Speaker: Matt Follett
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday, October 19th
Where:
2414 Menard Street
Soulard, MO 63104
Abstract:
Thanks to machine learning and robotics we have amazing new technology these days, from automated vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers to bomb disposal units and war-zone safety and surveillance systems. However, this field comes with a wide array of problem spaces. From having your robot know where it is to having it navigate an area each ability has problems layered on top of each other. This talk will cover some of the problems, solutions, and history in sensing, locomotion, navigation, and overarching control systems.
Sadly, all the really cool robots are still too expensive to entrust me with, so we'll have to make do with videos.
About Matt Follett:
Matt Follett is a local software engineer who has developed a wide range of technologies over the last few years, from C++ custom network protocols to web analytics systems. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla (now Mo S&T), where he dual majored in Computer Science & Computer Engineering. He has worked for Monsanto, Boeing, Beck Automation, and Washington University as a software engineer. He is currently moving towards completing his Masters in Computer Science from Washington University while working for a local startup hoping to help make healthcare more understandable.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
February Meeting: Perl 6
Speaker: Matt Follett
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 2/16/11
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Foo Sponsor: Announce Media
Perl6 has been a long time coming with the original design dating back to 2000. With releases of great Perl 6 partial implementations such as Rakudo and Niecza rolling along Perl 6 is becoming a more exciting technology every day. This talk will cover some of the features and advancements that Perl 6 provides today and try and provide some knowledge on how it can be useful today.
Matt Follett is a local developer who has developed a wide range of technologies over the last few years, from C++ custom network protocols to web analytics. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla, where he majored in Computer Science & Computer Engineering. He has worked for Monsanto, Boeing, Beck Automation, and Washington University as a software engineer.
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 2/16/11
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Foo Sponsor: Announce Media
Abstract:
Perl6 has been a long time coming with the original design dating back to 2000. With releases of great Perl 6 partial implementations such as Rakudo and Niecza rolling along Perl 6 is becoming a more exciting technology every day. This talk will cover some of the features and advancements that Perl 6 provides today and try and provide some knowledge on how it can be useful today.
About Matt Follett:
Matt Follett is a local developer who has developed a wide range of technologies over the last few years, from C++ custom network protocols to web analytics. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla, where he majored in Computer Science & Computer Engineering. He has worked for Monsanto, Boeing, Beck Automation, and Washington University as a software engineer.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Winter White Lightning Talks!
Speaker: You!
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 1/19/11
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Sponsor: TBD
Action: Signup for a lightning talk and put your topic idea or ideas in the comment when you signup!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/january83
Password: mongers
Lightning Talks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk) are typically between 5-10 minutes. The amount of time you will have will be determined by the number folks interested in giving talks. I'm pretty sure we have a gong too. Also talks do NOT have to be perl related. I'd love to see a good variety of topics! Fun is good too. :)
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 1/19/11
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Sponsor: TBD
Action: Signup for a lightning talk and put your topic idea or ideas in the comment when you signup!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/january83
Password: mongers
Abstract:
Lightning Talks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk) are typically between 5-10 minutes. The amount of time you will have will be determined by the number folks interested in giving talks. I'm pretty sure we have a gong too. Also talks do NOT have to be perl related. I'd love to see a good variety of topics! Fun is good too. :)
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Memory Manglement
Speaker: Steven Lembark
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 11/17/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Sponsor: Net Effects
Most users don't ever realize just how much of a memory hog Perl is. Being Perl, however, the language makes it easy to find out using Devel::Peek and Devel::Size. This talk uses both to peer into scalars, arrays, and hashes and shows some ways to reduce the overhead when dealing with long-lived or high-volume applications.
Viewers should walk away with enough understanding of the modules to track memory use in their own code.
Steven has been hacking in Perl for fun and profit since the early 90's. Much of his work has been in high-volume ETL for Finance and Bioinformatics and web back ends. His current projects are hacking DP for a web back end and aligning short sections of HIV-1 genetics using the W-curve for vaccine analysis.
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 11/17/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Sponsor: Net Effects
Abstract:
Most users don't ever realize just how much of a memory hog Perl is. Being Perl, however, the language makes it easy to find out using Devel::Peek and Devel::Size. This talk uses both to peer into scalars, arrays, and hashes and shows some ways to reduce the overhead when dealing with long-lived or high-volume applications.
Viewers should walk away with enough understanding of the modules to track memory use in their own code.
About Steven Lembark:
Steven has been hacking in Perl for fun and profit since the early 90's. Much of his work has been in high-volume ETL for Finance and Bioinformatics and web back ends. His current projects are hacking DP for a web back end and aligning short sections of HIV-1 genetics using the W-curve for vaccine analysis.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Regular Expressions
Speaker: Steven Pritchard
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 10/20/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
This meeting is being sponsored by Announce Media
Regular expressions are one of the things that make Unix utilities (grep, sed, vi, etc.) and Perl so awesome.
In this talk, we'll go over the various flavors of regular expression syntax, look at how to use regular expressions effectively, and look ahead to the cool additions to regular expressions available in Perl 6.
Steven Pritchard is a Linux guy and a hardware geek who has spent the last several years doing consulting and training, in addition to fixing all manner of random stuff at the Computer Room (http://www.computerroom.us/) in Shiloh, IL.
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 10/20/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
This meeting is being sponsored by Announce Media
Abstract:
Regular expressions are one of the things that make Unix utilities (grep, sed, vi, etc.) and Perl so awesome.
In this talk, we'll go over the various flavors of regular expression syntax, look at how to use regular expressions effectively, and look ahead to the cool additions to regular expressions available in Perl 6.
About Steven Pritchard:
Steven Pritchard is a Linux guy and a hardware geek who has spent the last several years doing consulting and training, in addition to fixing all manner of random stuff at the Computer Room (http://www.computerroom.us/) in Shiloh, IL.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Introducing The Monads
Speaker: Aditya "Deech" Siram
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 09/15/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
This meeting is being sonsored by COMSYS.
Haskell monads do everything from mundane list processing and IO to complex functionality like fine-grained concurrent state management and parsing grammers. And because they are all monads, they have a consistent syntax making them very simple and elegant to use.
This talk will give a tourof these and other noteworthy citizens of this wonderful landscape. There will be plenty of practical code examples and no knowledge of Haskell is required.
Aditya "Deech" Siram is a Java developer with the Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University. He's into functional programming languages, especially Haskell, and looks forward to the day he gets paid to use it.
When: 6:30 PM Wednesday 09/15/10
Where:
Announce Media
6665 Delmar Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
This meeting is being sonsored by COMSYS.
Abstract:
Haskell monads do everything from mundane list processing and IO to complex functionality like fine-grained concurrent state management and parsing grammers. And because they are all monads, they have a consistent syntax making them very simple and elegant to use.
This talk will give a tourof these and other noteworthy citizens of this wonderful landscape. There will be plenty of practical code examples and no knowledge of Haskell is required.
About Aditya "Deech" Siram:
Aditya "Deech" Siram is a Java developer with the Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University. He's into functional programming languages, especially Haskell, and looks forward to the day he gets paid to use it.
Friday, August 20, 2010
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