PLDI 2015 is the 36th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

The full PLDI 2015 proceedings are freely available at http://sigplan.org/OpenTOC/pldi16.html.

PLDI is a premier forum for all areas of programming language research, including the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of languages. PLDI’s emphases include innovative and creative approaches to compile-time and runtime technology, novel language designs and features, and results from implementations.

PLDI 2015 is part of FCRC 2015, a spectrum of affiliated research conferences and workshops organized into a week long coordinated meeting that will be held June 12-20, 2015 in Portland Oregon.

PLDI Distinguished Papers

Automatically Improving Accuracy for Floating Point Expressions

Pavel Panchekha, Alex Sanchez-Stern, James R. Wilcox, Zachary Tatlock

Diagnosing Type Errors with Class

Danfeng Zhang, Andrew Myers, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Simon Peyton Jones

Provably Correct Peephole Optimizations with Alive

Nuno P. Lopes, David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte, John Regehr

PLDI Distinguished Artifact

FlashRelate: Extracting Relational Data from Semi-Structured Spreadsheets Using Examples

Dan Barowy, Sumit Gulwani, Ted Hart, Benjamin Zorn

Congratulations to the Student Research Competition Winners!

Graduate

1. Swarnendu Biswas, Ohio State: Low Overhead Region Conflict Detection
2. Jake Roemer, Ohio State: Effective Scheduling for Adversarial Memory
3. Adarsh Yoga, Rutgers: Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations

Undergraduate

1. Jeevana Inala, MIT: Type Assisted Synthesis of Programs with Algebraic Data types
2. Alex Reinking, Yale: A type-directed approach to program repair
3. Jack Feser, Rice: Unification and Partial Eval. For Component-Based Synthesis

Binge watch PLDI’15 video talk abstracts! Compilations are available for:

• All talks
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• People’s Choice Awards: Your choice of the top 10 PLDI video abstracts

In addition to technical talks, there are several special events happening at PLDI.

• Welcome Reception and Poster Session (Sunday 19:30-21:00).
• SIGPLAN Awards Luncheon (Monday: 12:30-14:00)
• SIGPLAN Townhall Meeting (Tuesday 16:30-17:30)
• PLDI Banquet (Tuesday 18:30-22:00; Banquet ticket required).

SIGPLAN solicits feedback on the Practices of PLDI, a report that documents the salient features of running the PLDI conference and evaluating submitted papers. A link to the document in PDF (https://goo.gl/ROVOGr) and to an editable GDOC (http://goo.gl/XGJwZA).

We are using surveys to help us improve PLDI. Results of the surveys given to authors and reviewers are now available at http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi2015/pldi2015-papers#Surveys

PLDI 2015 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN.