Heather is a founder and the Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and an assistant clinical professor at Northeastern University in Boston. She recently completed her PhD in EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Science under Professor Martin Odersky, where she was a member of the Scala team.
Talks I've Given
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Forget Compilers, the Toughest Stuff is the Soft Stuff
Featuring Heather Miller
Scala's success isn't owned by Martin Odersky alone. Scala is successful because you embraced it, you built services, experiences, and entire companies with it that have changed how we interact with our world. And along with all of that, you bore an entire ecosystem of open source...
scala scalax compilers libraries ecosystem open-source -
On Pickles and Spores: Improving Scala's Support for Distributed Programming
Featuring Heather Miller
This talk presents a new pickling framework designed for Scala with a few attractive properties: (1) using the framework requires little to no boilerplate, (2) using Scala's implicit parameters, users can add their own easily-swappable pickle format enabling users to persist to a number of...
scala boilerplate parameters json protocol-buffers