We probably won't have a video camera, but we can always provide the slides.
Cheers, Jasper On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM, oliver mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > sounds like an interesting program... > you should think about making the talks available later for those who > can not attend. > br, > oliver > > On Apr 1, 7:20 pm, Jasper Van der Jeugt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> We are very glad to announce an exciting program for the 7th meeting of the >> Ghent Functional Programming Group, especially since we are celebrating our >> first year of existence today. Our program features no less than three >> interesting functional programming languages: Erlang, Haskell and Scheme. >> >> The meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 26 in the Technicum building of >> Ghent University (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent) at 19h30. As >> before, to >> enter the building, you should go to the automatic sliding door on the far >> left >> of the building and dial the phone number that is provided on the note taped >> to >> the door. Someone will then open the door for you. >> >> Our program is as follows: >> >> 1. Tom Van Custem - Experiments with MapReduce in Erlang >> >> MapReduce is a programming model for large data processing popularized by, >> and >> in daily use at Google. The MapReduce model builds strongly on key tenets of >> functional programming such as higher-order functions and side-effect free >> execution. In this talk, we summarize this programming model and describe a >> didactic implementation in Erlang. Invented at Ericsson's research labs, >> Erlang >> is known for its massively concurrent programming model, and itself builds >> on a >> functional core language. The talk will not focus on Erlang as such, but we >> will >> describe its key features as needed to understand the MapReduce abstraction. >> >> 2. Tom Schrijvers - How you could have won the VPW 2011 contest with Haskell >> >> We all know that Functional Programming is great for writing concise >> solutions >> for programming problems. With some skill this can even be done quickly! Yet, >> there was little evidence of this at the 3rd edition of the Flemish >> Programming Contest (VPW 2011) that took place on March 23. Not so before >> the contest: The jury stress-tested all questions by writing various >> solutions in different languages. Haskell was used to solve most problems >> and invariably produced short solutions. >> >> In this talk I present my own Haskell solutions to several of this year's >> problems and discuss alternative solution strategies with the audience. After >> the talk you will be all set for winning next year's edition -- or at least >> enjoying it -- using Haskell. >> >> 3. Pieter Audenaert - Functional Geometry and a Graphical Language >> >> We will discuss a simple language for drawing images. During the >> presentation we >> will illustrate the power of data abstraction and algebraic closure, >> meanwhile >> using higher order procedures in an essential manner. The language has been >> designed to easy experimenting with patterns such as those appearing in >> typical >> M.C. Escher drawings where the artist repeats the pattern both moving it >> across >> the drawing and scaling it when applicable. In the language we use >> procedures to >> represent the data objects that will be combined in the final drawing and we >> make sure that all operations conducted on these procedures are algebraically >> closed. These features allow generating patterns of any complexity. >> >> For our implementation, we use the LISP functional programming language -- >> more >> accurately, the Scheme dialect. The presentation is based on "Structure and >> Interpretation of Computer Programs", Abelson & Sussman >> >> Hope to see you there! >> >> The GhentFPG organizing committee, >> Andy Georges >> Jeroen Janssen >> Jasper Van der Jeugt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected]http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
