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

[oliver mueller]

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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