CS786 - Computational Type Theory

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2000

3:35 pm

Rhodes 508 (At Theory Center Elevator Shaft)

SPECIAL PLACE this time.

Stuart Allen

Computational Theory of Semantic Types

Type theory versus particular rules or type definitions

Type theory as a fragment of a theory of reference

Core claims of computational type theory

Standard types employed by those who apply type theory

Newer types of practical or theoretical value

Immediate constituent types of a type

Several related notions of "type"

Universes (introduction; foundations will be discussed later)

Computational content of proof

Previous week's cs786 - Logical and Semantic Preliminaries

Previous week's lecture notes.(postscript text)

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