SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ...

Conferences

• Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
• Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
• International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM)
• Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)
• Java Grande
• Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming (PPOPP)
• International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
• Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
• History of Programming Languages (HOPL)

POPL is the annual symposium on Principles of Programming Languages sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups SIGPLAN and SIGACT. SIGPLAN POPL homepage Categories: | | | ... Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is the name of the ACM SIGPLAN most important conference. ... The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) is an annual computer science academic conference sponsored by the ACM SIGPLAN. The conference focuses on functional programming and related areas of programming languages, logic, compilers and software development. ... OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications) is an annual ACM conference. ... HOPL (History of Programming Languages) is an infrequent ACM SIGPLAN conference. ...

Newsletters

• SIGPLAN Notices - ISSN 1558-1160 ISSN 0362-1340
• Fortran Forum - ISSN 1061-7264 ISSN 1931-1311
• Lisp Pointers (final issue 1995) - ISSN 1045-3563
• OOPS Messenger (1990-1996) - ISSN 1558-0253 ISSN 1055-6400

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Awards

• Programming Languages Achievement Award
  • 2007: Niklaus Wirth
  • 2006: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry Rosen, Mark Wegman, and Kenneth Zadeck
  • 2005: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
  • 2004: John Backus
  • 2003: John C. Reynolds
  • 2002: John McCarthy
  • 2001: Robin Milner
  • 2000: Susan Graham
  • 1999: Ken Kennedy
  • 1998: Fran Allen
  • 1997: Guy Steele

• SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • 2003: Godmar Back
  • 2002: Michael Hicks
  • 2001: Rastislav Bodik

• SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
  • 2007: Linda M. Northrop
  • 2006: Hans Boehm
  • 2005: no award made
  • 2004: Ron Cytron
  • 2003: Mary Lou Soffa
  • 2002: Andrew Appel
  • 2001: Barbara Ryder
  • 2000: David Wise
  • 1999: Loren Meissner
  • 1998: Brent Hailpern
  • 1997: Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet
  • 1996: Dick Wexelblat and John Richards

• Most Influential PLDI Paper Award
  • 2007 (for 1997): Exploiting hardware performance counters with flow and context sensitive profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James R. Larus
  • 2006 (for 1996): TIL: A Type-Directed Optimizing Compiler for ML, David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng, Christopher Stone, Robert Harper, and Peter Lee
  • 2005 (for 1995): Selective Specialization for Object-Oriented Languages, Jeffrey Dean, Craig Chambers, and David Grove
  • 2004 (for 1994): ATOM: a system for building customized program analysis tools, Amitabh Srivastava and Alan Eustace
  • 2003 (for 1993): Space Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection, Hans Boehm
  • 2002 (for 1992): Lazy Code Motion, Jens Knoop, Oliver Rüthing, Bernhard Steffen
  • 2001 (for 1991): A data locality optimizing algorithm, Michael E. Wolf and Monica S. Lam
  • 2000 (for 1990): Profile guided code positioning, Karl Pettis and Robert C. Hansen

• Most Influential POPL Paper Award
  • 2006 (for 1996): Points-to Analysis in Almost Linear Time, Bjarne Steensgaard
  • 2005 (for 1995): A Language with Distributed Scope, Luca Cardelli
  • 2004 (for 1994): Implementation of the Typed Call-by-Value lambda-calculus using a Stack of Regions, Mads Tofte and Jean-Pierre Talpin
  • 2003 (for 1993): Imperative functional programming, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler

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External links

• SIGPLAN homepage