ANN: Lambda Jam - Chicago - July 8-10

[Alex Miller <alex@puredanger.com>]

Lambda Jam (http://lambdajam.com) is a new conference for functional programmers, particularly those working in Clojure, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, F#, etc. The conference format is a mix of traditional sessions (morning) and hands-on workshops and "jams" in the afternoon.

We have three excellent keynotes:

* Gerald Sussman (MIT) - co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and an inventor of Scheme

* Joe Armstrong - an inventor of Erlang and author of Programming Erlang Software for a Concurrent World

* David Nolen (NY Times) - Clojure's core.logic and ClojureScript development

Other session and workshop speakers (http://lambdajam.com/sessions) announced so far include:

* Carin Meier - flying drones with Clojure

* Robby Findler - domain-specific languages with Redex and Racket

* Bartosz Milewski - intro to Haskell

* Dean Wampler - author of Programming Scala and Functional Programming for Java Developers

* Brian Marick - author of Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer

* Sam Ritchie - co-author of Big Data, developer at Twitter

Be part of Lambda Jam!

* CFP open till April 5th - http://lambdajam.com/cfp

* Early registration open now for $350 - http://regonline.com/lambdajam2013

* Sponsorship available - http://lambdajam.com/sponsorship

Hope you can make it!

Alex Miller

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