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Elegant, instructive examples of functional programming. Supposed to be fun, and teach important programming techniques and fundamental design principles. Traditionally appear in Journal of Functional Programming, and at ICFP and affiliated workshops.
As digital information becomes increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, how will we keep abreast with the rising tide of data? My research group investigates the perceptual, cognitive, and social factors involved in making sense of large data collections, and develops novel interactive systems for visual analysis and communication.