Functional Programming for Computing Clouds

J Fritsch (Cardiff)

With the advent of multicore CPUs, cloud computing and Big Data, we are currently observing changes that will eventually lead information technology into a whole new era, and we are need to search for programming language paradigms that match with it. Will Functional Programming languages (FPLs) be the game changer?

In the talk, Joerg will discuss where FPLs and Computing Clouds match up, and where are the gaps that the one or the other community seldom talks about. Since FPLs are fundamentally different (and yes, the consequences are huge!) from imperative programming languages, Joerg will present some example code from Haskell (a pure functional programming language) and give you a handout with some exercises that you may keep for Halloween.

About Joerg: Joerg is a part-time PhD student in our School with 10 years experience in the IT industry. He is an expert in the area of IP/TCP, security and commercial data centres. He is currently working for NATO.