Lambda the Ultimate

The Strange Loop 2011 conference (St. Louis - Sept 18-20th) will feature a plethora of language-related talks of interest to the LtU community. Here's a sampling:

Keynotes:

• Gerald Sussman (MIT)
• Rich Hickey (Clojure)
• Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
• Allen Wirfs-Brock (Mozilla)

Panels:

• Languages panel - Sussman, Hickey, Meijer, Wirfs-Brock, Pamer, Alexandrescu, moderated by Dean Wampler

Workshops:

• Bryan O'Sullivan (MailRank) - Haskell: Functional Programming, Solid Code, Big Data
• Stuart Sierra (Relevance, Clojure/core) - Introduction to Clojure
• Martin Logan (Orbitz) - Erlang: Language Essentials
• Dianne Marsh - Learn Scala with Scala Koans

Sessions:

• Andrei Alexandrescu (Facebook) - Generic Programming Galore Using D
• Joe Pamer (Microsoft) - The Future of F#: Type Providers
• Bryan O'Sullivan (MailRank) - Running a startup on Haskell
• Jeremy Ashkenas (DocumentCloud) - Coffeescript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"
• Daniel Spiewak (Novell) - Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
• Rúnar Bjarnason (CapitalIQ) - Scalaz: Purely Functional Programming in Scala
• Jim Duey - Monads Made Easy (Clojure)
• Sarah Allen (Blazing Cloud) - Teaching Code Literacy - about Pie, a language for kids
• Brian Ketelsen - Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go
• Brendan Ribera - Mirah for Android Development

Hope you can make it!