The October 20th Galois Tech Talk will be delivered by Thomas DuBuisson, titled “Writing Linux Kernel Modules with Haskell.”
- Date: Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
- Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
- Location: Galois, Inc.421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300(3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building)Portland, OR 97204
Slides for this talk are now available.Abstract: Current operating systems are developed and extended primarily with imperative languages that lack in expressiveness and safety. Pure and functional languages fill these gaps nicely but existing tools are not ideal fits and the language abstracts away important environmental information.This talk will focus on modifications of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler to generate suitable code and nuances of binding to the Linux API. Short-comings of the language and tools will be identified along with known workarounds and potential engineering efforts.Bio: Thomas DuBuisson is a PhD student in Computer Science at Portland State University, working with advisor Andrew Tolmach. Current research efforts revolve around the use of functional languages for systems programming and improving runtime system security.
Galois has been holding weekly technical seminars for several years on topics from functional programming, formal methods, compiler and language design, to cryptography, and operating system construction, with talks by many figures from the programming language and formal methods communities. The talks are open and free. An RSVP is not required, but feel free to contact the organizer with questions and comments.