Spring 1999 Meeting

Saturday, April 10, 1999

Purdue University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285

The Spring 1999 meeting of the Midwest Society for Programming Languages and Systems will be held Saturday, April 10, 1999 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, In.

MSPLS meetings are open to anyone interested in programming languages, programming systems, and system software in general. The purpose of these meetings is to provide an informal forum for presenting and discussing new ideas and ongoing work, while encouraging interaction between researchers in this geographical area. Thus, MSPLS meetings are forums for making contacts with other researchers and exploring new ideas, not places for publishing final results.

What Time Is It In Indiana?

They call it "Indiana-East" in most unix systems; basically, it is EST without daylight savings. At the date of the meeting, we will effectively be on Chicago time.

Workshop Schedule (Final Version)

The workshop schedule will begin in the late morning and will continue through the afternoon, ending in an informal dinner at a local restaurant. The schedule is:

11:00 - 11:50

Registration, distribution of meeting "proceedings," & speaker preparation time

11:50 - 12:00

Meeting overview and welcome, Hank Dietz

12:00 - 12:30

From Polyvariant Flow Information to Intersection and Union Types, Jens Palsberg (Computer Science Department, Purdue University)

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch, provided courtesy AMD

2:00 - 2:30

Register Allocation Annotations for Java Performance, Joel Jones, Samuel Kamin (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2:30 - 3:00

An Aspect-Oriented Design Framework, Constantinos A, Constantinides, Atef Bader, Tzilla Elrad (Concurrent Programming Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology)

3:00 - 3:30

Components and Concurrency in Triveni, Christopher Colby *, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan +, Radha Jagadeesan *, Konstantin Laufer *, Carlos Puchol + (* Loyola University Chicago, + Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Naperville IL)

3:30 - 4:30

Overview, laboratory tour, and interactive demonstration, Linux Cluster Video Wall

4:30 - 5:00

Case Study: A Portable Parallel Particle-In-Cell Code Simulation on HP Exemplar, S. M. Loo, E. B. Wells, W. E. Cohen (University of Alabama at Huntsville)

5:00 - 5:30

Automatic Parallelization of C by Means of Language Transcription, Richard L Kennell (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

5:30 - 6:00

Organizational meeting; who is hosting for Fall 1999?

6:00 -

Dinner

Registration (Suggested, but not required)

Attendees should register by April 5, 1999 to ensure that they will recieve a copy of the workshop proceedings. Dinner cost is not included, but gift funds from AMD allow the host to cover reasonable expenses for lunch and refreshments. Thus, we anticipate that there will be no charge for attendees registered by April 5, 1999. To register, send email to mspls@ecn.purdue.edu containing your name and address, with the Subject: register.

Submissions (Closed as of April 7, 1999)

If you are interested in presenting a talk at the MSPLS meeting, send the talk title, names of authors and speaker, and a brief abstract to mspls@ecn.purdue.edu by April 1, 1998. Your email should contain the Subject: submit. You may also submit a full paper as a postscript file, if you desire. The abstracts and full papers for selected talks will be distributed to attendees as a hardcopy technical report issued by the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Abstracts and papers will be accepted on the basis of appropriateness for MSPLS presentation and availability of presentation time slots. Presentation of preliminary ideas and work in progress is strongly encouraged. As a friendly and informal workshop, MSPLS has a tradition of being an excellent place for new researchers to give first talks on their work, giving them practice in presentation skills and also helping to establish them in the Midwest SIGPLAN community.

Directions

Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, IN. Driving to Purdue is easy from most places in the midwest; it is on I65 just 1 hour northwest of Indianapolis or 2 hours southeast of Chicago. If you would rather fly, the Lafayette airport is within walking distance. Additional travel information and maps are available online here.

The meeting itself will be held in MSEE B012. MSEE is the building directly across the street from the Purdue Visitor Center on Northwestern Avenue.

Host Contact

This meeting is being hosted by Hank Dietz, hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu, (765) 494 3357.

This page was last modified March 12, 1999.