Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2010<br>
Call for Participation<br>
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Sponsored by SIGPLAN<br>
Co-located with ICFP 2010<br>
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Baltimore, Maryland<br>
Sep 27-29, 2010<br>
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Submission Deadline: 15 June 2010<br>
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Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic<br>
research for over 35 years, and have seen an ever larger practical<br>
impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to<br>
biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorous community of<br>
practically-minding functional programmers has come into existence.<br>
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CUFP is designed to serve this community. The annual CUFP workshop is<br>
a place where people can see how others are using functional<br>
programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and<br>
collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about<br>
the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn<br>
practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming<br>
to work.<br>
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# Giving a CUFP Talk #<br>
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If you have experience using functional languages in a practical<br>
setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the<br>
workshop. We're looking for two kinds of talks:<br>
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*Experience reports* are typically 25 minutes long, and aim to inform<br>
participants about how functional programming plays out in real-world<br>
applications, focusing especially on lessons learned and insights<br>
gained. Experience reports don't need to be highly technical;<br>
reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering<br>
aspects are, if anything, more important. You do not need to submit a<br>
paper!<br>
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*Technical talks* are expected to be 30-45 minutes long, and should<br>
focus on teaching the audience something about a technical technique<br>
or methodology, from the point of view of someone who has seen it play<br>
out in practice. These talks could cover anything from techniques for<br>
building functional concurrent applications, to managing dynamic<br>
reconfigurations, to design recipes for using types effectively in<br>
large-scale applications. While these talks will often be based on a<br>
particular language, they should be accessible to a broad range of<br>
functional programmers.<br>
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If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do<br>
so, send an e-mail to francesco(at)erlang-<div id=":10" class="ii gt">consulting(dot)com or<br>
yminsky(at)janestreet(dot)com by **15 June 2010** with a short
description<br>
of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your nominee should<br>
give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long.<br>
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There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to<br>
be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange.<br>
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# Program Committee #<br>
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* Francesco Cesarini, Erlang Training and Consulting (Co-Chair)<br>
* Tim Dysinger, Sonian Networks<br>
* Alain Frisch, LexiFi<br>
* Nick Gerakines, Chegg<br>
* Adam Granicz, IntelliFactory<br>
* Amanda Laucher<br>
* Romain Lenglet, Google Japan<br>
* Yaron Misky, Jane Street (Co-Chair)<br>
* Mary Sheeran, Chalmers<br>
* Don Stewart, Galois<br>
* Dean Wampler, DRW Trading<br>
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# More information #<br>
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For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from<br>
previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at <<a href="http://cufp.org/" target="_blank">http://cufp.org</a>>.<br>
Note that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for<br>
the event. Presentations will be video taped and presenters will be<br>
expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. Acceptance and<br>
rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th.</div>