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ACM and Microsoft Research are sponsoring the Student Research Competition (SRC) at the ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2009).

The SRC provides an opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students attending PLDI 2009 to present their research work in the area of programming language design and implementation.

The SRC consists of two rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be invited to the presentation session.

SRC participants will be eligible for PLDI 2009 travel grants.

Undergraduate and graduate SRC participants have opportunities to meet with researchers in their fields of interest, making important connections and gaining significant insights into their work. The SRC poster and presentation sessions are open to all conference attendees. All SRC participants have an exceptional opportunity to sharpen their research and communications skills in preparation for their SRC experience; these visual, organizational, and presentation skills will be of great value throughout one’s academic and working careers.

Winners

• The top three undergraduate and graduate winners will receive monetary prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively.
• They will also receive an award plaque and a two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM’s Digital Library.
• The names and research abstracts of the winners will be posted on the SRC Web site.
• The winners will be invited to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of individual conference-hosted SRCs.
• The top three graduate and undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200, respectively, and Grand Finalist plaques.
• Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments, along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing).

Eligibility Requirements

• Current ACM student membership
• Current student status as of April 15, 2009, either graduate or undergraduate

Submission Details

• An abstract of up to 800 words explaining the content of the poster.
• Presenter's email address, phone number and surface mail address.
• Indicate whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.
• Name of department and school.
• Name of academic advisor.

The abstract must describe the student's individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student's role was and should focus on that portion of the work.

The submissions should be emailed to Marco Pistoia.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission (extended):	April 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance:	May 4, 2009

Selection Committee

Marco Pistoia (Chair)	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Cristina Cifuentes	Sun Microsystems Research Laboratories, Australia
Sumit Gulwani	Microsoft Research, USA
Michael Hicks	University of Maryland, USA
Michael I. Schwartzbach	University of Aarhus, Denmark
Guy Steele	Sun Microsystems Research Laboratories, USA

Posters Accepted for the Final Presentation

Graduate Finalists

1. Distributing Logic Programs. Michael Ashley-Rollman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
2. Vectorization Strategies for Streaming Languages on General Purpose Processors. Raymond Manley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
3. Modularizing Error Recovery. Jeeva Paudel, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. Efficient Arraylets for the Masses. Jennifer B. Sartor, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
5. Chameleon: Adaptive Selection of Collections. Ohad Shacham, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Undergraduate Finalists

1. An Ecore Based Front-end for a VHDL Compiler. Wu Hao, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
2. Encryption Code Generator. Paul Magrath, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Further Information

For any queries regarding the PLDI 2009 SRC, please contact Marco Pistoia.