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CATEGORIES:SciComp@Cam: Scientific Computing in Cambridge
SUMMARY:Functional Programming - Various Speakers
DTSTART:20080417T163000Z
DTEND:20080417T183000Z
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/10881
DESCRIPTION:A series of talks on functional programming langua
 ges covering Haskell\, Lisp and F#.\n\nCome to fin
 d out more about how functional programming langua
 ges allow us to specify *what* we want to compute\
 , not *how* it should be computed.\n\nSpeakers:\n\
 n* Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute) - _Haskell: not 
 just for purists_\n* Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft
  Research) - _Nested Data Parallelism: from NESL t
 o Haskell_\n* Stephen Eglen (DAMTP) - _Emacs Lisp_
 \n* Phillip Trelford (Microsoft Research) - _Winni
 ng the adPredict competition with functional progr
 amming_\n\nDrinks & nibbles will be provided.\n\nD
 irections:\n\nhttp://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/map/\n\n
LOCATION:CCBI\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
CONTACT:Gos Micklem
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