The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2018 will take place in Boston from Sunday 4th to Friday 9th of November 2018.

SPLASH includes the following co-located conferences: OOPSLA, Onward!, GPCE, SLE, and DLS; as well as sixteen workshops.

The SPLASH-I talk series features thirty-five talks targeting practitioners. In the evenings, attendees can join one of the eight meetup groups held at MIT and Northeastern University.

Students curious about research can attend the Programming Language Mentoring Workshop and our Mentoring Breakfasts. Students who have some research under their belt can either take part in the Student Research Competition or the Doctoral Symposium. For educators, the SPLASH-E sessions will have invited talks and discussions.

OOSPLA is committed to open and reproducible science. All papers are published in gold open access with PACMPL. Scientific claims are evaluated by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

For video recording of the keynotes and talks of the various SPLASH events, please see this youtube channel.

Invited Speakers

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Distributed Abstractions

Barbara Liskov

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In Defense of "Little Code"

Kathi Fisler

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A new modularity for software

Daniel Jackson

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Reasoning about Security of Amazon Web Services

Byron Cook

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50 Years of Programming and Language Design

Guy L. Steele Jr.

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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness

Jenny Quillien

SPLASH-I

All the languages together

Amal Ahmed

Automatic Visualization

Leland Wilkinson

Reliable Deployment at Uber Scale

Murali Krishna Ramanathan

Software is eating the world, but ML is going to eat software

John Myles White

Design by Introspection in D

Andrei Alexandrescu

Probabilistic Programming Paradigms

Vikash Mansinghka

Developing Opal, an App for Cancer Patients, as a Computer Scientist and Cancer Patient

Laurie Hendren

The Future of AI: Machine Programmers and Their Necessary Self-Awareness

Justin Gottschlich

Peering behind the Turing Mirror

Ben L. Titzer

How a Computer Can Write a Poem and Make it Sound like an Angry Type Theorist or Proving Theorems and Seeing Cats

Richard P. Gabriel

Composable References and the Yoneda Lemma

Jeremy Gibbons

Expanding R Syntax in package space

Jim Hester

Ten Cool Things you might not know about the OpenJDK Java Virtual Machine

Christine H. Flood

Valhalla: Enhancing the JVM with Value Types

Karen Kinnear

Robustly benchmarking Julia in noisy environments

Jiahao Chen

What happened to distributed programming languages?

Heather Miller

Provably Safe Pointers for a Parallel World

Tucker Taft

Rust: Reach Further

Nicholas Matsakis

Time-Travel Debugging and Actionable Diagnostics Insights

Mark Marron

Mechanized Proofs of System Correctness in Production: Cryptography and Beyond

Adam Chlipala

Programming NVM

James Larus

Verifying dApp Computations on a Blockchain

François-René Rideau

Provably Eliminating Exploitable Bugs

Kathleen Fisher

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Reasoning about Security of Amazon Web Services

Byron Cook

Two Decades of Ownership Types

James Noble

Establishing a culture of code review

Peter Burka

Oh, the compilers you will build!

Mark Stoodley

Low level systems programming in a high level language

Molham Aref

All about JavaScriptCore's many compilers

Filip Pizlo

The Rise of Compilerization

Jeff Bezanson

Measuring Microservice Performance: A Shape Not a Number

Daniel Spoonhower

Tangible Abstraction

Sean McDirmid

Better living through incrementality: Immediate static analysis feedback without loss of precision

Sebastian Erdweg, Tamás Szabó

Conference and Workshops Invited Speakers

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Deep Learning at Scale

Prabhat

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On the Self in Selfie ⭐️

Christoph Kirsch

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BEAM: A Virtual Machine for Handling Millions of Messages per Second ⭐️

Erik Stenman

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DARPA CASE program, motivation and challenges

Raymond Richards

Invited Talk

TensorFlow AutoGraph: Imperative-Style Coding with Graph-based Performance

Alexander B. Wiltschko

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SemanticDB: a common data model for Scala developer tools ⭐️

Eugene Burmako

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Through a Glass, Darkly ⭐️

James Noble

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A New Approach for Software Correctness and Reliability

Martin C. Rinard

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CVE, CWE, CQE and all that -- enumerating the security and safety challenges for networked software

Robert A. Martin

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How to Make Sparse Fast

Saman Amarasinghe