[scala] Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop Call for Participation

[David Pollak-4]

Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop Call for Participation

      Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2008

               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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