The #AskMeAnything track at #PLDI2020 will give attendees the opportunity to engage with leading lights of the programming languages community. We're excited to have 15 special guests lined up to answer all the questions you've been longing to ask them. In order of appearance...
1/15 Byron Cook (@byroncook) is a Professor of Computer Science at @ucl_pplv, and also a Senior Principal Scientist at @awscloud where he has helped to kick-start the adoption of automated reasoning. He is also known for starting the TERMINATOR project at @MSFTResearch.
2/15 Margaret Martonosi (@margmartonosi) is an Assistant Director at the @NSF while on leave from being a Professor in the @Princeton Computer Science department. She is known for her contributions to power-efficient computer architecture and systems design.
3/15 Kathryn McKinley (@ksmckinley) is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at @Google. She and her collaborators have produced such widely used software systems as the DaCapo Java Benchmarks (31,800+ downloads), the TRIPS Compiler, and the Hoard memory manager (used by OS X).
4/15 Bjarne Stroustrup is a Technical Fellow and Managing Director at @MorganStanley and a visiting professor at @Columbia University. He is widely known as the designer and original implementer of the C++ language.
5/15 Michelle Strout (@ProfMStrout) is a Professor of Computer Science at @uarizona. She is known for her research on high performance computing, compilers and run-time systems, scientific computing, and software engineering.
7/15 Peter O'Hearn (@PeterOHearn12) is a Research Scientist at @FacebookLondon and a Professor at @ucl_pplv. He is known as one of the inventors of separation logic, the theory that underpins the @fbinfer program analyzer developed by his team at Facebook.
8/15 Alex Aiken is a Professor of Computer Science at @Stanford, where he researches programming languages. He is PLDI's most prolific contributor, having co-authored 30 PLDI papers since 1988.
9/15 Richard Gabriel is a researcher at @IBMResearch. He is recognised for his innovations in programming languages and software design, and for promoting the interaction between computer science and other disciplines, notably architecture and poetry.
10/15 Kathleen Fisher is a Professor at @TuftsUniversity. Previously, she was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at @ATT Labs Research and a program manager at @DARPA. She focuses on domain-specific languages that facilitate programming with huge amounts of ad hoc data.
11/15 Işıl Dillig (@IsilDillig) is an Associate Professor at @UTAustin, where her main research interests are program analysis, verification, and synthesis as well as their applications to security and databases. She has received a Sloan Fellowship and an @NSF CAREER award.
13/15 Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm) leads the @risc_v
Software and Platform Engineering teams at @SiFive. He is known for starting and building the @llvmorg compiler infrastructure, the Clang compiler, the @SwiftLang programming language, and the MLIR compiler framework.
Software and Platform Engineering teams at @SiFive. He is known for starting and building the @llvmorg compiler infrastructure, the Clang compiler, the @SwiftLang programming language, and the MLIR compiler framework.
14/15 Doug Lea is a professor of Computer Science at @SUNY Oswego, where he specializes in concurrent programming and data structures. He is one of the foremost experts on object-oriented programming, and the primary author of several widely used software packages.
15/15 Guy Steele is a Software Architect at @oraclelabs. He is an expert on the Lisp language, a co-designer of the Scheme language, and has served on several technical standards committees. He also designed the original @emacs command set, and was the first to port TeX.
EXTRA BONUS ADDITION: Simon Peyton Jones (@simonpj0) is a Principal Researcher at @MSFTResearch. He co-designed the @HaskellOrg language, and is chair of @CompAtSch, the group at the epicentre of the reform of the national curriculum for Computing in England.
