Program chair Jay Pipes and his committee have put together an excellent program for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo, which is coming up April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California. In addition to Marten Mickos’ essential MySQL update, like last year, there will be some pretty outside-of-the-box keynote presentations, including:
- Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party, on “Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties.”
Rick will talk about the rise and success of pirates and why pirates are necessary in today’s politics. He’ll also outline the next steps in the pirates’ strategy to change global copyright laws. - Jacek Becla, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, on “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics.” Scientists are trying to understand dark matter, discover distant galaxies, hunt for the Higgs boson, detect asteroids and take movies of molecules. Their science is fascinating, their data sizes are enormous, and their analysis requirements may seem like science fiction. Are we ready?
The early registration discount ends February 26, so sign up soon to take advantage of those savings.
