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Mon 5 Nov
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13:30 - 14:30
Marron
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
13:30
60m
Talk
Time-Travel Debugging and Actionable Diagnostics Insights
SPLASH -I
Mark Marron
Microsoft Research
15:30 - 16:30
Stoodley
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
15:30
60m
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Oh, the compilers you will build!
SPLASH -I
Mark Stoodley
IBM Canada
Link to publication
16:30 - 17:30
Gibbons
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
16:30
60m
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Composable References and the Yoneda Lemma
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Jeremy Gibbons
University of Oxford
Link to publication
Pre-print
Tue 6 Nov
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11:00 - 12:00
Kinnear
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
11:00
60m
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Valhalla: Enhancing the JVM with Value Types
SPLASH -I
Karen Kinnear
Oracle
13:30 - 14:30
Rideau
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
13:30
60m
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Verifying dApp Computations on a Blockchain
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François-René Rideau
LegiCash
15:30 - 16:30
Miller
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
15:30
60m
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What happened to distributed programming languages?
SPLASH -I
Heather Miller
Carnegie Mellon University
16:30 - 17:30
Mansinghka
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
16:30
60m
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Probabilistic Programming Paradigms
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Vikash Mansinghka
MIT
17:30 - 18:30
Ahmed
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
17:30
60m
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All the languages together
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Amal Ahmed
Northeastern University
Wed 7 Nov
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11:00 - 12:00
Gabriel
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
11:00
60m
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How a Computer Can Write a Poem and Make it Sound like an Angry Type Theorist or Proving Theorems and Seeing Cats
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Richard P. Gabriel
Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI
13:30 - 14:30
Alexandrescu
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
13:30
60m
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Design by Introspection in D
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Andrei Alexandrescu
D Language Foundation
15:30 - 16:30
Aref
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
15:30
60m
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Low level systems programming in a high level language
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Molham Aref
Relational.ai
16:30 - 17:30
Hester
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
16:30
60m
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Expanding R Syntax in package space
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Jim Hester
RStudio
17:30 - 18:30
Flood
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
17:30
60m
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Ten Cool Things you might not know about the OpenJDK Java Virtual Machine
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Christine H. Flood
Red Hat
Thu 8 Nov
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13:30 - 14:30
McDirmid
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
13:30
60m
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Tangible Abstraction
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Sean McDirmid
15:30 - 16:30
Titzer
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Whittier
15:30
60m
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Peering behind the Turing Mirror
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Ben L. Titzer
Google
16:30 - 17:30
Spoonhower
SPLASH -I
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Whittier
16:30
60m
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Measuring Microservice Performance: A Shape Not a Number
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Daniel Spoonhower
Lightstep
Mon 5 Nov
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Time-Travel Debugging and Actionable Diagnostics Insights
13:30 - 14:30
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Oh, the compilers you will build!
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Composable References and the Yoneda Lemma
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Valhalla: Enhancing the JVM with Value Types
11:00 - 12:00
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Verifying dApp Computations on a Blockchain
13:30 - 14:30
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What happened to distributed programming languages?
15:30 - 16:30
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Probabilistic Programming Paradigms
16:30 - 17:30
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All the languages together
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How a Computer Can Write a Poem and Make it Sound like an Angry Type Th ...
11:00 - 12:00
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Design by Introspection in D
13:30 - 14:30
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Low level systems programming in a high level language
15:30 - 16:30
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Expanding R Syntax in package space
16:30 - 17:30
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Ten Cool Things you might not know about the OpenJDK Java Virtual Machine
17:30 - 18:30
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Tangible Abstraction
13:30 - 14:30
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Peering behind the Turing Mirror
15:30 - 16:30
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Measuring Microservice Performance: A Shape Not a Number
16:30 - 17:30
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