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Tue 6 Nov
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10:30 - 12:00
Semantics
DLS
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Tim Felgentreff
Oracle Labs, Potsdam
10:30
30m
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The Behavior of Gradual Types: A User Study
DLS
Preston Tunnell Wilson
Brown University, USA
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Ben Greenman
Northeastern University, USA
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Justin Pombrio
Brown University, USA
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
Brown University, USA
11:00
30m
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A Trustworthy Mechanized Formalization of R
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Martin Bodin
Imperial College London
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Tomás Diaz
University of Chile, Chile
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Éric Tanter
University of Chile & Inria Paris
13:30 - 15:00
Optimization
DLS
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Stefan Marr
University of Kent
13:30
30m
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Log++ Logging for a Cloud-Native World
DLS
Mark Marron
Microsoft Research
14:00
30m
Talk
HorseIR: Bringing Array Programming Languages Together with Database Query Processing
DLS
Hanfeng Chen
McGill University, Canada
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Joseph Vinish D'Silva
McGill University, Canada
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Hongji Chen
McGill University, Canada
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Bettina Kemme
McGill University, Canada
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Laurie Hendren
McGill University, Canada
14:30
30m
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JavaScript AOT Compilation
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Manuel Serrano
Inria, France
15:30 - 17:00
Systems
DLS
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The Loft
15:30
30m
Talk
Query-Based Object-Oriented Programming: A Declarative Web of Objects
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Yoav Seginer
cdl-lang.org, Netherlands
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Theo Vosse
cdl-lang.org, Netherlands
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Gil Harari
cdl-lang.org, Israel
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Uri Kolodny
cdl-lang.org, Israel
16:00
30m
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Self-Contained Development Environments
DLS
Guido Chari
Czech Technical University, Czechia
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Javier Pimás
Palantir Solutions, Argentina
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Jan Vitek
Northeastern University
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Olivier Flückiger
Northeastern University, USA
16:30
30m
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Numerical Computing on the Web: Benchmarking for the Future
DLS
David Herrera
McGill University, Canada
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Hanfeng Chen
McGill University, Canada
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Erick Lavoie
McGill University, Canada
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Laurie Hendren
McGill University, Canada
Wed 7 Nov
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10:30 - 12:00
Usability and Reusability
Onward! Papers
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Elisa Gonzalez Boix
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
10:30
30m
Talk
On the Usage of “Pythonic” Idioms in Python Programs
Onward! Papers
Carol V. Alexandru
University of Zurich
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José J. Merchante
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Sebastiano Panichella
Zurich University of Applied Science/University of Zurich
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Sebastian Proksch
University of Zurich
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Harald Gall
University of Zurich
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Gregorio Robles
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
11:00
30m
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Inference and Regeneration of Programs that Store and Retrieve Data
Onward! Papers
Martin C. Rinard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jiasi Shen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Varun Mangalick
MIT
13:30 - 15:00
DSLs and Language Design Principles
Onward! Papers
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Stefan Marr
University of Kent
13:30
30m
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The Open Authorial Principle - Supporting Networks of Authors in Creating Externalisable Designs
Onward! Papers
Antranig Basman
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Clayton Lewis
University of Colorado Boulder
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Colin Clark
14:00
30m
Talk
Tool: Accessible Automated Reasoning for Human Robot Collaboration
Onward! Papers
Ortwin Mailahn
ZeMA
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Rainer Müller
ZeMA
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Richard Peifer
ZeMA
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Damien Zufferey
MPI-SWS
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Ivan Gavran
MPI-SWS
15:30 - 17:00
Session 1
Onward! Essays
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The Loft
15:30
45m
Full-paper
Fatal Abstraction
Onward! Essays
Friedrich Steimann
Fernuniversität
Link to publication
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Thu 8 Nov
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10:30 - 12:00
Data Structures
Onward! Papers
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Stefan Marr
University of Kent
10:30
30m
Talk
Cflat: A New Modular Approach to Implementing Efficient and Tunable Collections
Onward! Papers
Stephan Brandauer
Uppsala University
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Elias Castegren
Uppsala University
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Tobias Wrigstad
Uppsala University
Pre-print
11:00
30m
Talk
Live, Synchronized, and Mental Map Preserving Visualization for Data Structure Programming
Onward! Papers
Akio Oka
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Hidehiko Masuhara
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Tomoyuki Aotani
Tokyo Institute of Technology
13:30 - 15:00
Language Design
Onward! Papers
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The Loft
Chair(s):
Philipp Haller
KTH, Sweden
13:30
30m
Talk
A CAPable distributed programming model
Onward! Papers
Florian Myter
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Christophe Scholliers
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Wolfgang De Meuter
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
14:00
30m
Talk
Protecting Chatbots from Toxic Content
Onward! Papers
Guillaume Baudart
IBM Research
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Julian Dolby
IBM Research
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Evelyn Duesterwald
IBM Research
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Martin Hirzel
IBM Research
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Avraham Shinnar
IBM Research
14:30
30m
Talk
JEff: Objects for Effect
Onward! Papers
Pablo Inostroza
CWI
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Tijs van der Storm
CWI & University of Groningen
15:30 - 17:00
Session 2
Onward! Essays
at
The Loft
15:30
45m
Full-paper
We Should Stop Claiming Generality in our Domain-Specific Language Papers
Onward! Essays
Daco Harkes
Delft University of Technology
Link to publication
16:15
45m
Full-paper
Interdisciplinary Programming Language Design
Onward! Essays
Michael Coblenz
Carnegie Mellon University
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Jonathan Aldrich
Carnegie Mellon University
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Brad A. Myers
Carnegie Mellon University
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Joshua Sunshine
Carnegie Mellon University
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Thu 8 Nov
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The Behavior of Gradual Types: A User Study
10:30 - 11:00
DLS
A Trustworthy Mechanized Formalization of R
11:00 - 11:30
DLS
Log++ Logging for a Cloud-Native World
13:30 - 14:00
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HorseIR: Bringing Array Programming Languages Together with Database Qu ...
14:00 - 14:30
DLS
JavaScript AOT Compilation
14:30 - 15:00
DLS
Query-Based Object-Oriented Programming: A Declarative Web of Objects
15:30 - 16:00
DLS
Self-Contained Development Environments
16:00 - 16:30
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Numerical Computing on the Web: Benchmarking for the Future
16:30 - 17:00
Wed 7 Nov
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Onward! Papers
On the Usage of “Pythonic” Idioms in Python Programs
10:30 - 11:00
Onward! Papers
Inference and Regeneration of Programs that Store and Retrieve Data
11:00 - 11:30
Onward! Papers
The Open Authorial Principle - Supporting Networks of Authors in Creati ...
13:30 - 14:00
Onward! Papers
Tool: Accessible Automated Reasoning for Human Robot Collaboration
14:00 - 14:30
Onward! Essays
Fatal Abstraction
15:30 - 16:15
Thu 8 Nov
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Cflat: A New Modular Approach to Implementing Efficient and Tunable Col ...
10:30 - 11:00
Onward! Papers
Live, Synchronized, and Mental Map Preserving Visualization for Data St ...
11:00 - 11:30
Onward! Papers
A CAPable distributed programming model
13:30 - 14:00
Onward! Papers
Protecting Chatbots from Toxic Content
14:00 - 14:30
Onward! Papers
JEff: Objects for Effect
14:30 - 15:00
Onward! Essays
We Should Stop Claiming Generality in our Domain-Specific Language Papers
15:30 - 16:15
Onward! Essays
Interdisciplinary Programming Language Design
16:15 - 17:00
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