MIT Programming Languages Working Group Fall 2010 schedule

This group is an outgrowth of our PL offsite. These meetings occur Monday 4pm in G725. Legitimate meeting agenda include giving a conference talk, giving a practice talk, discussing work in progress, critiquing a draft, and discussing a relevant publication.

Please contact Jean Yang (jeanyang at csail) with questions or slot reservations. To stay up-to-date with announcements, consider joining our mailing list.

Fall 2010 Schedule

DateSpeakerTopicComments
9.13Prof. Armando Solar-LezamaSmooth InterpretationPLDI 2010 (paper)
9.20Jean YangSafe to the Last Instruction: Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating SystemPLDI 2010 (paper)
9.27Sasa MisailovicPowerpoint karaokeEach participant gets 5 (arbitrarily assigned) slides, 2 minutes to prepare a 5-minute talk, and 5 minutes for questions after the talk. Please contact Sasa (misailo at csail) if you would like to participate.
10.4Kuat YessenovProgram Development with Refinement in ChaliceMSR internship project with Rustan Leino.
10.11Columbus Day Holiday
10.18Greg LittleProgramming with Human ComputationUIST 2010 (paper)
10.25n/aElevator pitch workshopCome critique each other's one- and three-sentence research summaries.
11.1Singh
Solar-Lezama
Yang
Yessenov
Near
PLDI submission discussionEach speaker provides a 5-minute blurb regarding their PLDI submission(s).
11.8Prof. Andrew MyersFamily SharingOOPSLA 2010 (paper)
11.15Prof. Greg MorrisettCurrent projects
11.22Thanksgiving Week
11.29ProfessorsPaper-writing panelAmarasinghe, Arvind, Jackson, Rinard
12.6Adam ChlipalaUr: Statically-Typed Metaprogramming with Type-Level Record Computation.PLDI 2010 (paper)
12.13Prof. Tomas Lozana-PerezRobot ProgrammingChallenges in programming robots in practice.

This group is maintained by Jean Yang (jeanyang at csail).