What is a lightning talk?

On giving lightning talks

Friday, 16 January 2009 2:00PM - 5 minute time limit, CBI conference room

• Niall - Hilarious Email forwards
• Scott - Small balls of mud
• James - A random article frmo wikipedia
• Ryan - A few programming languages you may have missed
• Chase - Twitter
• Josh - call of duty
• Cody - Wireless Electricity

Friday, 21 November 2008 3:00PM - 5 minute time limit, CBI conference room

• Niall - a brief, biased and poorly-informed overview of parallel programming
• Scott - Perl 6
• James - neural networks for environmental prediction
• Ryan - The psychology of color, in relation to software/web applications.
• Chase - Surviving a Black Friday shopping experience (with minimized casualties)
• Josh - The history of motorcycles/sportbikes
• Cody -
• Scott - Test driven development

Interesting Topics

If there's something you'd like to know a little more about, the odds are good that one of us may know enough about it to give a lightning talk on it. Feel free to add to the list below so that future lightning talks can be more relevant to our individual interests or knowledge.

• cellular automata
• evolutionary computing
• neural networks (maybe get Phillipe to do a LT)
• Perl 6
• programming language grammars/parsers
• parrot (a VM for dynamic languages)
• parallel computing
• Perl 5
• Ruby
• Rails
• MVC