Functional Programming
- đ¤ Speaker: Various Speakers
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30 - 19:30
- đ Venue: CCBI, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Abstract
A series of talks on functional programming languages covering Haskell, Lisp and F#.
Come to find out more about how functional programming languages allow us to specify what we want to compute, not how it should be computed.
Speakers:
- Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute) – Haskell: not just for purists
- Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research) – Nested Data Parallelism: from NESL to Haskell
- Stephen Eglen (DAMTP) – Emacs Lisp
- Phillip Trelford (Microsoft Research) – Winning the adPredict competition with functional programming
Drinks & nibbles will be provided.
Directions:
Series This talk is part of the SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge series.
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Thursday 17 April 2008, 17:30-19:30