by John Wickerson on Jun 13, 2022 | Tags: community, mentoring
SIGPLAN-M is SIGPLAN’s international long-term mentoring program. Initiated in late 2020 by Talia Ringer, it now has over 200 mentors and over 300 mentees. Everybody in the community — from aspiring undergraduate to experienced faculty — is welcome to take part either as a mentor or as a mentee (or both). For this edition of People of PL, John Wickerson met three of SIGPLAN-M’s mentors to find out about their experiences.
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by Michael Hicks and Adrian Sampson on Jul 12, 2021 |
A brief farewell from Mike Hicks, outgoing co-editor at PL Perspectives, and a brief hello by Adrian Sampson, co-editor incoming!
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by Talia Ringer on Jan 5, 2021 | Tags: mentoring, SIGPLAN-M
SIGPLAN-M is a new international long-term mentoring program for aspiring and current PL researchers. Get a sense of what it’s about through the stories of one of our fantastic mentors.
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by David Van Horn on Sep 10, 2020 | Tags: advice, job search, pandemic
The academic job search can be a stressful and grueling process even in the best of times. Now it will be worse. Here’s some guidance on navigating the faculty job market in these unique times.
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by John Wickerson on Aug 19, 2020 | Tags: formal verification, functional programming, rust language, separation logic, type systems
People of PL is a series of interviews with PL researchers. In today’s post, John Wickerson chats with Derek Dreyer, who is Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), and Honorarprofessor of Computer Science, Saarland University.
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by John Wickerson on Jun 18, 2020 | Tags: diversity, functional programming, gradual typing, type systems
People of PL is a series of interviews with PL researchers. In today’s post, John Wickerson chats with Ron Garcia, who is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.
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