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

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)

Newsletters

• SIGPLAN Notices
• Fortran Forum
• Lisp Pointers (final issue 1995)
• OOPS Messenger (1990-1996)

Awards

• Programming Languages Achievement Award
  • 2006: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry 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
  • 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
  • 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

External links

• SIGPLAN homepage