Frank Pfenning's Course on Linear Logic

I found the guy who was explaining co-clocking to me in that dream I had a week ago:


If you get to 54:32 you will see what I mean. He goes to provide an operational semantics for π-calculus in terms of linear logic. 

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It's a really good course. Here is a playlist of the lectures. The notes and other course materials are still available.

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In 2017 Frank Pfenning gave some lectures on Substructural Type Systems and Concurrent Programming and in 2019 some lectures on Session-typed Concurrent Programming. In 2024 he changed tack and did a course on something he calls Adjoint Functional Programming.  For more of the CMU programming language experience see Bob Harper's OPLSS 22 lectures .

Then just after finding this the Topos Institute seminar was this:

 

I guess Girard would say that they should beware of logical atrocities. See Pfenning's Lecture Notes on Functional Computation.

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Linear logic is called that because it treats states as local so you can describe a system composed of separable states as a linear combination of subsystems. That is, I think what Mike McCulloch is trying to get at here. 


Here's the previous video he referred to:

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