How the SIGPLAN Budget Works
SIGPLAN runs on a simple arithmetic: around $2M USD a year in conference registration income from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, and SPLASH/OOPSLA must cover the conferences themselves, some $300K in annual community support (PLMW, PAC travel funding, summer schools, and awards), and new student presenter travel grants — all while keeping the reserve ACM requires. In this post, the SIGPLAN Treasurer explains where the money comes from, why conferences ran at a loss for five years after COVID, how the new $300-per-day registration target was set, and what it all means for the PL community.
The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work
How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the source of truth—where humans declare intent, agents turn it into executable artifacts, and documents represent a targeted view of something more powerful?
Repositories Are Human/Agent Knowledge Factories
Repositories aren’t where code lives anymore—they’re where **knowledge is manufactured**.
And increasingly, it’s not humans doing the work—it’s agents, with humans supervising the factory.
Think Globally, Discuss PL Locally
AI Models Need a Virtual Machine
Neural networks are more useful when placed in a suitable, specialized environment.
