Transcript Slide 1

Welcome to PLDI 2009
 General chair: Michael Hind
 Program chair: Amer Diwan
 Tutorial chair: Kim Hazelwood
 Workshops chair: Ranjit Jhala
 FIT chair: Rodric Rabbah
 Student research chair: Marco Pistoia
 Local arrangements chair: David Gregg
Attendance Trends
(as of June 18, 2009)
350
344
330
300
250
244
220
2006
2007
2008
2009
200
150
100
68 75
50
57
65
47
74
49 51 53
35 40
25
40
60 67
31
0
PLDI
LCTES
ISMM
PLAS
Tutorials
PLDI Attendance Breakdown
Regular vs. Student
350
300
110
115
250
200
95
88
150
100
220
219
149
132
'08
'09
50
0
'06
'07
Student
Reg
Program Committee
Analyzed recent trends to identify areas; picked top people in
proportion to the areas
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
Chandra Krintz, UCSB
Steve Blackburn, ANU
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Hans Boehm, HP
Ondrej Lhotak, Waterloo
Karl Crary, CMU
Tamiya Onodera, IBM
Pedro Diniz, IST
Jens Palsberg, UCLA
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent
Bill Pugh, UMD
David Grove, IBM
Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft
Matthias Hauswirth, Lugano
Jeremy Siek, Colorado
Laurie Hendren, McGill
Yannis Smaragdakis, UMass
Wilson Hsieh, Google
Linda Torczon, Rice
Jens Knoop, TU Vienna
Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue
New in PLDI 2009
• External Review Committee (ERC)
– 51 members (printed proceedings are
missing names)
– Nominated by program committee as
experts in their own areas
– Bid on papers—just like the program
committee
• Inspired by ISMM 2008
Paper Submission
• Double blind without compromising
paper
– Authors could submit TRs etc. which I
forwarded to reviewers as needed
– Authors could reveal their identity in
their rebuttal if needed
• Authors indicated conflicts with PC
and ERC members
Paper Reviewing
• 196 paper submissions (a record!)
• 3 PC and 1 ERC members reviewed
each paper
– X reviews: 310
– Y reviews: 371
– Z reviews: 110
• Obtained additional external
reviews if a paper had too few X/Y
reviews
Rebuttal/Discussion Period
• 10 days between rebuttal due date
and PC meeting
• I acted on three categories:
1. Not enough expert reviews
Obtained additional reviews
2. Strongly conflicting reviews (AD)
Initiated online discussion
~180 messages total
3. Strong review was external
Initiated online discussion
PC Meeting (1)
• 2 full days in
Boulder, CO
• 100% attendance
• Accepted 41 papers
PC Meeting (2)
• Used “Identify the Champion”
• Discussed every paper with an “A”
• PC members could resurrect any
paper
– And did!
• Michael Hind and Todd Mytkowicz
took detailed notes, managed time, …
• Jens Palsberg subbed for me or Mike
Acceptance Statistics
1995
Accepted
1996
Submitted
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
0
50
100
150
200
Acceptance by Area
27%
Interactions
20%
Program transformations
Debugging
Novel programming models
7%
Pointer analyses
Rejected
33%
14%
Accepted
18%
Performance analysis
10%
Parallel languages
7%
Explitcit parallelism
30%
Safety/Security
Language designs
13%
21%
Type systems/logics
10%
Domain-specific
3%
Performance optimizations
14%
Program analyses
35%
Memory management
15%
Extracting parallelism
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Special Thanks
• Lisa Tolles at Sheridan
• Paolo and Rich, start submission
software
• Mike Hind and Todd Mytkowicz
• PC and ERC members
• Authors
Announcements
• Distinguished paper award after
last session
• Enjoy