CPSC undergrad win second place in PLDI student research competition

Alexander Reinking, an undergraduate student double majoring in computer science and mathematics, won second place in the PLDI 2015 student research competition for his work on "a type-directed approach to program repair."

PLDI 2015, which was held from June 13-17 in Portland, Oregon, is the 36th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation and is a premier forum for all areas of programming language research, including the design, implementation, theory, and efficient use of languages. PLDI's emphases include innovative and creative approaches to compile-time and runtime technology, novel language designs and features, and results from implementations.