Back to [[conference:committee:speakers-2013]]\\ \\ **Bio**: Ex-theoretical physicist, ex-UNIX system programmer, ex-academic. Now an independent consultant, analyst, author, expert witness and trainer. Also doing startups. Interested in all things parallel and concurrent. And build.\\ \\ Actively involved with Groovy, GPars, GroovyFX, SCons, Java, and Gant. Also Gradle. And Python-CSP.\\ **Email**:russel@winder.org.uk\\ \\ [[2013:Java 8 a new beginning]]\\ [[2013:Groovy is a high performance language]]\\ [[2013:Dataflow is the architecture you need]]\\ [[2013:Groovy Programming]]\\ \\