LinkedIn Tech Talk Series 6/05/2009 Panel Discussion: Going from SCALA to scale!

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL.

Moderated by Arnold Goldberg – VP, Platform Engineering at LinkedIn.

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages. Odersky designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java. Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. Odersky was programme Chair of ECOOP 2004. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Martin Odersky – Creator of SCALA / Professor at EPFL – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Nick Kallen – Systems Architect at Twitter – Photo by Linda Poeng.

David Pollak – Team lead for the LIFT Web Framework – Photo by Linda Poeng.

Some of the great team over at LinkedIn! – Photo by Linda Poeng.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009, it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

TECHAFFAIR would like to thank Reid Hoffman, Arnold Goldberg, and Mario Sundar for allowing us access to this intriguing tech talk.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D. speaks with Sean Ammirati (CEO of mSpoke) and Walker Fenton (NewsGator).

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

Sean Ammirati embodies extraordinary. From his humble beginnings as a FoxPro programmer for hire in 8th grade (his client would send a car for him) to a resume that reads like a Whos Who of A-list employers, Sean has been driving to make a difference. Once an aspiring programmer, Sean has found his niche as a new technology evangelist. Currently, this manifests itself in his passion for helping publishers to revitalize their online content with mSpokes adaptive personalization solutions.

Walker Fenton began his career in the Internet working for Netcom Online Communications, the first nationwide dial-up Internet Service Provider, and has since been involved with several start-ups including dbDoctor, Inc. and Xaffire, Inc. Walker received a BA in Economics from Colby College and has an MBA from Regis University.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.