http://bloggingabout.net/search/SearchResults.aspx?a=1&o=DateDescending&tag=DevDays09,LINQ,Functional+programming&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'DevDays09', 'LINQ', and 'Functional programming'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/felienne/archive/2009/05/27/i-ll-be-speaking-at-the-microsoft-developer-days-2009.aspxWed, 27 May 2009 10:39:00 GMT813b6dfd-644e-4573-a816-eebab56ba0d0:481706Felienne Hermans<p> I&rsquo;ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009, in the Academic Guestlecture. This session will take place friday at 16:30 in the <span lang="NL">Central America lecture room.</span><br /><br />Since its start in 1991, Microsoft Research has attrated numeral theoretical computer scientists like Turing Award winners Anthony Hoare and Butler Lampson; Fields Medal winner Michael Freedman and Latex creator Leslie Lamport. How have they contributed to the evolution of Microsoft products?<br /><br />In this session we will give an overview of some relatively new technologies, like LINQ, F#, Oslo and Code Contracts to which the scientists above have contributed. We will explore not <i>how </i>they work, but <i>why </i>they work. Therefore we will explain some details of the theoretical concepts behind them. Do&#39;nt be afraid, I promise everyone with a high school level of mathematics will be able to understand this session.</p>