Books, videos and other works by Barry Burd

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The Mysteries of Airline Pricing

Courses on Video

Articles (an incomplete list)

• What I learned from the Google I/O 2019 keynote address
• Smart Compose and the Visual Positioning System impress at Google I/O
• Google positions Android Things to solve the IoT problem
• Understanding Monads. A Guide for the Perplexed
• Virtual reality and Android apps steal the Google I/O show
• Inside the app startup Skimble
• Skimble CEO talks Android and iOS development
• The OnePlus 2 mobile phone: One user's experience
• OnePlus 2 mobile phone: Part two, the hardware experience
• OnePlus 2 mobile phone: Part three, the software experience
• Barry Burd's guide to the best sessions to attend at JavaOne 2015
• Life beyond the JavaOne sessions: Mastering life in San Francisco
• Introducing Amazon Echo - Adding voice recognition to your Java programs
• How to add voice recognition features to the Echo device
• Examine modular code development with Java's Project Jigsaw
• A new approach to condensing data leads to a 99% compression rate
• Google's Solve for 'X' program goes into high gear
• ART: The New Android Runtime
• Android: The Next Generation
• Google Announces Cloud Dataflow Beta at Google I/O

Interviews featuring Barry Burd

• Did Android applications save Java? Expert weighs in
• Java turns 20: What's in store for Java programming?
• Java whiz Barry Burd discusses Greenfoot programming
• What is Google's Solve for X?
• Java pro digs into trends in IoT, mobile, Java 9
• Why choose native over HTML 5 in Android development?
• Will Java EE 8 adoption outpace previous releases?

Interviews conducted by Barry Burd

• Shuman Ghosemajumder on Security and Cyber-Crime
• Courtney Hemphill on VR, Augmented Reality, and the Importance of Animation in UX
• Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Algorithmic Approaches to Communicating
• Chris Richardson on Functional Programming in Scala and Java
• Tom Limoncelli on DevOps and Automation
• Yakov Fain on the State of Java, JavaScript, Web Development
• Dianne Marsh on Engineering Velocity at Netflix
• Aish Fenton on Machine Learning at Netflix
• Ashley Puls on the How and Why of Java Bytecode Manipulation
• Gilad Bracha on How to Make Javascript and the Web a Good Compilation Target
• TJ VanToll on Hybrid Development for Mobile Apps
• Frank Greco on WebSocket
• Erik Meijer on Monads

YouTube videos on Android app development hosted by Barry Burd

• Android Animations
• Android Data Binding
• Java Programming Questions and Answers
• Android Constraint Layout : Instruction + Q&A
• Java Q&A - No question too elementary - Part 1 of 3
• Java Q&A - No question too elementary - Part 2 of 3
• Java Q&A - No question too elementary - Part 3 of 3

YouTube videos on Quantum Computing hosted by Barry Burd

• The World of Processes Described by ZX-Calculus
• The Quipper Quantum Programming Language
• Niel's Chess: A Quantum Game for Schools and the General Public
• The Q# Programming Language

Papers

• The Speed of an Infinite Computation (a paper about inifinite time Turing machines with blur symbols)
• Some Implications of the Theory of Weaves with Applications in Determinateness and Logic (a paper about determinateness of infinitely long two-person games)
• Decomposable Collections of Sets (another paper about determinateness of infinitely long two-person games)
• Weaves (a paper to introduce the notion of a weave)