Folks, As some of you will by now know, I am leaving Glasgow. I'm going to move to the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge (England), in September 1998. This is a big upheaval for me, but it's one I'm pretty excited about. [Lest you should wonder, my reasons for moving are personal and family ones, not dissatisfaction with the department here, which I still think is terrific.] Anyway, I plan to continue to do functional programming research, at least for the forseeable future (which is as much as has ever been the case). More specifically, I plan to continue beavering away on GHC. GHC is public domain software, and Microsoft are happy for it to remain so, source code and all. If anything, I'll have quite a bit more time to work on it than before. Of course, I hope that being at Microsoft will expose me to all sorts of new ideas and challenges, too. The Cambridge lab is growing into an exciting place to be; for example, Luca Cardelli and Andy Gordon are there. But meanwhile I wanted to reassure those of you who use GHC that it is still very dear to my heart. I will continue to burn your CPU cycles in new and exicting ways for a while yet! Simon
