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Bio:
Dr. Didier Verna has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently working as
an assistant professor for EPITA, a private Computer Science university
located in Paris. He gives lectures on Operating Systems, Computer Graphics,
Functional Programming and Typesetting. His main research topic is on the use
of Lisp, a multi-paradigm dynamic language, to reconcile genericity and
performance.
Didier Verna is also quite involved in free software: he has been one of the
core maintainers of XEmacs for more than 15 years. He is also a committer to
Gnus and BBDB, the author of several LaTeX packages and an occasional
contributor to other Free Software projects (the GNU Autotools most notably;
he was one of the technical reviewers for the “Goat Book”).
Didier Verna is a member of the European Lisp Symposium steering committee and
serves as a program committee member in various conferences (International
Lisp Conference, European Lisp Symposium, Dynamic Languages Symposium,
Context-Oriented Programming workshop, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing).
All of this is in fact half-true: two days a week, Didier Verna drops his
scientific hat and wears the Jazz musician one instead. But that is another
story…
Email:didier@lrde.epita.fr
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