The next 700 abstract machines

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Dan Ghica (Computer Science)
• Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:00-13:00
• CS 217.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Steve Vickers.

We propose a new core calculus for programming languages with effects, interpreted using a hypergraph-rewriting abstract machine inspired by the Geometry of Interaction. The intrinsic calculus syntax and semantics only deals with the basic structural aspects of programming languages: variable binding, name binding, and thunking. Everything else, including function abstraction and application, must be provided as extrinsic operations with associated rewrite rules. The graph representation yields natural concepts of locality and robustness for equational properties and reduction rules, which enable a novel flexible and powerful reasoning methodology about (type-free) languages with effects. We illustrate and motivate the technique with challenging examples from the literature. Joint work with Koko Muroya and Todd Waugh Ambridge.

This talk is part of the Lab Lunch series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• CS 217
• Computer Science Departmental Series
• Computer Science Distinguished Seminars
• Lab Lunch
• Theoretical computer science seminar

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.