The State of SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN organizes conferences, funds travel for students, and gives awards in the area of programming languages.
AI Safety as a PL problem
In the last few years, there have been many anxious ruminations about AI safety. To a significant extent, these fears come from the realization that modern AI systems can be alarmingly brittle. For example, a deep neural net used for image classification can produce...
Remembering Laurie Hendren
On May 27, 2019, Laurie Hendren, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal, passed away after a long illness. She leaves her daughter Jane and husband Prakash Panangaden. Laurie shared the Sable Lab with Clark Verbrugge.
Welcome
Welcome to PL Perspectives, the SIGPLAN blog! I am Michael Hicks, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, USA, and the Past Chair of SIGPLAN. I am the organizer and the current editor of this blog. I am really excited that we are getting this...