GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes

Presentation: "Working on cancer"

Track: Architectures / Time: Monday 14:30 - 15:20 / Location: Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset

Whole genome sequencing is finally starting to become practical. But with this deluge of data, many challenges remain to use this technology in clinical settings. A small team of developers have spent a year working on an approach to better cancer treatments using state of the art technology such as Clojure, Neo4j and domain specific languages. This presentation introduces the problem, talks about the solution we ended up with, the technology and the teams non-traditional approach to process.

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Ola Bini, Language Geek

Ola Bini

Biography: Ola Bini

Ola Bini works as a language geek for ThoughtWorks in Chicago. He is from Sweden but don't hold that against him. He is one of the JRuby core developers and have been involved in JRuby development since 2006. At one point in time, Ola got tired of all existing programming languages and decided to create his own, called Ioke. Then he did it again, and started work on Seph. He has written a book called Practical JRuby on Rails Projects for APress, and coauthered Using JRuby for the Pragmatic Programmers, talked at numerous conferences, and contributed to a large amount of open source projects. He is also a member of the JSR292 Expert Group

His main passion lies in implementing languages, working on regular expression engines and trying to figure out how to create good YAML parsers.

Book: Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java (Expert's Voice in Java)
Twitter: @olabini
Video presentations: Adopting the JVM, Domain Specific Languages - What, Why, How, Evolving the Java Platform, JRuby: Power on the JVM