Benjamin C. Pierce, January 2024. Short talk at POPL reception. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. delta: Ordered Types for Stream Processing, January 2024. Talk at Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). [ bib | slides ]
Harrison Goldstein, Joseph W Cutler, Daniel Dickstein, Benjamin C Pierce, and Andrew Head. Property-Based Testing in Practice. In International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024. [ bib | pdf ]
Harrison Goldstein, Joseph W. Cutler, Daniel Dickstein, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Head. Property-Based Testing in Practice. In International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. What Does Subtyping Mean?, August 2023. Talk at Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW). [ bib | slides ]
Harrison Goldstein, Samantha Frohlich, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Meng Wang. Reflecting on Random Generation, February 2023. Under submission. [ bib ]
Jessica Shi, Alperen Keles, Harrison Goldstein, Benjamin C Pierce, and Leonidas Lampropoulos. Etna: An Evaluation Platform for Property-Based Testing (Experience Report). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 7(ICFP):878--894, 2023. [ bib ]
Joseph W. Cutler, Christopher Watson, Phillip Hilliard, Harrison Goldstein, Caleb Stanford, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Stream Types, 2023. [ bib | arXiv | pdf ]
Jessica Shi, Benjamin Pierce, and Andrew Head. Towards a Science of Interactive Proof Reading. In 13th annual workshop on the intersection of HCI and PL (PLATEAU), 2023. [ bib ]
Harrison Goldstein, Samantha Frohlich, Meng Wang, and Benjamin C Pierce. Reflecting on Random Generation. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 7(ICFP):322--355, 2023. [ bib ]
Sean Noble Anderson, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Roberto Blanco, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Tolmach. Stack Safety as a Security Property. In IEEE Symposium on Computer Security Foundations (CSF). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2023. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Imagining the Reader, July 2022. Talk at Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW). [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Software Foundations, 15 years on, July 2022. Talk at Newton Institute workshop on Formal Education. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Understanding Property-Based Testing by Talking to People, May 2022. Short talk at Working Group 2.8. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. (When) Will Property-Based Testing Rule The World?, May 2022. Keynote at Yow! Lambda Jam Conference. [ bib | slides ]
Joseph Cutler, Harrison Goldstein, Koen Claessen, John Hughes, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Functional Pearl: Holey Generators!, May 2022. Draft. [ bib ]
Mohsen Lesani, Li-yao Xia, Anders Kaseorg, Christian J. Bell, Adam Chlipala, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. C4: Verified Transactional Objects. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 6(OOPSLA1), apr 2022. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Keywords: concurrency, serializability, linearizability, verification, objects
Mohsen Lesani, Li-Yao Xia, Anders Kaseorg, Christian J. Bell, Adam Chlipala, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. C4: Verified Transactional Objects. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 6(OOPSLA1), apr 2022. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Keywords: objects, serializability, concurrency, verification, linearizability
Mohsen Lesani, Li-Yao Xia, Anders Kaseorg, Christian J. Bell, Adam Chlipala, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. Modular Mechanized Verification of Transactional Predication. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 6(OOPSLA1), April 2022. OOPSLA 2022. [ bib ]
Li-Yao Xia. Executable Semantics with Interaction Trees. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2022. [ bib | pdf ]
Yishuai Li. Testing By Dualization. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2022. [ bib | pdf ]
Matthew J. Bietz, Nitesh Goyal, Nicole Immorlica, Blair MacIntyre, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Benjamin C. Pierce, Sean Rintel, and Donghee Yvette Wohn. Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, CHI EA '22, New York, NY, USA, 2022. Association for Computing Machinery. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Keywords: Virtual conventions, Virtual conferences, Virtual meetings, Awareness, Social presence
Harrison Goldstein and Benjamin C. Pierce. Parsing Randomness. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., (OOPSLA), 2022. [ bib ]
Harrison Goldstein and Benjamin C. Pierce. Making Better Choices: Guiding Random Generators with Derivatives, 2022. Draft. [ bib ]
Derek Dreyer and Benjamin C. Pierce. On being a PhD student of Robert Harper. Journal of Functional Programming, 32.32, 2022. [ bib ]
Harrison Goldstein and Benjamin C. Pierce. Parsing Randomness: Unifying and Differentiating Parsers and Random Generators. CoRR, abs/2203.00652, 2022. [ bib | DOI | arXiv | DOI | pdf ]
Matthew J. Bietz, Nitesh Goyal, Nicole Immorlica, Blair MacIntyre, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Benjamin C. Pierce, Sean Rintel, and Donghee Yvette Wohn. Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces. In Simone D. J. Barbosa, Cliff Lampe, Caroline Appert, and David A. Shamma, editors, CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022 - 5 May 2022, Extended Abstracts, pages 106:1--106:5. ACM, 2022. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Hengchu Zhang, Wolf Honoré, Nicolas Koh, Yao Li, Yishuai Li, Li-yao Xia, Lennart Beringer, William Mansky, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. Verifying an HTTP Key-Value Server with Interaction Trees and VST. In Liron Cohen and Cezary Kaliszyk, editors, 12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, ITP 2021, June 29 to July 1, 2021, Rome, Italy (Virtual Conference), volume 193 of LIPIcs, pages 32:1--32:19. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Sean Noble Anderson, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Roberto Blanco, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Tolmach. Security Properties for Stack Safety. CoRR, abs/2105.00417, 2021. [ bib | arXiv | pdf ]
Sean Noble Anderson, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Roberto Blanco, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Tolmach. Security Properties for Stack Safety. In Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS), 2021. [ bib ]
Harrison Goldstein, John Hughes, Leonidas Lampropoulos, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Do Judge a Test by its Cover: Combining Combinatorial and Property-Based Testing. In Nobuko Yoshida, editor, Programming Languages and Systems, 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, March 27 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, volume 12648 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 264--291. Springer, 2021. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Yishuai Li, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. Model-based testing of networked applications. In Cristian Cadar and Xiangyu Zhang, editors, ISSTA '21: 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Virtual Event, Denmark, July 11-17, 2021, pages 529--539. ACM, 2021. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Stephanie Weirich and Benjamin C. Pierce. ICFP 2020 Post-Conference Report. CoRR, abs/2104.01239, 2021. [ bib | arXiv | pdf ]
Crista Videira Lopes, Jeanna Matthews, and Benjamin Pierce. Best Practices for Planning Virtual Conferences, May 2020. Northstar Meetings Group blog, https://www.northstarmeetingsgroup.com/Planning-Tips-and-Trends/Event-Planning/Event-Technology/Navigating-New-World-Virtual-Digital-Conferences-in-COVID19-ACM. [ bib ]
ACM Presidential Task Force on What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face to Face Meetings (co-chairs, Crista Lopes and Jeanna Matthews; executive editor, Benjamin C. Pierce). Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices, May 2020. https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences. [ bib ]
Hengchu Zhang, Edo Roth, Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Aaron Roth. Testing Differential Privacy with Dual Interpreters. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 4(OOPSLA):165:1--165:26, 2020. Selected for a Distinguished Artifact Award. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Michael Hicks, Crista Lopes, and Jens Palsberg. Conferences in an era of expensive carbon. Commun. ACM, 63(3):35--37, 2020. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Li-yao Xia, Yannick Zakowski, Paul He, Chung-Kil Hur, Gregory Malecha, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. Interaction trees: representing recursive and impure programs in Coq. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 4(POPL):51:1--51:32, 2020. Distinguished paper award. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Hengchu Zhang, Edo Roth, Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Aaron Roth. Testing Differential Privacy with Dual Interpreters. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., (OOPSLA), 2020. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. POPLmark 15 Year Retrospective Panel at Certified Programs and Proofs, 2020. Written up in https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/01/29/mechanized-proofs-for-pl-past-present-and-future/. [ bib | pdf ]
Leonidas Lampropoulos, Diane Gallois-Wong, Cătălin Hritcu, John Hughes, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Li-yao Xia. Beginner's Luck: A Language for Random Generators. In Gilles Barthe, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Alexandra Silva, editors, Foundations of Programming and Software systems: Probabilistic Programming. 2020. An earlier version appeared in ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Jan 2017. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Science of Deep Specification, June 2019. Opening talk at DeepSpec workshop. [ bib | slides ]
Hengchu Zhang, Edo Roth, Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Aaron Roth. Fuzzi: a three-level logic for differential privacy. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 3(ICFP):93:1--93:28, 2019. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Anders Miltner, Solomon Maina, Kathleen Fisher, Benjamin C. Pierce, David Walker, and Steve Zdancewic. Synthesizing symmetric lenses. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 3(ICFP):95:1--95:28, 2019. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Leonidas Lampropoulos, Michael Hicks, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Coverage guided, property based testing. Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 3(OOPSLA):181:1--181:29, 2019. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Nicolas Koh, Yao Li, Yishuai Li, Li yao Xia, Lennart Beringer, Wolf Honore, William Mansky, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. From C to Interaction Trees: Specifying, Verifying, and Testing a Networked Server. In 8th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, January 2019. [ bib | short version ]
Solomon Maina, Anders Miltner, Kathleen Fisher, Benjamin C. Pierce, David Walker, and Steve Zdancewic. Synthesizing Quotient Lenses. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL ICFP), September 2018. [ bib | short version ]
Michael W. Hicks, Crista Lopes, Jens Palsberg, and Benjamin C. Pierce. SIGPLAN and Climate Change: A report from the SIGPLAN committee on climate change, September 2018. [ bib | video | slides in Keynote format | slides ]
Leonidas Lampropoulos and Benjamin C. Pierce. QuickChick: Property-Based Testing in Coq. Software Foundations series, volume 4. Electronic textbook, August 2018. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/sf. [ bib | book ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. In Memoriam Martin Hofmann, July 2018. The Apple Keynote version includes the music from the presentation, plus the full text in the presenter notes. [ bib | video | slides in Keynote format | slides ]
Richard Kim and Benjamin C. Pierce. Carbon Offsets: An Overview for Scientific Societies, June 2018. Version 1.2. [ bib | pdf ]
Michael W. Hicks, Crista Lopes, Jens Palsberg, and Benjamin C. Pierce. SIGPLAN and Climate Change: A report from SIGPLAN's ad hoc committee on climate change, June 2018. [ bib | video | slides in Keynote format | slides ]
Michael W. Hicks, Crista Lopes, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Engaging with Climate Change: Some Possible Steps for SIGPLAN (Preliminary Report of the SIGPLAN Climate Committee, Version 1.2), June 2018. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Specifying the DeepSpec Web Server, June 2018. Talk at DeepSpec workshop. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Chris Casinghino, Marco Gaboardi, Michael Greenberg, Catalin Hritcu, Vilhelm Sjöberg, Andrew Tolmach, and Brent Yorgey. Programming Language Foundations. Software Foundations series, volume 2. Electronic textbook, May 2018. Version 5.5. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/sf. [ bib | japanese translation | book ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Chris Casinghino, Marco Gaboardi, Michael Greenberg, Catalin Hritcu, Vilhelm Sjöberg, and Brent Yorgey. Logical Foundations. Software Foundations series, volume 1. Electronic textbook, May 2018. Version 5.5. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/sf. [ bib | japanese translation | book ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Science of Deep Specification, April 2018. Invited keynote at ETAPS / POST. [ bib | video | slides ]
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Catalin Hritcu, and Benjamin C. Pierce. The Meaning of Memory Safety. In Lujo Bauer and Ralf Küsters, editors, Principles of Security and Trust - 7th International Conference, POST 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, volume 10804 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 79--105. Springer, 2018. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Carmine Abate, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Roberto Blanco, Ana Nora Evans, Guglielmo Fachini, Catalin Hritcu, Théo Laurent, Benjamin C Pierce, Marco Stronati, and Andrew Tolmach. When good components go bad: Formally secure compilation despite dynamic compromise. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 1351--1368. ACM, 2018. [ bib ]
Leonidas Lampropoulos, Zoe Paraskevopoulou, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Generating good generators for inductive relations. PACMPL, 2(POPL):45:1--45:30, 2018. [ bib | DOI | DOI | short version | pdf ]
Anders Miltner, Kathleen Fisher, Benjamin C. Pierce, David Walker, and Steve Zdancewic. Synthesizing bijective lenses. PACMPL, 2(POPL):1:1--1:30, 2018. [ bib | DOI | DOI | short version | pdf ]
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Catalin Hritcu, and Benjamin C. Pierce. The Meaning of Memory Safety. In Lujo Bauer and Ralf Küsters, editors, Principles of Security and Trust - 7th International Conference, POST 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, volume 10804 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 79--105. Springer, 2018. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Curse of Knowledge, January 2018. Talk at Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW). [ bib ]
Jean Yang. People of Programming Languages: Interview with Benjamin Pierce, December 2017. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Science of Deep Specification, September 2017. WATCH lecture at NSF. [ bib ]
Andrew W. Appel, Lennart Beringer, Adam Chlipala, Benjamin C. Pierce, Zhong Shao, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic. Position paper: The science of deep specification. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2104), 2017. [ bib | DOI | arXiv | DOI | pdf ]
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Cătălin Hritcu, and Benjamin C. Pierce. The Meaning of Memory Safety. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017. Under submission. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Curse of Knowledge, January 2017. Talk at Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW). [ bib | slides ]
Leonidas Lampropoulos, Diane Gallois-Wong, Cătălin Hritcu, John Hughes, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Li-yao Xia. Beginner's Luck: A Language for Random Generators. In 44th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), January 2017. [ bib | pdf ]
Daniel Winograd-Cort, Andreas Haeberlen, Aaron Roth, and Benjamin C. Pierce. A framework for adaptive differential privacy. PACMPL, 1(ICFP):10:1--10:29, 2017. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Chris Casinghino, Marco Gaboardi, Michael Greenberg, Catalin Hritcu, Vilhelm Sjöberg, and Brent Yorgey. Software Foundations. Electronic textbook, 2017. Version 5.0. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/sf. [ bib | japanese translation | book ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Interview with Markus Völter on The Science of Deep Specification for Omega Tau podcast, November 2016. [ bib | transcript ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Interview with Tijs van der Storm on The Science of Deep Specification for release.nl magazine, November 2016. [ bib | transcript ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Science of Deep Specification, November 2016. Invited keynote at SPLASH / OOPSLA. [ bib | video | slides ]
Yannis Juglaret, Cătălin Hritcu, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Boris Eng, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Beyond Good and Evil: Formalizing the Security Guarantees of Compartmentalizing Compilation. In 29th IEEE Symposium on Computer Security Foundations (CSF). IEEE Computer Society Press, July 2016. arXiv:1602.04503. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Science of Deep Specification, May 2016. High-Confidence Software Systems (HCSS). [ bib | slides ]
John Hughes, Benjamin C. Pierce, Thomas Arts, and Ulf Norell. Mysteries of Dropbox: Property-Based Testing of a Distributed Synchronization Service. In International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), April 2016. [ bib | short version | slides ]
Daniel Schoepe, Musard Balliu, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrei Sabelfeld. Explicit Secrecy: A Policy for Taint Tracking. In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2016, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 21-24, 2016, pages 15--30. IEEE, 2016. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Stephen Chong, Joshua Guttman, Anupam Datta, Andrew C. Myers, Benjamin Pierce, Patrick Schaumont, Tim Sherwood, and Nickolai Zeldovich. Report on the NSF Workshop on Formal Methods for Security. CoRR, abs/1608.00678, 2016. [ bib | pdf ]
Stephen Chong, Joshua Guttman, Anupam Datta, Andrew C. Myers, Benjamin Pierce, Patrick Schaumont, Tim Sherwood, and Nickolai Zeldovich. Report on the NSF Workshop on Formal Methods for Security. CoRR, abs/1608.00678, 2016. [ bib | pdf ]
Gilles Barthe, Marco Gaboardi, Justin Hsu, and Benjamin C Pierce. Programming language techniques for differential privacy. ACM SIGLOG News, 3(1):34--53, January 2016. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. A Deep Specification for Dropbox, November 2015. Keynote address at Clojure/conj. [ bib | video | slides ]
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Maxime Dénès, Nick Giannarakis, Cătălin Hritcu, Benjamin C. Pierce, Antal Spector-Zabusky, and Andrew Tolmach. Micro-Policies: Formally Verified, Tag-Based Security Monitors. In 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland S&P). IEEE, May 2015. [ bib | short version | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Age of Deep Specification, May 2015. Honorary doctorate address at Chalmers University. [ bib | slides ]
Udit Dhawan, Cătălin Hritcu, Rafi Rubin, Nikos Vasilakis, Silviu Chiricescu, Jonathan M. Smith, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Benjamin C. Pierce, and André DeHon. Architectural Support for Software-Defined Metadata Processing, 2015. [ bib | pdf ]
Zoe Paraskevopoulou, Cătălin Hritcu, Maxime Dénès, Leonidas Lampropoulos, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Foundational Property-Based Testing. In International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP), 2015. [ bib ]
Martin Hofmann, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Daniel Wagner. Symmetric Lenses. Journal of the ACM, 2015. To appear; extended abstract in POPL 2011. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security Monitors, December 2014. Distinguished Lecture at University of Minnesota. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Mysteries of Dropbox, November 2014. Keynote address at CERN Workshop on Cloud Services for File Synchronisation and Sharing. [ bib | video | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Interview with Luke Muehlhauser on Clean-Slate Security Architectures for Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, May 2014. [ bib | transcript ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Programmable Hardware Support for Ubiquitous Micro-Policy Enforcement, May 2014. Talk at High-Confidence Software Systems. [ bib | slides ]
Maxime Dénès, Catalin Hritcu, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Zoe Paraskevopoulou, and Benjamin C. Pierce. QuickChick: Property-Based Testing for Coq (abstract). In VSL, 2014. [ bib | pdf ]
Daniel Wagner. Symmetric Edit Lenses: A New Foundation for Bidirectional Languages. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2014. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Principles, Meet Practice: An Early Retrospective on SAFE, January 2014. Talk at Principles in Practice Workshop (PiP). [ bib | slides ]
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Nathan Collins, André DeHon, Delphine Demange, Cătălin Hritcu, David Pichardie, Benjamin C. Pierce, Randy Pollack, and Andrew Tolmach. A Verified Information-Flow Architecture. In Proceedings of the 41st Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, POPL, January 2014. Full version in Journal of Computer Security, Special Issue on Verified Information Flow Security, Dec 2016. [ bib | pdf | full version ]
Justin Hsu, Marco Gaboardi, Andreas Haeberlen, Sanjeev Khanna, Arjun Narayan, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Aaron Roth. Differential Privacy: An Economic Method for Choosing Epsilon. In Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2014. [ bib | pdf ]
Udit Dhawan, Nikos Vasilakis, Raphael Rubin, Silviu Chiricescu, Jonathan M. Smith, Thomas F. Knight, Benjamin C. Pierce, and André DeHon. PUMP -- A Programmable Unit for Metadata Processing. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP '14, New York, NY, USA, 2014. ACM. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Silviu Chiricescu, André DeHon, Delphine Demange, Suraj Iyer, Aleksey Kliger, Greg Morrisett, Benjamin C. Pierce, Howard Reubenstein, Jonathan M. Smith, Gregory T. Sullivan, Arun Thomas, Jesse Tov, Christopher M. White, and David Wittenberg. SAFE: A Clean-Slate Architecture for Secure Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, November 2013. [ bib ]
Cătălin Hritcu, John Hughes, Benjamin C. Pierce, Antal Spector-Zabusky, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, and Leonidas Lampropoulos. Testing Noninterference, Quickly. In 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), September 2013. Full version in Journal of Functional Programming, special issue for ICFP 2013, 26:e4 (62 pages), April 2016. Technical Report available as arXiv:1409.0393. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The SAFE Machine: An Architecture for Pervasive Information Flow, June 2013. Invited talk at Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF). [ bib | slides ]
Benoît Montagu, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Randy Pollack. A Theory of Information-Flow Labels. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, June 2013. [ bib | coq code | short version ]
Cătălin Hritcu, Michael Greenberg, Ben Karel, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Greg Morrisett. All Your IFCException Are Belong To Us. In 34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2013. [ bib | short version ]
Martin Hofmann, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Daniel Wagner. Edit languages for information trees. In Second International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (BX), April 2013. [ bib ]
Stephen Brookes, Benjamin C. Pierce, Gordon D. Plotkin, and Dana S. Scott. Dedication to John Reynolds. Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci., 298:3--5, 2013. Special Issue: Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS). [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Marco Gaboardi, Andreas Haeberlen, Justin Hsu, Arjun Narayan, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Linear Dependent Types for Differential Privacy. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Rome, Italy, January 2013. [ bib | short version ]
Loris D'Antoni, Marco Gaboardi, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Andreas Haeberlen, and Benjamin Pierce. Sensitivity analysis using type-based constraints. In Proceedings of the 1st annual workshop on Functional programming concepts in domain-specific languages, FPCDSL '13, pages 43--50, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM. [ bib | DOI | DOI | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Differential Privacy in the Programming Languages Community, October 2012. Invited tutorial at DIMACS Workshop on Recent Work on Differential Privacy across Computer Science. [ bib | video | slides ]
Udit Dhawan, Albert Kwon, Edin Kadric, Cătălin Hritcu, Benjamin C. Pierce, Jonathan M. Smith, Gregory Malecha, Greg Morrisett, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Andrew Sutherland, Tom Hawkins, Amanda Zyxnfryx, David Wittenberg, Peter Trei, Sumit Ray, Greg Sullivan, and André DeHon. Hardware Support for Safety Interlocks and Introspection. In SASO Workshop on Adaptive Host and Network Security, September 2012. [ bib | pdf ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Linguistic Foundations for Bidirectional Transformations, May 2012. Invited tutorial at Principles of Database Systems (PODS). [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types à la Milner, April 2012. Talk at Philly Emerging Technologies Conference. [ bib | video ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types à la Milner, April 2012. Invited talk at Milner Symposium. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Verification Challenges of Pervasive Information Flow, January 2012. Invited talk at Programming Languages Meets Program Verification workshop (PLPV). [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types, January 2012. Invited talk at Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and editors Stephanie Weirich. Special Issue on the POPLMark Challenge. J. Autom. Reasoning, 49(3), 2012. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Stephanie Weirich. Preface to Special Issue on the POPLMark Challenge. J. Autom. Reasoning, 49(3):301--302, 2012. [ bib ]
Martin Hofmann, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Daniel Wagner. Edit Lenses. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2012. [ bib | short version | slides ]
André DeHon, Ben Karel, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Gregory Malecha, Benoît Montagu, Robin Morisset, Greg Morrisett, Benjamin C. Pierce, Randy Pollack, Sumit Ray, Olin Shivers, Jonathan M. Smith, and Gregory Sullivan. Preliminary Design of the SAFE Platform. In 6th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, PLOS, October 2011. [ bib | pdf ]
Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Arjun Narayan. Differential Privacy Under Fire. In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2011. [ bib | pdf ]
João Filipe Belo, Michael Greenberg, Atsushi Igarashi, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Polymorphic Contracts. In Gilles Barthe, editor, European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), Saarbrücken, Germany, volume 6602 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 18--37. Springer, 2011. [ bib ]
Martin Hofmann, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Daniel Wagner. Symmetric Lenses. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Austin, Texas, January 2011. [ bib | short version | full version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. creativity: sensitivity and surprise, October 2010. Keynote talk at SPLASH / Onward! [ bib | slides ]
Jason Reed and Benjamin C. Pierce. Distance Makes the Types Grow Stronger: A Calculus for Differential Privacy. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010. [ bib | short version ]
Davi M. J. Barbosa, Julien Cretin, Nate Foster, Michael Greenberg, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Matching Lenses: Alignment and View Update. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010. [ bib | tech report | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Proof Assistant as Teaching Assistant: A View from the Trenches, July 2010. Keynote address at International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). [ bib | slides ]
Aaron Bohannon and Benjamin C. Pierce. Featherweight Firefox: Formalizing the Core of a Web Browser. In Usenix Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps), June 2010. [ bib | short version ]
Jason Reed, Adam J. Aviv, Daniel Wagner, Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Jonathan M. Smith. Differential Privacy for Collaborative Security. In European Workshop on System Security (EUROSEC), April 2010. [ bib | manuscript ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Alessandro Romanel, and Daniel Wagner. The Spider Calculus: Computing in Active Graphs, 2010. Manuscript, available from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/papers/spider_calculus.pdf. [ bib | manuscript ]
Michael Greenberg, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Stephanie Weirich. Contracts Made Manifest. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Madrid, Spain. ACM, January 2010. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Lambda, The Ultimate TA: Using a Proof Assistant to Teach Programming Language Foundations, September 2009. Keynote address at International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). [ bib | slides ]
J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Steve Zdancewic. Updatable Security Views. In IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), Port Jefferson, NY, July 2009. [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Foundations for Bidirectional Programming, or: How To Build a Bidirectional Programming Language, June 2009. Keynote address at International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT). [ bib | slides ]
Aaron Bohannon, Benjamin C. Pierce, Vilhelm Sjöberg, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic. Reactive Noninterference. In CCS '09: Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security, pages 79--90, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM. [ bib | DOI | DOI ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. POPL 2009 PC Chair's Report, January 2009. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, editor. Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). ACM Press, 2009. [ bib ]
Véronique Benzaken, Giuseppe Castagna, Haruo Hosoya, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Stijn Vansummeren. XML Typechecking. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, 2009. [ bib ]
J. Nathan Foster, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Quotient Lenses. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Victoria, Canada, September 2008. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types Considered Harmful, May 2008. Invited talk at Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS). [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Using a Proof Assistant to Teach Programming Language Foundations, or, Lambda, the Ultimate TA, April 2008. White paper. [ bib | short version ]
Aaron Bohannon, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Alan Schmitt. Boomerang: Resourceful Lenses for String Data. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, January 2008. [ bib | tech report | short version ]
Brian Aydemir, Arthur Charguéraud, Benjamin C. Pierce, Randy Pollack, and Stephanie Weirich. Engineering formal metatheory. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, pages 3--15. ACM, January 2008. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Adventures in Bi-Directional Programming, December 2007. FSTTCS invited talk. [ bib | slides ]
Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal, and Benjamin C. Pierce. A Formal Investigation of Diff3. In Arvind and Prasad, editors, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), December 2007. [ bib | short version ]
J. Nathan Foster, Michael B. Greenwald, Jonathan T. Moore, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Combinators for bidirectional tree transformations: A linguistic approach to the view-update problem. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 29(3):17, May 2007. Preliminary version presented at the Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X), 2004; extended abstract presented at Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 2005. [ bib | DOI | electronic appendix | DOI | conference version | full version | slides ]
J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. A Logic Your Typechecker Can Count On: Unordered Tree Types in Practice. In Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X), informal proceedings, January 2007. [ bib | conference version | slides ]
Karl Crary, Robert Harper, Frank Pfenning, Benjamin C. Pierce, Stephanie Weirich, and Stephan Zdancewic. Manifest Security. White paper, January 2007. [ bib | pdf ]
J. Nathan Foster, Michael B. Greenwald, Christian Kirkegaard, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Exploiting Schemas in Data Synchronization. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 73(4):669--689, 2007. Extended abstract in Database Programming Languages (DBPL) 2005. [ bib | tech report | short version | full version | slides ]
Andrew J. Kennedy and Benjamin C. Pierce. On Decidability of Nominal Subtyping with Variance, September 2006. FOOL-WOOD '07. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. The Weird World of Bi-Directional Programming, March 2006. ETAPS invited talk. [ bib | slides ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, François Garillot, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Statically Typed Document Transformation: An Xtatic Experience. In Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X), informal proceedings, January 2006. Available from the Xtatic web site. [ bib | tech report | pdf ]
Michael B. Greenwald, Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Agreeing to Agree: Conflict Resolution for Optimistically Replicated Data. In Shlomi Dolev, editor, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2006. [ bib | tech report | short version | slides ]
Aaron Bohannon, Jeffrey A. Vaughan, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Relational Lenses: A Language for Updateable Views. In Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2006. Extended version available as University of Pennsylvania technical report MS-CIS-05-27. [ bib | tech report | pdf ]
Aaron Bohannon, Jeffrey A. Vaughan, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Relational Lenses: A language for defining updateable views, October 2005. Poster presented at Greater Philadelphia DB/IR Day. [ bib | pdf ]
Michael Y. Levin and Benjamin C. Pierce. Type-based Optimization for Regular Patterns. In Database Programming Languages (DBPL), August 2005. [ bib | tech report ]
Brian E. Aydemir, Aaron Bohannon, Matthew Fairbairn, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Peter Sewell, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Geoffrey Washburn, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic. Mechanized metatheory for the masses: The POPLmark Challenge. In International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs), August 2005. [ bib | pdf | .ps ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Y. Levin, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. XML Goes Native: Run-time Representations for Xtatic. In 14th International Conference on Compiler Construction, April 2005. [ bib | tech report | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Harmony: The Art of Reconciliation, April 2005. Invited talk at Trusted Global Computing conference, April 2005. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Fancy Types for XML: Friend or Foe?, April 2005. Talk at LINKS workshop, April 2005. [ bib | slides ]
J. Nathan Foster, Michael B. Greenwald, Christian Kirkegaard, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. Schema-Directed Data Synchronization. Technical Report MS-CIS-05-02, University of Pennsylvania, March 2005. Supersedes MS-CIS-03-42. [ bib | tech report ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, editor. International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). ACM Press, 2005. [ bib ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Y. Levin, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. The Xtatic Experience. In Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X), January 2005. University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-04-24, Oct 2004. [ bib | tech report | slides ]
Eijiro Sumii and Benjamin C. Pierce. A Bisimulation for Type Abstraction and Recursion. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Long Beach, California, 2005. Full version in J. ACM, 54 (5), 2007. [ bib | short version | full version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, editor. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages. MIT Press, 2005. [ bib | home page ]
Michael Y. Levin. Run, Xtatic, Run: Efficient Implementation of an Object-Oriented Language with Regular Pattern Matching. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2005. [ bib | pdf ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Y. Levin, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. The Xtatic Compiler and Runtime System, 2005. [ bib | source code ]
Haruo Hosoya, Jérôme Vouillon, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Regular Expression Types for XML. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 27(1):46--90, January 2005. Preliminary version in ICFP 2000. [ bib | conference version | full version ]
Vladimir Gapeyev and Benjamin C. Pierce. Paths into Patterns. Technical Report MS-CIS-04-25, University of Pennsylvania, October 2004. [ bib | tech report ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Combinators for Bi-Directional Tree Transformations: A Linguistic Approach to the View Update Problem, October 2004. Invited talk at New England Programming Languages Symposium. [ bib | slides ]
Eijiro Sumii and Benjamin C. Pierce. A Bisimulation for Dynamic Sealing. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Venice, Italy, 2004. Full version in Theoretical Computer Science 375 (2007), 169--192. [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Jérôme Vouillon. What's in Unison? A Formal Specification and Reference Implementation of a File Synchronizer. Technical Report MS-CIS-03-36, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. [ bib | tech report ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Harmony: A Synchronization Framework for Tree-Structured Data, September 2003. Slides from a talk presented in several places (Cambridge, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Princeton) in Fall 2003. [ bib | slides ]
Haruo Hosoya and Benjamin C. Pierce. XDuce: A Statically Typed XML Processing Language. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 3(2):117--148, May 2003. [ bib | official version ]
Michael Y. Levin and Benjamin C. Pierce. TinkerType: A Language for Playing with Formal Systems. Journal of Functional Programming, 13(2), March 2003. A preliminary version appeared as an invited paper at the Logical Frameworks and Metalanguages Workshop (LFM), June 2000. [ bib | source code | full version | slides ]
Michael B. Greenwald, Jonathan T. Moore, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. A Language for Bi-Directional Tree Transformations. Manuscript; available at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/papers/lenses.pdf, 2003. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Alan Schmitt, and Michael B. Greenwald. Bringing Harmony to Optimism: A Synchronization Framework for Heterogeneous Tree-Structured Data. Technical Report MS-CIS-03-42, University of Pennsylvania, 2003. Superseded by MS-CIS-05-02. [ bib | tech report ]
Michael B. Greenwald, Jonathan T. Moore, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. A Language for Bi-Directional Tree Transformations. Technical Report MS-CIS-03-08, University of Pennsylvania, 2003. Revised April 2004. [ bib ]
M. Okada, B. Pierce, A. Scedrov, H. Tokuda, and A. Yonezawa, editors. Software Security -- Theories and Systems, number 2609 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2003. Revised papers from the Mext-NSF-JSPS International Symposium on Software Security, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 2002. [ bib ]
Vladimir Gapeyev and Benjamin C. Pierce. Regular Object Types. In European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Darmstadt, Germany, 2003. A preliminary version was presented at FOOL '03. [ bib | short version | slides ]
Eijiro Sumii and Benjamin C. Pierce. Logical Relations for Encryption. Journal of Computer Security, 11(4):521--554, 2003. Extended abstract appeared in ph14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, pp. 256--269, 2001. [ bib | conference version ]
Trevor Jim, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Jérôme Vouillon. How to Build a File Synchronizer. Manuscript, 2003. [ bib ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Levin, and Benjamin Pierce. Recursive Subtyping Revealed. Journal of Functional Programming, 12(6):511--548, 2003. Preliminary version in International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), 2000. Also appears as Chapter 21 of Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce (MIT Press, 2002). [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types and Programming Languages: The Next Generation, 2003. Invited tutorial at Logic in Computer Science (LICS). [ bib | slides ]
Atsushi Igarashi and Benjamin C. Pierce. On Inner Classes. Information and Computation, 177(1):56--89, August 2002. A special issue with papers from the 7th International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL), informal proceedings. An earlier version appeared in \bgroup Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Springer LNCS 1850, pages 129--153. [ bib | tech report | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Synchronize globally, compute locally, July 2002. Keynote address at Research Day on Global Computing, EFPL, Lausanne. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types and Programming Languages. MIT Press, 2002. [ bib | errata | home page ]
Naoki Kobayashi and Benjamin C. Pierce, editors. Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS), 4th International Symposium, number 2215 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2001. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Jérôme Vouillon. Unison: A File Synchronizer and its Specification. Manuscript, 2001. [ bib ]
Eijiro Sumii and Benjamin Pierce. The Cryptographic λ-Calculus: Syntax, Semantics, Type System and Logical Relation (in Japanese). In Informal Proceedings of JSSST Workshop on Programming and Programming Languages (PPL2001), 2001. Best paper prize. [ bib ]
Haruo Hosoya and Benjamin C. Pierce. Regular Expression Pattern Matching. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), London, England, 2001. Full version in Journal of Functional Programming, 13(6), Nov. 2003, pp. 961--1004. [ bib | full version ]
Atsushi Igarashi, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Philip Wadler. A Recipe for Raw Types. In Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL), 2001. [ bib | short version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Unison: A file synchronizer and its specification, 2001. Invited talk at Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS), Sendai, Japan. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. File Synchronization: Theory and Practice, 2001. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Global Computing: Some Questions for FOOLs, 2001. Invited talk at FOOL workshop. [ bib | slides ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. The Pict Programming Language, 2001. This directory contains various papers, including a tutorial and user's manual, as well as complete compiler sources and installation instructions. (Be sure not to miss the artwork department!). [ bib | home page ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Module Systems: A Guide for the Perplexed, September 2000. Invited talk at ICFP, Montreal. [ bib ]
Benjamin Pierce and Eijiro Sumii. Relating Cryptography and Polymorphism, July 2000. Some parts superseded by [178] (Sumii and Pierce, 2001). [ bib | manuscript ]
Michael Y. Levin and Benjamin C. Pierce. TinkerType: A Language for Playing with Formal Systems. Technical report, June 2000. Invited talk (submitted for journal publication). [ bib ]
Haruo Hosoya and Benjamin C. Pierce. XDuce: A Typed XML Processing Language (Preliminary Report). In Dan Suciu and Gottfried Vossen, editors, International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), May 2000. Reprinted in The Web and Databases, Selected Papers, Springer LNCS volume 1997, 2001. [ bib | conference version ]
Arnaud Sahuguet, Benjamin Pierce, and Val Tannen. Distributed Query Optimization: Can Mobile Agents Help?, February 2000. [ bib ]
Arnaud Sahuguet, Benjamin Pierce, and Val Tannen. Chaining, Referral, Subscription, Leasing: New Mechanisms in Distributed Query Optimization, February 2000. [ bib ]
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Levin, and Benjamin Pierce. Recursive Subtyping Revealed. In ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Montreal, Canada, 2000. To appear in Journal of Functional Programming. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Pict: A Programming Language Based on the Pi-Calculus. In Gordon Plotkin, Colin Stirling, and Mads Tofte, editors, Proof, Language and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner, pages 455--494. MIT Press, 2000. [ bib | full version ]
Peter Sewell, Pawel T. Wojciechowski, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Location Independence for Mobile Agents. 2000. To appear in an edited collection of papers (in Springer LNCS) from the Workshop on Internet Programming Languages, June 1998, Loyola University. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Advanced Module Systems: A Guide for the Perplexed, 2000. Invited tutorial at International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). [ bib | slides ]
Kim B. Bruce, Luca Cardelli, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Comparing Object Encodings. Information and Computation, 155(1/2):108--133, November 1999. Special issue of papers from Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS 1997). An earlier version appeared as an invited lecture in the Third International Workshop on Foundations of Object Oriented Languages (FOOL 3), July 1996. [ bib | .ps ]
Atsushi Igarashi, Benjamin Pierce, and Philip Wadler. Featherweight Java: A Minimal Core Calculus for Java and GJ. In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), October 1999. Full version in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 23(3), May 2001. [ bib | conference version | full version ]
Peter Sewell, Pawel Wojciechowski, and Benjamin Pierce. Location Independence for Mobile Agents. In H. E. Bal, B. Belkhouche, and L. Cardelli, editors, Proceedings of ICCL '98, volume 1686 of lncs. Springer-Verlag, September 1999. An earlier version with title Location-Independent Communication for Mobile Agents: a Two-Level Architecture appeared as Technical Report 462, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, April 1999. [ bib | tech report | official version ]
Naoki Kobayashi, Benjamin C. Pierce, and David N. Turner. Linearity and the Pi-Calculus. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 21(5):914--947, September 1999. Summary in POPL 1996. [ bib | full version ]
Haruo Hosoya and Benjamin C. Pierce. How Good is Local Type Inference? Technical Report MS-CIS-99-17, University of Pennsylvania, June 1999. [ bib | tech report ]
Atsushi Igarashi and Benjamin C. Pierce. Foundations for Virtual Types. In European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Lisbon, Portugal, June 1999. Also in informal proceedings of the Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL), January 1999. Full version in Information and Computation, 175(1): 34--49, May 2002. [ bib | .ps ]
Peter Sewell, Pawel T. Wojciechowski, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Location-Independent Communication for Mobile Agents: a Two-Level Architecture. Technical Report 462, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1999. [ bib ]
S. Balasubramaniam and Benjamin C. Pierce. What is a file synchronizer? In Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '98), October 1998. Full version available as Indiana University CSCI technical report #507, April 1998. [ bib | tech report | conference version | slides ]
Peter Buneman and Benjamin Pierce. Union Types for Semistructured Data. In Internet Programming Languages. Springer-Verlag, September 1998. Proceedings of the International Database Programming Languages Workshop. LNCS 1686. [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Type Systems for Concurrent Calculi, September 1998. Invited tutorial at CONCUR, Nice, France. [ bib ]
S. Balasubramaniam and Benjamin C. Pierce. File Synchronization. Technical Report 507, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, April 1998. [ bib ]
Haruo Hosoya, Benjamin C. Pierce, and David N. Turner. Datatypes and Subtyping. Manuscript, 1998. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Trevor Jim Sundar Balasubramaniam, Insup Lee, and Insik Shin. Snc: a file synchronizer, 1998. (Superseded by Unison.). [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Type Systems for Concurrent Calculi, 1998. Invited tutorial at CONCUR. [ bib | slides ]
Martin Hofmann and Benjamin C. Pierce. Type Destructors. In Didier Rémy, editor, Informal proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages (FOOL), January 1998. Full version in Information and Computation, 172(1)29--62 (2002). [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Local Type Inference. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Diego, California, 1998. Full version in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 22(1), January 2000, pp. 1--44. [ bib | tech report | conference version | full version ]
Giorgio Ghelli and Benjamin Pierce. Bounded Existentials and Minimal Typing. Theoretical Computer Science, 193:75--96, 1998. Circulated in manuscript form in 1992. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Languages for Programming the Web, December 1997. Course materials for a graduate seminar on the theory and practice of mobile agent programming. Available through http://www.cis.upenn.edu/simbcpierce/courses/629. [ bib ]
Kim B. Bruce, Luca Cardelli, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Comparing Object Encodings. In International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS), September 1997. An earlier version was presented as an invited lecture at the Third International Workshop on Foundations of Object Oriented Languages (FOOL 3), July 1996; full version in Information and Computation, 155(1--2):108-133, 1999. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Intersection Types and Bounded Polymorphism. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 7(2):129--193, April 1997. Summary in Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, March 1993, pp. 346--360. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Review of A Theory of Objects, by Abadi and Cardelli. The Computer Journal, 40(5):297--298, 1997. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Programming in the Pi-Calculus: A Tutorial Introduction to Pict. Available electronically, 1997. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Pict: A Programming Language Based on the Pi-Calculus, 1997. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/ bcpierce/papers/pict. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Pict Libraries Manual. Available electronically, 1997. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Pict Language Definition. Available electronically, 1997. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Local Type Inference. Technical Report 493, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 1997. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Local Type Argument Synthesis with Bounded Quantification. Technical Report 495, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, January 1997. [ bib | tech report ]
Benjamin Pierce and Martin Steffen. Higher-Order Subtyping. Theoretical Computer Science, 176(1--2):235--282, 1997. Summary in IFIP Working Conference on Programming Concepts, Methods and Calculi (PROCOMET), June 1994; also University of Edinburgh technical report ECS-LFCS-94-280 and Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Interner Bericht IMMD7-01/94, January 1994. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Bounded Quantification with Bottom. Technical Report 492, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 1997. [ bib | tech report ]
Benjamin Pierce and Davide Sangiorgi. Behavioral Equivalence in the Polymorphic Pi-Calculus. In Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), pages 531--584, 1997. Full version in Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (JACM), 47(3), May 2000. [ bib | full version ]
Adriana B. Compagnoni and Benjamin C. Pierce. Intersection Types and Multiple Inheritance. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 6(5):469--501, October 1996. Preliminary version available as University of Edinburgh technical report ECS-LFCS-93-275 and Catholic University Nijmegen computer science technical report 93-18, Aug. 1993, under the title “Multiple Inheritance via Intersection Types”. [ bib ]
Uwe Nestmann and Benjamin C. Pierce. Decoding Choice Encodings. In Proceedings of CONCUR '96, August 1996. Full version in Information and Computation, 163(1): 1--59 (2000). [ bib | full version ]
Kim B. Bruce, Luca Cardelli, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Comparing Object Encodings. In Invited lecture at Third Workshop on Foundations of Object Oriented Languages (FOOL 3), July 1996. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Processes, Types, and Observations, March 1996. Invited lecture at Formal Methods on Open, Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS), Paris. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Even simpler type-theoretic foundations for OOP. Manuscript (circulated electronically), March 1996. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Types. Lecture notes for an undergraduate course at Cambridge University, February 1996. [ bib ]
Kim B. Bruce, Luca Cardelli, Giuseppe Castagna, the Hopkins Objects Group (Jonathan Eifrig, Scott Smith, Valery Trifonov), Gary T. Leavens, and Benjamin Pierce. On Binary Methods. Theory and Practice of Object Systems, 1(3):221--242, 1996. [ bib | .ps ]
Adriana B. Compagnoni and Benjamin C. Pierce. Multiple Inheritance via Intersection Types. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 1996. To appear. Preliminary version available as University of Edinburgh technical report ECS-LFCS-93-275 and Catholic University Nijmegen computer science technical report 93-18, Aug. 1993. [ bib ]
Naoki Kobayashi, Benjamin C. Pierce, and David N. Turner. Linearity and the Pi-Calculus. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, 1996. Full version in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 21(5), pp. 914--947, September 1999. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Foundational Calculi for Programming Languages. In Allen B. Tucker, editor, Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering, chapter 139. CRC Press, 1996. [ bib | full version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Using Types to Compare Objects and ADTs, October 1995. Invited lecture at Horizon Day, Indiana University. [ bib ]
Martin Hofmann and Benjamin Pierce. A Unifying Type-Theoretic Framework for Objects. Journal of Functional Programming, 5(4):593--635, October 1995. Previous versions appeared in the Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, 1994, (pages 251--262) and, under the title “An Abstract View of Objects and Subtyping (Preliminary Report),” as University of Edinburgh, LFCS technical report ECS-LFCS-92-226, 1992. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Linearity and the Pi-Calculus, August 1995. Invited lecture at Advances in Type Systems for Computation, Cambridge, England. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Concurrent Objects in a Process Calculus. In Takayasu Ito and Akinori Yonezawa, editors, Theory and Practice of Parallel Programming (TPPP), Sendai, Japan (Nov. 1994), number 907 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 187--215. Springer-Verlag, April 1995. [ bib | short version | pdf ]
Martin Hofmann and Benjamin Pierce. Positive Subtyping. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, pages 186--197, January 1995. Full version in Information and Computation, volume 126, number 1, April 1996. Also available as University of Edinburgh technical report ECS-LFCS-94-303, September 1994. [ bib | .ps ]
Naoki Kobayashi, Benjamin C. Pierce, and David N. Turner. Linearity and the Pi-Calculus, 1995. Technical report, Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo and Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. [ bib ]
Martín Abadi, Luca Cardelli, Benjamin Pierce, and Didier Rémy. Dynamic Typing in Polymorphic Languages. Journal of Functional Programming, 5(1):111--130, January 1995. Summary in ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML and its Applications, June 1992. [ bib ]
Giuseppe Castagna and Benjamin Pierce. Corrigendum: Decidable Bounded Quantification. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Portland, Oregon. ACM, January 1995. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Concurrent Objects in a Process Calculus, November 1994. Invited lecture at Theory and Practice of Parallel Programming (TPPP), Sendai, Japan. [ bib ]
Martin Hofmann and Benjamin Pierce. Positive Subtyping. Technical Report ECS-LFCS-94-303, LFCS, University of Edinburgh, September 1994. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Bounded Quantification is Undecidable. Information and Computation, 112(1):131--165, July 1994. Also in C. A. Gunter and J. C. Mitchell, editors, Theoretical Aspects of Object-Oriented Programming: Types, Semantics, and Language Design, MIT Press, 1994. Summary in ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Albuquerque, New Mexico. [ bib | conference version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Simple Type-Theoretic Foundations for Object-Oriented Programming. Journal of Functional Programming, 4(2):207--247, April 1994. Summary in ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Charleston, South Carolina, 1993. [ bib | conference version | pdf | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Woggles from Oz: Writing Interactive Fiction. Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, 1994. Expanded version available electronically. [ bib ]
Martin Steffen and Benjamin Pierce. Higher-Order Subtyping. Technical Report ECS-LFCS-94-280, LFCS, University of Edinburgh, January 1994. Also available as Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Interner Bericht IMMD7-01/94. To appear in Theoretical Computer Science. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Martin Steffen. Higher-Order Subtyping. In IFIP Working Conference on Programming Concepts, Methods and Calculi (PROCOMET), 1994. Full version in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 176, no. 1--2, pp. 235--282, 1997 (corrigendum in TCS vol. 184 (1997), p. 247). [ bib | tech report ]
Giuseppe Castagna and Benjamin Pierce. Decidable Bounded Quantification. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Portland, Oregon. ACM, January 1994. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce, Didier Rémy, and David N. Turner. A Typed Higher-Order Programming Language Based on the Pi-Calculus. In Workshop on Type Theory and its Application to Computer Systems, Kyoto University, July 1993. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. A Typed Higher-Order Programming Language Based on the Pi-Calculus, July 1993. Invited lecture at Workshop on Type Theory and its Application to Computer Systems, Kyoto University. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Mutable Objects. Draft report; available electronically, June 1993. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Statically Typed Friendly Functions via Partially Abstract Types. Technical Report ECS-LFCS-93-256, University of Edinburgh, LFCS, April 1993. Also available as INRIA-Rocquencourt Rapport de Recherche No. 1899. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin Pierce. Object-Oriented Programming in Typed Lambda-Calculus: Exercises and Solutions. Lecture notes for 1992 Frankische OOrientierungstage, University of Erlangen, Germany (revised version), April 1993. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. A Model of Delegation Based on Existential Types. Available electronically, April 1993. [ bib | .ps ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Typage des Traits Orientés-Objets, February 1993. Invited lecture at Journeés Francophones des Langages Applicatifs, Annecy, France. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. F-Omega-Sub User's Manual, Version 1.4. Available by FTP as part of the fomega implementation, February 1993. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. F-Omega-Sub: a polymorphic λ-calculus with higher-order subtyping and object-oriented extensions, 1993. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Davide Sangiorgi. Typing and Subtyping for Mobile Processes. In Logic in Computer Science, 1993. Full version in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Vol. 6, No. 5, 1996. [ bib | full version ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and David N. Turner. Object-Oriented Programming Without Recursive Types. In ACM SIGPLAN--SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Charleston, South Carolina, pages 299--312, January 1993. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce and Robert Pollack. Higher-Order Subtyping. Unpublished manuscript, August 1992. [ bib ]
Giorgio Ghelli and Benjamin Pierce. Bounded Existentials and Minimal Typing, 1992. Circulated in manuscript form. Full version in Theoretical Computer Science, 193(1--2):75--96, February 1998. [ bib | .ps ]
Martin Hofmann and Benjamin Pierce. An Abstract View of Objects and Subtyping (Preliminary Report). Technical Report ECS-LFCS-92-226, University of Edinburgh, LFCS, 1992. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Programming with Intersection Types and Bounded Polymorphism. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, December 1991. Available as School of Computer Science technical report CMU-CS-91-205. [ bib ]
Martín Abadi, Luca Cardelli, Benjamin Pierce, and Gordon Plotkin. Dynamic Typing in a Statically Typed Language. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 13(2):237--268, April 1991. Summary in ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Austin, Texas, 1989. [ bib ]
Martín Abadi, Benjamin Pierce, and Gordon Plotkin. Faithful Ideal Models for Recursive Polymorphic Types. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 2(1):1--21, March 1991. Summary in Fourth Annual Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, June, 1989. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Programming with Intersection Types, Union Types, and Polymorphism. Technical Report CMU-CS-91-106, Carnegie Mellon University, February 1991. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Fmeet: a polymorphic λ-calculus with intersection types, 1991. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists. MIT Press, 1991. [ bib ]
Robert Harper and Benjamin Pierce. A Record Calculus Based on Symmetric Concatenation. In ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Orlando, Florida, pages 131--142, January 1991. Extended version available as Carnegie Mellon Technical Report CMU-CS-90-157. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Preliminary Investigation of a Calculus with Intersection and Union Types. Unpublished manuscript, June 1990. [ bib ]
Robert W. Harper and Benjamin C. Pierce. Extensible Records Without Subsumption. Technical Report CMU-CS-90-102, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, February 1990. [ bib ]
Benjamin Pierce. Bounded Quantification and Intersection Types. Thesis proposal (unpublished), September 1989. [ bib ]
Benjamin Pierce. A Decision Procedure for the Subtype Relation on Intersection Types with Bounded Variables. Technical Report CMU-CS-89-169, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, September 1989. [ bib ]
Benjamin Pierce, Scott Dietzen, and Spiro Michaylov. Programming in Higher-order Typed Lambda-Calculi. Technical Report CMU-CS-89-111, Carnegie Mellon University, March 1989. [ bib | errata | tech report ]
A. N. Habermann, Charles Krueger, Benjamin Pierce, Barbara Staudt, and John Wenn. Programming with Views. Technical Report CMU-CS-87-177, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, January 1988. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Artemis: a graphics editor for circuit diagrams, 1986. Used internally at DEC Western Research Lab for the design of the Titan processor and power/packaging. [ bib ]
T. Larrabee, K. McCall, C. Mitchell, and B. C. Pierce. Gambit: A Video Game Programming Language. Project report for Stanford CS-242 (Programming Language Design), December 1982. See also: Larrabee, T. and Mitchell, C. “Gambit: A Prototyping Approach to Video Game Design.” IEEE Software, Vol. 1 No. 4, Oct. 1984. [ bib ]
B. C. Pierce. Gridapple: A Microcomputer-Based Geographic Information System. In Harvard Computer Graphics Week, July 1982. Reprinted in Marble, D., et al, Basic Readings in Geographic Information Systems. Williamsville, NY: SPAD Systems, Ltd., 1984. [ bib ]
B. C. Pierce. A Microcomputer-Based Geographic Information System. In Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Computer Faire, March 1982. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Arc-Info plotting and display subsystem, 1982. Marketed by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, USA. [ bib ]
Benjamin C. Pierce. Gridapple: an implementation of the ESRI Grid system for the Apple-II, 1981. Marketed by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA. [ bib ]
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