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ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications:
Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16)
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016

http://2016.splashcon.org
https://twitter.com/splashcon
https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/

** REGISTRATION **

30 September 2016 (Early Deadline)
Contact: info@splashcon.org
http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/registration

# What's happening at SPLASH?

## Keynotes

- Benjamin Pierce (SPLASH)
The Science of Deep Specification

- Andy Ko (SPLASH)
A Human View of Programming Languages

- Martin Odersky (SPLASH)

- Guy Steele Jr. (SPLASH-I)

- Robby Findler (SLE)
Redex: Lightweight Semantics Engineering

- Tiark Rompf (GPCE)
Lightweight Modular Staging: Generate all the things!

- Simon Peyton Jones (SPLASH-I/E)
The dream of a lifetime: shaping how our children learn computing

- Laurence Tratt (Scala)
Fine-grained language composition without a common VM

- Jan Vitek (Scala)
This is not a Type: Gradual typing in practice

## Workshop Keynotes

- Andrew Black (NOOL)
The Essence of Inheritance

- Alan Blackwell (PLATEAU)
How to Design a Programming Language

- Felienne Hermans (DSLDI)
Small, simple and smelly: What we can learn from examining end-user artifacts?

- Ivano Malavolta (Mobile!)
Beyond native apps: Web technologies to the rescue!

- Betsy Pepels (ITSLE)
Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) in the large

- Markus Voelter (ITSLE)
Lessons Learned about Language Engineering from the Development of mbeddr

- Beverly Sanders (SEPS)
Patterns for Parallel Programming: New and Improved!

** Conference Program **

http://2016.splashcon.org/program/program-splash-2016

** SPLASH-I Track **

SPLASH-I is a series of invited and solicited talks that address topics relevant to the SPLASH community. Speakers are world-class experts in their field, selected and invited by the organizers. The SPLASH-I talks series is held in parallel with the rest of SPLASH during the week days. Talks are open to all attendees.

A selection of confirmed talks:

- Edwin Brady
Type-driven Development in Idris

- Jürgen Cito
Using Docker Containers to Improve Reproducibility in PL/SE Research

- Yvonne Coady
Exploratory Analysis in Virtual Reality: The New Frontier

- Adam Chlipala
Rapid Development of Web Applications with Typed Metaprogramming in Ur/Web

- Tudo Girba
Software Environmentalism

- Robert Grimm
Adventures in Software Evolution

- Brian Harvey
Snap! Scheme Disguised as Scratch

- Lennart Kats
Responsive Language Tooling For Cloud-based IDEs

- Ralf Laemmel
The basic skill set of software language engineering

- Crista Lopes
Simulating Cities: The Spacetime Framework

- Heather Miller
Language Support for Distributed Systems

- Mark Miller & Bill Tulloh
The elements of decision alignment: Large programs as complex organizations

- Boaz Rosenan & David Lorenz
Define Your App, Don’t Implement It: Building a Scalable Social Network in 45 minutes

- Emmanuel Schanzer
Bootstrap

- Chris Seaton
Truffle and Graal: Fast Programming Languages With Modest Effort

- Emma Söderbergh
From Tricorder to Tricium: Useful Static Analysis and the Importance of Workflow Integration

- Emma Tosch
Designing and Debugging Surveys with SurveyMan

- Todd Veldhuizen
Fast Datalog

- Markus Völter
How Domain Requirements Shape Languages

- Jos Warmer
Making Mendix Meta Model Driven

- Andy Zaidman
Fact or fiction? What software analytics can do for us (developers and researchers)

More information here: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i#program

** Research tracks

- OOPSLA
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla#event-overview

- Onward!
http://2016.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2016-papers#event-overview

- Onward! Essays
http://2016.onward-conference.org/track/onward2016-essays#program

- Software Language Engineering (SLE)
http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers#event-overview

- Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE)
http://conf.researchr.org/track/gpce-2016/gpce-2016-papers#event-overview

- Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS)
http://conf.researchr.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers#event-overview

- Scala Symposium
http://conf.researchr.org/track/scala-2016/scala-2016#event-overview

** Other Events

- Doctoral Symposium
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds#event-overview

- Programming Language Mentoring Workshop (PLMW)
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-plmw

- Student Research Competition (SRC)
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src

- Posters
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters#event-overview

** Workshops

SPLASH'16 is hosting a record number of 15 workshops:

- AGERE! Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/agere2016

- DSLDI: Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016

- DSM: Domain-Specific Modeling
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsm2016

- FOSD: Feature-oriented Software Development
http://www.fosd.net/workshop2016

- ITSLE: Industry Track Software Language Engineering
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/itsle2016

- LWC@SLE: Language Workbench Challenge
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016

- META
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/meta2016

- Mobile!
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/mobile2016

- NOOL: New Object-Oriented Languages
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/nool2016

- PLATEAU: Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016

- Parsing@SLE
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/parsing2016

- REBLS: Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016

- SA-MDE: Tutorial on MDD with Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/samde2016

- SEPS: Software Engineering for Parallel Systems
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/seps2016

- VMIL: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/vmil2016

- WODA: Workshop on Dynamic Analysis
http://2016.splashcon.org/track/woda2016

## SPLASH'16 is kindly supported by the following organizations:

- ACM: http://www.acm.org/
- SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/
- LogicBlox (Gold): http://www.logicblox.com/
- Universal Robots (PLMW, Gold): http://www.universal-robots.com/
- Oracle (Silver): http://www.oracle.com/index.html
- TU Delft (Silver): http://tudelft.nl/
- Huawei (Bronze): http://www.huawei.com/en/
- Facebook (Bronze): https://research.facebook.com/
- IBM Research (Bronze): http://www.research.ibm.com/
- Google (Bronze): https://www.google.com
- Itemis (Bronze): https://www.itemis.com/en/
- ING (Bronze): https://www.ing.nl

Interested in supporting SPLASH'16? See our options here: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program.