In this latest edition of Expert to Expert (and Going Deep), the great Brian Beckman, astrophysicist and software architect, is joined by
Greg Meredith, a mathematician and computer scientist. It's just bound to be an intellectual jam session!The idea for the format of this…
Part 3 of the Beckman Meijer Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming Hypothesis/Challenge has finally arrived, Niners! You learned about Brian Beckman's perspective on
covariance and contravariance in physics. Erik Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the…
Computer Scientists and MSR Researchers
Wolfram Schulte,
Herman Venter, Nikolai Tillmann, and Manuel Fahndrich join Erik
Meijer for an Expert to Expert deep dive into the theory and implementation strategies inside of
SPUR, a research Tracing…
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie Lamport.
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport’s research…
JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on the web. As the great
Douglas Crockford
likes to say, JavaScript is both the world's most popular programming language and the world's least popular programming language
at the same time.In this episode of Expert to Expert (to Expert),…
Patrick Dussud is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft who is the author of .NET's garbage collector (GC) - the automatic memory management
infrastructure that makes up most of what is managed in managed code execution. How does GC, work, generally? Why is it important? The GC inside of the…
Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and has a rich history in the general purpose programming world. You remember SOAP, right? Don was one of the Gang
of Four who designed SOAP. Don was also instrumental in the design and implementation of WCF. Don is currently building a…
The great
Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow and an international leader in high-performance computer architecture and programming languages for parallel computing joins functional programming purist and language design guru Erik Meijer to discuss several major
themes…
Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's 2010. To start off the new year, how about some Beckman and Meijer? You recently learned about Dr. Beckman's perspective on
covariance and contravariance in physics. Dr. Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses decided…
Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's 2010. To start off the new year right, how about some Beckman and Meijer? You recently learned about Dr. Beckman's perspective on
covariance and contravariance in physics. Dr. Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses…