Louis-based friends and developers under Strange Loop LLC, a for-profit but not particularly profitable venture.
Dec 27, 2012