An upward shift in abstraction leads to a corresponding increase in productivity. In the past this has occurred when programming languages have evolved towards a higher level of abstraction. Today, domain-specific languages provide a viable solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction beyond coding, making development faster and easier.

Dr. S. Shyam Sunder, Director, Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has made the following announcement rearding the new leadership team for the NIST Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office and the three new Presidential Innovation Fellows who are joining NIST (two for CPS and one for Smart Grid, a key CPS sector): 

 The Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2014 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and is hosted by Seoul National University, Kyungpook National University, Soongsil University, and Dongguk University. The SRC Program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. 

The 6th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to topics related to artificial languages in software engineering. SLE's mission is to encourage and organize communication among communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different and yet complementary perspectives. 

Call for Papers: BuildSys 2013 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings November 14-15, 2013 – Rome, Italy | co-located with ACM SenSys 2013 | http://www.buildsys.org/2013/ We solicit three types of original submissions:

4th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems PECCS 2014 will be held in conjunction with SENSORNETS 2014, PHOTOPTICS 2014 and PhyCS 2014.  Registration to PECCS allows free access to the SENSORNETS, PHOTOPTICS and PhyCS conferences (as a non-speaker).   UPCOMING DEADLINES Regular Paper Submission: July 30, 2013  Regular Paper Authors Notification: October 9, 2013  Regular Pape