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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 298
by Daniel Santa Cruz 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Welcome to issue 298 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from June 15 to 28, 2014 Quotes of the Week * Kinnison * imagines a radio station playing only things like 'Life tru a Lens', stuff by 'Dire States' or 'Monadonna' Top Reddit Stories * Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis Domain: haskelldata.com, Score: 99, Comments: 26 Original: [1] http://goo.gl/R2kRFu On Reddit: [2] http://goo.gl/Ka0oP5 * Backpack: An ML-like module system for Haskell Domain: plv.mpi-sws.org, Score: 76, Comments: 44 Original: [3] http://goo.gl/7Zkxbg On Reddit: [4] http://goo.gl/78H37f * Cgrep, a context-aware grep for source code. Domain: awgn.github.io, Score: 67, Comments: 13 Original: [5] http://goo.gl/q1VdEA On Reddit: [6] http://goo.gl/2NNTrO * Teenage Haskell Domain: twdkz.wordpress.com, Score: 63, Comments: 7 Original: [7] http://goo.gl/cvJ0ap On Reddit: [8] http://goo.gl/aISHlG * GHC 7.10 gains -XBinaryLiterals language syntax extensions Domain: github.com, Score: 63, Comments: 14 Original: [9] http://goo.gl/qfWvAg On Reddit: [10] http://goo.gl/NOVgme * Haskelier - Haskell for the Advanced Layman Domain: haskelier.tumblr.com, Score: 59, Comments: 26 Original: [11] http://goo.gl/pLsRB1 On Reddit: [12] http://goo.gl/5HBSWD * Barely Functional: Writing a Real Program in Haskell Domain: ben.kirw.in, Score: 57, Comments: 36 Original: [13] http://goo.gl/4yWLuL On Reddit: [14] http://goo.gl/B1LX8f * hmatrix 0.16 now BSD3 and with static dimension checking Domain: github.com, Score: 51, Comments: 10 Original: [15] http://goo.gl/C5zKzk On Reddit: [16] http://goo.gl/A94AkD * Formatting: type-safe printf-like library by chrisdone Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 51, Comments: 24 Original: [17] http://goo.gl/DHM0Yn On Reddit: [18] http://goo.gl/zUQN02 * Haskell 2014 accepted papers, with links (pull requests welcome) Domain: github.com, Score: 50, Comments: 5 Original: [19] http://goo.gl/B2f434 On Reddit: [20] http://goo.gl/XSmJGo * Real World Haskell - Outdated Parts? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 50, Comments: 12 Original: [21] http://goo.gl/5YhIOT On Reddit: [22] http://goo.gl/5YhIOT * I'm trying my hardest to learn this language and only get more and more discouraged. Domain: self.haskell, Score: 48, Comments: 111 Original: [23] http://goo.gl/9vuPBe On Reddit: [24] http://goo.gl/9vuPBe * Using f-algebras to produce a statically typed functional programming language Domain: burz.github.io, Score: 47, Comments: 19 Original: [25] http://goo.gl/9YCz4k On Reddit: [26] http://goo.gl/DvWBPS * 'ghc-make' released Domain: neilmitchell.blogspot.de, Score: 47, Comments: 19 Original: [27] http://goo.gl/JlMS1a On Reddit: [28] http://goo.gl/kO2FQP * A simple alternative to De Bruijn indexing, from ICFP 2013 Domain: pchiusano.io, Score: 46, Comments: 24 Original: [29] http://goo.gl/7PBIM2 On Reddit: [30] http://goo.gl/PGmQ6W * Haskoin: A Haskell implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. Domain: github.com, Score: 44, Comments: 0 Original: [31] http://goo.gl/n0eCEI On Reddit: [32] http://goo.gl/bvsE24 * What is the state of "The JavaScript Problem"? What is the currently preferred way to solve in a real world application? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 42, Comments: 55 Original: [33] http://goo.gl/dIww4i On Reddit: [34] http://goo.gl/dIww4i * ANNOUNCE: STM-Containers. A hash map and hash set for STM Domain: hackage.haskell.org, Score: 41, Comments: 13 Original: [35] http://goo.gl/6nuWAc On Reddit: [36] http://goo.gl/rAzIYr Top StackOverflow Questions * Why does flooring infinity does not throw some error? votes: 14, answers: 1 Read on SO: [37] http://goo.gl/f7gUB8 * How long can the name of a type constructor be? votes: 12, answers: 1 Read on SO: [38] http://goo.gl/mGiblp * Difference between $ and () votes: 11, answers: 5 Read on SO: [39] http://goo.gl/lTB24e * Need advice on optimising Haskell data processing votes: 11, answers: 3 Read on SO: [40] http://goo.gl/NnEqgn * Reconciling lens usage with database access votes: 11, answers: 1 Read on SO: [41] http://goo.gl/Zczjjf * Why constraints on data are a bad thing? votes: 11, answers: 3 Read on SO: [42] http://goo.gl/l0WXtP * Can I use template haskell to define missing functions? votes: 10, answers: 2 Read on SO: [43] http://goo.gl/AFFS2T * Is there a reason we can't populate types with DataKinds? votes: 10, answers: 2 Read on SO: [44] http://goo.gl/1gpZej * Why is a built-in function applied to too few arguments considered to be in weak head normal form? votes: 10, answers: 2 Read on SO: [45] http://goo.gl/6iFG8a Until next time, [46]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://haskelldata.com/ 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/296l80/today_i_published_an_introd… 3. http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28v6c9/backpack_an_mllike_module_s… 5. http://awgn.github.io/cgrep/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28moo0/cgrep_a_contextaware_grep_f… 7. http://twdkz.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/teenage-haskell/ 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/29abyz/teenage_haskell/ 9. https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/1c0b5fdc9f2b6ea8166cc565383d4cd20432343c 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/29b2jj/ghc_710_gains_xbinarylitera… 11. http://haskelier.tumblr.com/ 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28d7ma/haskelier_haskell_for_the_a… 13. http://ben.kirw.in/2014/06/24/barely-functional-1-rlp/ 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28zwoc/barely_functional_writing_a… 15. https://github.com/albertoruiz/hmatrix 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28peug/hmatrix_016_now_bsd3_and_wi… 17. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/formatting 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/291wel/formatting_typesafe_printfl… 19. https://github.com/yallop/haskell2014-papers 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28yu1f/haskell_2014_accepted_paper… 21. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2938yb/real_world_haskell_outdated… 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2938yb/real_world_haskell_outdated… 23. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/288egd/im_trying_my_hardest_to_lea… 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/288egd/im_trying_my_hardest_to_lea… 25. http://burz.github.io/2014/06/15/feval.html 26. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28rbwr/using_falgebras_to_produce_… 27. http://neilmitchell.blogspot.de/2014/06/announcing-ghc-make.html 28. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28tttf/ghcmake_released/ 29. http://pchiusano.io/2014-06-20/simple-debruijn-alternative.html 30. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28vfd0/a_simple_alternative_to_de_… 31. https://github.com/haskoin/haskoin 32. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28y454/haskoin_a_haskell_implement… 33. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28o7my/what_is_the_state_of_the_ja… 34. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/28o7my/what_is_the_state_of_the_ja… 35. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm-containers 36. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/295lbr/announce_stmcontainers_a_ha… 37. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24338673/why-does-flooring-infinity-does… 38. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24335869/how-long-can-the-name-of-a-type… 39. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24271129/difference-between-and 40. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24278006/need-advice-on-optimising-haske… 41. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24462070/reconciling-lens-usage-with-dat… 42. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24465586/why-constraints-on-data-are-a-b… 43. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24233346/can-i-use-template-haskell-to-d… 44. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24439618/is-there-a-reason-we-cant-popul… 45. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24447324/why-is-a-built-in-function-appl… 46. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about

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PhD studentship on interval computation in Haskell
by Michal Konečný 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

------------------------------------------------- PhD studentship - Interval Computation in Haskell ------------------------------------------------- * Applicants should have a strong background in real analysis and functional programming. * The closing date for applications is 18th July 2014. * The project will be supervised by Michal Konečný, Aston University. * The student will receive a 3-year studentship of £15,500/year. * UK/EU student's fee is covered, non-EU student's fee is £10,914 in 2014/2015. * The student will act as a teaching assistant for a distance learning course approx. 7h/week. * For more information, use the following links: o Description of the potential project topics[1] o AERN - a Haskell interval computation library[2] o Supervisor's home page[3] o Department research home page[4] o Details of the studentship and links to application forms[5] (The above advert is also available at http://duck.aston.ac.uk/konecnym/studentship-201406-advert) -------- [1] http://www.aston.ac.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=186698 [2] http://michalkonecny.github.io/aern/_site/index.html [3] http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-michal-konecny/ [4] http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/about-eas/academic-groups/computer-science/resea… [5] http://duck.aston.ac.uk/konecnym/studentship-201406.pdf

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I've just published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis
by Nick Shukla 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Dear Haskell hackers, I've just published an introductory book on *Haskell Data Analysis* <http://haskelldata.com>. This book is not only a *learning tool* for the Haskell programing language, but also an introduction to simple *data analysis practices*. Use it as a Swiss Army Knife of *algorithms* and *code-snippets*. Try a recipe a day, like a kata for your mind. Breeze through the book for creative inspiration from catalytic *examples*. And most importantly, dive deep into the province of data analysis and machine learning in Haskell. Join the discussion on Reddit <http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/296l80/today_i_published_an_introd…> and HackerNews <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951446>. If you have questions, please feel free to ask me. *Book website:* http://haskelldata.com Regards, Nishant Shukla

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FARM 2014 Call for Participation
by Henrik Nilsson 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Dear Haskell interested, Please find enclosed the call for participation in FARM 2014: 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design, co-located with ICFP 2014v in Gothenburg, September. All the best, /Henrik ---------- FARM 2014 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design Gothenburg, Sweden; 6 September, 2014 http://functional-art.org/2014/ The ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (FARM) gathers together people who are harnessing functional techniques in the pursuit of creativity and expression. Functional Programming has emerged as a mainstream software development paradigm, and its artistic and creative use is booming. A growing number of software toolkits, frameworks and environments for art, music and design now employ functional programming languages and techniques. FARM is a forum for exploration and critical evaluation of these developments, for example to consider potential benefits of greater consistency, tersity, and closer mapping to a problem domain. Registration ------------ You can register via the ICFP 2014 registration: https://regmaster4.com/2014conf/ICFP14/register.php Don't be confused that it says “ICFP” - FARM is part of a larger event around ICFP 2014, and you can register for FARM without registering for ICFP. Early registration deadline is 3 August. Accepted papers --------------- Functional Generation of Harmony and Melody. José Pedro Magalhães, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford; Hendrik Vincent Koops, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. Exploring melody space in a live context using declarative functional programming. Thomas Kristensen, uSwitch Ltd. Making programming languages to dance to: Live Coding with Tidal. Alex McLean, Temporal semantics for a live coding language. Sam Aaron, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Dominic Orchard, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Alan Blackwell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Tiled Polymorphic Temporal Media. Paul Hudak, Yale University; David Janin, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux. LiveCodeLab 2.0 and its language LiveCodeLang. Davide Della Casa, LiveCodeLab; Guy John, LiveCodeLab. Accepted demonstrations ----------------------- littleBits Synth Kit as a livecoded, functional, monadic, physically-embodied, domain specific programming language. James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington; Timothy Jones, Victoria University of Wellington. Scripthica: a web environment for collective algorithmic composition. Gabriel Sanchez, New York University. Music Suite: A Family of Musical Representations. Hans Höglund. Patterning: Repetitive and recursive pattern generation using Clojure and Quil. Phil Jones, Alchemy Islands. Using Haskell as DSL for controlling immersive media experiences. Henrik Bäärnhielm, Integral Systems Engineering; Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Daniel Sundström, Integral Systems Engineering. Sound and Soundness – Practical Total Functional Data-Flow Programming. Baltasar Trancón Y Widemann, TU Ilmenau; Markus Lepper, semantics GmbH. Live Performances ----------------- On the evening of September 6 (after the workshop) we will have an evening of live performances at 3:e Våningen (3rd floor) (http://www.3vaningen.se/) in collaboration with with Anders Carlsson aka goto80 and Palle Dahlstedt, starting at 8PM. The evening will feature: - Sam Aaron with Dominic Orchard with Sonic Pi - LiveCodeLab - James Noble with Classic computer science algorithms assembled into algorave Details to be announced soon. 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ICFP 2014 Call for Participation
by David Van Horn 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

[ Please note that much of the block reservation of hotel rooms currently being held for ICFP participants will be released next week. The beginning of September is a very busy conference week in Göteborg, so there is high pressure on hotel rooms in that period. If you plan to attend ICFP 2014, it would be best to make your hotel reservations now before the block reservation expires. ] ===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2014 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 31 - September 6, 2013 Gothenburg, Sweden http://icfpconference.org/icfp2014/ ===================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. A full week dedicated to functional programming: 1 conference, 1 symposium, 10 workshops, tutorials, programming contest results, student research competition * Accepted Papers: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2014/accepted.html * Local arrangements (including travel and accommodation): http://icfpconference.org/icfp2014/local.html * Registration is available via: https://regmaster4.com/2014conf/ICFP14/register.php Early registration is due 3 August, 2014. * Programming contest, 25-28 July, 2014: http://icfpcontest.org/ * Follow @icfp_conference on twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/#!/icfp_conference There are several events affiliated with ICFP: Sunday, August 31 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-order Programming with Effects Monday, September 1 – Wednesday, September 3 ICFP Thursday, September 4 ACM SIGPLAN Commercial Users of Functional Programming: Day 1, Tutorials ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium: Day 1 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Friday, September 5 ACM SIGPLAN Commercial Users of Functional Programming: Day 2, Tutorials ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium: Day 2 ACM SIGPLAN OCaml Workshop ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Haskell and Rewriting Techniques Saturday, September 6 ACM SIGPLAN Commercial Users of Functional Programming: Day 3, Talks ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors Workshop ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design Conference Organizers General Chair: Johan Jeuring, Utrecht University Program Chair: Manuel Chakravarty, University of New South Wales Local Arrangements Chair: Björn von Sydow, Chalmers University Industrial Relations Chair: Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge Workshop Co-Chairs: Tom Schrijvers, Ghent University Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Programming Contest Co-Chairs: Duncan Coutts, Well Typed LLP Nicolas Wu, University of Oxford Student Research Competition Chair: Meng Wang, Chalmers University Publicity Chair: David Van Horn, University of Maryland Video Chair: Iavor Diatchki, Galois Malcolm Wallace, Standard Chartered Bank Industrial partners: Platinum partners Jane Street Capital Gold partners Google Microsoft Research Mozilla Oracle Labs Standard Chartered Bank Silver partners Bloomberg Credit Suisse CyberPoint Erlang Solutions Facebook Galois Klarna Lexifi Twitter Bronze partners IntelliFactory Opera Software QuviQ =====================================================================

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2nd CfP: WFLP 2014 - Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming
by Johannes Waldmann 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

(note: Deadline extended to July 10th) *********************************************************** 23rd International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/WFLP2014/ colocated with 28th Workshop on (Constraint) Logic Programming (WLP 2014) September 15 - 17, at Leucorea conference center in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. *********************************************************** Dates: * submission closes: July 10, 2014 * notification: August 4, 2014 * final version due: September 1, 2014 * workshop: September 15 - 17, 2014 *********************************************************** The international workshops on functional and logic programming aim at bringing together researchers interested in functional programming, logic programming, as well as their integration. The workshops on (constraint) logic programming serve as the scientific forum of the annual meeting of the Society of Logic Programming (GLP e.V.) and bring together researchers interested in logic programming, constraint programming, and related areas like databases, artificial intelligence, and operations research. In this year both workshops will be jointly organized and co-located, in order to promote the cross-fertilizing exchange of ideas and experiences among researchers and students from the different communities interested in the foundations, applications, and combinations of high-level, declarative programming languages and related areas. The technical program of the workshop will include invited talks, presentations of refereed papers and demo presentations. The joint workshop will consist of two tracks (WFLP and WLP). Sessions of these two tracks will be interleaved. ************************************************************ Topics The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Functional programming Logic programming Constraint programming Deductive databases, data mining Extensions of declarative languages, objects Multi-paradigm declarative programming Foundations, semantics, nonmonotonic reasoning, dynamics Parallelism, concurrency Program analysis, abstract interpretation Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming Specification, verification, declarative debugging Knowledge representation, machine learning Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms (e.g., agents, XML, Java) Implementation of declarative languages Advanced programming environments and tools Software technique for declarative programming Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. ************************************************************ Program Committee (WFLP track) Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Sergio Antoy, Portland State University Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, University of Brasilia, Brazil William Byrd, University of Utah Michael Hanus , Universität Kiel, Germany Herbert Kuchen, Universität Münster, Germany Carlos Olarte, DECC, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia Janis Voigtländer, Universität Bonn, Germany Johannes Waldmann (chair), HTWK Leipzig, Germany Peter J. Stuckey, NICTA and the University of Melbourne, Australia René Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Organising Committee Stefan Brass (chair) Universität Halle, Germany

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2nd call for contributions: Haskell Implementors' Workshop 2014
by Jost Berthold 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Dear fellow Haskellers, We are 20 days away from the deadline for HIW 2014. If you have an exciting topic you would like to present, please propose a talk by submitting an abstract (through easychair, see below). Best regards Jost Berthold ==================================================================== Call for Contributions ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors' Workshop http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2014 Gothenburg, Sweden, 06 September, 2014 Co-located with ICFP 2014 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2014/ Important dates --------------- Proposal Deadline: Monday, 14 July, 2014 (anywhere on earth) Notification: 21 July 2014 Workshop: Saturday, 6 September 2014 The 6th Haskell Implementors' Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2014 this year in Gothenburg. It is a forum for people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. There will be no published proceedings; the workshop will be informal and interactive, with a flexible timetable and plenty of room for ad-hoc discussion, demos, and impromptu short talks. Attendance figures clearly reflect the growth of the Haskell user community and a constant interest in implementation aspects. Scope and target audience ------------------------- It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors' Workshop from the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2014. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementors' Workshop will have no proceedings -- although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data available with the consent of the speakers. In the Haskell Implementors' Workshop, we hope to study the underlying technology. We want to bring together anyone interested in the nitty-gritty details behind turning plain-text source code into a deployed product. Having said that, members of the wider Haskell community are more than welcome to attend the workshop -- we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics that people feel we've missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn't fit exactly into one of these buckets: * Compilation techniques * Language features and extensions * Type system implementation * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking * Virtual machines and run-time systems * Libraries and tools for development or deployment Talks ----- At this stage we would like to invite proposals from potential speakers for talks and demonstrations. We are aiming for 20 minute talks with 10 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 300 words. Submissions should be made via EasyChair. The website is: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hiw2014 If you don't have an account you can create one here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi Because the submission is an abstract only, please click the "abstract only" button when you make your submission. There is no need to attach a separate file. We will also have a lightning talks session which will be organised on the day. These talks will be 5-10 minutes, depending on available time. Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. Organisers ---------- * Jost Berthold (co-chair) (University of Copenhagen) * Kevin Hammond (University of St.Andrews) * Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales) * Paul Liu (Intel Labs) * Rita Loogen (Philipps-Universitat Marburg) * Geoffrey Mainland (co-chair) (Drexel University, Philadelphia) * Carter Schonwald (WellPosed Ltd) Contact ------- * hiw2014(a)easychair.org * Jost Berthold <berthold at di.ku.dk> * Geoffrey Mainland <mainland at cs.drexel.edu>

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HLPP 2014 - 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications
by Clemens Grelck 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

============================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HLPP 2014 7th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Amsterdam, Netherlands July 3-4, 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/hlpp2014amsterdam/ ============================================================================== Keynote: Frank Schlimbach, Intel: Parallelism Through CnC (Concurrent Collections) - More Flexibility, Less Pain Abstract: The major goal of CnC (Concurrent Collections) is a productive path to efficient parallel execution. And yet a CnC program does not indicate what runs in parallel. Instead, it explicitly identifies what precludes parallel execution. There are exactly two reasons that computations cannot execute in parallel. If one computation produces data that the other one consumes, the producer must execute before the consumer. If one computation determines if another will execute, the controller must execute before the controllee. CnC is a data and control flow model together with tuple-space influence. However, it is closer in philosophy to the PDG (Program Dependence Graph) intermediate form than to other parallel programming models. Its high-level abstractions allow flexible and efficient mapping of a CnC program to the target platform. The talk will introduce CnC and present some active research topics. ============================================================================== Aims and scope: As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 7th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held July 3-4 in the historic center of Amsterdam. ============================================================================== Proceedings: Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium and thereafter published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). ============================================================================== Topics: HLPP 2014 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: + High-level programming and performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and their tools + Declarative parallel programming methodologies + Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods + Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation + Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs + Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming + Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs + High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms + High-level parallel methods for large datasets + Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools + Teaching experience with high-level tools and methods ============================================================================== Programme committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jost Berthold, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Rob Bisseling, Utrecht University, Netherlands Murray Cole, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Joel Falcou, MetaScale / Université Paris-Sud, France Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair) Gaétan Hains, Université Paris-Est, France Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Youry Khmelevsky, University of British Columbia / Okanagan College, Canada Herbert Kuchen, University of Münster, Germany Kiminori Matsuzaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Frank Penczek, Intel Ulm, Germany Susanna Pelagatti, University of Pisa, Italy Tiark Rompf, Oracle Labs / Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Francisco de Sande, University of La Laguna, Spain Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden Vijay Saraswat, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom ============================================================================== HLPP Organizer and programme chair: Clemens Grelck Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands c.grelck(a)uva.nl ============================================================================== HLPP steering committee: Clemens Grelck (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gaétan Hains (Université Paris-Est, France) Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology, Japan) Frédéric Loulergue (Université d'Orléans, France) Quentin Miller (Somerville College Oxford, United Kingdom) Alexander Tiskin (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) ============================================================================== Previous HLPP symposia and workshops: HLPP 2013, Paris, France HLPP 2011, Tokyo, Japan HLPP 2010, Baltimore, USA HLPP 2005, Coventry, United Kingdom HLPP 2003, Paris, France HLPP 2001, Orléans, France ============================================================================== -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 www.science.uva.nl/~grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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SCSS 2014: Deadline extension
by Temur Kutsia 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Deadline Extension ================================================ SCSS 2014 Symbolic Computation in Software Science 6th International Symposium Gammarth, La Marsa, Tunisia, December 7-11, 2014 http://www.easychair.org/smart-program/SCSS2014/ ================================================ Important Dates --------------- July 7, 2014: Abstract submission deadline (extended) July 14, 2014: Paper submission deadline (extended) August 25, 2014: Notification September 22, 2014: Camera-ready copy deadline December 7-11, 2014: SCSS 2014 in Gammarth Scope -------- The purpose of SCSS 2014 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science. The symposium provides a forum for active dialog between researchers from several fields of computer algebra, algebraic geometry, algorithmic combinatorics, computational logic, and software analysis and verification. SCSS 2014 solicits both regular and tool papers on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to the following: - automated reasoning - algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification - formal methods for the analysis of network security - termination analysis and complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) - extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) - theorem proving methods and techniques - proof carrying code - generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs) - algorithm (program) transformations - formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.) - component-based programming - computational origami - query languages (in particular for XML documents) - semantic web and cloud computing Invited Speakers ---------------- Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) William M. Farmer (McMaster University) Program Chairs -------------- Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK) Program Committee ------------------ Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Adel Bouhoula (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia) James H. Davenport (University of Bath, UK) Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Arie Gurfinkel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nao Hirokawa (JAIST, Japan) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Florent Jacquemard (INRIA - IRCAM, France) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) - chair Ali Mili (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Joel Ouaknine (Oxford University, UK) Ruzica Piskac (Yale University, USA) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK) - chair Dongming Wang (Beihang University, China and UPMC-CNRS, France) General Chairs --------------- Adel Bouhoula (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Local Chair ----------- Mohamed Becha Kaaniche (University of Carthage, Tunisia) Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2014 Submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. - Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages in the EasyChair Class format, with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. - Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages in the EasyChair Class format. Publication ---------- The proceedings will be published in the EasyChair Proceedings in Computing. We plan also to have a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on SCSS 2014. The full version of selected papers will be considered for the publication of the special issue subjected to the normal peer review process of the journal.

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New Assistant Professorship in Nottingham
by Graham Hutton 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham in the UK is seeking to appoint a new Assistant Professor: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI181514 Applications in the area of the Functional Programming (FP) lab would be most welcome. 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 Friday 22nd August 2014. The advert mentions computer vision, but the position is open to applicants from any area of Computer Science. Best wishes, Graham Hutton -- 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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