Shen & Quorum

Posted: May 1, 2013 by marioeaquino in Uncategorized
This month, we will have a double-bill with Deech Siram giving talk on the Shen programming language (a functional language that runs on many environments) and Dr. Andy Stefik talking about the Quorum programming language (an object oriented language designed by empirical study with actual humans).
The pizza sponsor is OCI (
http://www.ociweb.com
).
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the first talk should start around 6:30.  You can find a map to the office building where the meetings will happen here: 
http://lambdalounge.org/meetings/
Bring a friend or food item for donation to a local food pantry.

2013 Language Shootout

Posted: April 14, 2013 by marioeaquino in Uncategorized

On June 6, we will hold the second Lambda Lounge Language Shootout. On the night of the meeting, participants will be given roughly 10 minutes to present any novel findings discovered in their solution to one of 4 possible programming challenges. Implementations can be in any language or tech stack.

The Challenges

The four challenges are:

Sharing your work

Participants are encouraged to pick one of the challenge problems, fork the git repo for this event and add their implementation, then send a pull request to get their work added to this repository. Participants should add their work under a directory with their proper name (using underscores as separators instead of spaces) or their github account identity.

Sponsor

The food (and gifts) sponsor for this meeting is Rackspace.

Stats Primer

Posted: April 2, 2013 by marioeaquino in Uncategorized
The double bill for the first Thursday of the month meeting includes a group discussion on two papers: Socio-PLT: Principles for Programming Language Adoption and Social Influences on Language Adoption, as well as a Statistics Primer given by Professor Andreas Stefik.  The night will actually be more like “The Andreas Show” because Dr. Stefik has graciously agreed to lead the discussion on the papers as well as give the stats talk.  The paper discussion needs to be a group activity, so if you can make it to the meeting please take time  to read both papers and come with an opinion.  The group discussion could easily go all night, but will be capped at 45 minutes.  The same for the stats talk.  If you are interested in machine learning and big data, statistics is a related topic and would be beneficial understand (as Tom Wheeler pointed out at the last Lambda Lounge).
Our pizza sponsor this month is Asynchrony: 
http://www.asynchrony.com
.

Data Science

Posted: March 6, 2013 by marioeaquino in Uncategorized

Yo.  Data Science.  What is it all about? Techmology.  What is that all about?  Is it good or is it whack? Tom Wheeler will attempt to answer that very question with his talk titled: “What is Data Science?”.  Tom works at Cloudera, a company that ought to know a lot about data science.  Please come to listen to Tom and find out.

Additionally, there will be a group discussion with the theme of: Pivotal moments in your programming lives.  Lambda Loungers will have a chance to share turning points in their careers and the important concepts of design, computing, theory, architecture, testing, etc. that were particularly impactful and how it changed their thinking.

Doors open at 6 p.m.  Pizza is sponsored by Cloudera.

The meetings are held at:

680 Craig Road, 1st floor meeting room
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

There’s a map to the building here.

Five-O

Posted: February 7, 2013 by marioeaquino in Uncategorized

The February meeting (Thursday, 2/7/13) is the 50th Lambda Lounge, and has two talks that shouldn’t be missed.  First up, Jessica Kerr will be giving a talk called “Decompiling Your Brain”, in which she literally decompiles a human brain in front of a live audience (still looking for volunteers).  The second talk will be from Tim Skinner on Haskell’s Foreign Function Interface.  If you ever find yourself needing to reach out from Haskell’s warm, protective embrace into the world where the compiler’s type-safety checks aren’t looking out for you, you won’t want to miss this talk.

Doors open at 6 p.m.  Pizza is sponsored by Object Computing, Inc.

The meetings are held at:

680 Craig Road, 1st floor meeting room
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

There’s a map to the building here.

Day of the Dead

Posted: October 29, 2012 by Alex Miller in Uncategorized

This Thursday is Nov. 1st, Day of the Dead, and also time for the next Lambda Lounge meeting.

The first talk will be Alex Miller talking about Rich Hickey’s new Codeq project, which pulls Git repos into Datomic, and extends resolution down to the code level unit (a “codeq”), to allow you to query within and across code repos in terms of your actual programs.

The second talk will be Bill Burdick who talked several months ago about programming with lambda calculus. Bill is returning to talk about continuing progress on his (lazy, functional, untyped) Leisure language and environment, which he previewed last time.

This month’s pizza sponsor is Softtek Integration Systems.

October meeting – logic and Mithril

Posted: October 1, 2012 by Alex Miller in Uncategorized

We’ve got two great talks set up for the October meeting this week.

Jim Duey is going to be talking about his work parallelizing core.logic (the system David Nolen built from Byrd/Friedman’s miniKanren). If you’re interested in learning about how core.logic was built, check out this video from David’s overview at Strange Loop:

Also, Richard Feldman is going to be talking about a language called Mithril that he’s been working on, a so-called “Greatest Hits of Dynamic Programming” language.

Our pizza sponsor is Strategic Staffing Solutions.