[PRL] Fwd: invites for Google party

Wed Sep 15 15:32:08 EDT 2010

Short notice, but sounds fun...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rebecca Frankel <rfrankel at alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Subject: Fwd: invites for Google party
To: Aaron Turon <turon at ccs.neu.edu>

Gremio, a friend of mine from CSAIL, asked me to spread the word about
this Google party to PL people in the area.

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The CAM SLAM!
Enjoy an evening of mingling, food,
and talks in the Cambridge office to welcome the new school year.

Google -- A Place to be You

You're invited to the Google CAM SLAM
When: 6-8:30pm, Wed 15th September 2010
Where: L3, 5 Cambridge Center, Main St
What: Cambridge Showcase + GO Tech Talk
Who: Harvard and MIT affiliates

Click here to RSVP
https://spreadsheets9.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHZxbjR2NGFHUkF4ZksxaUhjVngyVUE6MA#gid=0

The Google Cambridge Showcase by Steve Vinter (Engineering Site Director)

Learn the story behind Google's Boston-area office, which opened in
2007 with a staff of 50, and now employs more than 340 workers.  Based
in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Google Boston is committed to hiring
graduates of local colleges and universities.

Steve Vinter holds a PhD in computer science.  His more than 20 years
of industry experience include tenures at such Boston-area Internet
companies as BBN, Software.com, and Openware Systems.  For the past 10
years, he has focused on building products and services for millions
of consumers who use mobile and cloud computing.  He is also on the
organizing committee of the state's IT Collaborative, which is tasked
with strengthening the economic development of hte computer and
related industries in Massachusetts.  He is an officer of the Kendall
Square Association and a member of the Governor's Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math (STEM) Advisory Council.

The Go Programming Language by Russ Cox (Senior Software Engineer)

Bio:  Russ Cox is a software engineer working on the Go team.  Before
working on Go, he led the creation of Code Search, Google's only
regular expression-based search engine.  He completed his A.B. and
S.M. degrees in computer science at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT.

Title: Another Go at Language Design

Abstract:

A while back, it seemed that type-driven object-oriented languages
such as C++ and Java had taken over.  They still dominate education.
Yet the last few years have seen a number of different language reach
prominence, often of very different styles: Python, Ruby, Scala,
Erlang, Haskell, Lua, and many more.  Surely there are enough
languages.  Yet new ones keep appearing.  Why?  And why now?  In this
talk I will suggest some possible reasons and why they led us to
define yet another language, Go.