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

For a week, Chile served as a hub for international research in programming language design. Researchers from the IMFD and faculty members from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile participated 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 faculty member Éric Tanter. Also participating in this event as local guests were IMFD researchers and DCC UChile faculty members Federico Olmedo and Matías Toro, members of the PLEIAD research group.

“Throughout the event, there were presentations and discussions that covered a wide range of topics, including the relationship between programming languages and security, artificial intelligence, blockchain, concurrency, distribution, verification, implementation, and teaching,” said researcher Tanter.

The Working Group on Language Design (WGLD) was established in 2011 under the auspices of IFIP, an international organization that promotes international scientific cooperation in computing. IFIP is organized into technical committees covering areas of computing such as computer science fundamentals, software theory and practice, and education. Each of these committees is divided into working groups, each dedicated to a specific subfield. “The working groups are composed of members from different institutions and meet regularly to share ideas, present work in progress, produce joint documents, etc.,” notes the academic, who has been a member of this group since 2018, thanks to his work in the design and implementation of languages, type systems, and semantics.

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

Source: DCC UChile Communications.