Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) is the name of the ACM SIGPLAN most important conference. The precursor of PLDI was the Symposium on Compiler Optimization, held July 27-28, 1970 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and chaired by Robert S. Northcote. That conference included papers by Frances E. Allen, John Cocke, Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman. The first conference in the current PLDI series took place in 1979 under the name SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction in Denver, Colorado. The next Compiler Construction conference took place in 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Compiler Construction conferences then alternated with SIGPLAN Conferences on Language Issues until 1988, when the conference was renamed to PLDI. From 1982 until 2001, the conference acronym was SIGPLAN 'xx. Starting in 2002, the acronym became PLDI 'xx.
Conference locations and organizers
- PLDI 2006: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Conference Chair: Michael Schwartzbach
- Program Chair: Thomas Ball
- PLDI 2005: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Conference Chair: Vivek Sarkar
- Program Chair: Mary Hall
- PLDI 2004: Washington, DC, USA
- Conference Chair: William Pugh
- Program Chair: Craig Chambers
- PLDI 2003: San Diego, California, USA
- Conference Chair: Ron Cytron
- Program Chair: Rajiv Gupta
- PLDI 2002: Berlin, Germany
- Conference Chair: Jens Knoop
- Program Chair: Laurie J. Hendren
- PLDI 2001: Snowbird, Utah, USA
- Conference Chair: Michael Burke
- Program Chair: Mary Lou Soffa
- PLDI 2000: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Conference Chair: James Larus
- Program Chair: Monica Lam
- PLDI 1999: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Conference Chair: Barbara G. Ryder
- Program Chair: Benjamin G. Zorn
- PLDI 1998: Montreal Canada
- Conference Chair: Jack W. Davidson
- Program Chair: Keith D. Cooper
- PLDI 1997: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Conference Chair: Marina Chen
- Program Chair: Ron K. Cytron
- PLDI 1996: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- PLDI 1995: La Jolla, California
- SIGPLAN '94 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Orlando, Florida, USA
- Conference co-Chairs: Barbara Ryder and Mary Lou Soffa
- Program Chair: Vivek Sarkar
- SIGPLAN '93 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Conference Chair: Robert Cartwright
- Program Chair: David W. Wall
- SIGPLAN '92 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: San Francisco, California
- Conference Chair: Stuart I. Feldman
- Program Chair: Christopher W. Fraser
- SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Conference Chair: Brent Hailpern
- Program Chair: Barbara Ryder
- SIGPLAN '90 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: White Plains, New York, USA
- Conference Chair: Mark Scott Johnson
- Program Chair: Bernard Lang
- SIGPLAN '89 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Portland, Oregon, USA
- Conference Chair: Bruce Knobe
- Program Chair: Charles N. Fischer
- SIGPLAN '88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Conference Chair: David S. Wise
- Program Chair: Mayer D. Schwartz
- SIGPLAN '87 Symposium on Interpreters and Interpretive Techniques: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Conference Chair: Mark Scott Johnson
- Program Chair: Thomas Turba
- SIGPLAN '86 Symposium on Compiler Construction: Palo Alto, California, USA
- Conference Chair: John R. Sopka
- Program Chair: Jeanne Ferrante
- SIGPLAN '85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Conference Chair: Teri Payton
- Program Chair: L. Peter Deutsch
- SIGPLAN '84 Symposium on Compiler Construction: Montreal, Canada
- Conference Chair: Mary Van Deusen
- Program Chair: Susan L. Graham
- SIGPLAN '83 Symposium on Porgramming Lanugage Issues in Software Systems: San Francisco, California, USA
- Conference Chair: John R. White
- Program Chair: Lawrence A. Rowe
- SIGPLAN '82 Symposium on Compiler Construction: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Conference Chair: John R. White
- Program Chair: Frances E. Allen
- SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction 1979: Denver, Colorado, USA
- SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Optimization 1970: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA