Several projects will be outlined currently going on within Uk Universities on how linkeddata is being utilised to achieve new and exciting achievements. This projects are currently being funded as innovaiton funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/
by Tom Morris
Scala is a relatively new general-purpose, open source programming language on the Java platform. It combines strong static typing with functional programming, a very flexible object system, great support for building concurrent, high-performance applications and a syntax that is comfortable for those coming from dynamic scripting languages like Python and Ruby. The talk consists of a high-level overview of the benefits of the language for developers, and shows how it can be used to build mashups, hacks and prototypes rapidly but cleanly, and take advantage of many mature open source libraries for processing linked data, working with the Semantic Web and APIs.
http://tommorris.org/wiki/Scala_...