Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH)

SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity) contains several conferences concerned with programming, languages, and software engineering, including OOPSLA (Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications), Onward!, DLS (the Dynamic Languages Symposium), GPCE (Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences), and SLE (Software Language Engineering).

SPLASH Steering Committee

The SPLASH Steering Committee is constituted by the following members:

  • current SIGPLAN Chair,
  • current SIGPLAN Vice Chair,
  • future, current, and past three SPLASH General Chairs,
  • future, current, and past three OOPSLA Program Chairs,
  • future, current, and past one year’s Onward! Program Chairs (Papers and Essays)
  • Steering Committee Chair for Onward!
  • Steering Committee Chair for any conference that co-located with SPLASH for the past three years
  • the outgoing Chair of the Steering Committee, for one year past the end of their term as Chair.

NB! In 2027 the past three years are 2026, 2025, and 2024 and the co-located conferences include: SAS and GPCE (while SLE last co-located in 2024).

The Chair of the Steering Committee is elected by the Steering Committee from among the members of the committee to serve a two-year term. The Chair of the Steering Committee would normally also serve as the chair of the OOPSLA Steering Committee which is a subcommittee of the SPLASH SC (see below). The outgoing chair serves an additional year on the committee past his or her term as chair to provide institutional memory.

Steering Committee membership was expanded by adding members-at-large in 2020, with the intention of adding one member-at-large each subsequent year. Members-at-large serve 4 year terms and are selected by the Steering Committee.

The membership of the steering committee changes each year upon conclusion of that year’s conference.

The current SPLASH steering committee is:

  • Andrew Myers (Cornell University), SIGPLAN Chair
  • Anders Møller (Aarhus University), SIGPLAN Vice Chair
  • Frank Tip (Northeastern University), SPLASH 2026 General Chair, SC Chair for 2027 - 2028, Chair
  • Jeremy Singer (University of Glasgow), SPLASH 2029 General Chair
  • Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Institute of Technology), SPLASH 2028 General Chair
  • Michael Pradel (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security/University of Stuttgart), OOPSLA 2028 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Alexandra Silva (Cornell University), OOPSLA 2028 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Filip Křikava (Czech Technical University), SPLASH 2027 General Chair
  • Nadia Polikarpova (University of California San Diego), OOPSLA 2027 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Ilya Sergey (National University of Singapore), OOPSLA 2027 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Işil Dillig (University of Texas at Austin), OOPSLA 2026 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Anders Møller (Aarhus University), OOPSLA 2026 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Sverrir Thorgeirsson (ETH Zurich), Onward! 2026 Papers Chair
  • Felienne Hermans (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Onward! 2026 Essays Chair
  • Charles Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), SPLASH 2025 General Chair
  • Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University), OOPSLA 2025 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Sukyoung Ryu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), OOPSLA 2025 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Colin Gordon (Drexel University), Onward! 2025 Essays Chair, Onward! Steering Committee Chair
  • Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo), Onward! 2025 Papers Co-Chair
  • Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose (Aarhus University), Onward! 2025 Papers Co-Chair
  • Manu Sridharan (UC Riverside), SPLASH 2024 General Chair
  • Alex Potanin (Australian National University), OOPSLA 2024 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder), OOPSLA 2024 Review Committee Co-Chair
  • Caterina Urban (INRIA, École Normale Supérieure), SAS Steering Committee Co-Chair in 2027
  • Gagandeep Singh (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), SAS Steering Committee Co-Chair in 2027
  • Coen de Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), GPCE Steering Committee Chair in 2026
  • Eric van Wyk (University of Minnesota), SLE Steering Committee Chair in 2026
  • Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University), Member at Large 2026 - 2029
  • Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso Plattner Institute), Member at Large 2027 - 2030

OOPSLA Steering Committee: a strict subset of the SPLASH Steering Committee

The OOPSLA Steering Committee is a strict subset of the SPLASH Steering Committee listed above. It consists of the future, current, and past three SPLASH General Chairs together with the future, current, and past three OOPSLA RC (co-)chairs, and is chaired by the SPLASH Steering Committee Chair by default. It has its own mailing list for OOPSLA specific issues, and its current membership is listed on the OOPSLA page.

Documents on How to Run SPLASH/OOPSLA Conferences

SPLASH Steering Committee Representatives for SIGPLAN Awards

  • Programming Languages Software Award (David Grove, IBM)
  • Programming Languages Achievement Award (J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts)
  • Robin Milner Young Researcher Award (Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College)
  • John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award (Loris D’Antoni, UCSD)
  • Distinguished Service Award (Jeff Foster, Tufts University)
  • Distinguished Educator Award (Will Crichton, Brown University)

Web Pages of Previous Conferences