ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming http://www.deinprogramm.de/defun-2008/ Victoria, BC, Canada, 25, 27 September, 2008 Held in conjunction with ICFP 2008: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2008/ DEFUN 2008 is the event for developers using functional languages: Recognized experts on functional programming technologies share their knowledge and professional skills in talks and tutorials in 10 exciting tracks. Find out how to best make functional programming work in your development project! Acquire new development skills! Learn about other functional languages! The DEFUN program (attached) has tracks with the following types of presentations: - Half-day general language tutorials for specific functional languages, given by recognized experts for the respective languages. - Half-day tutorials on specific techniques or the use of specific technologies in functional programming. - 45-minute "how-to" talks that provide specific information on how to solve specific problems using functional programming. These talks focus on concrete examples, but provide useful information for developers working on different projects or in different contexts. The developer tracks are complementary to ICFP itself (which is for researchers). They are anchored by CUFP, the Haskell Symposium, and the Erlang workshop. Organizers Kathleen Fisher AT&T Labs Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research Mike Sperber (co-chair) DeinProgramm Don Stewart (co-chair) Galois PROGRAM: Note: The sessions of a given morning or afternoon are concurrent. The markers (M1, M2, A1, A2, etc.) mark a particular session, and correspond to the designations on the registration forms. Note that the talks M5 together constitute a session. DAY 1 - 25 SEPTEMBER, 2008 MORNING SESSION M1 (Tutorial): Practical Erlang Programming Francesco Cesarini Erlang Training and Consulting M2 (Tutorial): A Gentle Introduction to Functional Information Visualization Jefferson Heard Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina M3 (Tutorial): JavaScript: from basics to building custom frameworks Sameer Sundresh and Erik Hinterbichler University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Pattern Insight, Inc. AFTERNOON SESSION A1 (Tutorial): Erlang DBG and the Trace Biff Tamas Nagy Erlang Training and Consulting A2 (Tutorial): Erlang QuickCheck Tutorial Thomas Arts IT University of Gothenburg and Quviq A3 (Tutorial): Practical and Portable Programming in Scheme Donovan Kolbly TippingPoint Technologies DAY 2 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2008 MORNING SESSION M4 (Tutorial): Real World Haskell Bryan O'Sullivan M5 (Talks): Ten one-liners: handling power series in Haskell Doug McIlroy Dartmouth Incremental multi-level input processing with left-fold enumerator Oleg Kiselyov How we locate wild animals with a functional program Ryan Newton MIT AFTERNOON SESSION A4 (Tutorial): Using QuickCheck and HPC - Obtaining Quality Assurance for Haskell Code Andy Gill Kansas University Koen Claessen Chalmers A5 (Tutorial): Introduction to F# Don Syme and Chris Smith Microsoft Research