THE FUN OF PROGRAMMING A symposium in honour of Professor Richard Bird's 60th birthday Examination Schools, Oxford 24th and 25th March 2003 Professor Richard Bird is well known for his contributions to functional programming: for his two textbooks, his "Functional Pearls" column in the Journal of Functional Programming, his work on synthesizing programs from specifications, his influence in the design of the language Haskell and its predecessors, and so on. This symposium is to celebrate Richard Bird's work on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The symposium will coincide with the publication by Palgrave of an eponymous book. This book is intended as much as a textbook for an advanced course in functional programming as it is a festschrift; its twelve chapters cover applications (pretty printing, musical composition, hardware description, graphical design) and techniques (the design of efficient data structures, interpreters for little languages, program testing and optimization) in functional programming. The contributors to the book will give short lectures at the symposium, and every participant at the symposium will receive a copy of the book. The symposium will take place from 10.30am on Monday 24th March 2003 to 4pm on Tuesday 25th, in Oxford's historical Examination Schools. The registration fee includes participation, buffet lunch and tea and coffee on both days, a formal dinner on the Monday night in Worcester College, and a copy of the book. There is a lower price for early registration; the capacity of the lecture room is limited and offered on a first-come first-served basis, so early registration is recommended. The speakers are as follows: Chris Okasaki (West Point) John Hughes (Chalmers) Jeremy Gibbons (Oxford) Paul Hudak (Yale) Oege de Moor (Oxford) Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft) Conal Elliott Mary Sheeran (Chalmers) Mike Spivey (Oxford) Ross Paterson (City) Philip Wadler (Avaya) Ralf Hinze (Bonn) For further details, including registration information, see the website at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ap/fop/ In particular, there is an early registration deadline (with reduced fee) of 7th February 2003, and a late registration deadline of 7th March. Jeremy Gibbons and Oege de Moor (organizers) -- Jeremy.Gibbons@comlab.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Computing Laboratory, TEL: +44 1865 283508 Wolfson Building, Parks Road, FAX: +44 1865 273839 Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. URL: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/jeremy.gibbons.html