November 9th — Tail Call Optimization & Memorization Techniques and Concurrency without Pain
Location: Lowry
Building 758
Rm. 138-140
1059 Alton Way
Denver, CO 80230
5:30-6:00:
Food, Soda and Networking.
We are grateful to Tek-Systems for their continued sponsorship of the
Food and Soda!
6:00-7:00:
BASIC CONCEPTS: Tail Call Optimization and Memorization Techniques in Modern JVM Languages
Recursion is a highly expressive technique that’s common in divide and conquer strategy and also in dynamic programming. Modern JVM languages like Clojure, Scala, and Groovy offer techniques to optimize recursion and also to facilitate dynamic programming. In this presentation we’ll take a look at the nature of the problems that can use these techniques, and dive into code examples to use these techniques.
Bio: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is the founder of Agile Developer, Inc. and an adjunct faculty at University of Houston. Venkat helps his clients to adopt agile practices and prudent technologies. He has trained and mentored thousands of developers around the world and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences. Venkat is the author of “.NET Gotchas,” co-author of award winning “Practices of an Agile Developer,” author of “Programming Groovy,” and “Programming Scala.” His latest book is “Programming Concurrency on the JVM柚astering Synchronization, STM, and Actors (Pragmatic Bookshelf)”
7:30-8:45:
MAIN PRESENTATION: Concurrency without Pain in Pure Java
Programming concurrency has turned into a herculean task. I call the traditional approach as the synchronized and suffer model. Fortunately, there are other approaches to concurrency and you can reach out to those directly from your Java code. In this presentation we will discuss the actor based concurrency and also the software transaction memory. We will then develop examples using AKKA and compare the power of these approaches in contrast to the traditional approach.
Bio: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is the founder of Agile Developer, Inc. and an adjunct faculty at University of Houston. Venkat helps his clients to adopt agile practices and prudent technologies. He has trained and mentored thousands of developers around the world and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences. Venkat is the author of “.NET Gotchas,” co-author of award winning “Practices of an Agile Developer,” author of “Programming Groovy,” and “Programming Scala.” His latest book is “Programming Concurrency on the JVM柚astering Synchronization, STM, and Actors (Pragmatic Bookshelf)”
*** AGENDA *** 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts/First Session 7:15 – 7:30 pm Announcements – companies hiring, job seekers 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. Main/Featured Presentation
8:45 p.m. Door prizes
9:15 pm – after meeting networking at The Tavern. Very special thanks to ReadyTalk for their sponsorship of food at The Tavern
*** DIRECTIONS *** Here’s some additional directional help:
Campus Map:
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/LowryDirectory.pdf
Driving Directions:
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/DrivingDirectionsToLowry.pdf
Look for the building with the UNC signage on it as Bldg 758 might be difficult to see.