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From: Patricia Johann <pjohann@cse.ogi.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:21:56 -0700
cc: aborning@cs.washington.edu, jpb@reed.edu, scollo@cs.utwente.nl

Dear Colleague,

Below is an announcement for the 1996 Summer School on Advanced Functional
Programming, hosted by the Pacific Software Research Center at the Oregon
Graduate Institute. I would greatly appreciate it if you could distribute the 
announcement to anyone you think might be interested in attending.

Thank you very much,
Patricia Johann


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                     Pacific Software Research Center at
                        The Oregon Graduate Institute
                                  Announces

                            1996 Summer School on
                       Advanced Functional Programming


It is not often that gets to interact one-on-one with a large
collection of distinguished researchers in functional programming. At
the 1996 Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming you will
have the oppoprtunity to do just that. We have put together an 
impressive panel of lecturers who will be teaching the most advanced
techniques, using state-of-the-art system, all with a rather
practical, application-oriented focus. There will be plenty of time
for discussions and informal conversations. 

The 1996 Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming will be
hosted by the Pacific Software Research Center at the Oregon Graduate
Institute located in Portland, Oregon. It follows on the success of a
similar school held in Baastad, Sweden in 1995. This year's school
will be held 100+ miles to the north of Portland at The Evergreen
State College in Olympia, Washington, on the southern shore of Puget  
Sound. Evergreen is located five miles outside of Olympia, Washington,
and lies in the heart of a 1,000-acre forest.  The Summer School will
begin on the evening of Sunday Aug 25th, and end Friday Aug 30th. 

This year's lectures will focus on state-of-the-art topics that
are considerably more application-oriented than those of the
Baastad School.  We have invited to the summer school speakers
who have experience in using functional languages to build large
systems.  The specific topics that will be covered in the summer
school are:

   * "Haskore, specifying electronic music", Paul Hudak
   * "Polytypic typing", Johan Jeuring
   * "Systems programming", Peter Lee
   * "Functional data structures", Chris Okasaki
   * "GUI programming using Concurrent Haskell", Simon Peyton Jones
   * "Miniaturizing functional programs", Colin Runciman
   * "Functional parsers", Doaitse Swierstra
   * "Programming in the large using SML modules", Mads Tofte

Like last year, each lecturer will have a three hour slot, some
of which may be taken up by practical exercises. The pattern of 1
hour lecture, 1 hour exercise and break, and 1 hour lecture
worked well in the past, and we plan to repeat it. The lecture
notes from the school will be published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS
series.

For more information and registration form, please see our web
page at URL:

        http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/summerschool96.html

The program organizers are:

* Tim Sheard, sheard@cse.ogi.edu, Oregon Graduate Institute,
* John Launchbury, jl@cse.ogi.edu, Oregon Graduate Institute,
* Erik Meijer, erik@cs.ruu.nl, Utrecht University.

Local arrangements/registration will be handled by Lynette Osborne
(osborne@cse.ogi.edu), phone (503) 690-1476, fax (503) 690-1548.
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