This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Simon Peyton Jones wants children not just to consume technology, but to be creative with it. What does that mean for teaching computer science in schools, and why is…

Keynote talk by Simon Peyton Jones and Tim Sweeney from Epic Games.

Verse is a new programming language, being designed at Epic Games as the language of the metaverse. Verse is a functional logic language, with a bunch of innovative ideas. Like Haskell,…

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

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In the late 1960s, Bell Laboratories computer scientists Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started work on a project that was inspired by an operating…

📖 A story of a villain, **Fang Yuan**, who was **reborn 500 years into the past** with the **Spring Autumn Cicada** he painstakingly refined. With his **profound

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google.…

#LambdaConf2025 took place in Estes Park Colorado this past May 12th and 13th.

UPCOMING EVENT:
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🌱 A minimal programming language and compiler.