The second annual Programming Languages Day will be held at the IBM Thomas
J. Watson Research Center on Thursday, April 26, 2001. The day will be held in
cooperation with the
New Jersey and
New England Programming Languages and
Systems Seminars. The main goal of the event is to increase awareness of each
other's work, and to encourage interaction and collaboration.
The Programming Languages Day features a keynote presentation by
Bill Pugh and
5 regular presentations, and runs from 10am to 4pm.
Program
| 9:00 |
Reception |
|
| 10:00 |
Bill Pugh |
U. Maryland |
Keynote: Is Code Optimization Research Relevant? |
| 10:45 |
Break |
|
| 11:00 |
John Field |
IBM Research |
Toward Effective Component Verification: Deriving an
Efficient Program Analysis from a High-level Specification |
| 11:40 |
Alex Garthwaite |
Sun Labs |
Efficient Object Sampling via Weak References |
| 12:20 |
Lunch | |
| 1:20 |
Tim McNerney |
MIT Media Lab |
Tangible Computation Bricks: Building-blocks for Physical Microworlds |
| 2:00 |
Break | |
| 2:20 |
Bard Bloom |
IBM Research |
Ferret: Programming Language Support for Multiple Dynamic Classification |
| 3:00 |
Break | |
| 3:20 |
Dominic Duggan |
Stevens Institute |
Type-Based Hot Swapping of Running Modules |
| 4:00 |
Event Concludes | |
Abstracts
Program committee: David
Bacon, IBM TJ Watson Research Center; Phil Wadler, Avaya Labs
(representing NJPLS); and Assaf
Kfoury, Computer Science Department, Boston University, (representing
NEPLS).
Student Travel Stipends
A limited number of travel stipends are available for students. If interested,
send email to dfb@watson.ibm.com. This
year's event is co-located with MASPLAS, the Mid-Atlantic
Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems on Friday, April 27,
2001.
Attending
You are welcome from 9AM onwards, and the keynote presentation will start at
10AM sharp. We expect the program to run until 4PM. The Programming Languages
day will be held in room GN-F15 in the Hawthorne-1 building
in Hawthorne, New York. Please click here for directions,
and for a list of hotels in the area.
If you plan to attend the Programming Languages Day, please register by sending
an e-mail with your name, affiliation, and contact information to
dfb@watson.ibm.com.
