Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

Sponsored Conferences and Symposia

• International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
• International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
• Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)
• Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
• Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
• Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
• Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)
• Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM)
• Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)

Awards

• SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
     2007 Winner: Niklaus Wirth

• SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
     2007 Winner: Linda Northrop

• SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award
     2005 Winner: Sumit Gulwani

• Most Influential ICFP Paper Award

  • 1996 Winner: Optimality and inefficiency: what isn't a cost model of the lambda calculus?, Julia L. Lawall and Harry G. Mairson

  • 1997 Winner: Functional Reactive Animation, Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak

• Most Influential OOPSLA Paper Award
     2007 Winner (for 1997): Call Graph Construction in Object-Oriented Languages, David Grove, Greg DeFouw, Jeffrey Dean, and Craig Chambers

• Most Influential PLDI Paper Award
     2007 Winner (for 1997): Exploiting Hardware Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James R. Larus

• Most Influential POPL Paper Award
     2008 Winner (for 1998): From System F to Typed Assembly Language, Greg Morrisett, David Walker, Karl Crary, and Neal Glew

• John Vlissides Award
     New award (anticipate first award in 2008)

• ACM Fellows from the Programming Language Community

ACM Programming Language Publications

• Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
• Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
• SIGPLAN Notices