SPLASH 2015

The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) is the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. Embracing all aspects of software construction and delivery, this year SPLASH includes OOPSLA, Onward!, DLS, GPCE, SLE, PLoP, and DBPL. SPLASH 2015 will take place October 25-30, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

The conference is now over see you in Amsterdam, Netherlands for SPLASH 2016!

SPLASH 2015 Keynotes

Modern software is all about data. Development environments should be, too.

Robert DeLine

How Dart Learned From Past Object-Oriented Systems

Lars Bak

Tomorrow’s Network Operators Will Be Programmers

Nick Feamster

A representative sample of presentations from SPLASH.

OOPSLA Distinguished Papers Award

Valor: Efficient, Software-Only Region Conflict Exceptions. Swarnendu Biswas, Minjia Zhang, Michael Bond, and Brandon Lucia
Accurate Profiling in the Presence of Dynamic Compilation Yudi Zheng, Lubomir Bulej, and Walter Binder

OOPSLA Distinguished Artifact Award

Automating Ad-hoc Data Representation Transformations. Vlad Ureche, Aggelos Biboudis, Yannis Smaragdakis, Martin Odersky
Valor: Efficient, Software-Only Region Conflict Exceptions. Swarnendu Biswas, Minjia Zhang, Michael D. Bond, Brandon Lucia

OOPSLA Most Influential Paper Award

X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing (DOI). Philippe Charles, Christopher Donawa, Kemal Ebcioglu, Christian Grothoff, Allan Kielstra, Christoph von Praun, Vijay Saraswat, Vivek Sarkar. OOPSLA 2005.

Onward! Most Notable Paper Award

Subtext: Uncovering the Simplicity of Programming (DOI). Jonathan Edwards. Onward! 2005.

John Vlissides Award - Doctoral Symposium

Trace Oblivious Program Execution: A Programming Language Approach to Security. Chang Liu, University of Maryland

SPLASH Distinguished Demo Award

GTInspector: A Moldable Domain-Aware Object Inspector. Andrei Chiş, Tudor Gîrba, Oscar Nierstrasz, Aliaksei Syrel

Student Research Competition Awards

Graduate Category:

First place: Swarnendu Biswas - Viser: Providing Serializability in Hardware With Simplified Cache Coherence
Second place: Ragnar Mogk - Concurrency Control for Multithreaded Reactive Programming
Third place: Alisa Maas - Automatic Array Property Detection Via Static Analysis
Honorable mention: Minjia Zhang - SIRe: An Efficient Snapshot Isolation-based Memory Model for Detecting and Tolerating Region Conflicts

Undergraduate Category:

First place: Andrew Kofink - Contributions of the Under-Appreciated: Gender Bias in an Open-Source Ecology

Invited Speakers

GPCE Keynote: "Technologies to Enable the Next-Generation Stadium and Fan Experience" by Priya Narasimhan

Priya Narasimhan

Spur: Efficient Support for Live Programming in Dynamic Languages

Eliot Miranda

DS Invited Keynote Talk III: Papers vs. Artifacts

Philipp Haller

Model, Execute, Deploy: Answering the Hard Questions about End-user Programming

Shan Shan Huang

Changing Engines in Flight: Facebook's Conversion to Hack

Josh Watzman

PLoP Keynote: Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software

Mary Shaw

Domain Specific Languages @ Oracle Labs: Current Experiences, Future Hopes

Hassan Chafi

Fighting Spam with Haskell

Simon Marlow

PLATEAU Keynote: Computational Thinking for All: Expanding the Boundaries of Computing for Nonprogrammers

Mary Beth Rosson

MobileDeli Keynote: Mobile security

Robert Seacord

DBPL Keynote: The Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine and Language

Marko Rodriguez

Software Professionalism – Is it “Good Enough?”

Dennis Mancl, Nancy Mead, Mary Shaw, Werner Wild, Steven D. Fraser

REBLS Keynote - Self-Adjusting Computation: Practical Abstractions for Dynamic Software

Umut A. Acar

The Future of Programming Languages and Programmers

Lars Bak, Robert DeLine, Nick Feamster, Lindsey Kuper, Crista Lopes, Peng Wu, Steven D. Fraser

ETX Keynote: High-Level Concurrency Libraries: Challenges for Tool Support

Philipp Haller

REBLS Industrial Talk (PREZI): Playful but not a Toy: Views on Reactive Programming from within a Large Software Project

Johannes Emerich

AGERE! Keynote: Concurrent, Distributed Thinking for First-time Programmers in StarLogo Nova

Daniel Wendel

ECMAScript 2015: the future of JavaScript is now!

Tom Van Cutsem

Programming as Writing (and vice versa?)

Crista Lopes, Annette Vee

ETX Invited Speaker: The Eclipse Academic Program: Creating the Eclipse University Ecosystem

Brian Barry

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