Austin 2012
Working Group on Language Design
The meeting will be held in Austin
- Venue: University of Texas at Austin
- Time: Tuesday December 4 to Saturday December 8
- Local organizer: William Cook
Meetings
We'll be meeting at the new
Student Activities Center of the University of Texas at Austin (
Google info,
campus map).
Note that we are in a different room every day.
Howdy Yall!
Our official city slogan is "
Keep Austin Weird".
The
weather in Texas around december should be nice. Average high
temperature of around 66 F (19 C). It might rain, but we should also get some sunshine.
I sometimes say that Austin is not really part of Texas, because we have our own style and are (much) more liberal than the rest of the state. But people are friendly all around. Austin is very green. Both politically and visually. We have lots of trees and grass. There is no sagebrush or desert anywhere near us.
Accommodation
We have 25 rooms reserved at the
Star of Texas Bed & Breakfast
(at a projected rate of $95. Please wait for further instructions to book your room)
The address is
611 W 22nd, Austin, TX 78705
This is a 11 minute walk to the meeting site.
The
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center is slightly closer and much more expensive.
The
DoubleTree hotel is about the same distance as the Star of Texas, and in between price. There are some other options nearby as well.
This is a 17 minute walk to the meeting site.
Workshop fee
The workshop fee covers food coffee, lunch, dinner, and an outing.
The cost will be approximately $350. Credit card processing is still being arranged.
Getting there
Austin has good travel connections for a small city. You can fly nonstop to Austin from many cities in the US on
JetBlue? (Boston, New York, Miami (Ft. Lauderdale), San Francisco, Orlando, Los Angeles) and Southwest Airlines (similar to
JetBlue? but also Atlanta, Washington DC, and Denver). Most other airlines will require a stop in Houston or Dallas.
NOTE that
JetBlue? and Southwest may not be included in some internet or travel agent searches, so you may need to do some additional research to make sure you have the best air connections.
Once in Austin, a taxi to the venue is approximately $25. Depending on when you arrive, we might also be able to pick you up from the airport. Send me an email if that matters to you.
The
100-AIRPORT FLYER bus is another option. For $1 it takes you directly from the airport to the meeting site (not the hotel). Get off at 23d and San Jacinto. There are not many stops, so you can't get lost. Just ask the driver to tell you where to get off. Catch the bus on the lower level of the airport, near the taxi area. Just ask somewhere where to find it. It leaves every 30 minutes during most of the day.
Members
Visitors
Schedule
Tuesday | Room 2.120 |
9:00-12:00 | introductions |
12:00-14:00 | lunch |
14:00-17:00 | talks |
19:00 | dinner |
Wednesday | Room 1.106 |
9:00-12:00 | talks |
12:00-14:00 | lunch |
14:00-17:00 | talks |
19:00 | dinner |
Thursday | Room 2.120 |
9:00-12:00 | talks |
12:00-22:00 | excursion + dinner |
Friday | Room 1.118 |
9:00-12:00 | talks |
12:00-14:00 | lunch |
14:00-17:00 | talks |
19:00 | dinner + music |
Saturday | Room 2.120 |
9:00-12:00 | talks |
12:00-14:00 | lunch |
Talks
Name | Talk |
Adam Chlipala | An Extensible Programming Language for Verified Systems Software? |
Andrew Black | Traits as Objects in Grace? |
Daan Leijen | |
Eelco Visser | Declarative Name Binding and Scope Rules? |
Gilad Bracha | Debug Mode is the Only Mode? |
Kim Bruce | Semantics of Inheritance, revisited -- Gracefully? |
Klaus Osterman | Modules with First-Class Transformations? |
Leo Meyerovich | Superconductor? |
Manuel Serrano | Multitier Programming in Hop |
Markus Voelter | An extensible version of the C programming language for Embedded Programming? |
Mathew Flatt | |
Roberto Ierusalimschy | LPeg: an Alternative to regexs based on PEGs? |
Ronald Garcia | Combining Static and Dynamic Types? |
Sean McDirmid? | |
Shriram Krishnamurthi | Measuring the Effectiveness of Error Messages Designed for Novice Programmers ? |
Stefan Hanenberg | Empirical evaluation of static type systems: A running experiment series? |
Susan Eisenbach | |
Tijs van der Storm | Orthogonality? |
Tom Van Cutsem | Tradeoffs in language design: The case of Javascript proxies? |
William R. Cook | A Science of Programming Language Design?? |
Yannis Smaragdakis | PQL: A Purely-Declarative Java Extension for Parallel Programming? |