Éric Tanter organized the 18th meeting of the IFIP Working Group on Language Design

For one week, Chile became a meeting point for international research in programming language design. Researchers from IMFD and academics from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile took part in the 18th meeting of the Working Group on Language Design of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The workshop, held from March 22 to 27 in Las Majadas de Pirque, brought together 27 specialists from universities, research institutes, and industry in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. The event was organized by IMFD researcher and DCC UChile academic, Éric Tanter. Also taking part in this event as local guests were fellow IMFD researchers and DCC UChile academics Federico Olmedo and Matías Toro, members of the PLEIAD research group.

“Throughout the meeting, presentations and discussions were held, addressing a wide range of topics, including the relationship between programming languages and aspects of security, artificial intelligence, blockchain, concurrency, distribution, verification, implementation, and teaching,” commented researcher Tanter.

The Working Group on Language Design (WGLD) was created in 2011 under the umbrella of IFIP, an international organization that fosters international scientific cooperation in computing. IFIP is structured into technical committees for areas of computing such as foundations, theory and practice of software, and education. Each of these committees is divided into working groups, each dedicated to a specific subarea. “Working groups are formed with members from different institutions, and they meet regularly to share ideas, present ongoing work, produce joint documents, etc.,” said the academic, who has been part of this group since 2018 thanks to his work on language design and implementation, type systems, and semantics.

He also highlighted that this is the first time this event has been held in Latin America, which, in his view, “gave even more visibility to the activities carried out in Chile by the DCC’s PLEIAD lab.” He also mentioned that, as part of his visit, researcher Robby Findler of Northwestern University extended his stay in the country to give two talks at DCC UChile, where he shared his expertise on extensibility techniques and concurrent programming.

Source: Comunicaciones DCC UChile.