Welcome to PLDI 2009

General chair: Michael HindProgram chair: Amer DiwanTutorial chair: Kim HazelwoodWorkshops chair: Ranjit JhalaFIT chair: Rodric RabbahStudent research chair: Marco

PistoiaLocal arrangements chair: David

Gregg

Attendance Trends(as of June 18, 2009)

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PLDI Attendance BreakdownRegular vs. Student

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Program Committee

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel Chandra Krintz, UCSB

Steve Blackburn, ANU Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego

Hans Boehm, HP Ondrej Lhotak, Waterloo

Karl Crary, CMU Tamiya Onodera, IBM

Pedro Diniz, IST Jens Palsberg, UCLA

Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent Bill Pugh, UMD

David Grove, IBM Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft

Matthias Hauswirth, Lugano Jeremy Siek, Colorado

Laurie Hendren, McGill Yannis Smaragdakis, UMass

Wilson Hsieh, Google Linda Torczon, Rice

Jens Knoop, TU Vienna Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue

Analyzed recent trends to identify areas; picked top people in proportion to the areas

New in PLDI 2009

• External Review Committee (ERC)– 51 members (printed proceedings

are missing names)– Nominated by program

committee as experts in their own areas

– Bid on papers—just like the program committee

• Inspired by ISMM 2008

Paper Submission

• Double blind without compromising paper– Authors could submit TRs etc.

which I forwarded to reviewers as needed

– Authors could reveal their identity in their rebuttal if needed

• Authors indicated conflicts with PC and ERC members

Paper Reviewing

• 196 paper submissions (a record!)

• 3 PC and 1 ERC members reviewed each paper– X reviews: 310– Y reviews: 371– Z reviews: 110

• Obtained additional external reviews if a paper had too few X/Y reviews

Rebuttal/Discussion Period

• 10 days between rebuttal due date and PC meeting

• I acted on three categories:1. Not enough expert reviews

Obtained additional reviews2. Strongly conflicting reviews (AD)

Initiated online discussion~180 messages total

3. Strong review was externalInitiated online discussion

PC Meeting (1)

• 2 full days in Boulder, CO

• 100% attendance• Accepted 41

papers

PC Meeting (2)

• Used “Identify the Champion”• Discussed every paper with an “A”• PC members could resurrect any

paper– And did!

• Michael Hind and Todd Mytkowicz took detailed notes, managed time, …

• Jens Palsberg subbed for me or Mike

Acceptance Statistics

Acceptance by Area

Special Thanks

• Lisa Tolles at Sheridan• Paolo and Rich, start

submission software• Mike Hind and Todd Mytkowicz• PC and ERC members• Authors

Announcements

• Distinguished paper award after last session

• Enjoy