16 June 2009 : Monads 
In this talk Greg Meredith will look at the monad "design pattern" and how it applies to programming on the web. Programming examples will largely be drawn from functional JVM languages such as Scala.
~Speaker Bio~
Greg Meredith has supported his math habit by working in computing.
Currently he sits at SAP as principal architect. He was the principal
architect of Microsoft's BizTalk's Process Orchestration offering and took on the burden of contributing to the early WSDL spec to keep it from being more of a train wreck than it is. He also worked on Microsoft's super secret BigTop project, working on an OS and Programming Language pair, based on process calculi. Prior to that he was one of the core members of the Carnot Team at the first industrial research consortium, the now defunked MCC.
There he worked with Christine Tomlinson on Rosette/ESS, a fully reflective actor-based programming language with a high performance execution engine.
Note the video for this presentation is available at:
http://www.vimeo.com/5318303
