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

Changing Engines in Flight: Facebook's Conversion to Hack

Josh Watzman

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

Brian Barry

PLoP Keynote: Keeping A Pattern Language Alive

Mary Lynn Manns

Prospect: Finding and Exploiting Parallelism in a Productivity Language for Scientific Computing

Lindsey Kuper

PROMOTO Keynote: The BBC micro:bit

Jonathan Protzenko

When CT meets IT: Programming Challenges in the age of ICT Convergence

Peng Wu

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

Shan Shan Huang

DS Invited Keynote Talk I: How to debug the Internet of Things, or, PhD or startup?

Patrick Eugster

PLoP Keynote: Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software

Mary Shaw

The Future of Programming Languages and Programmers

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

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

Daniel Wendel

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