SIGPLAN

SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages.

Conferences

• Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
• Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
• International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM)
• Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)
• Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)
• International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
• Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH)
• Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
• History of Programming Languages (HOPL)
• Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS)

Newsletters

• SIGPLAN Notices - ISSN 1558-1160 ISSN 0362-1340
• Fortran Forum - ISSN 1061-7264 ISSN 1931-1311
• Lisp Pointers (final issue 1995) - ISSN 1045-3563
• OOPS Messenger (1990–1996) - ISSN 1558-0253 ISSN 1055-6400

Awards

Programming Languages Software Award:

• 2010: Chris Lattner

Programming Languages Achievement Award:

• 2009: Rod Burstall
• 2008: Barbara Liskov
• 2007: Niklaus Wirth
• 2006: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. Rosen, Mark Wegman, and Kenneth Zadeck
• 2005: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
• 2004: John Backus
• 2003: John C. Reynolds
• 2002: John McCarthy
• 2001: Robin Milner
• 2000: Susan Graham
• 1999: Ken Kennedy
• 1998: Fran Allen
• 1997: Guy Steele

SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award:

• 2009: Akash Lai and William Thies
• 2008: Michael Bond and Viktor Vafeiadis
• 2007: Swarat Chaudhuri
• 2006: Xiangyu Zhang
• 2005: Sumit Gulwani
• 2003: Godmar Back
• 2002: Michael Hicks
• 2001: Rastislav Bodik

SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award:

• 2010: Jack W. Davidson
• 2009: Mamdouh Ibrahim
• 2008: Michael Burke
• 2007: Linda M. Northrop
• 2006: Hans Boehm
• 2005: no award made
• 2004: Ron Cytron
• 2003: Mary Lou Soffa
• 2002: Andrew Appel
• 2001: Barbara Ryder
• 2000: David Wise
• 1999: Loren Meissner
• 1998: Brent Hailpern
• 1997: Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet
• 1996: Dick Wexelblat and John Richards

Most Influential PLDI Paper Award:

• 2010 (for 2000): Dynamo: A Transparent Dynamic Optimization System, Vasanth Bala, Evelyn Duesterwald, Sanjeev Banerji
• 2009 (for 1999): A Fast Fourier Transform Compiler, Matteo Frigo
• 2008 (for 1998): The implementation of the Cilk-5 multithreaded language, Matteo Frigo, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randall
• 2007 (for 1997): Exploiting hardware performance counters with flow and context sensitive profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James R. Larus
• 2006 (for 1996): TIL: A Type-Directed Optimizing Compiler for ML, David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng, Christopher Stone, Robert Harper, and Peter Lee
• 2005 (for 1995): Selective Specialization for Object-Oriented Languages, Jeffrey Dean, Craig Chambers, and David Grove
• 2004 (for 1994): ATOM: a system for building customized program analysis tools, Amitabh Srivastava and Alan Eustace
• 2003 (for 1993): Space Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection, Hans Boehm
• 2002 (for 1992): Lazy Code Motion, Jens Knoop, Oliver Rüthing, Bernhard Steffen
• 2001 (for 1991): A data locality optimizing algorithm, Michael E. Wolf and Monica S. Lam
• 2000 (for 1990): Profile guided code positioning, Karl Pettis and Robert C. Hansen

Most Influential POPL Paper Award

• 2010 (for 2000): Anytime, Anywhere: Modal Logics for Mobile Ambients, Luca Cardelli and Andrew D. Gordon
• 2009 (for 1999): JFlow: Practical Mostly-Static Information Flow Control, Andrew C. Myers
• 2008 (for 1998): From System F to Typed Assembly Language, Greg Morrisett, David Walker, Karl Crary, and Neal Glew
• 2007 (for 1997): Proof-carrying Code, George Necula
• 2006 (for 1996): Points-to Analysis in Almost Linear Time, Bjarne Steensgaard
• 2005 (for 1995): A Language with Distributed Scope, Luca Cardelli
• 2004 (for 1994): Implementation of the Typed Call-by-Value lambda-calculus using a Stack of Regions, Mads Tofte and Jean-Pierre Talpin
• 2003 (for 1993): Imperative functional programming, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler

Most Influential OOPSLA Paper Award

• 2009 (for 1999): Implementing Jalapeño in Java, Bowen Alpern, C. R. Attanasio, John J. Barton, Anthony Cocchi, Susan Flynn Hummel, Derek Lieber, Ton Ngo, Mark Mergen, Janice C. Shepherd, and Stephen Smith
• 2008 (for 1998): Ownership Types for Flexible Alias Protection, David G. Clarke, John M. Potter, and James Noble
• 2007 (for 1997): Call Graph Construction in Object-Oriented Languages, David Grove, Greg DeFouw, Jeffrey Dean, and Craig Chambers
• 2006 (for 1986–1996):
  • Subject Oriented Programming: A Critique of Pure Objects, William Harrison and Harold Ossher
  • Concepts and Experiments in Computational Reflection, Pattie Maes
  • Self: The Power of Simplicity, David Ungar and Randall B. Smith

Most Influential ICFP Paper Award

• 2009 (for 1999): Haskell and XML: Generic combinators or type-based translation?, Malcolm Wallace and Colin Runciman
• 2008 (for 1998): Cayenne — a language with dependent types, Lennart Augustsson
• 2007 (for 1997): Functional Reactive Animation, Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak
• 2006 (for 1996): Optimality and inefficiency: what isn't a cost model of the lambda calculus?, Julia L. Lawall and Harry G. Mairson

External links

• SIGPLAN homepage