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Franz AllegroGraph & Updates on Clojure @ Sun Microsystems

Mar 19
Thu 6:30 PM
Location
Sun Microsystems

101 Park Ave
New York, NY 10016

Estimated attendance
 80  people attended.
5.00 5.0011

Who organized?
Marco Neumann

Price

$5.00 per person
refund policy

Session Type: Technical-Applied
Session Level: Intermediate-Advanced

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Geo-Temporal and Social Network Reasoning with AllegroGraph
http://www.franz.com/...

AllegroGraph RDFStore is a modern, high-performance, persistent RDF graph database for Java applications. AllegroGraph uses disk-based storage, enabling it to scale to billions of triples while maintaining superior performance. AllegroGraph supports SPARQL, RDFS++, and Prolog reasoning from Java applications.
Enterprises have begun utilizing semantic technologies and standards for knowledge representation, knowledge access and discovery. Combining this with GeoTemporal and Social Networking analytics is the next stage of Business Intelligence in the Enterprise. In our presentation we will focus primarily on the new temporal logic and spatial primitives in AllegroGraph.

Updates on Clojure
http://clojure.org/...

Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

Bio:
Dr. Jans Aasman

Franz's President and CEO, a longtime customer, joined Franz from TNO Telecom based in The Netherlands. His previous experience and educational background include:

  • KPN Research, the research lab of the major Dutch telecommunication company.
  • Tenured Professor in Industrial Design at the Technical University of Delft. Title of the chair: Informational Ergonomics of Telematics and Intelligent Products.
  • Carnegie Mellon University. Visiting Scientist at the Computer Science Department of Prof. Dr. Alan Newell.
  • Researcher at the Traffic Research Center of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
  • Experimental and cognitive psychology at the University of Groningen, specialization: Psychophysiology, Cognitive Psychology.
  • Bachelors title Philosophy

    Rich Hickey
    Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening, in a variety of languages.

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    • Dimitry Gashinsky
      Posted Mar 20, 2009 12:03 PM
      Dimitry Gashinsky
      Clojure update was great and very inspirational. At the end of it, I wanted to run home and write some code in Clojure. Franz talk was an AllegroGraph tour de force. Franz is one of those rare companies where CEO can talk about their product assembly optimized code for 64bit machines.
    • Pre-Meetup comments below
    • Sergey Chernyshev
      Posted Mar 19, 2009 3:22 PM
      Sergey Chernyshev
      Guys, please post a thorough review if possible. Morton, I really rely on your video skills this time as I can't attend ;)
    • Morton Swimmer
      Posted Mar 18, 2009 7:53 PM
      Morton Swimmer
      Assistant Organizer
      This is going to be the largest meetup yet! (The number doesn't reflect the Java Meetup people.)
    • Marco Neumann
      Posted Mar 5, 2009 4:03 PM
      Marco Neumann
      Organizer
      Don, on my end it looks good. I let you know if there is more for you to do.
    • don undeen
      Posted Mar 5, 2009 1:23 PM
      don undeen
      hmm, got an odd response when I tried to submit my payment. hope it went through!

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