Jon Harrop
Dr Jon Harrop BA MA MSci PhD (Cantab) managing director and cofounder, worked as a graphic design artist and computer programmer in industry from 1992 before earning four degrees in the physical sciences from the University of Cambridge. Jon is the primary author of The F#.NET Journal articles (2007-2010) and books such as OCaml for Scientists (2005), F# for Scientists (2007), Visual F# 2010 for Technical Computing (2009) and the forthcoming Multicore .NET as well as a coauthor of New Intelligent Printing Techniques (1995), Smart Cards in Transport (1997), The Future of Chipless Smart Labels (2002) and dozens of other books.
Talks I've Given
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Using F# to change the way we work
Featuring Jon Harrop
The real power of F# in industry stems from its ability to solve problems that could not be solved before. In this lecture I shall walk through the design and implementation of a bespoke business rules engine that went into production earlier this year at one of the world's largest insurance...
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QR Decomposition
Featuring Jon Harrop
This lecture takes the audience from a tiny numerically-robust implementation of a common linear algebra algorithm through several stages of optimization, culminating in a high-performance solution that easily outperforms Intel’s Math Kernel Library.
f# qr-decomposition algorithm latency