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<h2>Nov 14 - 16, 2013</h2>
<h5>Alexandria, VA (Washington, DC)</h5>
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Reserve your hotel at the
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$189/night - includes parking, Wi-Fi, breakfast and daily happy hour.
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This year's conj will be held at
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Nearest airport to the conference hotel, 15 minutes via the Metro
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1.5 hours via the Metro
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2 hours via the Metro
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<h4>Aria Haghighi</h4>
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<h4 class='subtitle text-center'>To be announced at a later date</h4>
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<strong><a href="http://webyrd.net/scheme-2013/">Scheme Workshop</a></strong>
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We’re pleased to announce that the Scheme & Functional Programming Workshop will be co-located with Clojure/conj this year.
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<li>Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9-5pm at the Embassy Suites Alexandria - Old Town.</li>
<li><a href="http://scheme-2013.eventbrite.com">Registration Details</a></li>
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Andy is a postdoc at the University of Utah, currently working on malware
detection in Android Apps, using both Scala and miniKanren to write abstract
analyzers in Matt Might's lab. Andy completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University,
defending his dissertation, "A Nanopass Framework for Commercial Compiler
Development", in December 2012 and will be presenting a paper related to this
work at this year's International Conference on Functional Programming. This
project focused on replacing Chez Scheme's compiler with a nanopass compiler,
along with his adviser R. Kent Dybvig. Before returning to graduate school in
2007, Andy worked in industry as a web developer, first for the consulting
firms Razorfish and Gotham Broadband, along with some independent consulting
work for Viacom, and later worked full time at Teach For America, maintaining
both front-end and back-end web applications.
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Antonio is a software engineer with a background in object-oriented,
functional and array-based programming. He's deeply familiar with the
challenges of building a cloud-based, enterprise data platform (he
currently works at Appian Corporation, in the DC area, doing exactly
that). In his free time, he's been figuring out how to solve some of
those challenges using Clojure & Datomic.
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Aria Haghighi is the co-founder and CTO of Prismatic, the web and
mobile news service growing fast thanks to rich relevance and beautiful
design. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
California, Berkeley, specializing in Statistical Natural Language
Processing and Machine Learning. During his graduate studies, he
published over 20 papers in top conferences, was a Microsoft Research
Fellow, and won multiple awards for his research and teaching. He also
holds a BS in Mathematics with distinction from Stanford University.
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Carin started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics
in college, and has been developing software for both the enterprise
and entrepreneur ever since. She has a thing for Clojure and can be
usually found with a cup of tea in her hand, hacking on her Roomba
and AR Parrot Drone.
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She hails from Cincinnati, where she also helps organize the Cincinnati
Functional Programmers and Clojure Code and Coffee user groups.
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Chris Houser
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Chouser is a co-author of Joy of Clojure and has been a Clojure
contributor since 2008. He currently uses Clojure full time at
LonoCloud (ViaSat), where he uses macros more often than refs.
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David Pollak
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/dpp">@dpp</a></h3>
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<h5>About David</h5>
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David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us along
with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web
Framework and continuously contributes to Lift.
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David wrote Beginning Scala and ran the first Scala-focused conferences.
In the past David wrote software for NextStep (which has morphed into iOS)
including Mesa, the world's first real-time spreadsheet. You can find David
on Twitter @dpp and IRL finding good Pho restaurants or walking Archer his
dog along with his kids in San Francisco.
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Doug Selph
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/dougselph">@dougselph</a></h3>
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Doug Selph has more than twenty years of experience in software development
across a variety of industries. For the last twelve years he has been designing
and implementing solutions supporting the work of genetic research and clinical
care as part of the Computational Genomics Core at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center in Nashville, TN.
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Michael Fogus
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/fogus">@fogus</a></h3>
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Michael Fogus is software architect working in the DC area at Dynamic Animation
Systems with experience in distributed simulation, machine vision, and expert
system construction. He’s a contributor to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming
languages and the Underscore-contrib library, co-author of “The Joy of Clojure”
and author of "Functional JavaScript".
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Jennifer Smith
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<h5>About Jennifer</h5>
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Jen is a Software Developer for ThoughtWorks based in London, UK and one
of the London Clojurian organisers and speakers. She originally got into
software development through the coincidence of mandatory C++ classes that
formed part of her Music Technology degree. Since then she has found herself
working on numerous technologies, environments and languages but is happiest
when that language is Clojure.
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Jonathan Clagget
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<h5>About Jonathan</h5>
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Jonathan is a more recent Clojure convert whose fear of parens kept him in
darkness for far too long. He also uses Clojure full time at LonoCloud and
writes the macros Chouser refuses to.
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Michael O'Keefe
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<h5>About Michael</h5>
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Michael O'Keefe conducts modeling and simulation of engineering systems
and develops engineering tools and simulators with emphasis on energy
efficient buildings, advanced vehicles, and renewable energy
systems. Michael has recently started his own company called ImagineMade
whose goal is to reduce the complexity of modeling and simulation of
energy intensive systems. Michael also works half time with Big Ladder Software,
a Denver based small business that creates and supports open source software
tools for designing and modeling energy efficient buildings. In his spare
time, Michael administers the ADVISOR (TM) advanced vehicle simulator
open-source project originally developed while he was at the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL). Prior to working for Big Ladder, Michael worked for
over 10 years at NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located
in Golden, Colorado. At NREL, Michael assisted in the modeling and simulation of
advanced vehicles, developed metrics for vehicle driving profiles, and conducted
research on power electronics cooling and reliability for electric vehicles.
Prior to joining NREL, Michael worked briefly at Nippon Steel Corporation in
Chiba, Japan and speaks Japanese fluently. Michael did his undergraduate work in
Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University and received his Master of
Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle,
Washington.
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Mike Anderson
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/mikera">@mikera</a></h3>
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Mike is a technology consultant and entrepreneur who has been using Clojure for
as his main language for over three years. He maintains the core.matrix API for
numerical computing, wrote the games "Ironclad" and "Alchemy" and has contributed
several other other open source libraries for Clojure. In his spare time he develops
Neural Network technology at Nuroko.
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Nada Amin
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/nadamin">@nadamin</a></h3>
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Nada is a member of the Scala team at EPFL, where she studies type systems
and hacks on programming languages. She has contributed to Clojure's
core.logic and Google's Closure compiler. She's loved helping others learn
to program ever since tutoring SICP as an undergraduate lab assistant at MIT.
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Philipp Meier
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/ordnungswprog">@ordnungswprog</a></h3>
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Freelancer. 10+ year java web developer. 4+ year clojure developer.
Clojure maniac. Creator of liberator. Father of 3 girls.
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Rich Hickey
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/richhickey">@richhickey</a></h3>
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Rich is the author of Clojure and Datomic, and Metadata Partners co-founder. He is now the CTO of Cognitect.
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Russ Olsen
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/russolsen">@russolsen</a></h3>
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Russ likes to think that the technology is there to solve problems
for people, not the other way around.
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Russ started his career doing that other kind of engineering, the
sort that involves electricity, gears and getting dirty. Pretty rapidly
the wonder of computer programming lured Russ away, which probably
explains why most of his fingers are still intact today.
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Since turning to coding, Russ has worked on everything from 3D design
and image processing software to database query engines and workflow
systems. Russ first discovered Ruby back in 2000 when he went looking
for a simple programming language to teach to his son. The seven year
old lost interest, but Russ never did and he has been building
increasingly sophisticated systems in Ruby ever since.
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Russ also spends a fair bit of time promoting Ruby via public speaking
and he helped found RubyNation, a regional Ruby conference held each
Spring in Northern Virginia. Russ has also written extensively about
Ruby in the form of two highly regarded books: The first, Design
Patterns in Ruby was published in 2008 and is a complete reworking
of the classic Gang of Four patterns for a modern dynamic programming
language. Russ's second book Eloquent Ruby is a guide to writing
idiomatic Ruby. Eloquent Ruby was an instant hit in the Ruby and
Rails community when it was published earlier this year.
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Russ also has been secretly enamored with parentheses since a very
early age and lately has been dabbling in Clojure.
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Sam Ritchie
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/sritchie">@sritchie</a></h3>
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Sam Ritchie works on data analysis and infrastructure problems in
Twitter's Infrastructure Engineering group. He is co-author of a
number of open-source Scala and Clojure libraries, including
Bijection, Algebird, Summingbird and Cascalog 2.
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Stuart Halloway
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/stuarthalloway">@stuarthalloway</a></h3>
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Stuart is a founder and President of Cognitect and of Relevance.
He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.
Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including
StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf,
QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.
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Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles.
Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.
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Thomas Kristensen
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/tgkristensen">@tgkristensen</a></h3>
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After graduating with a PhD in computer science from Aarhus University, Thomas turned
to the dark side and has been working in different parts of the private sector ever
since. Throughout his career, Thomas has worked on everything from molecular
simulations, over financial analysis to cute programs playing music using logic
programming. He currently works for uSwitch in London, where he happily hacks Clojure
all day long. He is also the creator of the propaganda library for Clojure.
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Timothy Baldridge
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/timbaldridge">@timbaldridge</a></h3>
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Timothy is a polyglot programmer with a passion for compilers and fast code. He is the
author of clojure-py, Mjolnir, and several other compiler and interpreter related
projects. He is an employee of Relevance Inc., and loves to discuss new programming
concepts and ideas with anyone who will listen.
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Toby Crawley
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/tcrawley">@tcrawley</a></h3>
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As a core member of the Immutant and TorqueBox teams at Red Hat, Toby helps drive the
integration of Java and other JVM languages. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2010, Toby
spent far too many years as a contractor developing applications in a plethora of
languages.
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William Byrd
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<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/webyrd">@webyrd</a></h3>
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William E. Byrd is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Computing at
the University of Utah. He is co-author of The Reasoned Schemer, and
co-designer of several declarative languages: miniKanren (logic programing),
Harlan (GPU programming), and Kanor (cluster programming). His StarCraft 2
handle is 'Rojex' (character code 715).
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