Simon Peyton Jones

FRS & Lead Designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Microsoft Research UC Berkeley

2 standalone talks · 2 total lectures · 2h recorded

Computer Systems & Software

Standalone talks by Simon Peyton Jones

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey

1:04:15

Systems & CS·Conference Talk

Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey

Simon Peyton Jones·Microsoft Research

Explains how call-by-need lazy evaluation forced functional programming researchers to invent monadic effect systems, type classes, and purity-guided compiler transformations.

1:19:56

Systems & CS·Research Seminar

Data Parallel Haskell

Simon Peyton Jones·UC Berkeley

Simon Peyton Jones introduces nested data parallelism, originally developed by Blelloch and Sabot, as a model combining high parallelism with a simple programming interface. He discusses its implementation challenges and advantages within a purely functional language like Haskell.