[PRL] Help with study of functional programmers

[Mitch]

FWIW. I know you're all just dying for your pick of free MS software,
but it might be interesting in helping the world understand Why We
Win...

Sent to you by Mitch via Google Reader: Help with study of functional
programmers via Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Other Research Projects by
dsyme on 7/18/08
Are you currently developing or maintaining a medium to large-sized
program written in a functional language, such as Haskell, F#, OCaml,
or Lisp? Chris Bogart is a PhD student doing a study of functional
programmers, as part of a research internship at Microsoft, and would
like the opportunity to look over your shoulder while you do debugging
or coding on your project. Here's what he says:

I'm looking for people with at least a year's experience doing
functional programming, and who are currently working on a real project
(i.e. for some purpose other than learning functional programming). I'm
only allowed to use people who can work in the US (because of the
gratuity, which is taxable income). I'd simply come watch you work, and
ask a few questions along the way. You'd do whatever you would normally
be doing. If you're near Seattle or Portland, I'd come to your office
for a couple of hours. If you're not near Seattle or Portland, then
we'd set you up with LiveMeeting or some other remote screencast
software so I can watch you from here.

Obviously security concerns are an issue - I will not share any
proprietary information that I learn about while visiting you.

In exchange for your help, Microsoft will offer you your pick of free
software off its gratuity list (which has about 50 items, including
Visual Studio Professional, Word for Mac, XBOX 360 games) or any book
from MS Press.

We're doing this because expert functional programmers have not been
studied much. We plan to share our findings through academic
publications, to help tool developers create debugging tools that are
genuinely helpful in real-world settings.

I'm hoping to finish my observations by August 8th, so please contact
me immediately if you're interested!

Thank you,

Chris Bogart
425-538-3562
t-chribo at microsoft.com


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