Highlighting PL Research to the CS Community
This post showcases three papers published in SIGPLAN venues which will appear as Research Highlights in upcoming issues of the Communications of the ACM.
Sound Analysis: Can We Tell the Truth About Programs?
Telling the truth about all program behaviors collectively is hard. Can an analysis say something useful and true without making assumptions that are violated by nearly all real programs?
“Program Verification”: Has it lost its punch?
The usage of the term program verification has expanded well beyond its original meaning. As research in this space advances and expands, is it time to reconsider the term?
Scaling the Field: Collaboration is of the Essence
Although the computer science community successfully harnessed exponential increases in computer performance to drive societal and economic change, the exponential growth in publications is proving harder to accommodate. To gain a deeper understanding of publication growth and inform how the computer science community should handle this growth, we analyze publication practices from several perspectives.
