Stuart Sierra
ÜberConf
Denver · July 12 - 15, 2011
Clojure/core
Stuart Sierra is an actor/writer/coder who lives in New York City. He is a member of the Clojure/core team at Relevance, Inc. Stuart is the co-author of Practical Clojure (Apress, 2010). He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a B.F.A. in Theatre from New York University.
Presentations
Clojure: Lisp for the Real World
Clojure is a new dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Clojure introduces innovative ideas around state management and concurrency, while inheriting the best ideas from the long history of Lisp-like languages. It is a language designed to solve real problems, some of which are so pervasive in current programming practice that we don't even recognize them as problems.
Rethinking Object-Oriented: Clojure and the Expression Problem
What is the Expression Problem? The question is far from academic: any programmer working in mainstream object-oriented languages is bound encounter it. As a young language on the JVM, Clojure has the opportunity to step back from mainstream approaches to object-oriented design, and get back to core concepts like type and polymorphism. Clojure, while not an object-oriented language itself, offers features that can achieve the same goals as OOP with greater flexibility.
Search Engine on a Shoestring: Clojure, Hadoop, Solr, and EC2
In 2006, Columbia law professor Tim Wu asked the question, “Why isn't legal research as easy as searching the web?” Out of that question came AltLaw, a free, open-source search engine for federal court decisions. With a nonexistent budget and only one full-time programmer, AltLaw built a search engine for over 700,000 documents by leveraging a powerful new programming language, Clojure, in conjunction with Hadoop for data processing, Solr/Lucene for search, and Amazon Web Services for infrastructure.