ACM SIGPLAN 2005 Conference on

Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Chicago, Illinois, USA

June 11 - 15, 2005

http://www.research.ibm.com/pldi2005

Announcements

• PLDI 2005 would like to thank the following companies for their support --- Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
• Advance registration for PLDI 2005 and related events is now closed. You can register at the conference, starting Saturday, June 11th. For registration information, please visit the PLDI 2005 registration web site.
• There are no longer any hotel rooms available at the conference rate. If you're unable to find a hotel room nearby in downtown Chicago, you may also consider booking a room at one of the following hotels in Rosemont. Rosemont is a Chicago suburb located close to the airport and is also accessible to downtown Chicago via a 20-25 minute ride on the local train/subway:
  • Westin O'Hare
  • Hyatt O'Hare
  • Marriott O'Hare
• The Advanced Program for PLDI can be found here.
• The PLDI Conference Reception will be held during 6pm - 9pm on Sunday, June 12, 2005, and is open to all PLDI attendees. There will also be a Student Poster Session during the reception. See Call for Poster Submissions for details.
• Tutorials are scheduled on Saturday, June 11, 2005, and Sunday, June 12, 2005. See PLDI Tutorials home page for details.
• We are pleased to announce that the invited speaker for PLDI 2005 is Maurice Herlihy who will give a talk on "The Transactional Manifesto: Software Engineering and Non-blocking Synchronization" during 8:30am - 9:30am on Wednesday, June 15, 2005.
• There are a limited number of tickets available for an architectural tour of Chicago on the chartered boat, Innisfree, operated by Chicago From The Lake reserved exclusively for PLDI attendees and their guests on Tuesday, June 14, 2005. Tickets are not included in the registration, and may be purchased separately for $50/person from the registration desk at the conference. (The $40/person cost was for early registration.) Tickets includes a two hour boat tour with food and beverages, as well as bus transportation from and to the hotel. Buses will leave the hotel at 5:00pm on June 14th, and return at approximately 8:30pm.

Location

PLDI 2005 will be held at the Palmer House Hilton hotel in downtown Chicago. As the third-largest metropolitan city in the USA, Chicago offers attractions in several areas including architecture, art, music, dance, sports, and outdoor recreation.

Co-located Conferences and workshops

• VEE 2005: First ACM/USENIX International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (merger of IVME workshop and Usenix VM conference)
• MSP 2005: Memory System Performance
• Bugs 2005: Workshop on the Evaluation of Software Defect Detection Tools
• LCTES 2005: Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems
• PPoPP 2005: Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming