Zeeshan Lakhani - Cognicast Episode 145

In this episode, we talk to Zeeshan Lakhani about Papers We Love, music technology and programming languages.

Our Guest, Zeeshan Lakhani

• On The Web
• On Twitter
• On Github

Topics

• Do the Right Thing

• Do the Right Thing Bye Bye Birdie Inspiration

• CMU's ISR department

• Papers We Love

• PWLConf

• Papers We Love New York (the first PWL)

• Papers We Love SF (the second PWL)

• PWLConf playlist

• Zeeshan's Thesis

• Coursera Programming Languages Class (there is now A, B, C versions)

• Awesome Programming Model definition Zeeshan mentioned

• A couple papers that have inspired the programmable networks stuff being done at Comcast

  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2

• Some recent papers Zeeshan worked on (co-authored)

  • This one

  • And this one

• Strange Loop 2012

• Justine Sherry's Programmable Networks class at CMU

• Heather Miller's (Zeeshan's advisor) talk on "What happened to distributed programming languages?"

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CREDITS

EPISODE COVER ART

• Russ Olsen

Photo credit: Miguel Espinosa

AUDIO PRODUCTION

• Russ Olsen

• Joe Smith

• Jaret Binford

PRODUCER

• Kim Foster

Music by Ben Kamphaus, who produces music as PatternShift. If you like his music you can find more on most streaming services.