by Harry Goldstein, Michael Greenberg, and Noam Zilberstein on Sep 16, 2025 | In-person meetings are hugely beneficial for academic research; they provide a venue to collaborate and connect, making our community more connected and facilitating the exchange of ideas. In addition to SIGPLAN’s four annual flagship conferences, smaller local events...| SIGPLAN Blog
In-person meetings are hugely beneficial for academic research; they provide a venue to collaborate and connect, making our community more connected and facilitating the exchange of ideas. In addition to SIGPLAN’s four annual flagship conferences, smaller local events increasingly facilitate face-to-face interactions in our community. In this post, we’ll discuss the value of local PL […]| SIGPLAN Blog
The Reserve Reviewer Policy is an experimental policy to help conferences scale to increased workloads. We outline its design and first implementation.| SIGPLAN Blog
Neural networks are more useful when placed in a suitable, specialized environment.| SIGPLAN Blog
This post was cross-published from the SIGARCH blog. The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled…| SIGPLAN Blog
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…| SIGPLAN Blog
AI software demands new approaches to testing that go far beyond existing software testing methodologies. And with the rapid evolution of AI model capabilities, the need for the software engineerin…| SIGPLAN Blog
Recursive types, generics (sometimes called parametric polymorphism), and subtyping are all essential features for modern programming languages across numerous paradigms. However, structural subtyp…| SIGPLAN Blog
The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), our 1-2 day workshop before each of our four flagship conferences, answers: How do I make the most of a conference? How […]| SIGPLAN Blog
[Note: Since PLDI joined the PACM-PL journal, what was previously called Program Committee is now called Review Committee. In the following, we use the term Program Committee (PC) because it is a better-known term.] Prior to PLDI 2021, the PLDI conference always held in-person program committee meetings. Starting with PLDI 2021, the PLDI Steering Committee […]| SIGPLAN Blog
Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don’t have the proper tools to do so. That’s how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in e…| SIGPLAN Blog
Prompts are our way of communicating intent to AI foundation models and large language models. The PL and SE communities have great experience understanding how to build robust software that should…| SIGPLAN Blog
A Tale of Two Softwares: In a world where AI is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology, a new type of software emerges: AI Software (AISW). But with great power comes great responsibil…| SIGPLAN Blog