Wrt to Code Lauren you may also be interested in http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/index.html - a HCI approach to tooling (the WhyLine is my favourite).
Dog hasn't released much info yet but it's an interesting concept - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2502026 https://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/social-computing
Program synthesis is really interesting area of research eg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/
VPRI has already been mentioned but I'd like to highlight their work on Programming as Planning - http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009001_prog_as.pdf
From the last FPW, there were a couple of projects that really stood out for me: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/ http://2015.splashcon.org/event/fpw2015-an-end-user-programm...
Also not really a new language, but Sam Aarons work on Sonic Pi is pedagogically interesting - http://sonic-pi.net/