Curry On Amsterdam! 2018

Keynotes

Felienne Hermans
TU Delft
Code Phonology

Simon Peyton Jones
Microsoft Research
Haskell

Ben Titzer & Andreas Rossberg
Google & Dfinity Foundation
WebAssembly

Steve Francia
Google
Go

Invited Speakers

Holden Karau
Google
Spark

Thomas Würthinger
Oracle
Graal VM

Eelco Visser
Delft
Spoofax, Language Workbenches

Chris Laffra
Uber
Little Languages

Manu Sridharan
Uber
Static Analysis

Jennifer Mary Jacobs
Stanford
PL for creative expression

Cliff Click
Stealth
HotSpot JVM

Ron Pressler
Oracle
Continuations in JVM

Dave Thomas
Kx Systems
Array Programming

Ben Livshits
Brave
Security

Accepted Talks

John Mumm
Vectrology Solutions

Miles Sabin
Underscore Consulting

Andrea Peruffo
Nokia

Ivan Čukić
KDE e.V.

Tamás Szabó & Sebastian Erdweg
itemis & TU Delft

Sunjay Cauligi
UCSD

Michael Arntzenius
University of Birmingham

Yifan Xing
Northeastern University

Manuel Chakravarty
Applicative & Tweag I/O

Alexis King
Northwestern University

Tyler McMullen
Fastly

Chris Ford
ThoughtWorks

Yulia Startsev
Mozilla

Alvaro Videla
FaunaDB

Adil Akhter
ING

Sylwia Brodacka
Luna

Andrea Leopardi
Weedmaps

Nick Mitchell
IBM Research

Arnout Engelen
Lightbend

Bas Geerdink
ING

Alexander Thiemann
Stripe Inc

Fraser Tweedale
Red Hat

Simon Belak
Metabase

Andreas Garnæs
Zendesk

Faraz Babar
American Express

Edd Barrett
King's College London

Jesse Alama
Vicampo

Academia and industry need to have a talk.

Or rather, they just need to talk in general.

Curry On is a conference focused on the intersection of emerging languages and emerging challenges in industry (e.g. big data or security), as well as new ideas and paradigms in software development.

Curry On also seeks to act as a conduit for ferrying understanding and ideas back and forth between industry and academic programming languages, software engineering, and systems research communities (amongst others).

Curry On is a rare event where academic minds responsible for concepts and tools now invaluable to everyday software development – like functional programming, or generics in Java – collide with the movers and shakers in industry that are building next-generation systems and developing software engineering practices central to our entire industry.

Curry On will be held in a different European city year-to-year, and it will always be co-located with one of the top academic conferences in programming languages. This year, it's co-located with ECOOP.

Join us for two days of fruitful and mind-altering ideas and discussions, and maybe a few beers or a sip of coffee.

Atypical conference?

Our goal:

Bring industry and academia together to have a conversation.

But...

One speaker addressing hundreds of people is hardly a conversation.

So, let's change that.

Introducing

Chess-Timer talks

Chess-timer talks are our unusual solution to making tech conferences a more interactive, more fun, and better place for learning and discussions.

Speakers who choose to give a chess-timer talk are allowed 20 minutes of solo speaking time, and 20 minutes of discussion time. A Curry On representative operates a chess-timer during the presentation, switching between solo + discussion time budgets. When an audience member interrupts the talk to ask a question, for example, we switch the timer to deduct from discussion time.

Curry On will feature a limited number of chess-timer sessions, meaning that a majority of talks will still be standard conference talks.

Program

Monday, July 16^th

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
9:15-9:30	Curry On opening remarks Jan Vitek and Heather Miller
9:30-10:20 Keynote Room:	keynote WebAssembly, Past, Present, and Future Ben Titzer & Andreas Rossberg Google & Dfinity Foundation watch
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:40	Streaming analytics: How to Get Fast Predictions From Real-Time Data with Flink, Kafka, and Cassandra Bas Geerdink ING watch	Adding kind-polymorphism to the Scala programming language Miles Sabin Underscore Consulting watch	chess timer talk Your inner compiler engineer wants out! Jesse Alama Vicampo watch
11:50-12:30	ApacheSpark as a gateway drug to FP: Concepts taught & broken Holden Karau Google watch	Constant-time crypto programming with FaCT Sunjay Cauligi UCSD watch	Atom Heart Monad: FRP in C++ Ivan Čukić KDE e.V. watch
12:30-13:50	Lunch
13:50-14:30	Domain Specific Programming Platforms for Creativity Jennifer Mary Jacobs Stanford watch	A CRDT Primer: Defanging Order Theory John Mumm Vectrology Solutions watch	Taming the C monster: Haskell FFI techniques Fraser Tweedale Red Hat watch
14:40-15:20	Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra Ron Pressler Oracle watch	Better living through incrementality: Immediate static analysis feedback without loss of precision Tamás Szabó & Sebastian Erdweg itemis & TU Delft watch	chess timer talk Akka.JS and why the actor model matters even in JS's world. Andrea Peruffo Nokia watch
15:30-15:55	Coffee break
15:55-16:35	Spoofax: Live Programming Language Design Eelco Visser Delft watch	It Ain't Necessarily So Chris Ford ThoughtWorks watch	Papers we love - Elixir edition Andrea Leopardi Weedmaps watch
16:45-17:25	chess timer talk Transducing for fun and profit Simon Belak Metabase watch	Language Design in the Open Yulia Startsev Mozilla watch	Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell Alexis King Northwestern University watch
17:50-18:40 Keynote Room:	keynote Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research watch
19:30-22:00	Curry On Party at the Tobacco Theater

Tuesday, July 17^th

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3
9:15-9:30	Curry On opening remarks Jan Vitek and Heather Miller
9:30-10:20 Keynote Room:	keynote How does code sound? Felienne Hermans TU Delft watch
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:40	Code into Data: Embedding programs into datastores with GraalVM Thomas Würthinger Oracle watch	Little Languages Chris Laffra Uber watch	Strategies for Streaming Arnout Engelen Lightbend watch
11:50-12:30	Challenges in Large-Scale Mobile App Performance Manu Sridharan Uber watch	Why VM Benchmarking is Probably Misleading you Edd Barrett King's College London watch	Distributed Systems Protocols and their Vulnerabilities Yifan Xing Northeastern University watch
12:30-13:50	Lunch
13:50-14:30	Rethinking Modern Web Browsers Ben Livshits Brave	Simplicity - The Road Not Taken? Dave Thomas Kx Systems	SuperRecord: Practical Anonymous Records for Haskell Alexander Thiemann Stripe Inc watch
14:40-15:20	Lessons from a Big Data Machine Learning Startup Cliff Click Stealth watch	chess timer talk Serverless Computing with Functions Nick Mitchell IBM Research watch	Lector in Codigo Alvaro Videla FaunaDB watch
15:30-15:55	Coffee break
15:55-16:35	Do-It-Yourself Functional Reactive Programming Manuel Chakravarty Applicative & Tweag I/O watch	Isolation Without Containers Tyler McMullen Fastly watch	Type-Safe GraphQL Servers with GADTs Andreas Garnæs Zendesk watch
16:45-17:25	DB ⋈ FP = Datafun: a new functional query language Michael Arntzenius University of Birmingham watch	Using APIs and micro-services as the glue between observed and derived facts Faraz Babar American Express watch	Luna - overview Sylwia Brodacka Luna watch
17:50-18:40 Keynote Room:	keynote Go: building on the shoulders of giants and stepping on a few toes Steve Francia Google watch

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