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SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop 2009, Edinburgh

05 Sep 2009 to 05 Sep 2009

Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements on massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for several years creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, and computer telephony.

Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve.

This workshop has brought together the open source, academic, and industrial programming communities of Erlang. It enabled participants to familiarize themselves with recent developments on new techniques and tools tailored to Erlang, novel applications, draw lessons from users' experiences and identify research problems and common areas relevant to the practice of Erlang and functional programming.



Workshop Chair
Program Chair
Program Committee
  • Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain.
  • Francesco Cesarini, Erlang Training and Consulting, London, UK.
  • Torben Hoffman, Motorola, Denmark.
  • Zoltán Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Jan Lehnardt, CouchDB, Berlin, Germany.
  • Daniel Luna, Kreditor, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Kenneth Lundin, Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Rex Page, University of Oklahoma, USA.
  • Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy.
  • Tee Teoh, Canadian Bank Note, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Phil Trinder, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Only a few days left!

The Erlang Factory in SF Bay Area will begin on monday 22nd March with the Erlang University courses and followed by the two-day Conference which starts on Thursday 25th.

There are still a few places left on the  Erlang University training courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, QuickCheck for Erlang developers and Web Programming with Erlang. Bookings can still be made for the few reamining places, so if you want to get a last minute seat - Book Now!



Erlounge open to non-conference delegates

The Erlounge at the Erlang Factory  will be open, not only to delegates from the Erlang Factory, but also to others who are interested in Erlang.  Attending is free, but to allow us to plan, non-conference attendees must register here by the end of Tuesday, 23rd March.

From 18:00-19:30 on Thursday 25th, in an environment of beer, cool drinks and snacks, there will be a series of 10-minute talks as the first part of the Erlounge. User-groups and other Erlang interested parties will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves , their interests, their projects etc. If you wish to give a 10-minute talk, please submit your talk here.

Details of the location of the Erlounge you can find here.