Palo Alto: Lightning Talks

On this "first Wednesday," we're back in Palo Alto for an evening of lightning talks. Would you like to present a 5-to-10-minute talk about something you've done? Contact the organizers!

So far, we have three talks lined up:

• "Eureka Hypergraphic Format of Symbolic Data" (Chris D'Urso) — A hypergraph ℋ (𝒱,ℰ) is used to represent sequences of tokens and unique lexically interlinked sequences of symbols composing these tokens. Natural languages and many other forms of persistent data can then be subject to general direct access, quick joins and statistically aided retrieval via local back-transformation.

• "The OO Antipattern" (Arthur O'Dwyer) — Starting with the DominoTilingCounter class written by a beginning programmer, we iteratively refactor it to fix issues with efficiency and thread-safety. The end result is a stateless free function.

• "Modernizing Effective C++" (Jon Kalb) — Scott Meyers' Effective C++ series is filled with valuable information, but it was written for Classic C++ and needs to be updated, sometimes in surprising ways for Modern C++. Jon will present some of his updates to Scott's guidelines.