TY - JOUR T1 - TIM Lecture Series – Huge Memory and Collection-Oriented Programming: Less Code, More Speed? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dave Thomas KW - big data KW - collection-oriented programming KW - databases KW - huge persistent memory KW - memory KW - object-oriented programming KW - programming KW - queries KW - speed KW - very large databases PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/974 IS - 3 U1 - First Derivatives FD Labs Dave Thomas is Chief Scientist/CSO, First Derivatives FD Labs. He is also Founder and Chairman of the YOW! Australia and Lambda Jam conferences, he is a GOTO Conference Fellow, and he is an ACM Distinguished Engineer. With a unique ability to see the future and translate research into competitive products, he is known for his contributions to object technology including IBM VisualAge and Eclipse IDEs, Smalltalk, and Java virtual machines, and more recently, he has been a proponent for the use of applied functional programming. He holds close links to the R&D community as an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Canada, and he has held past positions at UQ, QUT, and NICTA in Australia. While a professor at Carleton, he formed the Object-Oriented Research Group and established Ottawa's leadership in object-oriented technology. Dave has been a business and technical advisor to many technology local and international technology companies. And, among his past roles, he was Co-Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs (BRL), Founder and CEO of Object Technology International (OTI), becoming CEO of IBM OTI Labs after its sale to IBM. ER -