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SPLASH 2016
Sun 30 October - Fri 4 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mon 31 Oct 2016 10:30 - 11:20 at St Gallen - Session 2 Chair(s): Tony Hosking

Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.

More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, and garbage collection. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation – that’s one reason he loves functional programming so much.

Mon 31 Oct

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10:30 - 12:10
Session 2VMIL at St Gallen
Chair(s): Tony Hosking Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University
10:30
50m
Talk
SPLASH-E Keynote (Room Matterhorn 3)
VMIL
Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research, Cambridge
11:25
45m
Talk
Invited Talk: Why aren't more users more happy with our VMs?
VMIL
K: Laurence Tratt King's College London
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