Ben Darwin on Programming with Algebraic Effects and Handlers

August Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for August across a number of our chapters:

Toronto 8/5: Ben Darwin on Programming with Algebraic Effects and Handlers

Amsterdam 8/13: Resilient Distributed Datasets

Seattle 8/13: Mesos A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center

Bangalore 8/15: Wait Free Synchronization Maurice Herlihy

New York 8/17: Michael Bernstein on Propositions as Types

Saint Louis 8/17: Continuum Robot Arms Inspired by Cephalopods (Walker, et al)

San Francisco 8/20: Bob Poekert on COOLCAT

Montreal 8/26: Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery

Marina del Rey 8/26: Eric Scrivner on Bitcoin: A Peerto-Peer Electronic Cash System

Jason Ganetsky on Making a Fast Curry: Push/Enter vs. Eval/Apply for Higher-order Languages

Devon O'Dell on Nonblocking Algorithms & Scalable Multicore Programming

July Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for July across a number of our chapters:

London 7/8: Martin Kleppmann on “Sequential Consistency versus Linearizability”

Toronto 7/8: Julie Haché on ZeroOverhead Metaprogramming

Addison 7/8: RSA Is Broken! (Not Really)

Seattle 7/9: : Dedalus: Datalog in Time and Space

Saint Louis 7/20: Wavelets for Computer Graphics

Chicago 7/22: SWIM: Scalable Group Membership Protocol

Montreal 7/22: Efficient and General OnStack Replacement for Aggressive Program Specialization

San Francisco 7/23: Ben Sigelman on Spanner: Google’s GloballyDistributed Database

Santa Monica 7/29: Bill Berry on Hints for Computer System Design