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Associate Professor (Software Engineering) position at Monash University
by liyuanfang＠gmail.com 07 May '15

07 May '15

The Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University is seeking an experienced academic in the field of Software Engineering, with a demonstrated track record of excellence in teaching and research, to lead its Software Engineering programs. A member of the prestigious Australian Group of Eight Universities, Monash University is the only Australian university with a dedicated Faculty of IT, where both our research and education programs cover the full span of IT, from Computer Science and Software Engineering, through Networks and Security, to Business Information Systems and the Digital Humanities. This Associate Professor (Level D) position will be located at our Clayton campus (located in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs), where we offer a 4-year Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, accredited by both Engineers Australia and the Australian Computer Society. Monash is seeking to boost its existing expertise in Software Engineering, and the successful applicant will be asked to lead a new hiring round for further Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions. For full details and to apply, see here: http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=534496&sKeywords=Associate…. Closing date: Sunday 14 June 2015, 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time Enquiries: Prof. Graham Farr, Head of Campus, Clayton, Faculty of IT +61 3 9905 5201. email: graham.farr(a)monash.edu

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Assistant Professorship in Nottingham
by Graham Hutton 06 May '15

06 May '15

Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is seeking to appoint a new Assistant Professor: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI41814 Applications in the area of the Functional Programming (FP) lab are encouraged. The FP lab is keen to receive applications from candidates with an excellent publication record, experience in combining theory with practice, and the ability to secure external funding to support their research. Further information about the FP lab is available from: http://fp.cs.nott.ac.uk The deadline for applications is Wednesday 15th July 2015. Best wishes, Graham -- Prof Graham Hutton Functional Programming Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Position in foundations of software and programming languages
by Gunnar Brinkmann 06 May '15

06 May '15

Dear subscribers of the haskell mailing list, Ghent University has an opening for a full time tenure track position in "foundations of software and programming languages". Details can be found at http://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/professorial-staff/foundations-of-sof… Additional question can be posed to Gunnar.Brinkmann(a)ugent.be. With kind regards, Gunnar Brinkmann -- Gunnar Brinkmann Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Ghent University Krijgslaan 281 - S9 B - 9000 Ghent email: Gunnar.Brinkmann(a)UGent.be phone: +32-9-264.48.07, Fax: +32-9-264.49.95

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Summer School on Generic and Effectful Programming
by Maciej Pirog 05 May '15

05 May '15

Call for Participation SUMMER SCHOOL ON GENERIC AND EFFECTFUL PROGRAMMING St Anne's College, Oxford, 6th to 10th July 2015 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/ TOPIC Generic programming is a technique that exploits the inherent structure that exists in data, to automatically produce efficient and flexible algorithms that can be adapted to suit different needs. The goal of this school is to explore datatype-generic programming and related topics from a variety of different angles, emphasizing in particular the interplay of generics and effects. This summer school is the closing activity of the EPSRC-funded project "Unifying Theories of Generic Programming" at Oxford University. LECTURERS Six lecturers from the Programming Languages community, each an acknowledged expert in their specialism, will cover various aspects of generic and effectful programming. Each will give about four hours' lectures, distributed throughout the week. Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews) "Embedded Domain-Specific Languages in Idris" Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen) "Worst-case Efficient Generic Functional Programming on Bulk Data" Andres Löh (Well-Typed) "Applying Type-level and Generic Programming in Haskell" Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde) "Datatypes of Datatypes" Don Syme (Microsoft Research) "Compile-time Meta-programming for the Information-rich World" Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology) "Containers for Effects and Contexts" PREREQUISITES The school is aimed at doctoral students in programming languages and related areas; however, researchers and practitioners will be very welcome, as will strong masters students with the support of a supervisor. It will be assumed that participants have a good understanding of typed functional programming, as in Haskell, O'Caml, or F#. DATES Registration deadline: 21st June 2015 School: 6th July (9am) to 10th July 2015 (lunchtime) COSTS Costs will be kept low, thanks to support from EPSRC. There will be a nominal registration fee of £135, and B&B accommodation in college will be £75 (ensuite) or £48 (shared bathroom) per night. We can accept at most 50 participants; places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information, including instructions on how to register, is available at the website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/utgp/school/

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Call for participation (FCRC+LCTES)
by Klaus Havelund 04 May '15

04 May '15

FCRC’15 <http://fcrc.acm.org/> Early bird registration is now open for FCRC 2015, the event that assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences and workshops into a week-long coordinated meeting. FCRC 2015 will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, in Portland, Oregon from June 13 – 19, 2015. Early Registration ends May 18th. This year’s plenary speakers include: Michael Stonebraker, MIT CSAIL, 2014 ACM Turing Award Winner, who will deliver the 2014 ACM Turing Lecture; Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University; Olivier Temam, Google; Don Syme, Microsoft Research; Kathy Yelick, University of California at Berkeley and Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University Computational Complexity Conference CRA-W 2015 Career Mentoring Workshops EC 2015 [The 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation] HPDC 2015 [The 24th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing] ISCA 2015 [The 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture] ISMM 2015 [ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management] IWQoS 2015 [IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service] LCTES 2015 [ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems] PADL 2015 [17th Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages] PLDI 2015 [36th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation] SIGMETRICS 2015 [International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems] SPAA 2015 [ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures] STOC 2015 [47th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing] TRANSACT [10th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing]

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CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015
by Nabeel Al-Qirim 03 May '15

03 May '15

From: Nabeel Al-Qirim Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 3:23 PM To: haskell(a)haskell.org; Haskell Cafe Subject: CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015 CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015 IIT’15: The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2015 URL: http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit2015/posters.html The IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Committee invites all undergraduate and graduate students to submit an extended (2 pages max.) abstract and to display it as a poster during the IIT’15. The poster topic should fall within the conference’s theme and tracks. SUBMISSION Extended abstracts should be sent to Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae. All students are encouraged to review their abstracts with their faculty advisers prior to submission. All accepted abstracts will be published by the IIT’15 proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES -Student Poster (Extended Paper) Submission May 30, 2015 -Notification of Student Poster acceptance July 15, 2015 -Camera ready Extended Paper and Poster material September 01, 2015 -Conference November 01-03, 2015 BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARDS There will be a competition for best student poster award at the IIT’15. This award will be given to recognize student excellence in research and presentation. CONTACT Queries should be directed to: Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Thanks, Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Chair College of Information Technology United Arab Emirates University P.O Box 15551 - Al Ain United Arab Emirates Tel: +971-3-7135531 Mobile: +971-507308705 Fax: +971-3-7672018 Email: nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Website: http://nalqirim.wix.com/nabeel-al-qirim Disclaimer:"The content of this email together with any attachments, statements and opinions expressed herein contains information that is confidential in nature and intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee of this email or you have received this message in error please notify the sender and delete the message and any associated files from your system, you have no right to copy, print, distribute or use this email or any of its attachments, or permit or disclose its contents to any other party in any way, except with the prior approval of the sender. In case of breach of what has been explained above, you will be held legally accountable." تنبيه: "تنبيه: إن محتوى هذا البريد الإلكتروني بمرفقاته وبياناته وآرائه الواردة في هذه الوثيقة يحتوي على معلومات تعتبر ذات طبيعة سرية، وتستهدف المرسل اسمه فقط، فإذا لم تكن المرسل إليه في هذه الرسالة أو كنت قد تلقيت الرسالة بالخطأ؛ يُرجى إبلاغ المُرسل وحذف الرسالة وأية ملفات مرتبطة من النظام الخاص بك، إذ ليس لديك الحق في نسخ أو طباعة أو توزيع أو استخدام محتويات هذا البريد الإلكتروني، أو السماح أو الكشف عن ذلك لأي طرف آخر تحت أي ظرف إلا بموافقة مسبقة من لمرسل، علماً بأن إخلالك بما سبق سيعرضك للمساءلة القانونية" . www.uaeu.ac.ae<http://www.uaeu.ac.ae>

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Haskell Weekly News
by Kim-Ee Yeoh 01 May '15

01 May '15

*Top Picks:* - Haskell wins a bumper crop of 18 accepted Google Summer of Code proposals <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/342rvp/google_summer_of_code_18_pr…>. Mentor offers total 44, another thumpin' sign of life. Kudos to Edward Kmett, Johan Tibell, Shachaf Ben-Kiki, and Gershom Bazerman. Gloria Haskella sine labore nulla. - Reddit Haskell celebrates <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33wnf1/20k_rhaskell_subscribers_ni…> 20k subscribers. It's the 7th largest PL community on reddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/wiki/faq#wiki_what_language_reddits_ar…> after python, javascript, java, php, ruby, c++, in that order. - Matthew Griffith <http://mechanical-elephant.com/thoughts/2015-04-20-becoming-productive-in-h…> migrates away from Python: "I do most of my web prototyping in Haskell now." A journey vividly logged and much loved on Hacker News <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431944>. And also on Proggit <http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33oyx9/becoming_productive_in_…> and Reddit Haskell <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33mnlc/becoming_productive_in_hask…> . - A web developer migrates away from Rails to Haskell and explains on HN the 10x advantage <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419601#up_9420448> he reaps. - Fancy Python in Haskell dress? Check out Dogelang <http://pyos.github.io/dg/>, charmingly defiant: "With Haskell's syntax but none of its type system, dg is the best way to make fans of static typing shut up already." Proggit kibbitzing here <http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33kleg/dg_its_a_python_no_its_…>, HN there <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432383>. - Caio Rordrigues copiously illustrates <https://github.com/caiorss/Functional-Programming> Haskell programming. Pretty: a tax bracket tool <https://github.com/caiorss/Functional-Programming#tax-brackets> and a coffee shop Point-of-Sale DSL <https://github.com/caiorss/Functional-Programming#small-dsl-domain-specific…>. It's almost a whole book! - Christian Marie starts the ball rolling on library cheatsheets <https://github.com/anchor/haskell-cheat-sheets/> to guide your way through the jungle of hackage. Moar, moar! <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33sc98/haskell_cheat_sheets_for_co…> - Got a C library you'd love Haskell bindings for? Remember Ian Ross and his new C2HS release <http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Haskell-Weekly-News-td5768107.html>? Well, Ian's happy <http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Tutorial-Ideas-td5808049.html> to do it for you. Provisos <http://www.skybluetrades.net/blog/posts/2015/04/27/c2hs-tutorial-request.ht…> apply. - Olle Fredriksson announces a combinator-based Earley parsing library <https://github.com/ollef/Earley> which accepts context-free but not context-sensitive (monadic parsing) grammars. Discussion <https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33l9cr/ann_earley_parsing_library/> reveals that "one enormously important difference for this library is that it reports all possible parses." - Another Lennart, last name Spitzner, creates another genie that turns type signatures into programs. Unlike Djinn, Exference <http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/ANN-exference-a-different-djinn-td5807…> makes no promises over termination. "Your wish is my command even at the expense of closure." - Like Agda? You can now enjoy the hole-driven development style in Haskell, brought to you courtesy of Mote by Izaak Meckler <https://github.com/imeckler/mote>. Discussion here <https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33v4nm/ann_mote_a_tool_bringing_h…> . <http://tomassetti.me/an-erd-web-server-generation-entity-diagrams-from-a-te…> - Federico Tomassetti <http://tomassetti.me/an-erd-web-server-generation-entity-diagrams-from-a-te…> creates a web-based interface to Andrew Gallant's erd tool <https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd>. Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD) come from the database world and help visualize {one,many} to {one,many} relationships. Federico's web app enables him to use erd everywhere without having to install the tool chain multiple times. - Mark Dominus gives a beginner spin <http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/monad-search.html> to the chestnut of SEND + MORE = MONEY <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_arithmetic>. This puzzle site <http://programmingpraxis.com/2012/07/31/send-more-money-part-1/> has comparisons with other languages. - Got a number system? Flip it into a data structure <https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/edwardk/fibonacci/leonardo>. Re-flip it into an efficient search algorithm <https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/edwardk/fibonacci/search>. Edward Kmett shows you how. Respective discussion here <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/342s31/edward_kmett_leonardo_rando…> and here <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/346b6t/edward_kmett_openended_fibo…> . *In Memoriam* - A key founder of Haskell, Professor Paul Hudak, completed <http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/30/hudak-spirited-saybrugian-and-cs-p…> his end-of-life plan <http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/hudak/journal/view/id/5538f5cea589b4216c0…> after a five-year encounter with leukemia. He stays <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431017> in the thoughts <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9465999> of all <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/33oe4b/holding_on_and_letting_go/> who cherish <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/34exz3/prof_hudak_passed_away_last…> his gifts <http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/34f19q/paul_hudak_creator_of_h…> from the heart. *Quotes of the Week* - A type system flattens the cost of change curve <http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/costOfChange.htm>. -- Chad Austin <http://chadaustin.me/2015/04/the-long-term-problem-with-dynamically-typed-l…> - The MLs and Haskell remind me of Brian Eno's line about how the first Velvet Underground album only sold 30,000 copies, but "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band". -- Source <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431944#up_9437017> - On the value of Haskell <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9445968#up_9448988>: I find I'm able to accomplish tasks which would otherwise be beyond my skill and intelligence. For example, even though C was the first language I learned, I can't imagine writing a parser in C after discovering the simplicity & readability of monadic parsing in Haskell. - Haskell's level of abstraction is so crazy that they can actually swap out their entire I/O system for another one without changing any application interfaces, this one blew my mind, it's the change that makes GHC 7.8 run the Warp webserver twice as fast. ... All of this without changing a line in Warp, they just transparently made every traditional Haskell use modern I/O principles. Academics man, they're smart ;) -- Source <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419601#up_9432564> - An old man loved is winter with flowers. -- Edgar Z. Friedenberg *Cool Beans of the Week* - Ravi Chugh and his fine team at U. Chicago just concluded stateside's first ever FRP-based FP course for undergrads using Elm. Check out the student projects <https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2015/winter/22300-1/Showcase.ht…> for inspiration on FRP architecture. Over in Bonn, Janis Voigtländer also gave such a course <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/Qjs6sp3lZq0/8aa5bvYcdDYJ> that completed this year. Paul's legacy lives on. p.s. Coming soon: Cabal Hell -- Kim-Ee

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[TFP'15] call for participation
by Peter Achten 01 May '15

01 May '15

----------------------------- L A S T C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2015 =========== 16th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming June 3-5, 2015 Inria Sophia Antipolis, France http://tfp2015.inria.fr/ The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see below). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these articles for formal publication. The selected revised papers will be published as a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (www.springer.com/lncs) volume. TFP 2015 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2015 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 2nd. The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in * Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003; * Munich (Germany) in 2004; * Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005; * Nottingham (UK) in 2006; * New York (USA) in 2007; * Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008; * Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009; * Oklahoma (USA) in 2010; * Madrid (Spain) in 2011; * St. Andrews (UK) in 2012; * Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013; * and in Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/) == INVITED SPEAKERS == TFP is pleased to announce talks by the following two invited speakers: * Laurence Rideau is a researcher at INRIA and is interested in the semantics of programming languages , the formal methods, and the verification tools for programs and mathematical proofs. She participated in the beginnings of the Compcert project (certified compiler), and is part of the Component Mathematical team in the MSR-INRIA joint laboratory, who performed the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem successfully. Thirty years ago, computers barged in mathematics with the famous proof of the Four Color Theorem. Initially limited to simple calculation, their role is now expanding to the reasoning whose complexity is beyond the capabilities of most humans, as the proof of the classification of finite simple groups. We present our large collaborative adventure around the formalization of the Feit-Thompson theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feit%E2%80%93Thompson_theorem) that is a first step to the classification of finite groups and that uses a palette of methods and techniques that range from formal logic to software (and mathematics) engineering. * Anil Madhavapeddy == SCOPE == The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Topics suitable for the symposium include: Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing Functional programming in the cloud High performance functional computing Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs Dependently typed functional programming Validation and verification of functional programs Debugging and profiling for functional languages Functional programming in different application areas: security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded systems, global computing, grids, etc. Interoperability with imperative programming languages Novel memory management techniques Program analysis and transformation techniques Empirical performance studies Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages (Embedded) domain specific languages New implementation strategies Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2015 program chair, Manuel Serrano. == BEST PAPER AWARDS == To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper accepted for the formal proceedings. TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive both prizes. == SPONSORS == TFP is financially supported by Erlang Solutions. == PROGRAM == Please find the program at: http://tfp2015.inria.fr/program/ The program features two invited talks by Laurence Rideau and Anil Madhavapeddy and one comprehensive Dart tutorial by Florian Loitsch. == IMPORTANT DATES == Registration: May 4, 2015 TFP Symposium: June 3-5, 2015 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Janis Voigtländer University of Bonn, DE Scott Owens University of Kent, UK Neil Sculthorpe Swansea University, UK Colin Runciman University of York, UK Manuel Serrano Inria (PC chair), FR Rinus Plasmeijer University of Nijmegen, NL Tomas Petricek University of Cambridge, UK Marco T. Morazan Seton Hall University, USA Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE Michel Mauny Ensta ParisTech, FR Sam Lindley The University of Edinburgh, UK Daan Leijen Microsoft, USA Jurriaan Hage Utrecht University, NL Andy Gill University of Kansas, USA Thomas Gazagnaire University of Cambrige, UK Lars-Ake Fredlund Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES Jean-Christophe Filliatre Université Paris Sud Orsay, FR Marc Feeley Université de Montréal, CA Olaf Chitil University of Kent, UK Edwin Brady University of St Andrews, UK

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