[PRL] Conference target of opportunity
shivers at ccs.neu.edu
shivers at ccs.neu.edu
Sat Feb 3 11:13:09 EST 2007
This msg is especially intended for PRL students.
The TFP symposium is "Trends in Functional Programming." It is a friendly,
inclusive sort of conference, just right for someone who has a starter paper
they'd like to get out in front of people. The way it works is that just about
*anything* that isn't completely awful that is submitted is accepted to the
conference. (Rather like the Scheme workshop.) Everybody gets to make a
presentation, basically. After the conference, the PC makes a second pass and
selects a subset of the papers to be invited for submission to a proceedings.
If you wish, you can alternately decide to upgrade the paper and send it
somewhere else. Let me say that again: if you've got a piece of work and you'd
like to get some feedback on it, then sending it to TFP *doesn't* "use up" the
paper -- you can send it in, get your reviews, go present the paper, get some
feedback, and then tune it up, turn around and send it to ICFP or PLDI.
So here are the nice properties of TFP for a student:
- It's a "symposium," so looks better on a c.v. than a workshop.
- It's in NY this year, instead of Europe, so it's cheap to travel.
- The CFP is pretty broad-spectrum wrt style of paper:
Research Articles Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
Position Articles On what new trends should or should not be
Project Articles Descriptions of recently started new projects
Evaluation Articles What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
Overview Articles Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
- No proceedings, so you can upgrade the paper & send it somewhere else.
- The PC is really high quality for such a workshop-like sort of venue:
John Clements California Polytechnic State University, USA
Marko van Eekelen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Benjamin Goldberg New York University, USA
Kevin Hammond University of St. Andrews, UK
Patricia Johann Rutgers University, USA
Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Germany
Rita Loogen Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK
Marco T. Morazán (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA
Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK
Chris Okasaki United States Military Academy at West Point, USA
Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA
Ricardo Peña Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, USA
John Reppyq University of Chicago, USA
Ulrik P. Schultz University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Clara Segura Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jocelyn Sérot Université Blaise Pascal, France
Zhong Shao Yale University, USA
Olin Shivers Northeastern University, USA
Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt University, UK
David Walker Princeton University, USA
In short: a *fine* place for a starter student to ship a starter paper, or
for a little oddball project. PRL should exploit it.
Now, the *bad* news is that the submission deadline was 2/1. But the *good*
news is that, in keeping with the friendly, inclusive nature of TFP, the
committee is mulling the possibility of accepting a few more late papers.
I can lobby for this, and I know the PC chairman is open to it. The chairman
has also noted that this year there are *no* submissions from the Scheme
community (and there have been some excellent submissions from fairly
excellent people in other FP communities).
So... if you have a paper you now realise you'd like to submit, and you think
you can get it together by, say, Mon/Tue, send me mail ASAP and I'll push the
chairman, and I'll bet he'll take it.
-Olin
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