Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Informatics Between Science and Technology: Lessons From Experience Between Fundamental Research and Concrete Software Applications

STCS Colloquium
Speaker: Gérard Huet (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) Domaine de Voluceau 78150 Rocquencourt France)
Organiser: Sandeep K Juneja
Date: Thursday, 7 Jun 2018, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue: AG-66

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Abstract:  The talk will discuss the delicate balance between theory and practice in software design, in light of the author’s experience. Concrete examples will illustrate the discussion, taken from the Sanskrit Heritage Platform of Linguistic Web services, designed around the Zen computational linguistics toolkit, relying on advanced topics of functional and relational programming.