Cluster Fun
By: Joseph Curtin
Date: Aug. 1, 2013, 8 p.m.
An overview of deploying to a cloud solution while retaining the ability to deploy to a raspberry pi. Automate the instantiation of your cluster no matter the hardware. Utilizing libcloud, we'll talk to AWS and Rackspace. Utilizing Paramiko we'll talk to a Raspberry-Pi, AWS, and Rackspace. - Source code and slides will be available at the start of the presentation. https://github.com/jbcurtin/cedar
A SciPy recap: Tracking history and provenance with Sumatra
By: Sheila Miguez
Date: July 11, 2013, 8:01 p.m.
This lightning talk recaps a [talk on Sumatra](http://pyvideo.org/video/2039/using-sumatra-to-manage-numerical-simulations-sc) from the reproducible science track at SciPy2013.
Asynchronous I/O in Python 3
By: Feihong Hsu
Date: July 11, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
I'm going to talk about PEP 3156 and go over basic usage of the reference implementation, codenamed Tulip.
ipython / notebook demo
By: Jason Wirth
Date: July 11, 2013, 8 p.m.
ipython was a big focus of Scipy, Fernando gave a keynote, Brian gave a talk, and there was a tutorial.
ipython appeals to a broad audience from beginners to advanced users. IDLE is awful and I basically learned Python using iPython. Presenter will touch on the powerful features and extensibility for advanced users.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: CoffeeScript
By: Feihong Hsu
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:02 p.m.
A brief introduction to CoffeeScript.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Go: come drink the delicious kool-aid
By: David Sutton
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:05 p.m.
From the makers of the wildly successful Plan 9 operating system and B programming language. Go is google's stab at a systems programming.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Ruby
By: Ross Heflin
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:04 p.m.
Ruby, what you need to know
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: QUASI
By: Randy Baxley
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:01 p.m.
1977 - A language, the description of which was handed to me on about one hundred and fifty mimeographed eight and one half by eleven sheets. Robert Sibley handed it to the class to use as our compiler project.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: Haskell or: How a List Comprehension Is Like a Burrito
By: Greg Kettler
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:01 p.m.
It's a compiled, statically typed, lazy, purely functional programming language. About as far as possible from Python? Not quite. The languages have a lot in common and Python has already borrowed a few tricks from Haskell.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: C# is slightly better than you might imagine
By: Philip Doctor
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:10 p.m.
If you find yourself accidentally writing c#, you can still have some fun.