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The .NET Programming Languages And Compilers Symposium: Lang .NET 2006

Seattle, Washington, United States, August 1-3, 2006

Call for contributions

Lang .NET 2006 is a forum for discussion of programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments. It provides an excellent opportunity for programming language implementers and researchers from both industry and academia to meet and share their knowledge, experience, and suggestions for future research and development in the area of programming languages.

Lang.NET 2006 will be held from August 1-3 on the Microsoft corporate campus in Redmond immediately after OSCON 2006 in Portland.

The conference program will focus on the pragmatics and experience of designing languages, implementing compilers, and building language tools that target managed execution platforms such as the .NET CLR and other implementations of the ECMA CLI. That is, on how to get real programming tools into the hands of real programmers to solve real problems, and on how researchers and practitioners can learn from each other to make this happen.

If you are a language designer, compiler writer, or tool builder in industry or academia, Lang.NET 2006 is a unique opportunity to directly interact with the architects of Microsoft language platforms. Microsoft language technologist will be very active participants in the conference but at least 50% of the program is reserved for presentations by non-Microsoft employees. Each day is concluded with a panel debate. In the evenings there will be ample opportunity for networking during the social events and dinners.

The program committee invites 1-page abstracts of experience reports, demonstrations and presentations related to programming language and compilers to be given at the symposium. There will be two types of talks:

• 10 minute lightning talks
• 30 minute regular talks

We are looking for lively presentations that are provocative, stimulating and educational. Submit your proposals at here.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Dynamic languages and scripting
• AJAX and ATLAS
• Domain specific languages
• Functional languages
• Object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
• Web-services and mobile code
• Libraries
• Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
• Compiler frameworks
• Garbage collection
• JIT compilation
• Visual Programming
• Success and failure stories
• Non-standard language features and implementation techniques
• Tools and IDE support

Dates

Submissions due	May 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance	June 1, 2006

Conference chair

Thottam Sriram, Microsoft

Program committee

• Erik Meijer, Microsoft  (program chair)
• Allen Wirfs-Brock, Microsoft
• Martin Maly, Microsoft
• Amanda Silver, Microsoft
• Brian Tyler, National Instruments
• Paul Austin, National Instruments
• Stephen Gennard, Microfocus
• Robert Sales, Microfocus
• Rene Rodriguez, ASNA
• Roger Andrews, Synergex
• Kasper Osterbye, IT University Copenhagen