Presentation: "Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond"

Track: Java the Platform / Time: Thursday 14:05 - 15:05 / Location: Room 104/105

This talk will cover the primary new language features for Java SE 8 -- lambda expressions, method references, and extension methods -- and explore how both existing and future libraries will be able to take advantage of them to make client code both more performant and less error-prone at the same time.

Brian Goetz is Java Language Architect at Oracle Corporation and spec lead for JSR-335, Lambda expressions for the Java Language.

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Brian Goetz, Author of "Java Concurrency in Practice"

Brian Goetz

Biography: Brian Goetz

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of the best-selling book "Java Concurrency In Practice", as well as over 75 articles on software development. He is a frequent presenter at major industry conferences, and serves on numerous JCP expert groups. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Oracle.

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Links:
Blog: briangoetz.blogspot.com
Java Concurrency in Practice: www.jcip.net