Talks at GOTO Chicago 2018
Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed
Joe Armstrong
Wednesday Apr 25 @ 8:45 AM
The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling
Joe Armstrong
Wednesday Apr 25 @ 3:15 PM
Refactoring Patronage: Building a Sustainable Future for Impactful Open Source Projects
Sam Aaron
Jamie Dobson
Joe Armstrong
Wednesday Apr 25 @ 4:15 PM
Joe Armstrong is the principal inventor of the Erlang programming Language and coined the term "Concurrency Oriented Programming". He has worked for Ericsson where he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP system. In 1998 he left Ericsson to form Bluetail, a company which developed all its products in Erlang. In 2003 he obtained his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The title of his thesis was "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors." Today he is semi-retired but works part time as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.