SPLASH is a conference sponsored by the SIGPLAN special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It is an acronym for Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. The first SPLASH conference was held in Sparks, Nevada, October 17-21, 2010 at John Ascuaga's Nugget casino/hotel[1]. The 2011 SPLASH conference will be held in downtown Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Hotel, October 22-27.
SPLASH has replaced the ACM conference known as OOPSLA. The former OOPSLA website (http://www.oopsla.org) now redirects to the SPLASH website. OOPSLA remains as an entity inside of SPLASH and was the only track offered at the initial SPLASH conference. For 2010, a separate ACM conference, Onward! was considered co-located with SPLASH, but their fees were combined. Anyone wanting to attend either conference paid one fee that allowed access to all sessions from both SPLASH and Onward!.