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 <eventdefs>
 
 <!-- Fall 2008 -->
+<eventitem date="2008-11-10" time="4:30 PM" room="MC4061" title="Functional Programming">
+  
+    <short><p>This talk will survey concepts, techniques, and languages for  functional programming from both historical and contemporary perspectives,  with reference to Lisp, Scheme, ML, Haskell, and Erlang. No prior background  is assumed.
+</p></short>
+  
+  
+    <abstract><p>This talk will survey concepts, techniques, and languages for 
+functional programming from both historical and contemporary perspectives, 
+with reference to Lisp, Scheme, ML, Haskell, and Erlang. No prior background 
+is assumed.
+</p></abstract>
+  
+</eventitem>
 
 <eventitem date="2008-10-24" time="6:00 PM" room="Comfy Lounge" title="Code Party">
   <abstract><p>