POPL OBT 2014

Welcome to Off-the-Beaten Track,
co-located with POPL 2014!
OBT will take place on January 25, 2014 (Saturday).

Program

0900-1000 (chair: Vitek)
1000-1030
Break
1030-1130 (chair: Wadler)
Invited talk by Bret Victor: Direct-Manipulation Programming
1130-1300
Break for lunch
1300-1400 (chair: Krishnamurthi)
1400-1430
Break
1430-1550 (chair: Jhala)
1550-... (chair: Krishnamurthi)
Open mic

Dates

Submission:
Friday, Nov 22 (firm!), 2013
Response:
Dec 13, 2013
Event:
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Scope

A good submission is one that outlines a new problem or an interesting, underrepresented problem domain. Good submissions may also remind the PL community of problems that were once in vogue but have not recently been seen in top PL conferences. Good submissions do not need to propose complete or even partial solutions, though there should be some reason to believe that programming languages researchers have the tools necessary to search for solutions in the area at hand. Submissions that seem likely to stimulate discussion about the direction of programming language research are encouraged.

People

General Chair
Ranjit Jhala
Program Chair
Shriram Krishnamurthi
Program Committee
Michael Hicks, University of Maryland, College Park
Michael Isard, Microsoft Research
Matthew Might, University of Utah
Emina Torlak, U.C. Berkeley
Jan Vitek, Purdue University
Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University

Background

Programming language researchers have the principles, tools, algorithms and abstractions to solve all kinds of problems, in all areas of computer science. However, identifying and evaluating new problems, particularly those that lie outside the typical core PL problems we all know and love, can be a significant challenge. This workshop's goal is to identify and discuss problems that do not often show up in our top conferences, but where programming language research can make a substantial impact. We hope fora like this will increase the diversity of problems that are studied by PL researchers and thus increase our community's impact on the world.

While many workshops associated with POPL have become more like mini-conferences themselves, this is an anti-goal for OBT. The workshop will be informal and structured to encourage discussion. We are at least as interested in problems as in solutions.

Prior OBTs

2012
2013