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) |
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| 09:15 - 10:30 |
Keynote: Michael Brunton-Spall Functional pragmatism |
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| 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 (-) |
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 | ||
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 |
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| 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 Various (()) |
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) |
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| 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.