Martin Odersky

EPFL - Speaker presented by ELCA

Presentations:

• (5242) The Challenge of Scalable Languages

Short bio

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.  His research 
interests focus on programming languages, more specifically languages for 
object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two 
paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as 
possible. To prove this he has experimented with a number of language designs, 
from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets.  He has also influenced the development of 
Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current 
javac reference compiler.  His current work centers around the Scala programming 
language, which unifies FP and OOP while staying completely interoperable with 
Java and .NET