Two new papers available: Book review "The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming" by Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck To appear in JoLLI journal; 13 pages. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ralf/JoLLI06 Executive summary: The "Haskell road" is an excellent book worth considering as course material and reading anyhow. A non-Haskell road is also discussed in the review. Google's MapReduce Programming Model -- Revisited Draft; To be submitted; feedback appreciated; 27 pages. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ralf/MapReduce Executive summary: The seminal MapReduce paper had been briefly discussed at LTU without really going into technical details. The present paper discovers the concepts from a functional programming perspective. Did you ever wonder why MapReduce is called MapReduce? Ralf Laemmel