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CFP: Functional High Performance Computing 2016
by David Duke 03 Apr '16

03 Apr '16

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS FHPC 2016 The 5th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing Nara, Japan September 22, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/fhpcworkshops/ Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2016) Submission Deadline: Friday, 10 June, 2016 (anywhere on earth) ====================================================================== The FHPC workshop aims at bringing together researchers exploring uses of functional (or more generally, declarative or high-level) programming technology in application domains where high performance is essential. The aim of the meeting is to enable sharing of results, experiences, and novel ideas about how high-level, declarative specifications of computationally challenging problems can serve as maintainable and portable code that approaches (or even exceeds) the performance of machine-oriented imperative implementations. All aspects of performance critical programming and parallel programming are in-scope for the workshop, irrespective of hardware target. This includes both traditional large-scale scientific computing (HPC), as well as work targeting single node systems with SMPs, GPUs, FPGAs, or embedded processors. It is becoming apparent that radically new and well founded methodologies for programming such systems are required to address their inherent complexity and to reconcile execution performance with programming productivity. Experience reports are also welcome. Proceedings: ============ FHPC 2016 seeks to encourage a range of submissions, focussing on work in progress and facilitating early exchange of ideas and open discussion on innovative and/or emerging results. To this end submissions should take the form of short (maximum 6 page) papers. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. * Submissions due: Friday, 10 June, 2016 (anywhere on earth) * Author notification: Friday, 8 July, 2016 * Final copy due: Sunday, 31 July, 2016 Submitted papers must be in portable document format (PDF), formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (2 column, 9pt format). See http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm for more information and style files. Papers should be no longer than 6 pages. Contributions to FHPC 2016 should be submitted via Easychair, at the following URL: * https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fhpc16 The FHPC workshops adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN policies regarding programme committee contributions and republication. Any paper submitted must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. PC member submissions are welcome, but will be reviewed to a higher standard. http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication Travel Support: =============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm) Programme Committee: ==================== David Duke (co-chair) University of Leeds, UK Yukiyoshi Kameyama (co-chair) University of Tsukuba, Japan Baris Aktemur Özyeğin University, Turkey Marco Aldinucci University of Torino, Italy Jost Berthold Commonwealth Bank, Australia Kei Davis Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Kento Emoto Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ben Lippmeier University of New South Wales, Australia Rita Loogen University of Marburg, Germany Geoffrey Mainland Drexel University, USA Mike Rainey INRIA, France Mary Sheeran Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Satnam Singh Facebook, UK

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Haskell hacking internships at LANL (Fall 2016, undergraduate)
by Kei Davis 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

We have an ongoing project developing an auto-parallelizing pure functional language implementation using GHC as the front end to dump Core or STG (much like Intel's approach here http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/hs2013/hrc-paper.pdf) If you are a United States citizen or permanent resident alien studying computer science or mathematics at the undergraduate level with strong interests in Haskell programming, compiler/runtime development, and pursuing a fall semester (2016) internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory this could be for you. We don't expect applicants to necessarily already be highly accomplished Haskell programmers--such an internship is expected to be a combination of (further) developing your programming/Haskell skills and putting them to good use. If you're already a strong C hacker we could use that too. The application deadline is May 31, 2016. It's a bit of a process so don't leave inquiries until the last day. Email me if interested in more information, and feel free to pass this along. -- Kei Davis kei(a)lanl.gov Applied Computer Science Group CCS-7, Mail Stop B287 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.

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[TFP 2016] Final call for papers
by Peter Achten 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2016 =========== 17th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming June 8-10, 2016 University of Maryland, College Park Near Washington, DC http://tfp2016.org/ 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. TFP 2016 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2016 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 7nd. == INVITED SPEAKERS == TFP 2016 is pleased to announce keynote talks by the following two invited speakers: * Ronald Garcia, University of British Columbia * Steve Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania == HISTORY == 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; * Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014; * and Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015. For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage. (http://www.tifp.org/) == 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, but are not limited to: 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 2016 program chair, David Van Horn. == 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 CyberPoint, Galois, Trail of Bits, and the University of Maryland Computer Science Department. == PAPER SUBMISSIONS == Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20 pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has taken place. We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2016 Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 == IMPORTANT DATES == Submission of draft papers: April 8, 2016 Notification: April 15, 2016 Registration: May 13, 2016 TFP Symposium: June 8-10, 2016 Student papers feedback: June 14, 2016 Submission for formal review: July 14, 2016 Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2016 Camera ready paper: October 14, 2016 == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Amal Ahmed Northeastern University (US) Nada Amin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University (JP) Malgorzata Biernacka University of Wroclaw (PL) Laura Castro University of A Coruña (ES) Ravi Chugh University of Chicago (US) Silvia Ghilezan University of Novi Sad (SR) Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam (NL) John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Suresh Jagannathan Purdue University (US) Pieter Koopman Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Geoffrey Mainland Drexel University (US) Chris Martens University of California, Santa Cruz (US) Jay McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Lowell (US) Heather Miller École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) Manuel Serrano INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (FR) Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University (US) Éric Tanter University of Chile (CL) David Van Horn (Chair) University of Maryland (US) Niki Vazou University of California, San Diego (US) Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania (US)

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ARRAY 2016 extended deadline: April 11
by Clemens Grelck 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2016 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Santa Barbara, CA, USA June 14, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/array-2016/ EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 11, 2016 (FIRM!) *************************************************************************** ARRAY 2016 is part of PLDI 2016 37th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation June 13-17, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016/ *************************************************************************** About: Array-oriented programming is a powerful abstraction for compactly implementing numerically intensive algorithms. Many modern languages now provide some support for collective array operations, which are used by an increasing number of programmers (and non-programmers) for data analysis and scientific computing. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. *************************************************************************** Keynote speakers: We are proud to announce two distinguished keynote speakers: Bradford Chamberlain Principal Engineer at Cray Inc, Seattle, USA Chief designer of the Chapel high productivity language Morten Kromberg User Experience Director (CXO) at Dyalog Ltd, Bramley, UK Commercial provider of APL interpreters, tools and services *************************************************************************** Focus: The aim of the ARRAY workshop series is to foster the cross-pollination of concepts across domains, projects and research communities and to explore new directions, such as: + Expanding the scope of array programming to encompass a wider range of data types and computations, + Transparently utilizing parallel hardware (multi-core, SIMD, GPU, FPGA) by leveraging the implicitly parallel semantics of array operations, + Simplifying the embedding of array constructs within existing languages which weren't designed for numerical computing, + Connections between array abstractions and other models such as dataflow programming, stream programming, and data parallelism, + High-level compilation and optimization techniques for array-oriented programs, + Compilers, virtual machines and frameworks for array-oriented programming languages. *************************************************************************** Important Dates: Paper submissions: Fri, Apr 11, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 Camera-ready copies due: Fri, May 27, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Workshop date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 *************************************************************************** Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: + research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop + tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2016 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Bradford Chamberlain: Lessons Learned in Array Programming: from ZPL to Chapel In this talk, I'll start by providing a review of array programming in ZPL, an academic data-parallel programming language developed at the University of Washington during the 1990's. I'll describe the strengths and weaknesses of ZPL's support for array computation and describe how the lessons we learned in the ZPL project influenced Chapel's design and its support for arrays and data parallelism. In doing so, I'll provide a glimpse into some of Chapel's main research challenges and contributions, including user-defined distributions, parallel zippered iteration, and mapping to contemporary processor architectures. In doing so, I'll also attempt to characterize what I view as the key distinctions between successful languages developed in academia versus industry based on my experiences with both ZPL and Chapel. *************************************************************************** Keynote by Morten Kromberg: Notation for Parallel Thoughts Since the original APL\360 interpreter saw the light of day in 1966, a large part of the of primitive functions in APL (A Programming Language) implicitly map operations to all elements of array arguments (and arrays of numbers or characters are the only “types” available in the language). Over the decades, the parallelism at the core of the notation has been extended, to nested arrays in the 1980’s and arrays of objects in the 00’s. In this decade, arrays of futures have been added to provide users of APL with the ability to express asynchronous -– but deterministic -- algorithms. This talk will introduce the most important parallel constructs available in current Dyalog APL, which (despite the name) essentially remains an executable mathematical notation. *************************************************************************** Organizing Committee: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam (Chair) David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *************************************************************************** Programme Committee: Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Canada Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Laurie Hendren , McGill University, Canada Stephan Herhut, Google Inc, Denmark Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA *************************************************************************** Travel Funding: Since ARRAY 2006 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, presenters and authors of papers are eligible to apply for SIGPLAN PAC funding. *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Postdoc ad: quantum-computing programming languages
by Scott Pakin 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

My institution just bought a D-Wave 2X adiabatic quantum computer. The problem is, no one really has a grasp on how to *program* an adiabatic quantum computer. It's a totally different beast from the gate-model quantum computers that most people imply when they talk about quantum computing. I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work with me on designing and implementing programming models suitable for execution on D-Wave-style quantum computers. The formal job ad can be found at http://tinyurl.com/jdlo556 or go to http://jobs.lanl.gov/ and look up job IRC49031. Disclaimer: This is not specifically a Haskell-hacking position, although you can use any language you want for the classical-side development. I'm posting here because a key skill I'm looking for is breadth of language knowledge. I see a candidate who knows nonstrict functional programming, declarative programming, and maybe a few "fringe" programming models as more valuable than one who knows only a dozen isomorphic imperative languages. -- Scott

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[2nd CFP] Haskell Symposium 2016
by Geoffrey Mainland 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

======================================================================== ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2016 Nara, Japan, 22-23 September 2015, directly after ICFP http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2016 ======================================================================== ** The Haskell Symposium has an early track this year ** ** See the Submission Timetable for details. ** The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2016 will be co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2016) in Vancouver, Canada. The Haskell Symposium aims to present original research on Haskell, discuss practical experience and future development of the language, and to promote other forms of denotative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language Design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts. Papers in the latter three categories need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementors, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. More advice is available via the Haskell wiki: (http://wiki.haskell.org/HaskellSymposium/ExperienceReports) Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. In addition, we solicit proposals for: * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. These proposals should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Travel Support: =============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://pac.sigplan.org) Proceedings: ============ Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance (http://authors.acm.org/main.html) Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings. All accepted papers and proposals will be posted on the conference website one week before the meeting. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Submission Details: =================== Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm) The text should be in a 9-point font in two columns. The length is restricted to 12 pages, except for "Experience Report" papers, which are restricted to 6 pages. Papers need not fill the page limit---for example, a Functional Pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. Each paper submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web. Demo proposals are limited to 2-page abstracts, in the same ACM format as papers. "Functional Pearls", "Experience Reports", and "Demo Proposals" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Papers may be submitted at: https://icfp-haskell2016.hotcrp.com/ Submission Timetable: ===================== Early Track Regular Track System Demos ---------------- ------------------- --------------- 1st April Paper Submission 20th May Notification 6th June Abstract Submission 10th June Paper Submission 17th June Resubmission Demo Submission 8th July Notification Notification Notification 31st July Camera ready due Camera ready due Deadlines stated are valid anywhere on earth. The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Papers can be submitted to the early track on 1st April. On 20th May, strong papers are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit. On 17th June, early track papers may be resubmitted and are sent back to the same reviewers. The Haskell Symposium regular track operates as in previous years. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Program Committee: =================== James Cheney University of Edinburgh Iavor Diatchki Galois David Duke University of Leeds Richard Eisenberg University of Pennsylvania Ken Friis Larsen University of Copenhagen Andy Gill University of Kansas Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics Ranjit Jhala UC San Diego Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba Geoffrey Mainland (chair) Drexel University Mary Sheeran Chalmers University of Technology David Terei Stanford Niki Vazou UC San Diego Dimitrios Vytiniotis Microsoft Research =====================================================================

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ARRAY 2016 2nd Call for Papers
by Clemens Grelck 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2016 3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming Santa Barbara, CA, USA June 14, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/array-2016/ Deadline: April 1, 2016 *************************************************************************** ARRAY 2016 is part of PLDI 2016 37th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation June 13-17, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016/ *************************************************************************** About: Array-oriented programming is a powerful abstraction for compactly implementing numerically intensive algorithms. Many modern languages now provide some support for collective array operations, which are used by an increasing number of programmers (and non-programmers) for data analysis and scientific computing. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative, object-oriented or not, interpreted or compiled, strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. *************************************************************************** Keynotes: We are proud to announce two distinguished keynote speakers: Bradford Chamberlain Principal Engineer at Cray Inc, Seattle, USA Chief designer of the Chapel high productivity language Morten Kromberg User Experience Director (CXO) at Dyalog Ltd, Bramley, UK Commercial provider of APL interpreters, tools and services *************************************************************************** Focus: The aim of the ARRAY workshop series is to foster the cross-pollination of concepts across domains, projects and research communities and to explore new directions, such as: + Expanding the scope of array programming to encompass a wider range of data types and computations, + Transparently utilizing parallel hardware (multi-core, SIMD, GPU, FPGA) by leveraging the implicitly parallel semantics of array operations, + Simplifying the embedding of array constructs within existing languages which weren't designed for numerical computing, + Connections between array abstractions and other models such as dataflow programming, stream programming, and data parallelism, + High-level compilation and optimization techniques for array-oriented programs, + Compilers, virtual machines and frameworks for array-oriented programming languages. *************************************************************************** Important Dates: Paper submissions: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 Camera-ready copies due: Fri, May 27, 2016 (anywhere on earth) Workshop date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 *************************************************************************** Submissions: Manuscripts may fall into one of the following categories: + research papers on any topic related to the focus of the workshop + tool descriptions reporting on a tool relevant to the workshop area Submissions should be 4-8 pages for research papers 4-6 pages for tool descriptions. In the case of a tool description the workshop presentation should include a demo of the tool, and the submission should include a short appendix summarizing the tool demo. This appendix is for the information of the PC only, and will not be part of the published paper, nor does it count into the six page limit. Clearly mark your submission as either a research paper or a tool description in the paper's subtitle. Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2016 As in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *************************************************************************** Organizing Committee: Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam (Chair) David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *************************************************************************** Programme Committee: Robert Bernecky, Snake Island Research, Canada Martin Elsman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Laurie Hendren , McGill University, Canada Stephan Herhut, Google Inc, Denmark Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Andreas Klöckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Chair) Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Jan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA *************************************************************************** Travel Funding: Since ARRAY 2006 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, presenters and authors of papers are eligible to apply for SIGPLAN PAC funding. *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Three Haskell dev roles at Standard Chartered
by Don Stewart 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hi all I'm hiring another 3 devs to join Strats at Standard Chartered in London or Singapore. This is a good chance to join a growing, experienced team using Haskell for a wide set of projects in finance. More details in https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/haskell-developer-roles-at-standar… -- Don

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Haskell-related PhD Studentship at Kent
by Meng Wang 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Dear Haskellers, I am seeking a PhD student on a Haskell-related project: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/studyingforaphd/phd-wang.html This would be a good opportunity for someone who is interested in applying Haskell ideas to real problems. The funding covers maintenance, EU student fees and research related expenses. But non-EU students are welcome to apply too. For Sep 2015 starting, the application deadline is 17 April 2015. If you are interested, please contact me at m.w.wang(a)kent.ac.uk<mailto:m.w.wang@kent.ac.uk>. Best wishes, Meng — Dr Meng Wang School of Computing University of Kent http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/mw516/

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[TFPIE 2016] 2nd call for papers
by Peter Achten 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2016) 2nd Call for papers https://wiki.science.ru.nl/tfpie/TFPIE2016 The 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2016, will be held on June 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. It is co-located with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2016) which takes place from June 8 - 10. *** Goal *** The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2016 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2016 website/wiki will be able to add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews, Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands (2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015). *** Program Committee *** Stephen Chang at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, USA Marc Feeley at Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA Jay McCarthy at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Massachusetts, USA (Chair) Prabhakar Ragde at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada Brent Yorgey at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA *** Submission Guidelines *** TFPIE 2016 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - Tools supporting learning FP - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy *** Best Lectures *** In addition to papers, we request "best lecture" presentations. What is your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. *** Submission *** Papers and abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2016 It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will attend the workshop. *** Registration & Local Information *** Please see the TFP site for registration and local information: http://tfp2016.org/ *** Important Dates *** April 27, 2016: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and abstracts May 3, 2016: Notification of acceptance for presentation May 13, 2016: Registration for TFP/TFPIE closes June 7, 2016: Presentations in Maryland, USA July 7, 2016: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due. September 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for proceedings September 22, 2016: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline will be considered as withdrawn.

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