Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

13 January
1.45pm, LT308 Huxley
 
company: Overleaf

Title: Lessons from Building a Scientific Start-up
Abstract: Overleaf, originally launched as WriteLaTeX, is an online collaborative editor for writing scientific documents, like papers and theses. It started as idea and a hodgepodge of scripts I wrote as a PhD student. Now we’re a high growth, venture-backed startup and social enterprise, with hundreds of thousands of users around the world. I’ll talk first about Overleaf and how you can use it in your work, then about our startup story, and finally about some of the technical challenges we face in bringing a 30-year old technology (TeX) online and in scaling up (e.g. I’ll mention Docker, Ruby on Rails, cloud services, and bugs!).
Speaker Details: Dr John Lees-Miller
 
John is co-founder and technical lead at Overleaf, a London-based startup and social enterprise that builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists to help make science faster, more open and more transparent. Previously, he read computer science and then did a PhD in engineering mathematics on how to operate fleets of driverless cars efficiently, and he helped design and build the world's first driverless taxi system, the Heathrow Pod, at London's Heathrow Airport.

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