Lambda Jam schedule posted

[Alex Miller]

Hello!

The full Lambda Jam Chicago (http://lambdajam.com/schedule) schedule is now available! In addition to our keynote speakers (Joe Armstrong, Gerald Sussman, and David Nolen), every morning there will be three session tracks. All this:

Clojure
- The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure - Carin Meier
- Monads and Macros - Chris Houser and Jonathan Claggett
- Functional composition - Chris Ford
- Lisp and Cancer - Ola Bini
- Data, Visibility, and Abstraction - Stuart Sierra

Scala
- Functional Async Without the Pain - Jim Powers
- Journey to the Heart of the For-Yield - Kelsey Innis
- Enabling Microservice Architectures with Scala - Kevin Scaldeferri
- Functional I/O in Scala - Nilanjan Raychaudhuri

Erlang
- Distributed Programming with Riak Core and Pipe - John Daily
- Finite State Machines - Why the fear? - Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
- Addressing Network Congestion in Riak Clusters - Steve Vinoski
- Let it Crash: Erlang Fault Tolerance - Tristan Sloughter
- QuickCheck: A Silver Bullet for testing? - Joseph Wayne Norton

F#
- Functional Mobile Applications in F# - Adam Granicz
- Functional Linear Data Structures in F# - Jack Fox
- Clarity of Intent: Three Features of F# Which Lead to Better Code - Paulmichael Blasucci

Haskell
- Domain Specific Languages and Towers of Abstraction in Haskell - Gershom Bazerman
- Simile-Free Monad Recipes - Aditya Siram

Others
- Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API - Ben Christensen
- Protocols, Functors and Type Classes - Creighton Kirkendall
- Living in a Post-Functional World - Daniel Spiewak
- Copious Data, the "Killer App" for Functional Programming - Dean Wampler
- Semantics, clarity, and notation: the benefits of expressions over statements - Tracy Harms
- Living in Big Data with Vector Functional Programming - Dave Thomas
- Functional Coffeescript for Web UIs - Richard Feldman
- Redex: Program Your Semantics - Robby Findler

If that's not enough, every afternoon we roll up our sleeves with your choice from 5 workshops each day ($50/each) or an open jam.

Monday workshops
- Try F# from Zero to Data Science - Rachel Reese
- The Art of Several Interpreters, Quickly - Dan Friedman, Jason Hemann
- Hands-on Intro to Haskell - Bartosz Milewski
- Top-down TDD in Clojure - Brian Marick
- The Seductions of Scala - Dean Wampler

Tuesday workshops
- F# on the Web - Ryan Riley and Daniel Mohl
- Program Transformations - William Byrd, Nada Amin
- Uses Lenses, Folds and Traversals - Edward Kmett
- Functional Web Development with Clojure - Clinton N. Driesbach
- Building Applications in Erlang - Garrett Smith

Wednesday workshops
- Installed to Productive in Julia - Leah Hanson
- Macros! - Drew Colthorp
- Compilers from Scratch - Daniel Feltey
- Functional Web Applications with Webmachine - Sean Cribbs, Chris Meiklejohn
- Introduction to Summingbird - Sam Ritchie

Registration for Lambda Jam Chicago is now open. Tickets are $400 for regular admission and $50 per workshop. Register now!
http://regonline.com/lambdajam2013

Alex Miller