BMA is a tool for modeling and analyzing Systems Biology models, such as cellular-level descriptions of skin and blood. One important property that these biological artifacts have is homeostasis or stability. Stability in skin, for instance, means that th...

With proprietary plugin-based containers like Flash or Silverlight gradually losing ground, an increasing number of web applications are beginning to seek web standards compliance, and to utilize HTML5 to deliver rich and interactive client-side functional...

Like functional programming, which has been around in rudimentary form since the dawn of computing, virtualization only found wider commercial application more recently when people figured out how to make it work efficiently on x86 processors. So far virtu...

Jane Street is a proprietary trading company that has been using OCaml as its primary development language for nearly a decade. In those years, both the firm and the firm's technology stack have grown and matured. This talk will describe that evolution, an...

I've not been breast-fed functional programming. Rather, I "grew up" with object-oriented programming, and have only recently "converted." As such, what interesting can I say to an audience of functional experts who surely know a lot more about functional ...