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.

The 2019 edition is co-located with ECOOP in London. It will be held on Monday 15.7. and Tuesday 16.7. with three parallel tracks, four exciting keynotes and invited talks.

Submit your talk abstracts via this Google form.

Accepted Papers

Title
A compact bytecode format for JavaScriptCore
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Asynchronous streams in direct style with and without macros
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A vision for debugging distributed applications
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Beyond the Paper: End-to-End Program Analysis
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Bringing WebAssembly outside the web with WASI
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Carp—A Language for the 21st Century
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Checkpointing for Java
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Conflict resolution
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Declarative - The paradigm that didn't get mentioned
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Dragging Unix into the 1980s (and beyond?): liveness and source-level reflection
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Dynamic Languages and Parallelism: How to Go from Broken or Slow to Safe and Efficient?
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Fabulous - Functional programming for cross-platform mobile apps
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Finite-State Machines: All models are wrong but this one is useful
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Formal Methods and Computer Networks: A Match Made in Heaven?
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Getafix: Learning to fix bugs automatically
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Getting everything wrong without doing anything right! On the perils of large-scale analysis of Github data
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Glean: facts about code
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Gradual typing for Ruby at Scale with Sorbet
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GraphicsFuzz: Metamorphic Testing for Graphics Shader Compilers
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Idris 2: Type-driven Development of Idris
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Julia: A Compiler for the Future
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Logo, A Computer Language to Grow With
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Loom: Bringing Lightweight Threads and Delimited Continuations to the JVM
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Mental models for critiquing design of interactive development environments
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Microservice architecture, a programming languages perspective
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Moldable development
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No Hands on Deck: Automation @Uber
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One VM to Rule Them All? Lessons Learned with GraalVM
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Plutus and Marlowe
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Run, actor, run
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Safely Sharing Data: Reference Capabilities in the Pony Programming Language
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Say What You Mean: Exploring Declarative Computation in Art
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The Correct Cloud: Logic and Languages
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The future of DSLs: functions and formal methods
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The Making of a Secure and Robust IoT Development Platform
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The search for fundamental software engineering principles
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The Tricks of Game Programming in a Pure Functional Language
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Using ML for Code Discovery at Facebook
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Walking In The Garden Of Forking Paths
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Write your own Container in Rust!
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Call for Presentations

Curry On has two central goals.

  1. Bringing industry and academia together to have an open conversation.
  2. Exploring the intersection of programming or programming languages with emerging challenges in industry, such as security, big data, or machine learning.

Talks can cover topics as varied as an academic idea applied to a surprising problem domain in a real-world system, to something racy like “programming language academia is irrelevant and here’s why”.

We give no firm guidelines on topics (go wild!), however we particularly seek talks that can provoke thought and discussion, or even (more idealistically) can elicit or encourage new ideas or change.

Areas of particular interest to the conference include:

  • distributed systems/big data
  • machine learning
  • security
  • concurrency
  • types
  • functional or logic programming
  • databases
  • compilers and virtual machines
  • PL approaches to front-end development
  • probabilistic programming
  • next generation tooling

Format

Each accepted talk will get a 40 minute talk slot. There are two different sorts of talk slots. Presenters have a choice between:

  • a standard talk slot, or
  • a chess-timer talk slot.

Chess-Timer Talks

(There will be a limited number of chess-timer talk slots.)

One of Curry On’s prime goals is to bring industry and academia together to have an open conversation. But one speaker addressing hundreds of people is hardly a conversation. So, we’re changing that.

We also call ourselves “a new and unusual non-profit conference focused on programming languages & emerging challenges in industry.”

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

Chess-timer talks primarily seek to get more audience members participating in the presentation. 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. This style of giving talks has been demoed in small (20-30 person) academic workshops to great success. In those workshops, it has incentivized speakers to strategically insert fodder for discussion points into their presentations so as to try and elicit audience members to ask questions.

Speakers with selected talks will have the opportunity to choose whether or not they would like to give a chess-timer talk. Curry On will feature a limited number of chess-timer sessions, meaning that a majority of talks will still be standard conference talks.

Admission and Travel

Speakers will receive free admission to Curry On. We are striving to provide some form of travel grant to assist with the costs of attending. We’ll post details here once a budget is finalized.

Talk Submission

Submit your talk abstracts via this Google form.

Dates
Plenary
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Mon 15 Jul

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09:00 - 10:15
KeynoteCurry On at Mancy
09:00
75m
Talk
Glean: facts about code
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Simon Marlow Facebook
10:45 - 12:15
TalksCurry On at Mancy
10:45
45m
Talk
The Correct Cloud: Logic and Languages
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Thomas Ball Microsoft Research
11:30
45m
Talk
Beyond the Paper: End-to-End Program Analysis
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10:45 - 12:15
10:45
45m
Talk
Run, actor, run
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Sebastian Blessing Imperial College London, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University, Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College London
11:30
45m
Talk
Mental models for critiquing design of interactive development environments
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Richard Millwood Core Education UK & Trinity College Dublin
13:30 - 15:00
TalksCurry On at Avize
13:30
45m
Talk
Julia: A Compiler for the Future
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Simon Danisch Nextjournal
14:15
45m
Talk
No Hands on Deck: Automation @Uber
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Adam Welc Uber Technologies
13:30 - 15:00
TalksCurry On at Mancy
13:30
45m
Talk
Asynchronous streams in direct style with and without macros
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Philipp Haller KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
14:15
45m
Talk
Using ML for Code Discovery at Facebook
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Sifei Luan Facebook, Celeste Barnaby Wesleyan University, Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley, Satish Chandra Facebook
17:30 - 18:30
KeynoteCurry On at Mancy
17:30
60m
Talk
Bringing WebAssembly outside the web with WASI
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Lin Clark Mozilla, Till Schneidereit Mozilla
19:30 - 22:00
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19:30
2h30m
Social Event
Curry On Party
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Tue 16 Jul

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09:00 - 10:15
KeynoteCurry On at Mancy
09:00
75m
Talk
Logo, A Computer Language to Grow With
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10:45 - 12:15
TalksCurry On at Mancy
10:45
45m
Talk
Plutus and Marlowe
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Philip Wadler University of Edinburgh, UK
11:30
45m
Talk
The search for fundamental software engineering principles
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Tomas Petricek University of Kent
13:30 - 15:00
TalksCurry On at Avize
13:30
45m
Talk
Moldable development
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Tudor Gîrba feenk.com
14:15
45m
Talk
A vision for debugging distributed applications
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Aidan Hobson Sayers Hadean Supercomputing Ltd.
13:30 - 15:00
TalksCurry On at Mancy
13:30
45m
Talk
Getafix: Learning to fix bugs automatically
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Andrew Scott Facebook, Johannes Bader Facebook, Satish Chandra Facebook
14:15
45m
Talk
Carp—A Language for the 21st Century
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Veit Heller Port Zero
15:30 - 17:00
15:30
45m
Talk
GraphicsFuzz: Metamorphic Testing for Graphics Shader Compilers
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Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London
16:15
45m
Talk
Write your own Container in Rust!
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Gargi Sharma Recurse Center
17:30 - 19:30
Social HourCatering at Socials
Questions? Use the ECOOP Curry On contact form.