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In Praise of Higher Order Functions
Summary
Mary Sheeran discusses higher order functions, taking a look at their history and their algebra, showing some examples capturing patterns in hardware description and GPU programming.
Bio
Mary Sheeran is Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Mary has pioneered the use of functional domain specific languages in hardware design and verification, and in resource aware parallel programming. She is a founder member of IFIP Working Group 2.8 on Functional Programming.
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Community comments
Too much echo in the audio
by jean-simon Larochelle,
Too much echo in the audio
by jean-simon Larochelle,
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I could not listen to the whole video because there is just too much echo in the audio. In many places it is very difficult to understand what the presentator is saying.
Too bad because it looks like an interesting talk. The audio could be improved with a sound processor software like Audacity.