Announcing the 1st F# in Education Workshop, Cambridge MA, 5 Nov 2010
Website: research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fsharpined
First F# in Education Workshop
F# in Education is a one-day workshop for educators and industrialists, to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on November 5, 2010. The workshop welcomes participation from all academics interested in F# as a possible teaching language, as well as from those in industry wanting to know what it can offer for them. The program will offer a variety of talks covering all areas of use and implementation of the language. The workshop will be held in Microsoft’s vibrant New England Research and Development Centre on the scenic Charles River within reach of MIT, Harvard and Boston Universities.
About F#
F# is simple, type safe, and efficient functional programming language with special expressiveness in parallel programming, scripting, and algorithmic development. F# combines the advantages of typed functional programming with a high-quality, well-supported modern runtime system and the .NET library and tools base. F# is freely available for .NET and Mono development across Windows, Mac, and Linux, and has a very successful professional implementation in Visual Studio 2010. To support teaching of F#, Microsoft Research is working in conjunction with the F# community to ensure a consistent learning experience across all three platforms. This workshop will discuss the projects underway for F# courseware, implementations, and compiler open-sourcing. The workshop welcomes participation from all academics interested in F# as a possible teaching language, as well as from those in industry wanting to know what it can offer for them. The program will offer a variety of talks covering all areas of use and implementation of the language.
F# originates from Microsoft Research, Cambridge. The workshop is organized by the Computer Science theme at Microsoft Research, Redmond, led by Judith Bishop.
Program
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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18:00 |
Informal gathering in the hotel, walk to local restaurants |
Friday, November 5, 2010
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New England Research & Development (NERD) Center |
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08:00 |
Registration and full breakfast |
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09:00 |
Keynote: F#: Succinct, Modern Functional Programming—Don Syme, Microsoft Research, Cambridge |
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10:30 |
Break |
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Implementations |
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11:00 |
Monodevelop—Tomas Petricek, Charles University, Prague (tbc) |
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11:30 |
F# from the Mac User's Perspective - Joe Pamer, F# Core Team, Microsoft |
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12:00 |
TryFSharp in a Browser—Dean Guo, Microsoft External Research |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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Education |
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13:30 |
Topic tbc - Rick Minerich, Microsoft MVP (F#) and Leader of the New England F# User's Group |
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14:00 |
Programming Language Concepts using F# as a Meta-language - Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen - |
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14:30 |
Panel session: Why Teach F#
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15:30 |
Break |
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The Future |
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15:45 |
Looking Ahead with F#: Taming the Data Deluge—Don Syme, Microsoft Research, Cambridge |
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17:00 |
Locknote: F# in Industry, Howard Mansell, CreditSuisse, New York |
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17:50 |
Closing remarks—Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research |
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18:00 |
End |
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19:00 |
Workshop dinner |
Saturday, November 6, 2010
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09:00–12:30 |
Project meeting by invitation |
Date: November 5, 2010
Venue: Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 857.453.6000
Fax: 857.453.6013
Hotels: Recommended hotels close to the NERD Center are the Marlowe and the Liberty.
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Costs: There is no cost for attending the workshop. Attendance includes free breakfast, lunch, and workshop dinner on November 5. Participants are responsible for their own travel and hotel costs.
Registration will be available in September. Please revisit this page.
Contact: Judith Bishop (Program) or Melissa Kelly (Arrangements)
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Comments
Anonymous
November 04, 2010
Who is running the camera? Can't see the left half of the screen. DUH!Anonymous
November 11, 2010
Will you be posting the slides here?