SIGPLAN - Definition and Overview

SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages.

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)

Newsletters

• SIGPLAN Notices
• Fortran Forum

Awards

• Programming Languages Achievement Award
  • 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
  • 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 Sammet
  • 1996: Dick Wexelblat and John Richards

• Most Influential PLDI Paper Award
  • 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
  • 2003 (for 1993): Imperative functional programming, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler

External links

SIGPLAN homepage (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/)