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Numbers, operators, booleans, control flow, data structures… any way you want it, lambda functions can do it! In this musical talk we’ll sing the praises of the lambda as we take a quirky, nerdy journey toward a deeper understanding & admiration of the computational power of this elegant, powerful abstraction at the heart of functional programming.Īnjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development.
The lambda calculus is a logical formalism that lets us represent programs - all their logic and data - as nothing but pure, anonymous, single-parameter functions. La-La-Lambda Calculus: A Functional Musical Journey! Aniyia is also co-founder of Zebras Unite, founder and board chair of Black & Brown Founders, co-convener of the Black Innovation Alliance, and previously founded the fashion tech company Tinsel. She is a principal on the Responsible Technology team at Omidyar Network, empowering people to help the tech world live up to its promise of changing lives for the better. To consider as we shape new ecosystems and economies.Īniyia Williams is a systempreneur, creator, inventor, tech changemaker, and investor. Talk, Aniyia shares 5 rules for building the future along with some questions Industry, and it needs active nurturing to reach its full potential. There is a new technologyĮcosystem trying to emerge, fueled by the fault lines exposed in the mainstream Today’s dominant tech companies were built on values of equality andĮmpowerment that don’t ring true anymore. One catgirls venture from a neat idea down the rabbit hole of a not-so legacy protocol, learning more than she bargained for, all in the quest for a joke.Īki is a low-level developer with a primary focus on C++ but she is interested in the whole stack, from software to silicon and does hardware design and electrical engineering in her free time. We will continue to update details as we hear back from our presenters.