PPS 2018 - Probabilistic Programming Languages, Semantics, and Systems (PPS 2018)

While there have been a number of recent probabilistic programming meetings at Dagstuhl, NIPS, for the DARPA PPAML program, and elsewhere, many participants were interested in a deeper focus on semantics and other programming language issues. This lead to the formation of the PPS meeting colocated with POPL, which promotes the investigation of probabilistic programming from these PL perspectives, and exposes others in the PL community to probabilistic programming.