ACM Digital Library

Citations from the ACM Digital Library — the archive of computing literature — grouped into programming languages & compilers, real-time graphics & procedural content, and video/image/audio coding.

Programming languages & compilers

• BASIC — History of Programming Languages. ACM Digital Library. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800025.1198404
• History of Programming Languages — II (book; covers ALGOL, APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, PL/I, SIMULA, SNOBOL). ACM Other Books. dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/234286
• A history of the history of programming languages — Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1230819.1230841
• Programming languages: history and future — Jean E. Sammet. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361454.361485
• The evolution of Forth — Elizabeth D. Rather, Donald R. Colburn, Charles H. Moore. History of Programming Languages — II (1996), pp. 625–670. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/234286.1057832
• The early history of Smalltalk — Alan C. Kay. History of Programming Languages — II (1996), pp. 511–598. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/234286.1057828
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools ("Dragon Book", 1st ed.) — Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman (1986). dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/6448
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd ed.) — Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman (2006). dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/1177220
• Crafting a compiler (Guide book). ACM Digital Library. dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/33462
• A C Subset for Ergonomic Source-to-Source Analyses — João N. Matos (source-to-source compilation). ACM Digital Library. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3642921.3642922
• User-Customizable Transpilation of Scripting Languages (DuoGlot: Python-to-JavaScript transpiler) — B. Wang et al. (2023). dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3586034
• The design and implementation of a TPL compiler system (Transportable Programming Language; bifunctional/dialect compiler). dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/19217
• An intermediate language for source and target (syntax-analyzer IR). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800229.806969
• Axiomatic bootstrapping: a guide for compiler hackers — ACM Trans. Prog. Lang. Syst. 16(6). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/197320.197336
• The MLIR Transform Dialect — M. P. Lücke et al. (2025) (ordering / parameterizing compiler passes). dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3696443.3708922
• Teaching the compilers course — ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1473195.1473196
• Survey on Combinatorial Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3200920
• Combinatorial Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling — R. C. Lozano et al. (2019). dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3332373
• Register allocation and instruction scheduling in Unison (combinatorial optimization codegen). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2892208.2892237
• Register allocation & spilling via graph coloring — G. J. Chaitin. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17(6), pp. 98–101. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872726.806984
• Register allocation for programs in SSA-Form (chordal interference graphs). dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1007/11688839_20
• Register allocation sensitive region scheduling. dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/224659.224668
• Instruction Scheduling for the GPU on the GPU — Proc. 2024 IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CGO57630.2024.10444869
• DCG: an efficient, retargetable dynamic code generation system — ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 28(5). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/381792.195567
• Translation Validation for LLVM's AArch64 Backend. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3763147
• A compiler infrastructure for accelerator generators — Proc. ASPLOS. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3445814.3446712

Real-time graphics, demoscene & procedural content

• The demo scene — V. Scheib (2002): real-time executables, 4KB/64KB limits, procedural textures/geometry/music. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1242073.1242125
• The Demo Scene (SIGGRAPH 2002 panel) — ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives. history.siggraph.org
• Demoscene: The Underground Art of Real-time — ACM SIGGRAPH Blog (2019): 4KB/64KB intros, pixel graphics, C64/Amiga/Atari compos. blog.siggraph.org
• Demoscene – Underground Real-Time Art Worldwide (T. Bednarz, SIGGRAPH). history.siggraph.org
• Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs — B. Kuth et al. (2024). Proc. ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 7(3). dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3675376
• Raymarching toolkit for Unity (demoscene SDF techniques) — ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Studio. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3214822.3214828
• Real-time compression and streaming of 4D performances — ACM Trans. Graphics 37(6), Art. 256. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3272127.3275096
• Procedural content generation for games: A survey — ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 9(1). dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2422956.2422957
• Procedural content generation in games (survey w/ LLM integration) — Proc. AIIDE '24. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1609/aiide.v20i1.31877
• The Procedural Content Generation Benchmark — A. Khalifa et al. (2025). dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3723498.3723794
• PCG-based game design — G. Smith et al. PCGames '11. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2000919.2000926
• Program synthesis as a generative method (PCG). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3102071.3102076
• Procedural Content Generation for Game Props? — Computers in Entertainment 15(2) (Perlin/Simplex noise props, user study). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2974026
• Deep learning for procedural content generation — Neural Computing. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00521-020-05383-8
• Procedural Content Generation in Games (book). dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3029335

Video, image & audio coding

• MPEG: a video compression standard for multimedia applications — Commun. ACM 34(4). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103085.103090
• The JPEG still picture compression standard — G. K. Wallace (1991). dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/103085.103089
• Huffman Coding (ACM survey of the 1952 minimum-redundancy codes). dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3342555
• A Survey on Perceptually Optimized Video Coding — ACM Computing Surveys. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571727
• Towards Hybrid-Optimization Video Coding — ACM Computing Surveys. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652148
• Image and Video Coding Techniques for Ultra-low Latency (H.261 → AVC → HEVC → VVC survey). dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3512342
• Evaluation of Video Compression Methods for Network Transmission on Diverse Data (H.264/H.265/AV1/MJPEG comparison). dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3594806.3594863
• H.264 Video Compression Using Novel Refined Huffman Codes. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11277-023-10590-2
• The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard (book). dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1942939
• A survey on video compression fast block matching algorithms. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.neucom.2018.10.060
• A Progressive-Adaptive Music Generator (PAMG) — Proc. FARM '24 (ACM SIGPLAN functional art/music workshop). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3677996.3678291
• Generative Audio and Real-Time Soundtrack Synthesis in Gaming — C. Bossalini et al. (2020). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3441000.3441075
• Real-Time Sound Synthesis and Propagation for Games — N. Raghuvanshi. Commun. ACM (2007). cacm.acm.org

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