A slew of thrilling SIGPLAN awards were announced at @pldi:

* Keshav Pingali won the Programming Languages Achievement Award.
* Benjamin Bichsel won the dissertation award, for the thesis “High-Level Quantum Programming.”
* Armando Solar-Lezama won the Robin Milner Young Researcher Award.
* @emeryberger won the Distinguished Service Award.
* This year’s Programming Languages Software Award went to the @rust programming language.

Hearty congratulations to all! Check out the citations on the SIGPLAN website: https://www.sigplan.org/Awards/

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Finally, the @pldi Most Influential Paper award for 2024 went to FlowDroid by Arzt et al., on taint tracking for Android apps. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2594291.2594299
FlowDroid | Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

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