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Relational Programming in miniKanren
Summary
Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a simplified version of KANREN - a declarative logic programming system with relations embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme.
Bio
Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University. He is co-author of several Schemer books. William E. Byrd is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) at Indiana University. He is co-author of The Reasoned Schemer, and co-designer of several declarative languages: miniKanren, Harlan, and Kanor.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web. Strange Loop was created in 2009 by software developer Alex Miller and is now run by a team of St. Louis-based friends and developers under Strange Loop LLC, a for-profit but not particularly profitable venture.