Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2016)
Call for papers
https://wiki.science.ru.nl/tfpie/TFPIE2016
The 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in
Education, TFPIE 2016, will be held on June 7, 2016 at the University
of Maryland College Park in the USA. It is co-located with the
Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2016) which takes
place from June 8 - 10.
*** Goal ***
The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals
that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in
education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas,
classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional
programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will
foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for
publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2016 will
screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope
and are of interest to participants. Potential presenters are invited
to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16
pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have
their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's
website/wiki. Visitors to the TFPIE 2016 website/wiki will be able to
add comments. This includes presenters who may respond to comments and
questions as well as provide pointers to improvements and follow-up
work. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a
revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the
best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for
presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by
the PC. TFPIE workshops have previously been held in St Andrews,
Scotland (2012), Provo Utah, USA (2013), Soesterberg, The Netherlands
(2014), and Sophia-Antipolis, France (2015).
*** Program Committee ***
Stephen Chang at Northeastern University in
Massachusetts, USA
Marc Feeley at Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada
Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University in North
Carolina, USA
Jay McCarthy at University of Massachusetts Lowell in
Massachusetts, USA (Chair)
Prabhakar Ragde at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada
Brent Yorgey at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA
*** Submission Guidelines ***
TFPIE 2016 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the
classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any
creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or
outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- FP and beginning CS students
- FP and Computational Thinking
- FP and Artificial Intelligence
- FP in Robotics
- FP and Music
- Advanced FP for undergraduates
- Tools supporting learning FP
- FP in graduate education
- Engaging students in research using FP
- FP in Programming Languages
- FP in the high school curriculum
- FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics
- FP and Philosophy
*** Best Lectures ***
In addition to papers, we request "best lecture" presentations. What
is your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun
way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially
interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please
consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for
presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its
interest to TFPIE attendees.
*** Submission ***
Papers and abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at the following
link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2016
It is expected at at least one author for each submitted paper will
attend the workshop.
*** Registration & Local Information ***
Please see the TFP site for registration and local information:
http://tfp2016.org/
*** Important Dates ***
April 27, 2016: Submission deadline for draft TFPIE papers and
abstracts
May 3, 2016: Notification of acceptance for presentation
May 13, 2016: Registration for TFP/TFPIE closes
June 7, 2016: Presentations in Maryland, USA
July 7, 2016: Full papers for EPTCS proceedings due.
September 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for proceedings
September 22, 2016: Camera ready copy due for EPTCS
Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version;
abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the full paper deadline
will be
considered as withdrawn.
Hi all,
This is to announce that Gerbil on Gambit is no public on Github:
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil
This is the initial release, with a small collection of std libraries
that should
work out of the box. I will be porting more libraries in the next few days, and
then i will port a more advanced compiler that have on another private version
of gerbil
The documentation is still lacking, there is just a README for now, but I
promise to document better because it is nice to have nice documentation.
It won't reach plt's extensiveness, but it should be more than some terse
instructions of building.
-- vyzo
For starters, there is now a guide to Gerbil that should help seasoned
gambiteers and schemeres familiar with other systems like plt to get
started:
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/doc/guide.md
And at a second level i have accumulated most of the libraries i have
lying around, without requiring any additional dependencies.
I have more stuff, but they are either esoteric, private or require
additional dependencies; Gerbil has already accumulated a decent std
library which provides enough batteries for most daily programming
tasks.
So at this point I can announce Gerbil-v1.0, with the release tagged on Github.
Let me know what you think. If you use a library from another Scheme
system, let me know - i might have it around or be willing to port it,
or provide you with help and guidance porting it.
The language Wars are back with perl6, so come help Gerbil grow!
-- vyzo
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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======== TFP 2016 ===========
17th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming
June 8-10, 2016
University of Maryland, College Park
Near Washington, DC
http://tfp2016.org/
The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of
functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future
trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for
presenting the latest research results, and other contributions (see
below). Authors of draft papers will be invited to submit revised
papers based on the feedback receive at the symposium. A
post-symposium refereeing process will then select a subset of these
articles for formal publication.
TFP 2016 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming
events. TFP 2016 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on
Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take
place on June 7nd.
The TFP symposium is the heir of the successful series of Scottish
Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in
* Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2003;
* Munich (Germany) in 2004;
* Tallinn (Estonia) in 2005;
* Nottingham (UK) in 2006;
* New York (USA) in 2007;
* Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 2008;
* Komarno (Slovakia) in 2009;
* Oklahoma (USA) in 2010;
* Madrid (Spain) in 2011;
* St. Andrews (UK) in 2012;
* Provo (Utah, USA) in 2013;
* Soesterberg (The Netherlands) in 2014;
* and Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France) in 2015.
For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage.
(http://www.tifp.org/).
== SCOPE ==
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore
identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles
are solicited in any of these categories:
Research Articles: leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
Position Articles: on what new trends should or should not be
Project Articles: descriptions of recently started new projects
Evaluation Articles: what lessons can be drawn from a finished project
Overview Articles: summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of
functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or
experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming
techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the
symposium.
Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
Functional programming in the cloud
High performance functional computing
Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
Dependently typed functional programming
Validation and verification of functional programs
Debugging and profiling for functional languages
Functional programming in different application areas:
security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
systems, global computing, grids, etc.
Interoperability with imperative programming languages
Novel memory management techniques
Program analysis and transformation techniques
Empirical performance studies
Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
(Embedded) domain specific languages
New implementation strategies
Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of
TFP, please contact the TFP 2016 program chair, David Van Horn.
== BEST PAPER AWARDS ==
To reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best paper
accepted for the formal proceedings.
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new
subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state
that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed
as first authors, and a student would present the paper. A prize for
the best student paper is awarded each year.
In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the
best paper happens to be a student paper, that paper will then receive
both prizes.
== SPONSORS ==
TFP is financially supported by CyberPoint, Galois, Trail of Bits, and
the University of Maryland Computer Science Department.
== PAPER SUBMISSIONS ==
Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on a
lightweight peer review process of extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages
in length) or full papers (20 pages). The submission must clearly
indicate which category it belongs to: research, position, project,
evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate which authors
are research students, and whether the main author(s) are students. A
draft paper for which ALL authors are students will receive additional
feedback by one of the PC members shortly after the symposium has
taken place.
We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. Papers must be submitted at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2016
Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS
style. For more information about formatting please consult the
Springer LNCS web site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
== IMPORTANT DATES ==
Submission of draft papers: April 8, 2016
Notification: April 15, 2016
Registration: May 13, 2016
TFP Symposium: June 8-10, 2016
Student papers feedback: June 14, 2016
Submission for formal review: July 14, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2016
Camera ready paper: October 14, 2016
== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==
Amal Ahmed Northeastern University (US)
Nada Amin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University (JP)
Małgorzata Biernacka University of Wroclaw (PL)
Laura Castro University of A Coruña (ES)
Ravi Chugh University of Chicago (US)
Silvia Ghilezan University of Novi Sad (SR)
Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam (NL)
John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
Suresh Jagannathan Purdue University (US)
Pieter Koopman Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
Geoffrey Mainland Drexel University (US)
Chris Martens University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
Jay McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Lowell (US)
Heather Miller École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
Manuel Serrano INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (FR)
Scott Smith Johns Hopkins University (US)
Éric Tanter University of Chile (CL)
David Van Horn (Chair) University of Maryland (US)
Niki Vazou University of California, San Diego (US)