"Generalized Algebraic Data Structures" have become a a hot new topic. They have recently been added to the GHC compiler. They support the construction, maintenance, and propagation of semantic properties of programs using powerful old ideas about types (the Curry-Howard Isomorphism) in surprisingly easy to understand new ways. The language Omega was designed and implemented to demonstrate their utility. Here a a few talks I gave that explains how they work. Also class lectures
My existing research is mainly focused on lightweight generic programming techniques and the essence of (OO-style) design patterns. * Modular Visitor Components: A Practical Solution to the Expression Families Problem Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira ECOOP 2009. * Scala for Generic Programmers Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Jeremy Gibbons In Ralf Hinze, editor, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP'08) July 2008. * Objects to Unify Type Classes and GADTs Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Martin Sulzmann ICFP 2008
Twitter has become quite the hotbed of chatter about functional programming over the past few months, as a substantial number of pretty well known FP people have either been present all along or have signed up recently and started following each other. Here is a list of people I know about who tweet about FP on a semi-regular basis, along with what I think are their main interest