{"id":2747,"date":"2021-02-10T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:30:32","slug":"professor-simon-thompson-to-deliver-keynote-at-lamba-days-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/02\/10\/professor-simon-thompson-to-deliver-keynote-at-lamba-days-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Simon Thompson to deliver keynote at Lamba Days 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"profile__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/computing\/people\/3164\/thompson-simon\">Professor Simon Thompson<\/a>, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Computation, will deliver a keynote with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francescocesarini\">Franceso Cesarini<\/a> (CTO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erlang-solutions.com\/\">Erlang Solutions<\/a>) on <em>Industry versus academia? Learning and teaching programming <\/em>at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambdadays.org\/lambdadays2021\">Lambda Days 2021<\/a> on Tuesday 16 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Lambda Days 2021 is part of the 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) and Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPiE).<\/p>\n<p>In their talk, Professor Simon Thompson and Francesco Cesarini will explore this hypothesis: in industry, you are learning a technology you will use to develop software, whereas in an academic setting, you are there to learn how to learn. Based on their experience of travelling in opposite directions: Francesco from industry to academia, and Simon from a theoretical to a more pragmatic approach, they will test the hypothesis, and, through evidence and anecdotes, show that in fact it is more complicated and diverse than we had first imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about Lamba Days 2021, including the full conference programme, can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambdadays.org\/lambdadays2021\">https:\/\/www.lambdadays.org\/lambdadays2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/02\/lambda-days-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2757\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/02\/lambda-days-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lambda Days Keynote speakers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Simon Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Computation, will deliver a keynote with Franceso Cesarini (CTO and founder of Erlang Solutions) on Industry versus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/02\/10\/professor-simon-thompson-to-deliver-keynote-at-lamba-days-2021\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}