Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!
Damian Conway
Keynote on Closing Keynote - Friday, 26 November 2010 16:00 - 17:00 in room Room 2
TAGS: Social
Self-deception; getting old vs not getting old; demons, angels, and wizards; Wittgenstein's dark secret; Larry Wall's darker secret; the diminishing returns of physical computation; Roman philosophy; when Super Science Adventures go wrong; the greatest Lego kit of all time; the Sith professor; carbon logic; the giant of 1930's physics; elementary spin-half quanta under relativistic motion; CAT scans; bongos; drunken bets involving penguins; algorithmic consistency; the problem of free will; the invention of stage diving; intrinsic self-inconsistency; the many worlds outside Copenhagen; God's dice.
What happens when Dirac meets Deutsch meets Damian?
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world!
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Damian Conway
Thoughtstream
Damian Conway holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
A widely sought-after speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known software modules including: Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming in Latin). All of this software is available free from your local CPAN mirror.
A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl Journal", and author of the books "Object Oriented Perl" and "Perl Best Practices". In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.
Currently he runs an international IT training company – Thoughtstream – which provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia.
He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.
Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language and producing explanatory documents exploring Larry's design decisions.
Other technical and academic areas in which he has published internationally include programming language design, programmer education, object orientation, software engineering, natural language generation, synthetic language generation, emergent systems, declarative programming, image morphing, human-computer interaction, geometric modelling, the psychophysics of perception, nanoscale simulation, and parsing.