[C++ Academia] CppAc Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6
Mike Shah
mshah.475 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 07:16:24 PDT 2018
Hi Folks,
A quick introduction of myself: My name is Mike Shah and I am part of the
teaching faculty at Northeastern University. I primarily perform my
research in C++ in the domains of program analysis and software
visualization. I would certainly be in support of this style conference,
and am willing to help at some level (Whether that be participating on this
list, organizing, reviewing papers, etc.)
My understanding is that OOPSLA is still a top academic conference, though
it has shifted to be more broad than language design. I think an important
question folks are asking on how we will distinguish this venue from
others. I certainly believe this should be a forum for publishing *best
practices in teaching C++*.
Is the other intent to have very broadly (e.g. systems, programming
language, machine learning, graphics, etc*)* research performed in C++ to
be available to this venue? I'm listing some conferences as examples that
are specific to some tool/language that may spark some ideas on how to
model this venue (Or perhaps someone could share another conference they
imagine this models more closely to).
- (i.e. Replace any specific language or tool with "C++" this might be
what I imagine a call for papers would be)
- Haskell Symposium
- https://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2018/index.html
- ManLang conference
- http://ssw.jku.at/manlang18/index.php/manlang/call-for-paper
- LLVM Performance Workshop and CGO
- http://cgo.org/cgo2019/cfp/ or https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-02-24/
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https://twitter.com/MichaelShah
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> 1. Re: Conference Proposal (Pati, Sarthak)
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:42:21 +0000
> From: "Pati, Sarthak" <Sarthak.Pati at uphs.upenn.edu>
> To: Chuck Allison <chuck.allison at gmail.com>, Jon Kalb
> <jon at kalbweb.com>, Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser at gmail.com>
> Cc: "cppac at lists.cpp.ac" <cppac at lists.cpp.ac>
> Subject: Re: [C++ Academia] Conference Proposal
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> Would it make sense to conduct relevant training sessions on cutting edge
> algorithms/technologies using C++ in field-specific conferences? For
> instance, in the field of Medical Imaging, MICCAI<http://miccai.org/>?s
> annual meetings would be a nice target in collaboration with Kitware (they
> design and maintain the ITK<https://itk.org/> library, one of the most
> widely used toolkits in the field).
>
> I have been hiring for my team recently and I get the impression that
> current graduates are taught very antiquated methods in C++ and that notion
> needs to change if we would like traction in the academic community.
>
> Thanks,
> Sarthak
>
> From: CppAc [mailto:cppac-bounces at lists.cpp.ac] On Behalf Of Chuck Allison
> Sent: 13/Jul/2018; Friday 01:09
> To: Jon Kalb <jon at kalbweb.com>; Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser at gmail.com>
> Cc: cppac at lists.cpp.ac
> Subject: Re: [C++ Academia] Conference Proposal
>
> I presented a few times at OOPSLA. I don't feel it's relevant for me
> anymore, and I really don't hear much about it these days.
>
> I do like the idea of having a conference associated with ACM. That's what
> CCSC does at a regional level (I have presented there many times over the
> last 15 years). For me personally, the idea of an academic conference that
> focuses on teaching as well as other interesting issues related to software
> development and programming languages is very appealing. CCSC does that,
> but it lacks relevance to and connection with industry. So either I like
> the idea of beefing up the academic component of Cppcon, or having another
> conference which is more welcoming to academics and yet still keeps the
> connection to industry. I live in both worlds, and I think there are many
> like me.
>
> Chuck Allison
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>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jon Kalb <jon at kalbweb.com<mailto:jon at kalbweb.com>>
> Date: 7/12/18 7:56 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser at gmail.com<mailto:hartmut.kaiser at gmail.
> com>>
> Cc: cppac at lists.cpp.ac<mailto:cppac at lists.cpp.ac>
> Subject: Re: [C++ Academia] Conference Proposal
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>
> Is OOPSLA focused on what its name says (OOP)? It looks to me like cutting
> edge never uses ?virtual.? I don?t really know what OOPSLA is doing or what
> academic research is going on related to C++. Please help me learn.
>
> Do you know how to go about setting up an affiliation with ACM or IEEE?
>
> I assume you did that for BoostCon, right?
>
> On 2018-07-12, 6:30 PM, "Hartmut Kaiser" <hartmut.kaiser at gmail.com<mailto:
> hartmut.kaiser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Jon,
>
> Thanks for spearheading this! I think an academic C++ conference would
> fill a
> gaping hole in the landscape of scientific conferences.
>
> Two things come to mind right away:
>
> We should coordinate/look at/distinguish ourselves from OOPSLA, a
> leading
> conference on language design and related topics.
>
> A centerpiece for an academic conference is to provide a publication
> platform
> (at least conference proceedings, better yet and in addition to the
> proceedings - a special topics journals, possibly for a selected
> amount of
> (best) papers only. The easiest way to organize proceedings etc. would
> be by
> associating the conference with ACM or IEEE.
>
> Regards Hartmut
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CppAc <cppac-bounces at lists.cpp.ac<mailto:cppac-bounces at lists.
> cpp.ac>> On Behalf Of Jon Kalb
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 5:39 PM
> > To: cppac at lists.cpp.ac<mailto:cppac at lists.cpp.ac>
> > Subject: [C++ Academia] Conference Proposal
> >
> >
> > Thank you all for introducing yourselves.
> >
> > I chair the C++Now and CppCon conferences as well as the Silicon
> Valley
> > Code Camp C++ Track. I also chair the Boost Steering Committee and
> am a
> > founding board member of the C++ Alliance and I starting this
> mailing list
> > and the website that hosts it.
> >
> > I'm also a freelance onsite trainer for C++. This is the job at
> which I
> > support myself.
> >
> > I want to share with you why I started this mailing list. It might
> seem
> > obvious that I want to facilitate discussion among academics
> interested in
> > C++. That is true, but I have three-point agenda. I feel like the
> first
> > point is a prerequisite to successfully achieving the second and
> third:
> >
> > 1. Create a forum for academics interested in C++ to engage with each
> > other
> > 2. Fund the development and distribution of a set of curriculum
> guides for
> > use by instructors that are using C++ in colligate instruction
> > 3. Create an academic conference on C++
> >
> > With the creation of https://cpp.ac and this list, I'm one down and
> the
> > two most difficult ones to go.
> >
> > Right now, I'd like to kick off discussion of the creation of an
> academic
> > conference with a document that I've created here:
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1POhpABMQe_
> 2Odg9lKUt-
> > LFce4DfXmrDMcE6UBPTXj_Y/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > I'm interested in hearing your questions and comment or if you'd be
> > willing to participate or volunteer to help in this effort.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
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