Travel: 2026 International Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS)

This award provides student travel and subsistence for the 2026 International Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS). This summer school provides an important and valuable educational opportunity for students to study topics related to designs and implementations of programming languages. A proper understanding of such topics is crucial to the implementation of tools and toolchains that use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning components. The award's broader significance and importance include building international community to create and implement tools and tool chains and enhancing education of US students. The school also provides students exposure to and multiple opportunities to interact with leading-edge research and researchers. By supporting US-based students, the school thus imparts training to the next generation of researchers in design and implementation of programming languages in both industry and academia, as well as to future application developers. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.