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August 2009

Posterous

Giving Posterous a whirl...

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World’s first formal machine-checked proof of a general-purpose operating system kernel

NICTA press release announcing the proof.

Haskell played a pivotal role in achieving these results. The Haskell kernel model described in our 2006 Haskell Workshop paper formed the basis for the verified high-performance C implementation and the kernel model used for verification — for details, see Klein et al.’s forthcoming SOSP paper.

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Tim Sweeney's SIGGRAPH 2009 talk.

http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf

Tim Sweeney shares his vision of the future of high-end computer graphics and games programming.  Functional programming and data parallelism play an important role.

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