Effect handlers allow for programming with user-defined computational effects, with applications including custom lightweight concurrency (threads, async-await, actors, generators), error handling, dependency injection, etc. Effect handlers originate from the realm of functional programming, and the main goal of this highly experimental library is to explore how they fit in the more object-oriented setting of C++. The library relies […]

Professor Prakash Panangaden will review the concept of probabilistic bisimulation and its extension to systems with continuous state spaces.  Surprisingly, it turned out that one can prove a striking logical characterization theorem: a theorem that pins down exactly what differences one can ‘’see’’ in process behaviours when two systems are not bisimilar.  I will outline […]

Abstract:Lua is a scripting language widely uses in several fields, with strong niches in games and embedded systems. Pallene is a new language designed to be a companion language for Lua, that is, a system language specifically designed to interoperate with Lua in a scripting architecture.In this talk, Roberto will present the main features of […]

Back to the workshop page Adam Baker: Systems Research in Huawei Abstract This talk will give an overview of the newly established Systems Infrastructure Research (SIR) lab, part of the Edinburgh Research Centre. I will present our core research areas and describe current and future projects in distributed systems and operating systems. Bio Adam Barker […]

The Programming Language Laboratory of the Huawei Edinburgh Research Centre are delighted to start a new research project with Prof. Phil Wadler from the University of Edinburgh on the topic of type systems for effect handlers.  The project will focus on simplifications static scoping of algebraic effect handlers and on developing gradual types for the […]

Huawei Edinburgh Lab December meeting 2021   Monday 13 December UK Time China time Topic/title Speakers 08:00-08:10 16:00-16:10 Informatics welcome, Huawei Welcome, Lab report Jane Hillston (UoE) 08:10-08:25 16:10-16:25 Development of Huawei Research Center in Edinburgh Li Bo (Huawei) 08:25-08:40 16:25-16:40 Workshop organisation Peter Buneman (UoE) 08:40-09:30 16:40-17:30 Semantic Parsing for Conversational Question-Answering (Abstract/Bio) Mark […]

Abstract The recent development of IoT and smart spaces demand the availability of location context in every device and everywhere. However, improving the user’s experience under the “smart” schema contradicts the tedious calibration commonly operated to enable indoor positioning. Until now, modelling signal propagation, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, set the pillars for indoor positioning […]

OpenMP Taskloop Dependences Authors   Marcos Maroñas Bravo (Huawei Edinburgh RC, Programming Languages team) Xavier Teruel Vicenç Beltran Abstract Exascale systems will contain multicore/manycore processors with high core count in each node. Therefore, using a model that relaxes the synchronization, such as data-flow, is crucial to adequately exploit the potential of the hardware. The flexibility of the […]

Abstract Developing a new programming language, constructing a new domain-specific compiler, writing a new verification tool, optimizing a large application, designing a microprocessor, or verifying some of its components, all of these tasks require today a multi-year project. While most of the underlying problems are inherently hard and cannot be accelerated magically, we are additionally […]

About speaker: Martin Berger is a formal verification expert in the ISA research team. Before joining Huawei, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex. He did his PhD at Imperial College London, and his undergraduate at Technical University Berlin. His academic work has been on formal methods in programming languages, in particular typing […]