Fireside chat: Martin Odersky & Simon Peyton Jones
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Fireside chat with Martin Odersky and Simon Peyton Jones hosted by Miles Sabin & Zainab Ali covering topics that matter across the two special communities. Includes Q&A for your burning questions too!
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Fireside chat: Martin Odersky & Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. Simon was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.
Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java. He created the Pizza and GJ languages, designed the original version of generics for Java, and wrote the javac reference compiler.