Lambda the Ultimate

The final schedule for CUFP 2010 is up and registration is now available.

In my highly biased opinion (I'm one of the chairs of the program committee this year), CUFP is going to be fantastic. There's a great set of hand-picked invited tutorials on the first day, and a great collection of short talks for the second day. We're also going to organize a set of informal BOFs on a couple of evenings, but the processing of setting that up is still going forward.

I've attached the official call for participation below. I hope to see many of you in Baltimore!

   Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop
                       (CUFP) 2010

                 Call for Participation

                  Sponsored by SIGPLAN
                Co-located with ICFP 2010

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                   1 - 2 October 2010
                   Baltimore (MD), USA

        http://cufp.org/conference/schedule/2010

          Reservation will be available through
 ICFP's website: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010

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Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic
research for over 35 years, and have seen an ever larger practical
impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to
biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorous community of
practically-minding functional programmers has come into existence.

CUFP is designed to serve this community. The annual CUFP workshop is
a place where people can see how others are using functional
programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and
collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about
the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn
practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming
to work.
     
CUFP 2010 will feature three hour Functional Programming tutorials
given by language experts on the first day and Experience and
Technical Talks on day two. Attendees may attend either or both days.

Talks Program, October 2nd 2010

   Luke Hoban (Keynote)
      F#: Embracing Functional Programming in Visual Studio 2010

   Sally A Browning (Galois Inc)
      Cryptol, a DSL for Cryptographic Algorithms 

   Marius Eriksen (Twitter)
      Scaling Scala at Twitter          

   Michael Fogus
      Naïveté vs. Experience - or, How We Thought We Could Use Scala
      and Clojure, and How We Actually Did

   Neal Glew & Leaf Petersen (Intel)
      Functional Language Compiler Experiences at Intel

   Warren Harris (Metaweb)
      Functional Programming at Freebase

   Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (U. of Texas)
      ACL2: Eating One’s Own Dog Food

   Rusty Klophaus (Basho Technologies)
      Riak Core: Building Distributed Applications Without Shared
      State

   Howard Mansell (Credit Suisse)
      Eden: An F#/WPF frameworok for building GUI tools

   Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
      Reactive Extensions (Rx): Curing Your Asynchronous Programming
      Blues

Tutorial Program, October 1st 2010

   Morning:  
      Clojure (Aaron Bedra) 
      Building robust servers with Erlang (Martin Logan)
      High Performance Haskell (Johan Tibell)
   Afternoon:
      F# 2.0 - A day at the beach (Rick Minerich)
      Implementing web sites with Scala and Lift (David Pollak)
      Camlp4 and Template Haskell (Nicolas Pouillard, Jake Donham)

For more information, for more information, including presentation
abstracts and the most recent schedule information, visit

   http://cufp.org

See you there!