language parallax

I’ve seen a couple academic job openings lately that have got me thinking about that option. I usually imagine myself going back to industry, but there are some things an academic career offers that would be hard to beat. But if I’m going to land a decent job, I need to do better with publishing and with grant writing.

For the first goal, I need to pick some conferences. I put together a schedule for the next year. The earliest deadline I could possibly make is for EclipseCon (Deadlines: December 1 for a long talk, and January 15 for a demo or short talk).

Might be nice to hit a few of these. This is mostly culled from the ACM lists, with a couple of additions of my own:

• Intl. Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS)
  September 30 - October 5, 2007 in Nashville, TN
• Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE)
  October 1-3, 2007 in Salzburg, Austria
• Object Oriented Programming Systems and Applications Conference (OOPSLA)
  October 21-25, 2007 in Montreal, Canada
• Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE)
  November 5-9, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
  January 10-19, 2008 in San Francisco, California
• EclipseCon
  March 17-21, 2008 in Santa Clara, California
• Intl. Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
  April 6-9, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts
• Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  May 10-18, 2008 in Leipzip, Germany
• Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
  June 7-13, 2008 in Tucson, Arizona
• Code Generation
  June 25-28, 2008 in Cambridge, UK
• Agile Development Conference
  August 4-8, 2008 in Toronto, Canada