Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 6-month contract position for development of web-based user interfaces for designing and simulating computer models of biological systems. We are looking for an experienced and highly-motivated individual to...

The first F# Seattle Meetup has been announced! It will be held this Saturday, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/49365112/ Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/ for full details of this...

This Thursday, January 26, the F#unctional Londoners are holding an event to help you improve your F# coding skills ! (This event may or may not be in celebration of Australia Day and India's Republic Day - you decide!) This event will be a coding...

Just to mention that there will be a talk on F# 3.0 at TechDays France in Paris, on February 7, at 4pm. F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips (LAN209) You can find all the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays...

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately. One thing that happened over the vacation is that the F# HTML5/Mobile development tool called WebSharper is now open source, and free for use for open source projects ( details on...

Is it time to learn something new? Training is key to growing F# adoption and understanding in your enterprise, as well as increasing the skillbase of your C# and other programmers mroe generally. Here are some links to F# training courses in London...

At last, Microsoft have released its long awaited Cloud Numerics library!!! A huge congratulations to the Cloud Numerics team (follow their blog!), and I encourage everyone in the F# community to be looking at the use of these wonderful technologies together...

Come and work with the F# group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge! Microsoft Research in Cambridge has open positions for very high quality applicants with advanced computer science skills (normally recent PhD-level graduates or highly relevant industry...

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community. I particularly follow those in London, where we have F#unctional Londoners and other functional/finance/.NET user groups. Here are...

An F# Meetup Group in Seattle has now been launched by Tao Liu on the F# team. (It's only just been created, so get in early!) If you're in the Seattle or King County area and are interested in F#, then please join, and help get the group off to a...

Microsoft Research are seeking candidates for a 6-month contract position in F# programming to help improve the capabilities of F# in the area of cross-platform and web-delivered data-rich programming. The candidate should have several of the following...

Tomorrow the NYC F# meetup group will hear from Jack Pappas. (Note: I think there is a waiting list for this event, but hopefully a larger room can be organized? Or perhaps a repeat of the event?) High Performance F#, in .NET and on the GPU with Jack...

Gordon has a blog post on F# agents with timeouts In my previous post , I showed a code snippet with a very simple F# agent console application. You run the app from the console, and every time you enter a line of text, it generates a new message and...

Over on the F# team blog we've announced Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop As announced at the Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge UK, we have updated the F# 2.0 compiler source code drop to include changes...

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post pointers to technologies that work with F#, as a service to the F# community. I've blogged in the past about other maths and stats libraries that work with F#, and am adding another one...

Tonight my colleague Byron Cook from MSR Cambridge will be speaking at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange...

The MonoDevelop team have taken a leaf out of the Visual Studio team's book and started MonoDevelop User Voice . Here you can vote on MonoDevelop features and discuss them. One of the hot ticket items you might like to vote for right now is Full Support...

Microsoft Research Cambridge is seeking talented software developers to work on the Infer.NET project ( http://research.microsoft.com/infernet ). Infer.NET is a framework for developing and deploying machine learning and inference solutions. It has...

For those in the UK or Europe, there are a set of F# tutorials at SkillsMatter in London on Thursday and Friday this week (Nov 3-4) Please pass this along to those who need to know. Thanks Don

Microsoft Research in Cambridge has ongoing Post-doctorate positions open for very high quality recent PhD-level graduates, and internships for current PhD candidates. I would like to encourage potential candidates interested in the field of web-delivered...

Would you like to see other teams at Microsoft doing specific things to support F# better? Then now you have a great way to let them know! For example, lets say you would like the .NET CLR to implement more and better floating point optimizations around...

Visual Studio now has a great site where you can enter and vote on features for languages and otehr aspects of Visual Studio. Submit and Vote on F# and Visual Studio Features Here! Please take the time to vote on features and submit new ones. This...

Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.... I grew up in Toowoomba, Australia , and had the good fortune to go to a (then somewhat radical) primary school which had an Apple II+ for use in Year 6 and 7. I guess it was 1979-1982...

Here are some details on an F# contract position at MSR Cambridge. Contract Position for Biological Modelling Language Development (F#) Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - 4th October 2011 Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 2-year contract...

My colleagues at MSR Cambridge in the research games team have released a Facebook app called “Project Waterloo” ( http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo ). The app allows users to play the two-player turn-based game called Blotto ( http...