Mike Sperber

Photo with Mike Sperber in costume and Mo Sauer in a bathtub handing out flyers at the Fringe festival

Only two nights to go - if you're in Edinburgh, see us at the Fringe at Paradise in Augustines today or tomorrow at 19:05!
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

We have confirmed three keynotes for MuniHac 2025. Join us in Munich between September 12th and 14th for talks by Andrew Lelechenko, @sperbsen.bsky.social, and Rodrigo Mesquita as well as workshops and hacking projects: munihac.de/2025.html#re...

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Today in Edinburgh, talk at LFCS, then performance at Edinburgh Fringe.
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/
informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-se...

Stage photo of Mike Sperber as Valmont with the caption “I will seek a path to my heart through my flesh.”

We're on our way to the Edinburgh Fringe with "Quartet", Heiner Müller’s take on Laclos's "Dangerous Liaisons”.
The script starts with “Drawing room before the French Revolution/bunker after World War III”
See you in the bunker at Paradise in Augustines, Aug 4-9, 19:05.
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.

LFCS Seminar Tuesday 5th August: Michael Sperber | LFCS | School of Informatics Michael Sperber, Active Group GmbH https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/

AG-Chef @sperbsen.bsky.social hält am kommenden Dienstag einen Vortrag am Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science der Universität Edinburgh:

informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-se...

Badge showing a silver medal for “Best Presentation Award” at Java Forum 2025.

It seems that the #jfs2025 talk I gave with Falk Sippach was well-received - on programming-language history, of all things.
www.java-forum-stuttgart.de/blog/best-pr...

Registration - ICFP/SPLASH 2025 The registration is now open. Early Registration deadline: 31 August 2025. Welcome to the website of the joint ICFP/SPLASH 2025 conference! For the first time, the two leading SIGPLAN venues—ICFP and ...

ICFP/SPLASH 2025 registration is open!

If you register soon, you can catch the early registration discount (by August 31).

Register for the whole 7 days and only pay for 6!

conf.researchr.org/attending/ic...

Perlen vor die Säue, aber wir wiederholen die Wahrheit, auch wenn es keiner hören will. Eine neue Studie hat 1,5 MILLIONEN Menschen untersucht. Sie zeigt KEIN erhöhtes Risiko für 29 mögliche Nebenwirkungen der Corona-Impfung. Die Impfung ist sicher & hat Millionen gerettet. Impfgegner lagen falsch.

Bei MuniHac 2025 ist @sperbsen.bsky.social am 14.09.2025 mit seiner Keynote "Six Years of FUNAR – Teaching Software Architecture and Haskell to the Uninitiated" vertreten.

Die Veranstaltung an sich läuft 12.-14.09., mehr Details gibt's hier: munihac.de/2025.html

Photo of Mo Sauer as Merteuil with the words “Have a heart, Valmont. Since when.”

See you at the Fringe next week - Heiner Müller's "Quartet”.
Paradise in Augustines, Aug 4-9, 19:05.
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

One week to go until our Fringe premiere of Heiner Müller's "Quartet".
Join us in the bunker Aug 4-9 19:05 at Paradise in Augustines!
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

See you at the Edinburgh Fringe at Paradise in Augustines Aug 4-9!

www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

The play is about their relationship, which requires other people - the virtuous Tourvel and the teenage virgin Volanges. Tourvel and Volanges are not around (anymore?) however, so the two play four in a series of perverse role plays.

It's called "Quartet", but there are only two people on stage: Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont, both legendary schemers and seducers.

"I’m very introverted. I don’t get energy from socializing."

That’s Jon Stewart, in conversation with Trevor Noah. To which Noah responds: “𝘖𝘩 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦.”

This moment really struck me. Here are two hyper-visible, high-impact people talking openly about being introverts.

Foto von Mitarbeiter:innen der Active Group auf einer Brücke in Tübingen, unterwegs zum Notar.

Gestern war ein großer Tag für uns: Wir waren beim Notar, um die Gesellschaftsanteile der Active Group vollständig in Mitarbeiter:innen-Hand zu überführen.
www.active-group.de/news/2025-07...

Quartet: A Provocative Adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons Theater U34 presents Quartet (from Dangerous Liaisons)by Heiner Müller August 4–9, Studio at Paradise in Augustines Pre-revolutionary France or a bunker after World War III – you choose which…

And finally here's Garth Vile's interview with us on "Quartet”.
See you at the Edinburgh Fringe Aug 4-9!
edinburgischedramaturgie.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/q...

Photo of Mo Sauer as Merteuil and Mike Sperber as Valmont

Gareth Vile did an interview with some background on our production of "Quartet”.
See us at the Edinburgh Fringe Aug 4-9!
theater-u34.de/quartet/

Photo of book cover of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” by Choderlos de Laclos

Quartet is Heiner Müller’s take on Choderlos de Laclos’s classic novel of pre-revolutionary France. Vicomte de Valmont and Marquise de Merteuil, former lovers, pass the time challenging each other to ever more twisted feats of seduction and betrayal.
Edinburgh Fringe Aug 4-9!
theater-u34.de/quartet/

Wir freuen uns, unsere erste komplett selbst geplante und durchgeführte iSAQB®-Foundation-Schulung ankündigen zu können!

Sie findet vom 1. bis 4. Dezember 2025 im schönen Tübingen statt und wird mit der Prüfung abgeschlossen.

Weitere Informationen: www.active-group.de/schulung/Fou...

In this episode we speak to Alex McLean who created the TidalCycles system for electronic music - implemented in Haskell of course.
haskell.foundation/podcast/67/

Do Programming Languages Fulfill Requirements? Should They? (PLSS 2025 - – Programming Language Standardization and Specification) - ECOOP 2025 Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification The evolution of widely adopted programming languages is critical for ensuring their sustainability, interoperability, and adaptabili...

Morgen, am 4. Juli, ist @sperbsen.bsky.social mit seinem Vortrag "Do Programming Languages Fulfill Requirements? Should They?" beim PLSS Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification 2025 in Bergen:
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We're playing “Quartet" at the Fringe August 4-9 - Heiner Müller's take on "Dangerous Liaisons", a brutal 75-minute piece for two, engaged in an escalating series of role plays in a war for love, sex, and power.
See you in Edinburgh!
www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

English-language trailer for "Quartet" just dropped!

In this episode, we learn from Daniele Micciancio about teaching theoretical computer science with Haskell and of course Daniele's field of research - cryptographic algorithms.
haskell.foundation/podcast/66/

heise devSec – die Konferenz für sichere Software- und Webentwicklung Sichere Software beginnt vor der ersten Zeile Code ... Schwerpunkte im Herbst 2025 sind GenAI und Vibe Computing, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL), KI in der Softwareentwicklung, DevSecOps...

Bei der diesjährigen //heise DevSec() in Regensburg ist @sperbsen.bsky.social mit seinem Vortrag "Kugelsichere Software mit formalen Methoden" dabei. Angesetzter Termin für den Vortrag ist der 1. Oktober um 15:35.

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Am 10. Juli 2025 findet das Java Forum Stuttgart statt. Active-Group-Softwarearchitekt Markus Schlegel ist mit dem Vortrag "Decoupled by Default" als Speaker dabei. AG-C*O @sperbsen.bsky.social hält den Vortrag "Java gestern, heute und morgen" -- gemeinsam mit Falk Sippach.

FUNARCH 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025 The Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Software Architecture - FP in the Large “Functional Software Architecture” refers to methods of construction and structure of large and long-lived softwar...

Today is the day! Make sure you don't miss today’s deadline to submit to The Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Software Architecture - FP in the Large! conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

Fingers holding a small yellow squeegee (a computer screen cleaning tool) that says "USE XML TODAY."

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.