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SUMMARY:Theory into Practice: the story of Incremental - Yaron Minsky - Ja
 ne Street
DTSTART:20140521T130000Z
DTEND:20140521T140000Z
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CONTACT:David Greaves
DESCRIPTION:This talk will describe the development of a library called\nI
 ncremental\, a library for creating computations that are structured\nas d
 ynamic dependency graphs\, where only the relevant parts of the\ngraph nee
 d to be evaluated in order to update to changes to input\nvalues.  This li
 brary is based on Umut Acar et al's work on\nself-adjusting computation.\n
 \n\nThe experience of building incremental is interesting in part as a sto
 ry about technology transfer.  Building an efficient and usable  library o
 f this kind is surprisingly tricky\, and involves addressing\n many techni
 cal issues that were not contemplated by the original  academic work.  We'
 ll discuss these technical issues in some detail\,  and consider what they
  suggest about the difference in interests and  goals between the academic
  and industrial work.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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