William Byrd on The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written

Andrew Turley on The Relationship Between COBOL and Computer Science

May Meetups

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

Chattanooga 5/2: Neil Menne on Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes

Vienna 5/3: Paxos Made Simple by Leslie Lamport

Seattle 5/4: PWL #31: Projectional Editors and Parsing with Derivatives

San Diego 5/4: Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem

Jall ed Dîb 5/8: Papers We Love meet up

Columbus 5/10: Papers We Love Book Club: The Manager's Path

Gothenburg 5/11: Alejandro Russo on "Two Can Keep a Secret, If One of Them Uses Haskell"

Bangalore 5/13: Scalable Component Abstractions with Manohar

Olivette 5/15: µKanren, A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming

Durham 5/16: Database Metatheory Asking the Big Queries

London 5/18: Renzo Borgatti on "Early Lisp History (1956 - 1959)" by Herbert Stoyan

Columbus 5/24: Papers We Love Book Club: The Manager's Path

Arlington 5/24: A Local Perspective on Community Structure in Multilayer Networks

New York 5/24: Daniel Doubrovkine on "Auctions and Bidding" & PWLMini w/ Sophia Gold

Montréal 5/25: Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems

94107 5/25: Ben Sigelman on Pivot Tracing

Jall ed Dîb 5/29: Papers We Love meet up

Amsterdam 5/30: Design patterns for container-based distributed systems

Portland 5/31: Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database

Seattle 5/31: PWL #32: The Styx Architecture for Distributed Systems

Kiran Bhattaram on Failure Detectors

April Meetups

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

Chattanooga 4/4: Chris Keathley on Finding Race Conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE

Seattle 4/6: : LKRhash

San Diego 4/6: Monoids: Theme and Variations (Functional Pearl)

Bucharest 4/7: April Meetup

Durham 4/11: No Silver Bullet

Columbus 4/12: Book Club: Grokking Algorithms

New York 4/12: William Byrd on "The most beautiful program ever written" & Mini w/ A. Turley

Olivette 4/17: Papers We Hate

Columbus 4/26: Book Club: Grokking Algorithms

Amsterdam 4/26: Classic Nintendo Games are (Computationally) Hard

Santa Monica 4/26: Jim Benvenuto Why Are Organisms Different from Machines

Göteborg 4/27: Suvash on "Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process"

Madrid 4/27: The Historical Development of Algebraic Geometry

Montréal 4/27: Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Practice

94107 4/27: Yifan Wu on Reactive Vega