[Caml-list] Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop Call for Participation
Jim Grundy
Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End
Call for Participation
Sponsored by SIGPLAN
Co-located with ICFP 2008
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26 September 2008
Victoria, Canada
Registration opens in late July through
http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/
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Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25
years, and remain fertile ground for programming language research.
Recently, however, developers in industrial, governmental, and open
source projects have begun to use functional programming successfully
in practical applications. In these settings, functional programming
has often provided dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of
thinking about the original problem.
The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these users of
functional programming. The workshop supports the increasing
viability of functional programming in the commercial, governmental,
and open-source space by providing a forum for professionals to share
their experiences and ideas, whether those ideas are related to
business, management, or engineering. The workshop is also designed
to enable the formation and reinforcement of relationships that
further the commercial use of functional programming. Providing user
feedback to language designers and implementors is not a primary goal
of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs.
Program
CUFP 2008 will last a full day and feature a discussion session and
the following presentations:
Don Syme (Microsoft)
Invited Presentation: Why Microsoft is Investing in Functional
Programming
David Balaban (Amgen)
Minimizing the Immune Response to Functional Programming at
Amgen
Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Training and Consulting)
The Mobile Messaging Gateway, from Idea to Prototype to Launch
in 12 months
Jake Donham (Skydeck)
From OCaml to Javascript at Skydeck
Nick Gerakines (Yahoo)
Developing Erlang at Yahoo
Tom Hawkins (Eaton Corporation)
Controlling Hybrid Vehicles with Haskell
Bob Ippolito (Mochimedia)
Ad Serving with Erlang
Anil Madhavapeddy (Citrix)
Xen and the art of OCaml
Howard Mansell (Credit Suisse)
Quantitative Finance in F#
Jeff Polakow (Deutsche Bank)
Is Haskell ready for everyday computing?
David Pollak (Lift web framework)
Buy a Feature: an adventure in immutability and Actors
Gregory Wright (Antiope)
Functions to Junctions: Ultra Low Power Chip Design With Some
Help From Haskell
There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to
be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange.
See http://cufp.galois.com for more information, including
presentation abstracts and the most recent schedule information.
Program Committee
* Lennart Augustsson <lennart(dot)augustsson(at)gmail(dot)com>
* Matthias Blume <blume(at)tti-c(dot)org>
* Adam Granicz <granicz(dot)adam(at)intellifactory(dot)com>
* Jim Grundy(co-chair)<jim(dot)d(dot)grundy(at)intel(dot)com>
* Andy Martin <akmartin(at)us(dot)ibm(dot)com>
* Yaron Minsky <yminsky(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
* Simon Peyton Jones(co-chair)<simonpj(at)microsoft(dot)com>
* Ulf Wiger <ulf(dot)wiger(at)ericsson(dot)com>
This will be the fifth CUFP; see CUFP 2004 CUFP 2005, CUFP 2006, and
CUFP 2007 for information about the earlier meetings, including
reports from attendees and video of the most recent talks.
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