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[A Table of Contents](./Onward_legacy.md) for the years 2002–2010.

Onward! 2023
Onward! 2024
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- Cascais, Portugal, October 25-27, 2023
- Co-located with SPLASH 2023
- Papers chair: Tijs van der Storm (CWI and University of Groningen)
- Essays chair: Robert Hirschfeld (HPI and University of Potsdam)
- [https://2023.splashcon.org](https://2023.splashcon.org)
- [https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-papers](https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-papers)
- [https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-Essays](https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-Essays)
- Pasadena, California, USA, October 23-25, 2024
- Co-located with SPLASH 2024
- Papers chair: Jonathan Edwards (unaffiliated)
- Essays chair: Marcel Taeumel (HPI and University of Potsdam)
- [https://2024.splashcon.org](https://2024.splashcon.org)
- [https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-papers](https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-papers)
- [https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-Essays](https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-Essays)

Awards
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- Most Notable Paper Award 2024 (1) for 2011
- Recipients: Sean McDirmid
- Title: Coding at the Speed of Touch
- Conference: Onward! 2011
- Paper: [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2048237.2048246](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2048237.2048246)
- Citation: This 2011 Onward! paper describes the design and implementation of YinYang, a graphical system providing a proficient programming experience for tablet devices with constrained screen space. YingYang's tile-based approach sidestepped these devices' limited text-editing capabilities and enabled an intuitive and effective form of direct manipulation. The work stands out as an emblematic Onward! contribution. It is notable for championing programmability on a class of traditionally "closed" devices, exploring many subtle design points of graphical and visual languages, and as a call to action for moving "beyond typewriters" and inspiring the next generation of programmers.

- Most Notable Paper Award 2024 (2) for 2012
- Recipients: Andrew P. Black, Kim B. Bruce, Michael Homer and James Noble
- Title: Grace: the Absence of (Inessential) Difficulty
- Conference: Onward! 2012
- Paper: [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2384592.2384601](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2384592.2384601)
- Citation: In this Onward! 2012 paper, the authors distilled a tremendous effort to accommodate the needs of programming pedagogy in a new language design. The paper is a model of clarity, deftly justifying its choices while also situating Grace within the rich history of programming languages past and present. It has supported and inspired considerable follow-on work, not only on pedagogy but also in programming language research topics such as gradual typing and the semantics of object-orientation.

- Most Notable Paper Award 2023 for 2013
- Recipients: Sean McDirmid
- Title: Usable Live Programming
- Conference: Onward! 2013
- Paper: [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2509578.2509585](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2509578.2509585)
- Citation: This paper revitalized the study of live programming, introducing mechanisms that are now standard techniques in the field. The paper epitomizes the spirit of Onward!, asking risky questions outside the current discourse. In its form the paper was a breath of fresh air, enlivened by the use of comic strips. The work marked the beginning of a rich seam of research that has been productively mined at the ongoing LIVE workshop series at SPLASH.

- Most Notable Paper Award 2020 for 2010
- Recipients: Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser, and Guido Wachsmuth
- Title: Pure and Declarative Syntax Definition: Paradise Lost and Regained
- Conference: Onwarrd! 2010
- Conference: Onward! 2010
- Paper: [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1869459.1869535](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1869459.1869535)
- Citation: In a beautiful and compelling exposition, this essay lays out a research vision for realizing a declarative approach to syntax definition. Considering how we can best capture the syntactic structure of a programming language is a question near to the heart of both language design and implementation. The essay is technically interesting without getting lost in formality. Its argument for the declarative paradigm has been influential, impacting a chain of research on declarative syntax tools and helping to usher in the recent era of polyglot programming.

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