From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E8DBBAF for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:42:58 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At4AANsdhUjOLvwqgGdsb2JhbACSRgEBCwUCBAkRA5w8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,229,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="15366425" Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 22 Jul 2008 08:42:58 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.48] ([71.111.156.25]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K4E00F4PANK9JZ6@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:42:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:41:39 -0700 From: Jim Grundy Subject: Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop Call for Participation To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Cc: Jim Grundy , Simon Peyton Jones Message-id: <48858123.4090407@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) X-Spam: no; 0.00; sigplan:01 co-located:01 icfp:01 icfp:01 syme:01 erlang:01 ocaml:01 erlang:01 haskell:01 anil:01 citrix:01 ocaml:01 polakow:01 haskell:01 lennart:01 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 __________________________________________________________________ 26 September 2008 Victoria, Canada Registration opens in late July through http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/ __________________________________________________________________ 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 * Matthias Blume * Adam Granicz * Jim Grundy(co-chair) * Andy Martin * Yaron Minsky * Simon Peyton Jones(co-chair) * Ulf Wiger 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.