Onward! 2021
2021-10-20..2021-10-22
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who it's for
language designers, runtime engineers, programming language researchers, Kotlin developers, robotics engineers, performance engineers, python data scientists
topics
natural language code intent; GPT-2 fine-tuned on notebooks; energy-based algorithm profiling; PyRAPL energy measurement; Kotlin coroutine continuations; coroutine low-level intrinsics; structured concurrency cancellation; aerial drone video sensing; frame alignment with GPS and optical flow; change-aware object detection; forecast-based routing for drones; capability-based dynamic language (Dala)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Language-Guided Programming | Geert Heyman, Rafael Huysegems, Pascal Justen, Tom Van Cutsem | 15m |
Proposes enriching code with plain-English intent to drive completion and implements a prototype for Python data science that fine-tunes GPT-2 on ~300,000… | ||
| Motivating Complexity Understanding By Profiling Energy Usage | Joshua Gross, Daniel Jacoby, Kevin Coogan, Aaron Helman | 14m |
Claims that energy measurements make complexity concrete and motivating by showing real CO2 costs, and demonstrates it with a $120 setup: a Raspberry Pi 4B… | ||
| Kotlin Coroutines: Design and Implementation | Roman Elizarov, Mikhail Belyaev, Marat Akhin, Ilmir Usmanov | 11m |
Kotlin implements asymmetrical, stackless coroutines that compile suspend functions into continuations and state machines, returning COROUTINE_SUSPENDED at… | ||
| SkyQuery: An Aerial Drone Video Sensing Platform | Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Ziwen Jiang, Osbert Bastani, Sam Madden | 15m |
SkyQuery is a complete aerial-drone video sensing platform: a domain-specific query language plus cloud video pipeline that runs on eight flights (three hours… | ||
| Towards Self-Adaptable Languages | Gwendal Jouneaux, Olivier Barais, Benoit Combemale, Gunter Mussbacher | 12m |
Proposes Self-Adaptable Languages and the L-MODA framework to embed feedback loops into language specs and runtimes, and implements Self-Adaptable Virtual… | ||
| Dala: A Simple Capability-Based Dynamic Language Design For Data Race-Freedom | Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, Isaac Oscar Gariano, James Noble, Erin Greenwood-Thessman, Michael Homer, Tobias Wrigstad | 14m |
Dala is a dynamic capability model that guarantees data-race freedom for safe objects while allowing unsafe objects to coexist. It defines three… | ||
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