[Haskell-cafe] 7th Ghent Functional Programming Group meeting on Tuesday, April 26

[Jasper Van der Jeugt]

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 <oliver.mueller at gmail.com> 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 <jasper... at gmail.com> 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
>>
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