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's most important conferences. The precursor of PLDI was the Symposium on Compiler Optimization, held July 27–28, 1970 at the

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and chaired by Robert S. Northcote. That conference included papers by Frances E. Allen, John Cocke,

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, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. The first conference in the current PLDI series took place in 1979 under the name ''SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction'' in

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. The next Compiler Construction conference took place in 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Compiler Construction conferences then alternated with SIGPLAN Conferences on Language Issues until 1988, when the conference was renamed to PLDI. From 1982 until 2001, the conference acronym was SIGPLAN 'xx. Starting in 2002, the initialism became PLDI 'xx, and in 2006 PLDI xxxx.

Conference locations and organizers

* PLDI 2022 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

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, United States ** General Chair: Ranjit Jhala ** Program Chair: Isil Dillig * PLDI 2021 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Online due to

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** General Chair: Stephen N. Freund ** Program Chair: Eran Yahav * PLDI 2020 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, United Kingdom (planned); moved online due to COVID-19 ** General Chair: Alastair F. Donaldson ** Program Chair:

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* PLDI 2019 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

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, United States ** Conference Chair:

Kathryn S. McKinley Kathryn S. McKinley is an American computer scientist noted for her research on compilers, runtime systems, and computer architecture. She is also known for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. McKinley was co-chair of CRA-W f ...

** Program Chair:

Kathleen Fisher Kathleen Shanahan Fisher is an American computer scientist who specializes in programming languages and their implementation. Professor Fisher is Chair of Computer Science at Tufts University and one of the authors of the PADS data description ...

* PLDI 2018 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

, United States ** Conference Chair: Jeffrey S. Foster ** Program Chair: Dan Grossman * PLDI 2017 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ...

, Spain ** Conference Chair: Albert Cohen ** Program Chair: Martin Vechev * PLDI 2016 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ...

, United States ** Conference Chair: Chandra Krintz ** Program Chair: Emery Berger * PLDI 2015 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Portland, OR Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous c ...

, United States ** Conference Chair: Dave Grove ** Program Chair: Steve Blackburn ** Part of the

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2015 * PLDI 2014 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of t ...

, United Kingdom ** Conference Chair:

Michael O'Boyle Michael O'Boyle is a professor of Computing and Director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Education O'Boyle received a Master of Science degree in computer science from ...

** Program Chair: Keshav Pingali * PLDI 2013 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Seattle, WA Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of ...

, United States ** Conference Chair: Hans-J. Boehm ** Program Chair: Cormac Flanagan * PLDI 2012 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, China ** Conference Chairs: Jan Vitek, Haibo Lin ** Program Chair: Frank Tip * PLDI 2011 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

San Jose, CA San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popul ...

, United States ** Conference Chair: Mary Hall ** Program Chair: David Padua ** Part of the

2011 * PLDI 2010 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Toronto, ON Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor ...

, Canada ** Conference Chair: Ben Zorn ** Program Chair: Alex Aiken * PLDI 2009 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

** Conference Chair: Michael Hind ** Program Chair: Amer Diwan * PLDI 2008 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Tucson, Arizona, USA ** Conference Chair: Rajiv Gupta ** Program Chair: Saman Amarasinghe * PLDI 2007 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

San Diego, California, USA San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United States ...

** Conference Chair:

Jeanne Ferrante Jeanne Ferrante is a computer scientist active in the field of compiler technology, where she has made important contributions regarding optimization and parallelization. Jeanne Ferrante is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at U ...

** Program Chair: Kathryn S. McKinley ** Part of the

2007 * PLDI 2006 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ** Conference Chair: Michael Schwartzbach ** Program Chair: Thomas Ball * PLDI '05 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Chicago, Illinois, USA ** Conference Chair: Vivek Sarkar ** Program Chair: Mary Hall * PLDI '04 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Washington, D.C., USA ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...

** Conference Chair: William Pugh ** Program Chair: Craig Chambers * PLDI 03 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

** Conference Chair: Ron Cytron ** Program Chair: Rajiv Gupta ** Part of the

2003 * PLDI '02 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Berlin, Germany Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this stat ...

** Conference Chair: Jens Knoop ** Program Chair:

Laurie Hendren Laurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers. Biography Hendren received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Queen's University ...

* SIGPLAN '01 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI): Snowbird, Utah, USA ** Conference Chair: Michael Burke ** Program Chair:

Mary Lou Soffa Mary Lou Ehnot Soffa is an American computer scientist noted for her research on compilers, program optimization, system software and system engineering. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She is o ...

* SIGPLAN '00 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI):

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

** Conference Chair:

James Larus James R. Larus is an American computer scientist specializing in the fields of programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture. He is currently at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he has served as the Dean of ...

** Program Chair:

Monica Lam Monica Sin-Ling Lam is an American computer scientist. She is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Professional biography Monica Lam received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1980 and a Ph.D. in ...

* SIGPLAN '99 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI):

Atlanta, Georgia, USA Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

** Conference Chair:

Barbara G. Ryder Barbara G. Ryder is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on programming languages and more specifically, the theoretical foundations and empirical investigation of interprocedural compile-time analysis. Biography Ryder received ...

** Program Chair: Benjamin G. Zorn ** Part of the

1999 * SIGPLAN '98 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI):

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pe ...

** Conference Chair: Jack W. Davidson ** Program Chair: Keith D. Cooper * SIGPLAN '97 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI):

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ...

** Conference Chair: Marina Chen ** Program Chair: Ron K. Cytron * SIGPLAN '96 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI):

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

** Conference Chair: Charles N. Fischer ** Program Chair: Michael Burke ** Part of the

1996 * SIGPLAN '95 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI): La Jolla, California, USA ** Conference Chair: David W. Wall ** Program Chair: David R. Hanson * SIGPLAN '94 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI): Orlando, Florida, USA ** Conference co-Chairs: Barbara Ryder and

** Program Chair: Vivek Sarkar * SIGPLAN '93 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA ** Conference Chair: Robert Cartwright ** Program Chair: David W. Wall * SIGPLAN '92 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

** Conference Chair: Stuart I. Feldman ** Program Chair: Christopher W. Fraser * SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor ...

** Conference Chair:

Brent Hailpern Brent Hailpern is a computer scientist retired from IBM Research. His research work focused on programming languages, software engineering, and concurrency. Education Dr. Hailpern received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in Mathematics from t ...

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* SIGPLAN '90 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: White Plains, New York, USA ** Conference Chair: Mark Scott Johnson ** Program Chair: Bernard Lang * SIGPLAN '89 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Portland, Oregon, USA ** Conference Chair: Bruce Knobe ** Program Chair: Charles N. Fischer * SIGPLAN '88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation:

** Conference Chair: David S. Wise ** Program Chair: Mayer D. Schwartz * SIGPLAN '87 Symposium on Interpreters and Interpretive Techniques: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA ** Conference Chair: Mark Scott Johnson ** Program Chair: Thomas Turba * SIGPLAN '86 Symposium on Compiler Construction: Palo Alto, California, USA ** Conference Chair: John R. Sopka ** Program Chair:

* SIGPLAN '85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments: Seattle, Washington, USA ** Conference Chair: Teri Payton ** Program Chair: L. Peter Deutsch * SIGPLAN '84 Symposium on Compiler Construction:

** Conference Chair: Mary Van Deusen ** Program Chair:

Susan L. Graham Susan Lois Graham (born September 16, 1942) is an American computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the U ...

* SIGPLAN '83 Symposium on Programming Language Issues in Software Systems: San Francisco, California, USA ** Conference Chair: John R. White ** Program Chair: Lawrence A. Rowe * SIGPLAN '82 Symposium on Compiler Construction:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most p ...

** Conference Chair: John R. White ** Program Chair: Frances E. Allen * SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction 1979: Denver, Colorado, USA * SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Optimization 1970: Urbana-

Champaign Champaign ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropo ...

Illinois, USA Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockfo ...

References

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