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Category Theory: An Abstraction for Anything
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Summary
Alissa Pajer introduces the basics of category theory with examples of categories, functors, and natural transformations, helping to recognize category-theoretical patterns in programming projects.
Bio
Alissa Pajer works as an Engineer at Precog, programming full-time in Scala. Before her coding days she studied pure mathematics, earning a Bachelors from Carleton College and a Masters from the University of Colorado. She currently lives in Boulder where she's known to run up mountains.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Feb 10, 2014