Matt Dailis

Matt Dailis

Engineering Applications Software Engineer

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

I am a software developer at NASA JPL, where I work on mission planning software as well as support the Curiosity rover mission. My interests include programming language design and implementation, functional programming, human-computer interaction, and robotics.

I’m currently listening to:

  • Signals and Threads - Yaron Minsky is really great at explaining functional programming concepts, as well as general software engineering.
  • Corecursive - Adam Gordon Bell interviews an array of fascinating people from various walks of software.

Other blogs to read:

  • Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky, of Stack Overflow fame, has a lot of great stories and strong opinions about software.
  • Hillel Wayne - Hillel has a lot of introspective and philosophical thoughts on formal methods and how we teach programming.
  • Jonathan Castello - A friend of mine, conversations with whom have shaped my worldview on software and computer science.

Interests

  • Compilers
  • Linguistics
  • Human-robot interfaces
  • Data mining

Education

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, 2020

    Northeastern University

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