Keynote: Industry versus Academia? (...) - Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson | Lambda Days 2021

This video was recorded at virtual Lambda Days conference, which took place on 16-19th February 2021 - More great virtual tech conferences - ​ --- Industry versus academia? Learning and teaching programming by Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson ABSTRACT In our talk we’ll 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 our experience of travelling in opposite directions: Francesco from industry to academia, and Simon from a theoretical to a more pragmatic approach, we’ll test the hypothesis, and, through evidence and anecdotes, show that in fact it is more complicated and diverse than we had first imagined. --- SPEAKER - Francesco Cesarini Co-author of Designing for scalability with Erlang/OTP Founder of Erlang Solutions Ltd. Francesco has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Eri