SASPLAS 2005
for students,
featuring students
What. SASPLAS
2005, a workshop on programming languages and systems, was held on Saturday, 22
October 2005, at East Tennessee State University, from 9 am to 6
pm. The workshop’s intent was to expose students
to practice of research, while minimizing the expense and stress of
conference-going.
Who. SASPLAS 2005 was attended by 74 people from 14
regional universities. The program featured
§ Ten student speakers from nine area schools: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, NC State, Middle
TN State, Tennessee Tech, Wofford, Appalachian State, and ETSU;
§
Four poster presentations; and
§
Two keynote talks:
§ programming languages: Design Patterns for Parallel Programming
speaker: Beverly Sanders, Associate
Professor, U. Florida (Ph.D. in CS,
Harvard, 1985; co-author, Patterns for Parallel
Programming)
§ systems: The OSCAR“Cluster in a Box” Computing
Project
speakers: Thomas Naughton and John Mugler,
ORNL research associates
Artifacts. Papers, slides for talks, and images of posters
can be accessed through the program
page. Other pages on this site reference images from the event and
a final report that
discusses logistics, including funding.
Funding. Support for SASPLAS 2005 was provided by
§ Microsoft
Research, University User’s Group
§ IBM (Yorktown
Heights Research Group)
§ The
UT/ORNL Science Alliance
§ Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (CCS Division)
§ ETSU’s Department of Computer and Information Science, College of
Business and Technology, and Honors College
Precedents. SASPLAS
2005 was similar in format and purpose to MASPLAS, an annual
workshop that ETSU Professor Phil Pfeiffer
helped to establish ten years ago, with SIGPLAN
support. MASPLAS continues to help
students in the NY-PA-NJ-DE-MD area, thanks to work by
§ Michael Hind (IBM Research)
§ Barbara Ryder (Rutgers)
§ Lori Pollock (Delaware)
§ David Binkley (Loyola of Baltimore)
§ David Wonnacott (Haverford)
and past
MASPLAS hosts, including Marco Morazan (Seton Hall) and the late Dick Prince
(East Stroudsburg).
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Last updated 29 November 2005.