Call for Participation PLAS 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/plas06.html co-located with ACM SIGPLAN PLDI 2006 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation Ottawa, Canada, June 10, 2006 ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: Early registration deadline is May 17, 2006 http://www.regmaster2.com/pldi2006.html ********************************************************************** We encourage you to attend the first instance of the PLAS workshop! The goal of PLAS 2006 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange and understand ideas and to seed new collaboration on the use of programming language and program analysis techniques that improve the security of software systems. The preliminary program can be found on the workshop web pages: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/plas06.html Workshop highlights: - An invited talk by David Wagner of U.C. Berkeley "Object Capabilities for Security" - 10 paper presentations, ranging in topics from authorization and monitoring to web vulnerability detection and information-flow policies. - A "madness" session, in which any interested participants have 5 minutes to present provocative, preliminary, or unusual work. Student participation is especially encouraged.