via Don Syme's (create of F#) blog @
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/07/18/help-with-study-of-functional-programmers.aspx
Are you currently developing or maintaining a medium to large-sized
program written in afunctional language, such as Haskell, F#, OCaml, or
Lisp? Chris Bogart is a PhD studentdoing a study of functional
programmers, as part of a research internship at Microsoft,and would
like the opportunity to look over your shoulder while you do debugging
or codingon your project. Here's what he says:
I'm looking for people with at least a year's experience doing
functional programming,and who are currently working on a real project
(i.e. for some purpose other thanlearning functional programming). I'm
only allowed to use people who can work inthe US (because of the
gratuity, which is taxable income). I'd simply come watch youwork, and
ask a few questions along the way. You'd do whatever you would normally
bedoing. If you're near Seattle or Portland, I'd come to your office
for a couple ofhours. If you're not near Seattle or Portland, then
we'd set you up with LiveMeetingor some other remote screencast
software so I can watch you from here.
Obviously security concerns are an issue - I will not share any
proprietary informationthat I learn about while visiting you.
In exchange for your help, Microsoft will offer you your pick of free
software offits gratuity list (which has about 50 items, including
Visual Studio Professional,Word for Mac, XBOX 360 games) or any book
from MS Press.
We're doing this because expert functional programmers have not been
studied much. We plan to share our findings through academic
publications, to help tool developerscreate debugging tools that are
genuinely helpful in real-world settings.
I'm hoping to finish my observations by August 8th, so please contact
me immediatelyif you're interested!
Thank you,
Chris Bogart
Contact info at the above linked post.
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