Keynotes
Art, Science, and Fear
Wed 8:30-10:00 am - Rose Ballroom A
Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania, USA
F#: Taking Succinct, Efficient, Typed Functional Programming into the Mainstream
Thu 12:15-1:15 pm - Rose Ballroom A
Don Syme, Microsoft Research, UK
Searching Without Objectives
Thu 8:30-10:00 am - Rose Ballroom A
Kenneth Stanley, University of Central Florida, USA
The Case for Evolvable Software
Tue 8:30-10:00 am - Rose Ballroom A
Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, USA
Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day.
