The VL/HCC sympsium (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing) was hosted by Pittsburgh (PA) between September 18-22. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. Some of the companies participating in the conference are National Instruments (LabView), Microsoft, Northwoods, and AgentSheets.