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

Contents 1 Conferences 2 Newsletters 3 Awards 4 External links

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards

• Programming Languages Achievement Award
  • 2007: Niklaus Wirth
  • 2006: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. 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

[edit] External links

• SIGPLAN homepage