Hi dons, do you guys have video records of there tech talks? thanks cheers ram
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Bay Area guys don't get all the fun :) > > Just a quick note about next week's Galois Tech Talk. Now that Galois > has completed its move into downtown Portland, and a shiny new, centrally > located, office space, we're opening up our tech talk series a bit more > widely. If you're in Portland, and interested in functional programming > and formal methods, drop by! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Title: Stream Fusion for Haskell Arrays > > Speaker: Don Stewart > Date: Tuesday, July 15th, 10.30am sharp. > > Location: Galois, Inc. > 421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300 > (3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building) > Portland, Oregon > > Abstract: > > Arrays have traditionally been an awkward data structure for Haskell > programmers. Despite the large number of array libraries available, they > have remained relatively awkward to use in comparison to the rich suite > of purely functional data structures, such as fingertrees or finite > maps. Arrays have simply not been first class citizens in the language. > > In this talk we'll begin with a survey of the more than a dozen array > types available, including some new matrix libraries developed in the > past year. I'll then describe a new efficient, pure, and flexible > array library for Haskell with a list like interface, based on work in > the Data Parallel Haskell project, that employs stream fusion to > dramatically reduce the cost of pure arrays. The implementation will be > presented from the ground up, along with a discussion of the entire > compilation process of the library, from source to assembly. > > About the Galois Tech Talks. > > Galois (http://galois.com) has been holding weekly technical > seminars for several years on topics from functional programming, > formal methods, compiler and language design, to cryptography, and > operating system construction, with talks by many figures from the > programming language and formal methods communities. > > The talks are open and free. If you're planning to attend, dropping > a note to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is appreciated, but not required. > If you're interested in giving a talk, Don's always looking for new > speakers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
