Brian Beckman
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39 minutes, 56 secondsC9 Conversations: Brian Beckman on ComplexityIn this second installment of C9 Conversations, a format where we sit down with various big thinkers to discuss a wide range of big topics related to computing; all in high quality video and audio, the topic is Complexity (ambient complexity, to be precise - it's hard to program systems that are… -
44 minutes, 31 secondsC9 Lectures: Dr. Brian Beckman - Covariance and Contravariance in Physics 1 of 1By now, you know Brian Beckman given how many times he's been featured on Channel 9 and, well, just how amazing he is. Brian is an astrophysicist and software architect currently working on a technology we can't talk about...yet... Stay tuned for that. Dr. Beckman is the perfect… -
53 minutes, 56 secondsExpert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside ClojureClojure is a dynamic programming language created by Rich Hickey that targets both the Java Virtual Machine and the CLR. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust… -
1 hour, 13 minutes, 3 secondsExpert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx)Erik Meijer and team (developer Wes Dyer, in particular) have created a profound and beautiful .NET library that will take managed event based programming to new levels. Of course, many of you wish that you could write LINQ expressions over events. Well, now you can thanks to Erik's and Wes… -
17 minutes, 21 secondsBrian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the UniverseBrian Beckman, software architect and astrophysicist, discusses his General Theory of Channel 9, what Channel 9 means to him personally, his love for the Niner nation, the power of humanized corporate communication and life in the universe. Happy Birthday,… -
24 minutes, 43 secondsBrian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State - The State Monad - Part 2Concurrency is a problem that faces all developers as we move to the age of ManyCore processor architectures. Managing state is an important aspect of programming generally and for parallel programming especially. The great Brian Beckman demonstrates three ways of labeling a binary tree with… -
42 minutes, 14 secondsBrian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State - The State Monad - Part 1Concurrency is a problem that faces all developers as we move to the age of ManyCore processor architectures. Managing state is an important aspect of programming generally and for parallel programming especially. The great Brian Beckman demonstrates three ways of labeling a binary tree with… -
1 hour, 3 minutes, 41 secondsExpert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Sam Druker - Deep Entity FrameworkYou've seen a few conversations on Channel 9 about Microsoft's Entity Framework. Well, it's time for another one, but with a new twist...Brian Beckman recently had a deep technical chat with Sam Druker about the Entity Framework data model and related technologies. Sam is GM of… -
1 hour, 7 minutes, 9 secondsBrian Beckman: Don't fear the MonadFunctional programming is increasing in popularity these days given the inherent problems with shared mutable state that is rife in the imperative world. As we march on to a world of multi and many-core chipsets, software engineering must evolve to better equip software engineers with the tools to… -
1 hour, 9 minutes, 47 secondsBrian Beckman: A Brief History of ComputingI recently got the chance to sit down with Brian Beckman, physicist, programmer and Channel 9 celebrity, to learn about the history of computing. As you know, Brian is a great teacher. This lesson focuses on the evolution of computing devices and delves into some of the not-so-obvious uses of…
