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Kasuya’s Poster Presentation on Vython Version Programming at APLAS
Kasuya’s work on version programming was accepted by the Student Research Competition and Posters track at the 22nd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2024). His poster was presented at the symposium from October 21st to 25th. Though he could not proceed to the final round, his poster won the Audience Award.
Two New Master Course Students and an Exchange Student
We welcomed three new members from October 2024.
- Peien Chen (Master’s course)
- Zhiqi Chen (Master’s course)
- Jiwon Kim (Exchange Student from KAIST)
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Tokyo Tech → Science Tokyo
Tokyo Institute of Technology is integrated with Tokyo Medical and Dental University into Institute of Science Tokyo. Our group remains unchanged modulo the name of the institute. (Even the URL of the website remains the same for the time being.)
Kumamoto Presented a Poster on Programming Education Tool at JSSST Conference
Kumamoto presented his work on an dialog-based programming learning environment att he 41st JSSST Annual Conference.
- Kouta Kumamoto, Youyou Cong, Hidehiko Masuhara. Development of an interactive learning environment to support the acquisition of program design skills.
Masuhara Received the JSSST Distinguished Service Award
Masuhara received the Distinguished Service Award from Japan Society of Software Science and Technology.
Invited Talk on Gradual Typing at the 41st JSSST conference
Tanabe will give an invited talk on PLDI’24 paper at The 41st JSSST Annual Conference.
Date: September 11 Wed. 11:45~12:15 JST
Venue: Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC) H321
Title: Space-Efficient Polymorphic Gradual Typing, Mostly Parametric (Paper)
IFL Presentations on CPS Translation, Delimited Control and Programming Education
The following presentations were accepted to the 36th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL 2024).
Matteo Basso’s Seminar Talk on Native-Image Startup Performance

Matteo Basso, a PhD student from USI, visited our group and gave a seminar talk, entitled “Improving Native-Image Startup Performance”. It was a preview talk of his paper accepted at CGO 2025, and was a great opportunity for us to learn the performance bottlenecks and improvement opportunities in today’s VMs.
Departmental Seminar by Tanabe
Yudai Tanabe gave a seminar talk at the Department of Mathematical and Computing Science.
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2024, 15:30-16:30
Place: West 8 W1008
Speaker: Yudai Tanabe
Title: Navigating Safety Across Language Systems: Space-efficient Gradual Typing