The FIT session follows in the spirit of Wild And Crazy Ideas sessions (aka WACI) at past ASPLOS, DAC, and other conferences. FIT provides a venue for ideas that present fresh insights, unveil surprising ideas, identify hidden trends, or that are simple neat and fun for a PLDI audience. Unlike PLDI conference talks that typically propose complete solutions with a full set of results, Fun and Interesting Thoughts should promote revolutionary ideas and inspire discussion. The format of the session is anticipated to be a series of 5-10 minutes talks with time for a few questions. Topics of submission are expected to be consistent with the mission of PLDI. To avoid any bias, we explicitly decline to list specific topic areas.

Accepted Presentations

The following works will be presented at FIT in June. Stay tuned for brief writeups of the ideas and a presentation schedule!

• Efficient, Context-Sensitive Dynamic Analysis via Calling Context Uptrees. Jipeng Huang and Michael Bond. The Ohio State University.
• Looking Within: A Case for Hardware Introspection Support. Nicholas Hunt, Brandon Lucia and Luis Ceze. University of Washington.
• Semantic Solutions to Program Analysis Problems. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and David Van Horn. Northeastern University.
• Single-Core Performance is Still Relevant in the Multi-Core Era. Todd Mytkowicz and Mark Marron. Microsoft Research and IMDEA Software Institute (respectively).
• Exploiting the Collective Wisdom of Web Application Executions. Brian Burg. University of Washington.

Call for Submissions (Closed)

We are looking for new ideas, insights, concepts and problem formulations, not for definitive and polished answers to long-standing problems. Speakers will have to convince the audience with insights that their forward-looking idea is worth thinking about. Here are some very general guidelines for a "fit" submission:

• A description of a genuinely forward-looking, radical and innovative idea in the area of programming language design and implementation. We're looking for new ideas, not small deltas.
• Controversy is good. Submissions that seem likely to generate interesting discussions are preferred.
• A writeup of one page (PDF please).

Submitted papers will be made available online.

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: April 29th, 11:59pm PDT
• Notification of acceptance: May 13th

Please send submissions by the deadline to pldi2011.fit@gmail.com. Include a complete list of authors, their affiliations and contact information (e.g., address, telephone number, and email address), and please identify the corresponding author for your submission.

Committee

Presentations at FIT will be selected from the submissions by a small committee:

• Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin (co-chair)
• Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University (co-chair)
• Mary Hall, University of Utah
• David Padua, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign

Site maintained by Milind Kulkarni. Site design modified from a template by Matt Might. Some text taken from last year's FIT session.