Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
October 28 - 30, 2016
Functional Java, Part 2
Friday - Oct 28 3:15 PM PDT - SALON 1
Functional features in Java, including parallel streams, the java.util.function package, the Optional data type, and reduction operations.
The talk also covers the new date and time package based on Joda time, as well as collectors and implementing the Collector interface.
Kenneth Kousen
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.