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Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is the premier forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, and students to present research on programming language design and implementation.

PLDI Fast Facts
PLDI 2008 Web Page
Location: Tucson, AZ
General Chair: Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside
Program Chair: Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dates: June 7-13, 2008

Co-located Events

Most Influential PLDI Paper Award

Each year a "Most Influential" PLDI paper is chosen and an presentation is made at PLDI. More details about this award and past winning papers can be found here. SIGPLAN also makes several other awards including an "Outstanding Dissertation Award." Please consider making a nomination for one of these awards.  More details about the SIGPLAN awards can be found here.

PLDI Steering Committee

The PLDI Steering Committee is constituted by the following members:

  • current and past two SIGPLAN Chairs (the past, past chair serves as Chair of the steering committee)
  • current and past vice chair of SIGPLAN,
  • current and past two PLDI General Chairs, and
  • current and past two PLDI Program Chairs.
The constitution of the steering committee changes each year on July 1, with the PLDI chairs changing every year and the SIGPLAN chairs/vice chairs changing every other year. Thus, the steering committee chair serves for two years.

The current PLDI steering committee is:

  • Michael Burke, past, past SIGPLAN Chair
  • Jack Davidson, past SIGPLAN Chair
  • Kathleen Fisher, current SIGPLAN Chair and past Vice Chair
  • Chandra Krintz, current SIGPLAN Vice Chair
  • Rajiv Gupta, 2008 General Chair
  • Saman Amarasinghe, 2008 Program Chair
  • Jeanne Ferrante, 2007 General Chair
  • Kathryn McKinley, 2007 Program Chair
  • Michael Schwartzback, 2006 General Chair
  • Tom Ball, 2006 Program Chair
Web Pages of Previous Conferences

PLDI 2007 (San Diego, CA)

PLDI 2006 (Ottawa, Canada)

PLDI 2005 (Chicago, IL)

PLDI 2004 (Washington, DC)

PLDI 2003 (San Diego, CA)

PLDI 2002 (Berlin, Germany)

PLDI 2001 (Snowbird, UT)

PLDI 2000 (Vancouver, BC)

PLDI 1999 (Atlanta, GA)

PLDI 1998 (Montreal, Canada)

PLDI 1997 (Las Vegas, Nevada)

20 Years of PLDI (1979-1999)

Click here to view a selection of 50 influential papers that appeared in the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation and it's predecessors from 1979 to 1999. The selected papers will appear in special issue of SIGPLAN Notices.

   

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