Thursday, November 4, 2010
19:00
Dinner at the Liberty Hotel
Friday, November 5, 2010
New England Research & Development (NERD) Center
08:00
Registration and full breakfast
09:00 – Keynote
Don Syme, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
F#: Succinct, Modern Functional Programming
10:30
Break
Implementations
11:00
Tomas Petricek, Charles University, Prague
Going cross-platform with F# MonoDevelop plugin
11:30
Joe Pamer, F# Core Team, Microsoft
F# from the Mac User’s Perspective
12:00
Dean Guo, Microsoft External Research
TryFSharp in a Browser
12:30
Lunch
Education
13:30
Rick Minerich, Microsoft MVP (F#) and Leader of the New England F# User’s Group
F# in the classroom and the lab
14:00
Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen
Programming Language Concepts using F# as a Meta-language
14:30 – Panel session
•Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research (Chair)
•Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria
•David Walker, Princeton University
•Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, London
Why Teach F#
15:30
Break
The Future
15:45
Don Syme, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Looking Ahead with F#: Taming the Data Deluge
17:00
Howard Mansell, CreditSuisse, New York
Locknote: F# – An Education
17:50
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research
Closing remarks
18:00
End
19:00
Workshop dinner at the Liberty Hotel
Saturday, November 6, 2010
09:00–12:30
Project meeting by invitation