Huawei Edinburgh Lab September 2022 Workshop Schedule Because of the Queen’s funeral on 19 September we are compressing the workshop into two days (20th and 21st September).  We may still need to make adjustments to the schedule below. Tuesday 20 September – Bayes Centre G.03 UK Time China time Topic/title Speakers 08:15-08:30 15:15-15:30 Coffee 08:30-08:50 […]

For the Huawei – University of Edinburgh Tech Talk Series, we are organizing a mini-workshop, in person and online, about foundations of programming languages. There are no registration fees. The details of the program and talks are below. A lunch will be provided between the talks. When: Tuesday 26 July 2022, from 11:00 to 14:15. (UK time). Where (in person): […]

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a virtual instruction set architecture designed for portability, performance, safety, and formal rigour. After its initial release, it has seen wide adoption across diverse ecosystems, such as the Web, edge computing, distributed computing, mobile, embedded systems, and others. Recently, release 2.0 of Wasm was published, which represents a step forward towards a […]

Rewriting for monoidal closed categories David Sprunger, Dan Ghica, Fabio Zanasi and Mario Alvarez-Picallo.  This paper develops a formal string diagram language for monoidal closed categories. Previous workhas shown that string diagrams for freely generated symmetric monoidal categories can be viewedas hypergraphs with interfaces, and the axioms of these categories can be realized by rewritingsystems. This work proposes […]

The Theory of Call-by-Value Solvability The denotational semantics of the untyped $\lambda$-calculus is a well developed field built around the concept of solvable terms, which are elegantly characterized in many different ways. In particular, unsolvable terms provide a consistent notion of meaningless term. The semantics of the untyped call-by-value lambda-calculus is instead still in its […]

High-Level Type-Safe Effect Handlers in C++ DAN GHICA, Huawei Research, UK SAM LINDLEY, The University of Edinburgh, UK MARCOS MAROÑAS BRAVO, Huawei Research, UK MACIEJ PIRÓG, Huawei Research, UK Effect handlers allow the programmer to implement computational effects, such as custom error handling, various forms of lightweight concurrency, and dynamic binding, inside the programming language. […]

Date Thursday 14th July @ 14:00 – 15:00 (UK time) Presenter Subarna Chatterjee Affiliation Harvard University Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/159295680 Abstract We present a self-designing key-value storage engine, Cosine, which can take the shape of the close to “perfect” engine architecture given an input workload, a cloud budget, a target performance, and required cloud […]

Date Thursday 16th June @ 11:30 – 12:30 (UK time) Presenter Marios Kogias Affiliation Imperial Location [Physical] TBA [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/218737227 Abstract Online services play a major role in our everyday life for communication, entertainment, socializing, e-commerce, etc. These services run inside datacenters under strict tail-latency service level objectives. The emergence of new hardware […]

Prof. Maribel Fernández (King’s College London) will give a talk, in person and online, for the Coffee House Tech Talk Series. The details of the talk are below. A lunch will be provided after the talk. When: Tuesday 7 June 2022 at 11am (UK time). Where (in person): Room G.03, Bayes Centre (47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT). Where (virtually): Zhumu link […]

Date Thursday 9 June @ 09:30 – 10:30 (UK time) Presenter Maciej Besta Affiliation ETH Zurich Location [Online] Meeting link: https://welink.zhumu.com/j/158022218   Abstract Graph neural networks (GNNs) are among the most powerful tools in deep learning. They routinely solve complex problems on unstructured networks, such as node classification, graph classification, or link prediction, with high […]