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List of "possible" topics and presenters

Here are the list of papers that we covered over the course of the semester. Please pick from different 'themes' or time period. Some topics (those with no presenter yet) are filled in an advance as a suggestion.

You write a summary each week -and you can choose from any of the three topics that are presented on that day. You should also submit a summary on the day that you present, and you may do a summary on the same topic that you present on.

	Presenter	Date	Presentation Topic
		01/25	Historical Perspective & Design
1	Nakeem		Trusting Trust- Security Issues( html )
2	Shane		Paradigm of Programming Languages ( pdf )
3	Anthony		Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design( pdf )
		02/01	Imperative Programming & Object Orientation

4	Nick B.		Object Oriented Thinking ( html )
5	Kyle		Growing a Language ( pdf ) also a video by Steel ( google to find it -- update found it: <here> ).
		02/08	Functional Programming: Reflecting
6	Chris		Why Functional Programming Matter ( pdf )
7	Nick M.		Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big ( html ) * Worse is Better ( wikipedia ) * OK to write about "Worse is Better" philosophy and its impact.
8	Walt		Backus: Liberation from the von Neuman Style ( pdf )
		02/15	Functional Programming: Moving Forward
9	Nick S.		ALGOL ( wikipedia )
10	Ben		Cathedral & Bazaar ?
11	Will		Functional Programming approached to XML processing ( html )
		02/22	Functional Programming: Features
12	Kevin		Closures ( wikipedia )
13	Manuel		Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel ( html )
14	Lee		Erlang & Facebook Chat ( slides, wikipedia )

		03/07	Functional Programming in Practice, new Trends & Languages
15	Matt		Caml trading – experiences with functional programming on Wall Street ( pdf )
16	Lauren		Scala & Twitter & Future ( wikipedia , html, html , html, html )
17	Jesse		Why is Laziness Important? ( start here ) [Grad student?/Potential Graduate Student]

		03/22	Mainstream functional programming
	Ranier		Clojure
	Jay		Groovy


		03/28	Phase 2
1,2	Ben, Kyle		Obfuscated Coding
3,4	Assing Rests		A Polytime Combinatorial Approximate Quantum Algorithm in Clojure
			Jay and Andrew please sign up for a TBD slot below.

		4/11	Wednesday
5,6	Matt, Anthony		Python GIS
7,8	Kevin, Lee		Ruby on Rails
			Worth Checking out: http://www.h3rald.com/articles/10-programming-languages/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/345672/fun-programming-languages http://langpop.com/ http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
			OCaML, Lua (Jordan, individual), Rebol, J, Logo, F#, R, Squeak (smalltalk), Assembly, Factor, Processing, SQL

		4/12	Thursday: Two Letter Languages
9,10	Walt, Nick S.		Go
	Nick, Shane		Io


		4/18	Wednesday
11,12	Jordan, Nakeem		Java Script
13,14	Chris, Jay		Haskell


		04/19	Thursday:
15,16	Lauren, Nick M.		Squeak
	Jordan		Lua


		04/25	Wednesday: Image Processing
17,18	James, Jesse		Processing
19,20	Manuel, Andrew		CHDK