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SUMMARY:How to give a great research talk - Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft 
 Research)
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CONTACT:Dr Fabien Petitcolas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for
  any researcher\, but they aren’t easy. In this pair of presentations\, 
 I’ll describe simple guidelines that I follow for writing papers and giv
 ing talks\, which I think may be useful to you too. I don’t have all the
  answers – far from it – and I hope that the presentation will evolve 
 into a discussion in which you share your own insights\, rather than a lec
 ture. \n\n*Biography*: Simon Peyton Jones\, MA\, MBCS\, CEng\, graduated f
 rom Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry\, he sp
 ent seven years as a lecturer at University College London\, and nine year
 s as a professor at Glasgow University\, before moving to Microsoft Resear
 ch in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming langua
 ges\, their implementation\, and their application. He has led a successio
 n of research projects focused around the design and implementation of pro
 duction-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and par
 allel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard
  functional language Haskell\, and is the lead designer of the widely-used
  Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the im
 plementation of functional languages. More generally\, he is interested in
  language design\, rich type systems\, software component architectures\, 
 compiler technology\, code generation\, runtime systems\, virtual machines
 \, garbage collection\, and so on. He is particularly motivated by direct 
 use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation 
 – that’s one reason he loves functional programming so much. He is als
 o keen to apply ideas from advanced programming languages to mainstream se
 ttings.\n
LOCATION:Large public lecture room\, Microsoft Research\, Roger Needham Bu
 ilding\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue\, Cambridge CB3 0FB
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