Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic research for over 35 years, and they have seen an ever larger practical impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorous community of working programmers employing functional languages has come into existence.

CUFP is designed to serve this community. The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

CUFP 2011 will feature two days of tutorials given by language experts, on the 22nd and 23rd, and a day of talks on the 24th. Attendees may register for any subset of the days.

Day 1, Tutorials (September 22nd)

Morning

• Building reliable Client-Server Applications in Erlang Francesco Cesarini

• Jane Street's OCaml Core library Yaron Minsky

Afternoon

• Building a functional OS Anil Madhavapeddy, David Scott, Richard Mortier

• Collaborative Scientific Software Ashish Agarwal

Day 2, Tutorials (September 23rd)

Morning

• Parallel Programming in Haskell Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow, Manuel Chakravarty

• Systems Programming in Scala Steven Jensen, Marius Eriksen

Afternoon

• The Snap framework for web applications in Haskell Gregory Collins

• F# for the working functional programmer Michael Sperber

Day 3, Talks (September 24th)

• Keynote: Pragmatic Haskell Lennart Augustsson (Standard Chartered)

• Theorem-based derivation of an AES Implementation John Launchbury (Galois)

• Discrete Event Simulation using Erlang Olivier Boudeville (EDF)

• Model based testing of AUTOSAR automotive components Thomas Arts (Quviq)

• HTML5 web application development in OCaml Keigo Imai (IT Planning)

• Large-scale Internet Services in Scala at Twitter Steve Jenson and Wilhelm Bierbaum (Twitter)

• Applying Functional Programming to Build Platform-Independent Mobile Applications Adam Granicz (Intellifactory)

• Fourteen Days of Haskell: A Real Time Programming Project in Real Time Gregory Wright (Alcatel-Lucent)

• Disco: using Erlang to implement Mapreduce Prashanth Mundkur and Ville Tuulos and Jared Flatow (Nokia)

• Functional mzScheme DSLs in Game Development Dan Liebgold (Naughty Dog)

• OCaml and Acunu Experience Report Tom Wilkie and Andrew Byde (Acunu)

There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange, but videos of all the talks will be placed online after the event.

For more information, including presentation abstracts and the most recent schedule information, visit http://cufp.org.

See you there!