On 23-Nov-2017, I will give a presentation about Future Prospects of Isabelle Technology at DTU (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), Copenhagen – thanks to an invitation by Jørgen Villadsen. More information on the meeting is available on the website.

Abstract:

In the past 3 decades, Isabelle has made a long way from a modest LCF-style proof assistant (with copy-paste of proof scripts written in ML) to the current Isabelle/PIDE editor-environment (with its timeless and stateless processing of proof documents). In this presentation, I will try to extrapolate this into the future: How far can we scale proof documents and libraries, e.g. via moving Isabelle into the “cloud”? How can we reduce system resource requirements on the client side? How can we upgrade interactive edits produced by a single author, towards versioned changesets by multiple or distributed authors? What are suitable frameworks for the next generation of Isabelle document preparation? What can we make out of Isabelle/ML as ultra-clean environment for functional programming? Etc. etc.

Sources for the presentation: Copenhagen2017.tar.gz