Quo Vadis?

Andrei Alexandrescu
May 3rd @ 3:30 PM

Duration: 90 minutes
Talk type: Presentation
Level: All
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Abstract:  In this closing note, Andrei discusses hot topics in D's development and the language's present and future.

Benefits: Get inspiration to keep you for one year until DConf 2014.

Speaker Bio: Andrei Alexandrescu coined the colloquial term "modern C++" (adapted from his award-winning book Modern C++ Design), used today to describe a collection of important C++ styles and idioms. He is also the coauthor (with Herb Sutter) of C++ Coding Standards and the author of The D Programming Language book. With Walter Bright, Andrei co-designed many important features of D and authored a large part of D's standard library. His research on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing completes a broad spectrum of expertise. Andrei holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University "Politehnica" Bucharest. He works as a Research Scientist for Facebook.