Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH)

SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity) contains several conferences concerned with programming, languages, and software engineering, including OOPSLA (Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications), Onward!, DLS (the Dynamic Languages Symposium), GPCE (Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences), and SLE (Software Language Engineering).

SPLASH Steering Committee

The SPLASH Steering Committee is constituted by the following members:

  • current SIGPLAN Chair,
  • current SIGPLAN Vice Chair,
  • future, current, and past three SPLASH General Chairs,
  • future, current, and past three OOPSLA Program Chairs,
  • future, current, and past one year’s Onward! Program Chairs (Papers and Essays)
  • Steering Committee Chair for Onward!
  • Steering Committee Chair for any conference that co-located with SPLASH for the past three years
  • the outgoing Chair of the Steering Committee, for one year past the end of their term as Chair.

NB! In 2025 the past three years are 2024, 2023, and 2022 and the co-located conferences include: SPLASH-E, GPCE, SLE, and SAS.

The Chair of the Steering Committee is elected by the Steering Committee from among the members of the committee to serve a two-year term. The outgoing chair serves an additional year on the committee past his or her term as chair to provide institutional memory.

Steering Committee membership was expanded by adding members-at-large in 2020, with the intention of adding one member-at-large each subsequent year. Members-at-large serve 4 year terms and are selected by the Steering Committee.

The membership of the steering committee changes each year upon conclusion of that year’s conference.

The current SPLASH steering committee is:

  • Andrew Myers (Cornell University), SIGPLAN Chair
  • Anders Møller (Aarhus University), SIGPLAN Vice Chair
  • Alex Potanin, Australian National University, Chair
  • Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University
  • Rose Bohrer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Işil Dillig, University of Texas at Austin
  • Jonathan Edwards, Independent
  • Felienne Hermans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute
  • Stephen Kell, Kings College London
  • Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown
  • Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt
  • Coen de Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Sukyoung Ryu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Mihaela Sighireanu, University of Paris-Saclay
  • Manu Sridharan, UC Riverside
  • Marcel Taeumel, Hasso Plattner Institute
  • Frank Tip, Northeastern University
  • Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon
  • Eric van Wyk, University of Minnesota
  • Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Jan Vitek, Northeastern University / Czech Technical University

Documents on How to Run SPLASH/OOPSLA Conferences

SPLASH Steering Committee Representatives for SIGPLAN Awards

  • Programming Languages Software Award (David Grove, IBM)
  • Programming Languages Achievement Award (TBC)
  • Robin Milner Young Researcher Award (TBC)
  • John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award (Loris D’Antoni, UCSD)
  • Distinguished Service Award (TBC)
  • Distinguished Educator Award (Will Crichton, Brown University)

Web Pages of Previous Conferences