SPLASH is a

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-related conference held since 2011, sponsored by the

SIGPLAN SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages. Conferences * Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) * Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) * International Symposium on ...

special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Its name is an

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for Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH is an umbrella conference for two longstanding conferences,

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and

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which are now tracks of SPLASH. SPLASH conferences held so far have been: * Sparks, Nevada, October 17–21, 2010 *

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, October 22–27, 2011 *

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, October 19–25, 2012 * Indianapolis,

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, October 26–31, 2013 *

, October 20–24, 2014 *

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...

, October 25–30, 2015 *

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, October 30 - November 4, 2016 *

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, British Columbia, Canada, October 22–27, 2017 * Boston, Massachusetts, November 4–9, 2018 * Athens, Greece, October 20-25, 2019 * Virtual, November 15-21, 2020 *

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, October 17-25, 2021 *

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, December 5-10, 2022 Upcoming SPLASH conferences: * Cascais, Portugal, October 22-27, 2023

References

External links

Official SPLASH websiteHistory of the conference
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