Continuation Fest 2008

April 13, 2008
Tokyo, Japan

http://logic.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/Continuation/

New

[New!] Slides of several speakers are available at the program page.
Fest is over. We had 53 participants ! from various countries and organizations. We thank all the participants, speakers, and PC members.
Poster is available. (Thanks to Masuko-san.)
Information of "KONSHINKAI" (Informal Sake-and-Dinner Party) is added.
The program and Call for participations in English and in Japanese are available.
New deadline for talk proposal: April 4 (Fri).
Venue information has been added.
A pdf version of call for talk proposals is available. Deadline: March 31, 2008.
Link to FLOPS 2008 symposium is added. (Thanks to Jacques Garrigue.) FLOPS 2008 will be held on April 14 to 16, right after Continuation Fest.

Description

Continuations are used, and constantly re-discovered, in web programming, logic, event-based concurrency, linguistics, transactional systems, optimization, program generation and verification. Programming language systems -- including Scheme, OCaml, Ruby, Python, Haskell, Coq -- are (re-)implementing continuations, generators, iterators and related control structures. Continuations are also being studied for their own sake.

We call for an informal gathering of people working in all these areas as well as meet each other and strengthen the community.

Call for Participation

Continuation Fest 2008 is a half-day meeting consisting of techinical sessions and night session (dinner). We sincerely solicit interested programmers, students, and researchers to participate in this stimulating event!

Note. No registration or participartion fee is needed to attend Continuation Fest except the dinner. Those who join the dinner are encouraged to send an e-mail to the organizer by April 11th.

Program

Meeting program is here. There is also a version with Japanese titles.

Venue

The Continuation Fest will be held in Akihabara site of University of Tokyo, which is on the 13th Floor of Akihabara "Daibiru" building, a modern building which is very close to JR Akihabara station. (Note. "Daibiru" is the name of a building and "JR" is Japan Railway.)

Map around Akihabara Station and Akihabara "Daibiru" building. ( a map in Japanese.)

Direction from JR Akihabara Station: Go to the exit for "Denki-Gai" (electric town), or find the north-west direction. Look for a tall building with 31 floors which is reachable from the station by one minute.

Other stations nearby: You can also use Tokyo-Metro Hibiya line "Akihabara" station, Tokyo-Metro Ginza line "Suehirocho" station, or Tsukuba Express line "Akihabara" station. All stations are within walking distance (takes less than 5 minutes).

Acknowledgments. We thank SASADA Koichi of the Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo for providing the conference room for free.

We note that FLOPS 2008 (International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming) will start April 14th afternoon, and the attendees of Continuation Fest have just enough time to get from Tokyo to Ise City in the morning of Apr 14. More details about the transportation from Tokyo to Ise City, see the access information.

Konshinkai (Informal Sake-and-Dinner Party)

Restaurant Name: NIJYU-MARU AKIHABARA
Place: Tomorrow Bldg. 6th Floor, Soto-Kanda 1-16-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-5298-5912
Time: 18:30-20:30 (subject to change)
Cost: approx. 4000 yen
Links: gnavi, home page, map
Participation: Pleaes send an e-mail to CF2008@logic.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp.

Committees

Program committee:

Chris Barker (New York)
Shiro Kawai (Scheme Arts)
Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC)
Chung-chieh Shan (Chair, Rutgers)
Taiichi Yuasa (Kyoto)

Organizing Committee:

Special Thanks to:

Koichi Sasada (Tokyo)
Students from Ochanomizu and Tsukuba

Inquiries may be sent to the organizers at CF2008@logic.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp.