Tag: FSharp Programming

General Purpose Functional GPU Programming

Starting with our experiments with integrating General Purpose GPU programming into F# at Microsoft Research, I've been watching the evolution of F# as a GPGPU programming platform. Over time, GPGPU programming with F# has become both more professionalized, and much more broad spectrum (including CUDA, OpenCL and other options). Some latest developments in this area have … Continue reading General Purpose Functional GPU Programming →

Functional-First Programming in Finance

At NDC Oslo, F# in Finance and other recent events I've given versions of the talk "Succeeding with Functional-First Programming in Finance". I've also given adaptions called "Succeeding with Functional-First Programming in Industry".   The slides are now available on Slide Share. The talk is based partly on material from http://fsharp.org/testimonials and other sources, I'd be happy … Continue reading Functional-First Programming in Finance →

A World of Financial Data at your Fingertips, Strongly Tooled and Strongly Typed

  Over on the Visual F# team blog we've described how to use F# type providers with Xenomorph TimeScape, a financial data product which you can use in Windows Azure and on-premise. This work is an F# sample from Microsoft Research. The sample has been picked by the F# community and incorporated into the new … Continue reading A World of Financial Data at your Fingertips, Strongly Tooled and Strongly Typed →

Jobs in Functional + Machine Learning + Data, MSR

Microsoft Research in Redmond has several RSDE (Research Software Development Engineer) positions available in Machine Learning + Data Tools. They are looking for people with C# and F# skills - both are used. Prior Machine Learning experience is not necessary. Research Software Development Engineer, Senior - Microsoft Research Job Research Software Development Engineer II - … Continue reading Jobs in Functional + Machine Learning + Data, MSR →

FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices

My friend Antonio Cisternino recently pointed me to FSCL - a compiler from F# to OpenCL. Here is the abstract from the documentation for the compiler: https://t.co/vHQPzsxE0O. The project currently seems to live here: https://github.com/GabrieleCocco/ Nowadays, OpenCL is one of the most popular programming frameworks for high-performance computing over multicore and many-core devices. Thanks to … Continue reading FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices →

FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata

 FunScript is “a lightweight F# library that lets you rapidly develop single-page web and mobile applications”. This now has a nice new home page: http://funscript.info/  It is interesting because: It compiles F# to JavaScript (see also WebSharper) It leverages TypeScript metadata to do typed interop with JavaScript libraries through an F# type provider It supports F# … Continue reading FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata →

Does the language you use make a difference? – Code metrics for “functional-first” v. “object-first” code

  This post is a very interesting study of the differences between “functional-first” (F#) and “object-first” (C#) design for medium-sized software, by comparing software metrics for a number of C# and F# projects. Here are the conclusions, #3 and #4 are the most important I think. Project complexity. For a given number of instructions, a … Continue reading Does the language you use make a difference? – Code metrics for “functional-first” v. “object-first” code →

F# London Meetup, Thursday: Machine Learning Hands On with F#

  This Thursday evening at the F# London Meetup we have a Machine Learning Hands On with F#, led by Phil Trelford and others. Venue: The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map)   In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience … Continue reading F# London Meetup, Thursday: Machine Learning Hands On with F# →

F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson

In April, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve.   This Thursday at the F#unctional Londoners' Meetup we have Neil Danson on F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio. Neil Danson will … Continue reading F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson →

F# Londoners Meetup Tomorrow – Freebase with Don Syme

Tomorrow I'm at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup at SkillsMatter, doing an informal "deep dive" into the Freebase Type Provider. Kick off at 6:30 pm,The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map) Do your home work before the event by reading this blog series and installing and using the Freebase Type Provider Don … Continue reading F# Londoners Meetup Tomorrow – Freebase with Don Syme →

Contract Position in F# Information Rich Programming with Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Microsoft Research Cambridge have a 5 month contract position available to explore appliications of F# Information Rich Programming to some or all of open government data scientific data standards cloud programming protocols such as Protobuf web programming patterns such as REST cross-language interoperability as well as extensions to the F# query and/or type provider mechanisms. Candidates should ideally … Continue reading Contract Position in F# Information Rich Programming with Microsoft Research, Cambridge →

This Monday at the SF Bay Area F# Meetup: Building a customizable business rules engine with F#

This Monday the San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup will be hearing from Jon Harrop on the topic of "Building a customizable business rules engine with F#" Business rules are the core of business applications; yet, once an application is deployed, it is often cumbersome and expensive to update existing rules. This problem is particularly … Continue reading This Monday at the SF Bay Area F# Meetup: Building a customizable business rules engine with F# →

Late reminder: New York City F# Meetup Tonight – F# in the Cloud with George Stavroulakis of the {m}brace team

 A late reminder of the F# meetup in New York tonight - Thursday, November 29, 2012, 6:30 PM {m}brace - F# in the Cloud with George Stavroulakis of the {m}brace team  With the advent of cloud platforms and private data centers, developers face once more the challenges of distributed computing in their effort to harness the available computing … Continue reading Late reminder: New York City F# Meetup Tonight – F# in the Cloud with George Stavroulakis of the {m}brace team →

Math.NET Numerics v2.3.0 released, with improved F# support

An important library in the C# and F# open source communities is the Math.NET Numerics library. I blogged the first part in a (slow) series on using the library from F# back in June and there is another tutorial as part of the Numerical Libraries for F# and the .NET Framework overview from early last year. We also … Continue reading Math.NET Numerics v2.3.0 released, with improved F# support →

F# Job in Facebook Social Gaming, London

 Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post details of F# jobs. Here is one for today. Please contact ajeraj@astoncarter.co.uk for more details.   We’re looking for talented, self-motivated developers with a strong interest in functional programming with F# and applying F# in the development of social games that are … Continue reading F# Job in Facebook Social Gaming, London →

Next F#unctional Londoners Meetup – F# on the GPU with Alea.CUDA, Thursday, October 18, 2012

  The next meetup of the absolutely fabulous F#unctional Londoners will be one week today, at the usual venue of SkillsMatter. The topic is an exciting one! Alea.CUDA - Combining the computational power of GPUs with the functional elegance of F#Abstract F# and GPUs are two trailblazing yet unrelated technologies. F# is a uniquely productive … Continue reading Next F#unctional Londoners Meetup – F# on the GPU with Alea.CUDA, Thursday, October 18, 2012 →

CFP: First Workshop on Programming the Semantic Web – PSW

See http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~psw12/ The Web of Data is growing at an enormous pace. However, the development of dedicated software applications, capable to deal efficiently in information-rich spaces, of which the Semantic Web is one dimension, is notyet mainstream. Reasons for that include one (or more) of the following research issues: lack of integrated development environments (IDEs, … Continue reading CFP: First Workshop on Programming the Semantic Web – PSW →

Functional Programming eXchange 2012, March 16, 2012, London

The folks at SkillsMatter in London are hosting the Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on March 16, 2012, in London! Join the Functional Programming community for a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming. Learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices in the different languages (scala, clojure, haskell, F#) and … Continue reading Functional Programming eXchange 2012, March 16, 2012, London →

Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop

Over on the F# team blog we've announced Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop   As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes related to the http://www.tryfsharp.org web application. The code drop is the … Continue reading Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop →