Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2011 Call for Presentations

Sponsored by SIGPLAN Co-located with ICFP 2011

Tokyo, Japan Sep 22-24

Proposal Submission Deadline 15 June 2011

Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic research for over 35 years, and they have seen an ever larger practical impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorous community of programmers employing functional languages has come into existence.

CUFP is designed to serve this community. The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

# Giving a CUFP Talk

If you have experience using functional languages in a practical setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the workshop. We're looking for two kinds of talks:

Experience reports are typically 25 minutes long, and aim to inform participants about how functional programming plays out in real-world applications, focusing especially on lessons learned and insights gained. Experience reports don't need to be highly technical; reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering aspects are, if anything, more important.

Technical talks are also 25 minutes long, and should focus on teaching the audience something about a particular technique or methodology, from the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be accessible to a broad range of programmers.

If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, send an e-mail to avsm2(at)cl(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk or yminsky(at)janestreet(dot)com by 15 June 2011 with a short description of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long.

There will be a short scribes report of the presentations and discussions but not of the details of individual talks, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. You do not need to submit a paper, just a proposal for your talk!

# Program Committee

* Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge) * Yaron Minsky (Jane Street) * Jun Furuse (Standard Chartered) * Marius Eriksen (Twitter Inc.) * Michael Williams (Ericsson) * Mike McClurg (Citrix Systems R&D) * R. Kent Dybvig (Indiana University) * Richard Minerich (Bayard Rock) * Sally Browning (Galois) * Shankar Natarajan (SRI Inc.)

# Tutorials and BOFs

* Michael Sperber (DeinProgramm) * Duncan Coutts (Well Typed Inc.) * Ashish Agarwal (NYU)

More information

For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at http://cufp.org and this call for papers at http://cufp.org/2011-call-presentations

Note that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for the event. Presentations will be video taped and presenters will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form. Acceptance and rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th.