Type of Talk: UTCS Colloquia/FoCS

Speaker/Affiliation: Dou

glas Crockford/Yahoo

Date/Time: Thursday, March 24, 2011 6 pm

L

ocation: ACES 2.402

Host: FoCS

Talk Title: Using Javascript Well

Talk Abstract: JavaScript has been shunned by the academic community b

ecause of its many obvious shortcomings. But it includes the best features

of Scheme and Self, making it a language deserving of study and research.

It was the first lambda language to go mainstream.

Speaker Bio: Join j

avascript guru Douglas Crockford as he shares inside tips about the well lo

ved and hated programming language from his "Javascript: The Good Parts" bo

ok.