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Amos Robinson edited this page Mar 28, 2016 · 24 revisions

The PLS reading group is a casual reading group run by members of UNSW's Programming Languages and Systems group. The discussions are unstructured and usually held over beer. Anyone is welcome to join us.

2016s1 Information

For this semester we intend to hold the reading every 2 weeks as before. The Whitehouse has always worked well as a venue, so I (Rob) see no reason not to keep on using it. As before we'll take it in turns picking the paper. No one really "presents" the paper as such, but whoever picks it usually starts off the discussion.

If everyone who wants to attend could put their availability in the following table, it would be helpful for establishing a good time to start with. Also, we're short of good paper suggestions so add them below, if you know of any. Once we've got a time I'll put a tentative schedule together.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Rob After 3 After the meeting Before 2, after 4 Before 1, after 3 Anytime
Liam Anytime After the meeting After 2 after 4 (but i'll be tired) Anytime
Amos Anytime Anytime Anytime Anytime OK
Zilin NA After the meeting Out of 3-4 Before 1 Anytime
Christina Anytime Before 1, 4-6 Preferably not 2-6 Before 3 Anytime
Angus After 5 Before 2, after 5 Before 3, after 4 Before 2, after 4 Anytime
Ed Anytime Anytime After 5 Never Anytime

Paper suggestions

Functional Pearl: A Smart View on Datatypes http://www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/~mauro/pubs/smartviews/smartviews.pdf

GADTs meet their match http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/pattern-matching/gadtpm.pdf

Practical Principled FRP: Forget the past, change the future, FRPNow! http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~atze/papers/prprfrp.pdf

Type Theory in Color http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/CCCC.pdf

First Order Unification by Structural Recursion http://strictlypositive.org/unify.ps.gz

How to Keep Your Neighbours In Order https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/Pivotal.pdf

Programming and Reasoning with Algebraic Effects and Dependent Types https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/effects.pdf

Propositions as Types (draft) http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-types/propositions-as-types.pdf

Confusion in the Church-Turing thesis http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.7103v2.pdf

Scalability! But at what COST? (big data, not PL) http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf

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