Need an overview of FP-related research topics
I spoke to a faculty member in a decent Computer Science department in which no one has ever done anything related to FP. (You may say that is an inherent contradiction, but what can I do, the department does have a good reputation. I am withholding names to protect the innocent.) This faculty member happens to be the one who was forced to teach the single programming languages course offered by the department, due to his having the least seniority in the department. As such, he is now actually starting to become a bit interested in FP and Haskell. I gave him a few links to Haskell resources, which he appreciated. But coming from more of a pragmatic non-research point of view, I didn't really know what to say. The best I could do was to point him to the Haskell Wikibook, and to the "Why FP Matters" paper. I would like some links that would give such a person a nice overview of the various active areas of FP-related research these days, leaning towards Haskell. I want to give him a fairly broad view of what is interesting and exciting, why various topics are important, where to find ideas for collaboration and applications to other areas, etc. I actually know about a few departments like that. This could be a good strategy for drumming up more research interest in Haskell. In some cases, the person in question has already been influenced somewhat by the lisp fanatics, so I would like some help in how to deal with that also. Thanks, Yitz
On 17/03/2009, at 10:59 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
I would like some links that would give such a person a nice overview of the various active areas of FP-related research these days, leaning towards Haskell. I want to give him a fairly broad view of what is interesting and exciting, why various topics are important, where to find ideas for collaboration and applications to other areas, etc.
Some ideas off the top of my head: - Lambda the Ultimate (not Haskell or fp specific) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ - Browse recent editions of the Journal of Functional Programming (perhaps they even subscribe to it at the Uni in question) and perhaps TOPLAS. - Browse the recent proceedings of various conferences and workshops such as International Conference on Functional Programming, Trends in Functional Programming, the Haskell Symposium, Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, International Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming (and many others). - Check the home pages and blogs of well-known and active researchers (I won't list them). - Maybe http://www.readscheme.org/, though not Haskell specific. (not sure if http://haskell.readscheme.org/ is working anymore). - There's quite a list of papers on haskell.org, under http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers . Cheers, Bernie.
I wrote:
I would like some links that would give such a person a nice overview of the various active areas of FP-related research these days...
Bernie Pope wrote:
Some ideas off the top of my head...
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Also, thanks to Sean for suggesting the History paper. I sent it on, hope it does the trick :) Regards, Yitz
I would like some links that would give such a person a nice overview of the various active areas of FP-related research these days, leaning towards Haskell.
It seems the "History of Haskell" paper would be useful for background and pointers to further reading on the research that has led Haskell to its current status. Of course, it is long (55 pages, two columns), but perhaps it's a nice read, nonetheless. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-hask... Regards, Sean
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Yitzchak Gale
I would like some links that would give such a person a nice overview of the various active areas of FP-related research these days, leaning towards Haskell.
Also check out the "Haskell Communities and Activities Report" quote: "The purpose is twofold: (a) to establish what communities, people, and projects are out there, working with or on Haskell, and what their areas of interest are; (b) to feed back summary information about ongoing activities in the diverse Haskell sub-communities and amongst Haskell users (commercial or otherwise) to the Haskell Community as a whole" http://www.haskell.org/communities/ Very interesting stuff in there! regards, Bas
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