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Saturday, May 17

TimeEvent
9:45Space opens; breakfast; mingling
10:30-11:15
11:15-11:30Break!
11:30-12:15
12:15-1:15Unconferencing!
1:15-2:30Lunch!
2:30-4:00
  • How I used my knowledge of code (and music!) to help fight fires!, by Bjorn Roche
  • Tasty Stacks!, by Chloe Weil
  • Spying on your programs with strace!!!, by Julia Evans
15 minute break!
  • High Schoolers vs. Robots!!!!, by Jennifer Shin
  • Computer vision and archeology!: Can computers assemble ceramic artifacts?, by Kamelia Aryafar
4:00-4:30Break!
4:30-5:30
  • A 1,500 line (!!) switch statement powers your Python!, by Allison Kaptur
  • Just LOOK at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program!, by Aki Yamada
  • Continuations; or, how to travel through time!, by Michael Arntzenius
  • Weaving and Programming: More Related Than You (Probably) Realize!, by Allie Jones
5:30-5:45Closing remarks!
5:45Optional: find your dinner group!

Sunday, May 18

TimeEvent
9:45Space opens; breakfast; mingling
10:30-11:15
  • Opening remarks
  • Keynote talk: Camille Fournier, How to Stay in Love with Programming
11:15-11:30Break!
11:30-12:15
  • Serial! It's what's for breakfast., by Lisa Neigut
  • Understanding Garbage Collection, through Visualizing a One Pass Real-Time Generational Mark-Sweep Garbage Collector!, by Andrew Gwozdziewycz
  • L'Artiste et Le Programmeur!, by Emily Reese
12:15-1:15Unconferencing!
1:15-2:15Lunch!
2:15-3:45
  • Making music with floppy drives! An exercise in yak shaving, by Rafik Draoui
  • The terrible Yook monster! Slayed by the grandson of Master Prolog!, by Guillaume Marceau
  • Map, Reduce, Awk!, by Mark Wunsch
15 minute break!
3:45-4:30Ice cream!!!!
4:30-5:30
5:30Closing remarks!

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