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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2017.1
How to Write a Great Research Paper

Authors: Simon Peyton Jones

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 60, 2017 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2017)

Abstract
Writing papers is a core research skill for any researcher, but they aren't easy. Writing is not just a way to report on great research; it's a way to do great research. Yet many papers are so badly written that, even if they describe excellent work, the work has much less impact than it should. In this talk I'll give you seven simple, actionable guidelines that will, I hope, help you to write better papers, and have more fun at the same time. I don’t have all the answers—far from it—and I hope that the presentation will evolve into a discussion in which you share your own insights, rather than a lecture.
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Simon Peyton Jones. How to Write a Great Research Paper. In 2017 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2017). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 60, p. 1:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{peytonjones:OASIcs.ICCSW.2017.1,
  author =	{Peyton Jones, Simon},
  title =	{{How to Write a Great Research Paper}},
  booktitle =	{2017 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2017)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:1},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-059-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{60},
  editor =	{Leahy, Fergus and Franco, Juliana},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2017.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-84436},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2017.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Academia, Research, Writing}
}
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Invited Talk
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2013.20
Evidence Normalization in System FC (Invited Talk)

Authors: Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Simon Peyton Jones

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 21, 24th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2013)

Abstract
System FC is an explicitly typed language that serves as the target language for Haskell source programs. System FC is based on System F with the addition of erasable but explicit type equality proof witnesses. Equality proof witnesses are generated from type inference performed on source Haskell programs. Such witnesses may be very large objects, which causes performance degradation in later stages of compilation, and makes it hard to debug the results of type inference and subsequent program transformations. In this paper we present an equality proof simplification algorithm, implemented in GHC, which greatly reduces the size of the target System FC programs.
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Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Simon Peyton Jones. Evidence Normalization in System FC (Invited Talk). In 24th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2013). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 21, pp. 20-38, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{vytiniotis_et_al:LIPIcs.RTA.2013.20,
  author =	{Vytiniotis, Dimitrios and Peyton Jones, Simon},
  title =	{{Evidence Normalization in System FC}},
  booktitle =	{24th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2013)},
  pages =	{20--38},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-53-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{21},
  editor =	{van Raamsdonk, Femke},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2013.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-40506},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2013.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Haskell, type functions, system FC}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1769
Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell

Authors: Simon Peyton Jones, Roman Leshchinskiy, Gabriele Keller, and Manuel M T Chakravarty

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 2, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (2008)

Abstract
If you want to program a parallel computer, a purely functional language like Haskell is a promising starting point. Since the language is pure, it is by-default safe for parallel evaluation, whereas imperative languages are by-default unsafe. But that doesn\'t make it easy! Indeed it has proved quite difficult to get robust, scalable performance increases through parallel functional programming, especially as the number of processors increases. A particularly promising and well-studied approach to employing large numbers of processors is data parallelism. Blelloch\'s pioneering work on NESL showed that it was possible to combine a rather flexible programming model (nested data parallelism) with a fast, scalable execution model (flat data parallelism). In this paper we describe Data Parallel Haskell, which embodies nested data parallelism in a modern, general-purpose language, implemented in a state-of-the-art compiler, GHC. We focus particularly on the vectorisation transformation, which transforms nested to flat data parallelism.
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Simon Peyton Jones, Roman Leshchinskiy, Gabriele Keller, and Manuel M T Chakravarty. Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 2, pp. 383-414, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{peytonjones_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1769,
  author =	{Peyton Jones, Simon and Leshchinskiy, Roman and Keller, Gabriele and Chakravarty, Manuel M T},
  title =	{{Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science},
  pages =	{383--414},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-08-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{2},
  editor =	{Hariharan, Ramesh and Mukund, Madhavan and Vinay, V},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1769},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-17697},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2008.1769},
  annote =	{Keywords: Nested data parallelism, Vectorisation, Haskell, Program transformation}
}
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