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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
Tue 24 Oct 2017 08:50 - 09:20 at Kensington - Session 1

Jan Vitek is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. Dr. Vitek was born in Czechoslovakia and educated in Switzerland. Over the years, he worked on topics related to programming languages, their design, use, and implementation. With Noble and Potter, he proposed the notion of flexible alias control which became know as Ownership Types. He led the Ovm project which produced the first real-time Java virtual machine to be flight tested on a ScanEagle drone (he claims no one was harmed). Outcomes of this project include the Schism real-time garbage collector and the FijiVM – a production VM for embedded systems. More recently, he worked on dynamic languages, trying to make sense of JavaScript and to design a new language called, Thorn. Nowadays, he spends his time with statisticians and data scientists. Jan believes that his 2012 election as Chair of SIGPLAN was an accident; since has been busy trying to rock the boat to ensure this does not happen again. In his spare time, Jan enjoys organizing conferences and sitting on PCs (over 25 in the last decade). He founded the MOS (mobile objects), IWACO (alias control), STOP (gradual typing), and TRANSACT (transactional memory) workshop series. He was the first program chair of VEE and chaired ESOP, ECOOP, Coordination and TOOLS. He was the general chair of PLDI (in Beijing!), ISMM and LCTES. He may still be sitting on the steering committees of ECOOP, JTRES, ICFP, OOPLSA, POPL, PLDI, LCTES, ESOP.

Tue 24 Oct

Displayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change

08:30 - 10:00
08:30
5m
Day opening
Welcome
Doctoral Symposium

08:35
15m
Talk
Lightning Talks
Doctoral Symposium

08:50
30m
Talk
Invited Talk: From PHD to PROF: blind luck or careful planning?
Doctoral Symposium
Jan Vitek Northeastern University, USA
09:20
40m
Talk
How To Make Tasks Faster: Revealing The Complex Interactions Of Tasks In The Memory System
Doctoral Symposium
Germán Ceballos Uppsala University