We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri March 16, 2001, from 3:15 to 4:00pm. Attendees: Zoltan Somogyi (zs) Tyson Dowd (trd) Mark Brown (dougl) David Overton (dmo) David Jeffery (dgj) Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell) Simon Taylor (stayl) Progress reports We went around the table, with each person in turn discussing what they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning to work on. Zoltan Somogyi (zs) - Working on improvements to deep profiling. Tyson Dowd (trd): - Cleaning up the .NET backend. Mark Brown (dougl) - Working on search strategies for the declarative debugger. David Overton (dmo): - Some more work on the new mode checker. David Jeffery (dgj) - Has been discussing the design of a graphical front-end for mdb with an Honours student from Monash University. Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell) - Basic sequence quantification examples now work, but there are still some bugs. Simon Taylor (stayl) - Fixed the handling of purity in the optimization passes and tabling. Minutes taken by Simon Taylor (stayl@cs.mu.oz.au).