Glimpse Back at Programming 2025
In the first week of June, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics hosted the international conference called Programming 2025 under the subtitle The Art, Science, and Technology of Programming. The ninth season was attended by 104 researchers and students from 19 countries around the world.
Programming 2025 (photo: Ramziya Ahmed)
This platform, serving as a means of exchanging and sharing scientific knowledge in the field of advanced programming, was established in 2017 and is associated with the open access journal Programming Journal.
The key themes of the ninth conference were concentrated in two keynote lectures. Firstly, Molly Wright Steenson, President and CEO of the American Swedish Institute with specialization in design, architecture, artificial intelligence, and ethics, delivered a lecture called Architecture and Generativity. Ms Wright presented inspiring parallels between architecture—which has utilised algorithmic systems for years—and the use of artificial intelligence in programming.
The second keynote lecture, What We Tried and Didn't Work for GraalVM, was presented by Thomas Wuerthinger, Vice President of Oracle Labs and founder and lead of the GraalVM project. His insights into the development and implementation of the GraalVM system were valuable, including practical experiences and lessons learned from less successful attempts.
The main conference programme also included several other topics, often related to publications in the aforementioned Programming Journal. Furthermore, the first days of the conference were dedicated to workshops focusing on specific issues and practical skills. The international character of the conference and its broad scope were evident, as participants represented a total of 62 different organisations.
Representatives from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University actively contributed to both the organisation and the academic programme of this year’s ninth edition. The organising committee was chaired by Tomáš Petříček from the Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems. Joel Jakubovic organised the student paper competition, which involved 13 students, and Andrej Pečimúth coordinated the work of volunteers from among both local and international students.
The first season of the Programming conference was held in Brussels, followed by events in Nice, Genoa, Porto, Cambridge, Tokyo, and Lund. The baton for the tenth year in 2026 will be taken over by Munich.
Alena Chrastová & OPMK
