BoF: Science and Functional Programming

Room 4

Topic: Like commercial users of FP, scientists mostly just want to get their jobs done. Those jobs include

• orchestrating heterogeneous and parallel computations and experiments
• tracking and reproducing the provenance of massive data sets
• coping with uncertainties in observations and specifications
• adapting to changes in algorithms and requirements
• organizing and explaining the conclusions of research

Come to discuss how science and FP should offer each other concrete challenges and applicable abstractions.