Over the past five years, the European Commission has invested over 250M EUR in its Next Generation Internet initiative. As part of this ambitious program, we are developing a new free and open-source core technology for distributed systems – in Clojure, of course.

Speakers

Lovro Lugović

Lovro Lugović is a C++ software engineer turned Lisp hacker and a recent PhD graduate from the University of Southern Denmark, specializing in programming languages and concurrency theory. He likes functional programming, designing domain-specific languages and solving problems using a combination thereof.

Sung-Shik Jongmans

Sung-Shik Jongmans is language engineer at Swat.engineering. Before, he was associate professor at Open University of the Netherlands and researcher at the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science. His interests include programming languages, concurrency theory, and software engineering. And Clojure, of course.