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Nested Data Parallelism Video Returns!

As some of you noticed, Google Video deleted the video of Simon Peyton Jones’ talk on Nested Data Parallelism from our first meeting. Well, thanks to Matthew Sackman, we now have some new hosting and can provide the video ourselves. It should appear in the embedded flash player below. Please contact me if you have any problems viewing this.

Simon’s slides are here (PowerPoint). To download the video in FLV format (playable with mplayer or VLC media player) click here.

Videos

Nested Data Parallelism: Simon Peyton Jones
Slides are here (PDF).
Direct download here.

Games in Haskell: Matthew Sackman and Tristan Allwood
Slides are here (PDF).
Direct download here.

More videos coming soon…

Better Video for Games in Haskell

Thanks to Matthew Sackman, we can now provide the video of his talk (with Tristan Allwood) on Games in Haskell through the following embedded Flash player. This gives us much better control over the video quality compared with Google Video. Please let me know if you have any issues viewing this. As before, you can download the slides here.

NB: If you don’t have Flash installed, the direct download link is here. Linux users can play this with mplayer.

You may also have noticed that Google has deleted the video of Simon Peyton Jones’ talk on Nested Data Parallelism from our first meeting. I’m now working on getting that video online again.

Games in Haskell: Video now Available

The video of Matthew and Tristan’s talk on “Games” in Haskell is now online at Google Video. Their slides are here (PDF). Unfortunately the sound is not very high quality in this video… my apologies for that.

Many thanks to Matthew and Tristan. Also many thanks to Ross Paterson, who gave us a talk on fingertrees. There is no video of Dr Paterson’s talk, but his paper (with Ralf Hinze) is here.

Meeting reminder and abstract

Just a quick reminder that the next London HUG meeting is coming up on Thursday 20th September at City University from 6:30PM. Matthew and Tristan have sent me an abstract for their talk, as follows:

Take 2 PhD students who have never programmed in the IO Monad before, lock them in an office for 3 months, and let them loose with Haskell. In this talk we show our attempt at writing a classic tron game with a twist - and show some pitfalls we fell into and lessons learned. We then took some time to reflect, and decided to start to remake a nuclear war game, again with a twist - and will show our progress, plans and invite discussion on design idioms.

OpenGL demos included.”

Also, Dr Ross Paterson will be giving a talk on finger trees.

See you there!