FP Days 2012

The conference programme is final.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

See the daily conference programmes: Thursday 25th October | Friday 26th October

Thursday 25th October

08:00 - 09:00 Conference Registration. Tea / Coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome to FP Days 2012
Mark Dalgarno (Software Acumen)
09:15 - 10:30 Keynote: Michael Brunton-Spall
Functional pragmatism
10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Case Study:
Playing functional Conway's game of life (F#)

Vagif Abilov
(Miles)
Case Study:
Clojure after the honeymoon

Håkan Råberg
(Ghettojedi Software)
Jon Pither
(UBS)
Experience Report:
Silk: making the semantic web functional

Erik Hesselink
(Silk)
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:45 Experience Report:
Lessons from functional programming in five languages

Robert Rees
(The Guardian)

Tutorial:
Big Data Scripting in F#

Matthew Moloney
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Hands-On:
Clojure - Live Workshop

Sam Aaron
(University of Cambridge)
Hands-On:
Hands-on Erlang introduction

Francesco Cesarini
(Erlang Solutions)
14:45 - 15:15 Tea / Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Tutorial:
Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning (F#)

Andy Gordon
(Microsoft Research)

Tutorial:
An Introduction to Logic Programming on the JVM with core.logic (Clojure)

Edmund Jackson
(Cambridge Data Science)
Continued

Hands-On:
Clojure - Live Workshop

Sam Aaron
(University of Cambridge)
Continued

Hands-On:
Hands-on Erlang introduction

Francesco Cesarini
(Erlang Solutions)
17:00 - 18:00 Panel - facilitated by Sadek Drobi, with Simon Peyton-Jones, Francesco Cesarini, Michael Brunton-Spall and John Stevenson
18:00 onwards Conference Social Activities


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Friday 26th October

08:30 - 09:00 Conference Registration. Tea / Coffee
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote: Francesco Cesarini
What they do not teach you about running a business when taking your computer science degree
10:15 - 10:45 Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 Tutorial:
Try F# 3.0

Kenji Takeda
(Microsoft Research)

Tutorial:
Functional Web and Mobile Applications with F# and WebSharper

Adam Granicz
(IntelliFactory)
Tutorial:
Zen and the Art of Live Programming with Clojure

Sam Aaron
(University of Cambridge)

Tutorial:
Building projects the humane way with Clojure

John Stevenson
(Heroku & Salesforce)
Hands-On:
Hands-on Haskell introduction

Edsko de Vries
(Well Typed)
Duncan Coutts
(Well Typed)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:45 Case Study:
Clojure, Functional Programming, and Data at uSwitch.com

Paul Ingles
(Forward Internet Group)

Experience Report:
Functional DSLs for biocomputation

Colin Gravill
(Microsoft Research)
Hands-On:
Programming drop-in

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Continued

Hands-On:
Hands-on Haskell introduction

Edsko de Vries
(Well Typed)
Duncan Coutts
(Well Typed)
14:45 - 15:15 Tea / Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15 Tutorial:
Concurrent Haskell

Simon Marlow
(Microsoft Research)
Tutorial:
Control-flow, concurrency, and the death of JavaScript

Matthew Sackman
(VMware)
16:25 - 16:30 FP Days 2012 Close Down
Mark Dalgarno (Software Acumen)


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CONTACT THE ORGANISERS

FP Days 2012 is organised by Software Acumen, based in Cambridge, England. We specialize in practical events for the software community.

Please email to contact us directly. We welcome your questions and comments.

You may also call +44 (0)1223 900107 if you have questions or comments about the event.