November 5, 2010

F# in Education Workshop

Location: Cambridge, MA, U.S.

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