Speaker

Erik Meijer is an accomplished programming languages designer who has worked on a wide range of languages, such as Haskell, Mondrian, X#, Cω (C-omega), C# and Visual Basic (his personal favorite).

He currently runs the Data Programmability Languages Team at Microsoft, where his primary focus has been on removing the impedance mismatch between databases and programming languages. One of the fruits of these efforts is language integrated query, or LINQ, which not only adds a native querying syntax to.

NET languages such as C# and Visual Basic, but also allows developers to query data sources other than tables, such as objects or XML. Some readers might recognize him from his brief stint as the “Head in the Box” on Microsoft’s VBTV.