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An Epic future for SPJ

simonpj November 5, 2021, 5:57pm #1

As you may know, I am leaving Microsoft Research at the end of
November. Time for something new! I am going to start a new role as
Engineering Fellow at Epic Games in December.

Epic is doing all sorts of interesting things - not just games but
other virtual reality stuff suchf as special effects for films,
design visualisation, architecture, and so on. I will be working with
my long-time colleague Lennart Augustsson and a team of others, on
Verse. Verse is a new programming language that Epic is designing for
their games, and in due course for the metaverse (e.g. listen to Tim
Sweeney's SigGraph 2019 talk). I also expect to work with Dan Piponi
on data-centre-scale transactional memory. And probably more.

Epic is also happy for me to spend a substantial amount of time on
education, on functional programming research, and Haskell and GHC in
particular. I think this is extremely generous, and it means that I
will continue to be pretty active in these areas.

Simon

PS: In fact Epic is looking for more people who know about
programming language implementation (implementing Verse), and/or
formal verification (reasoning about Verse). If you'd be interested,
drop me a line.

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atravers November 6, 2021, 12:47am #2

Verse - really? https://xkcd.com/927. A possible name for the guide
to the language: The Verse Chapters...

satnam November 6, 2021, 7:05pm #3

Congratulations! Sounds very exciting!

gillchristian November 6, 2021, 10:29pm #4

Congratulations! Can't wait to see what you work on

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