[LLVMdev] Congratulations: First-Time SIGPLAN Award to Apple's Chris Lattner for Developing Popular LLVM Infrastructure with Applications in Commercial, Research, Teaching, and Open Source Projects

[Douglas Gregor]

First-Time SIGPLAN Award to Apple's Chris Lattner for Developing Popular LLVM Infrastructure with Applications in Commercial, Research, Teaching, and Open Source Projects

From the press release:

June 7, 2010 – The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)   today presents its first-ever Programming Languages Software Award to Chris Lattner of Apple Inc. for his design and development of the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM), a compiler infrastructure that has been quickly adopted by a wide array of industry and academic organizations. Since LLVM’s release as an open source compiler infrastructure in October 2003, companies including Apple, Adobe, and Cray have incorporated it into their commercial products, reflecting its simplicity, flexibility, and versatility.  Lattner joined Apple, Inc. in 2005, and is currently the chief architect of the Apple Compiler Group.  He is to receive the award at the 2010 Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) conference in Toronto, Canada, June 5 to 10.  

Read more about it here:

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2010/sigplan-software-award/view

Congratulations to Chris on this well-deserved award!

- Doug

[Adve, Vikram Sadanand]

My congratulations to Chris as well! For those who don't follow the ACM world much, SIGPLAN is the primary research organization for PL and Compilers, and I expect this award to become one of the most prestigious awards in the field. It's quite a coup for Chris and for LLVM to have won it, and moreover to win it in the first year of the award. And it's remarkable that it has happened less than 7 years after the first LLVM release in October 2003.

--Vikram
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.org/~vadve

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[Garrison Venn]

Congrads Chris!

[Chris Lattner]

On Jun 9, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Adve, Vikram Sadanand wrote:

> My congratulations to Chris as well! For those who don't follow the ACM world much, SIGPLAN is the primary research organization for PL and Compilers, and I expect this award to become one of the most prestigious awards in the field. It's quite a coup for Chris and for LLVM to have won it, and moreover to win it in the first year of the award. And it's remarkable that it has happened less than 7 years after the first LLVM release in October 2003.

Thanks Vikram! As all of you know, LLVM isn't a one man show though :). I see this as an award given to a very vibrant and exciting community, recognizing the many contributions of *many* different people here.

-Chris