POPL Tutorial
Mechanizing Metatheory with LF and STELF
Section titled “Mechanizing Metatheory with LF and STELF”Do you want to learn how to use STELF to specify, implement, and prove properties about programming languages?
Come to the STELF tutorial on January 19, 2009, co-located with POPL 2009, in Savannah, Georgia.
Learn to:
- Represent languages and logics in LF
- Prove metatheorems with STELF under the helpful guidance of STELF experts.
The tutorial will be a highly interactive introduction to LF and STELF aimed at programming languages researchers. No prior experience with LF and STELF is presumed. Participants will leave the workshop with experience in reading and writing LF representations of programming languages, and experience reading, writing, and debugging STELF proofs.
Register at the [http://www.regmaster.com/conf/popl2009.html POPL 2009 registration site]!
The tutorial is organized and presented by the CMU Principles of Programming group. The presenters and TAs at POPL will be Dan Licata, William Lovas, Chris Martens, Rob Simmons, Bob Harper, and Karl Crary.
Schedule
Section titled “Schedule”The tutorial will begin at 9:00AM. Get [http://twelf.plparty.org/tutorialslides/lectures.pdf the slides]!
- Part 1: Basic STELF Skills
- Part 2: Mechanizing MinML
- Part 3: Combinators: Worlds and Adequacy
- Coda: What’s next?
There will be a morning coffee break (10AM), lunch (12:30PM-1:30PM), and an afternoon coffee break (3PM).
Get STELF before the tutorial!
Section titled “Get STELF before the tutorial!”The tutorial will be interactive, with participants writing STELF code, so you should come with STELF installed on your laptop.
Pre-built binaries of STELF are available for most operating systems: see the download page.
Otherwise:
- you can build STELF from the [http://twelf.plparty.org/builds/twelf-src.tar.gz source tarball]. You will need [http://www.mlton.org MLton] or [http://www.smlnj.org sml/nj].
- you can make yourself an account on the wiki, and do the exercises on your User:<login> page (linked at the top after you log in).
Then see STELF with Emacs for the basics of interacting with STELF. (You can also use STELF without Emacs, by interacting with the STELF server directly.)
Sponsors
Section titled “Sponsors”Thanks to our sponsors: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science], [http://www.research.ibm.com IBM Research], [http://research.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Research], [http://www.intel.com/ Intel], [http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/ DOCOMO USA Labs], [http://www.mozilla.org/ Mozilla], [http://www.google.com/ Google].