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[JOB, Academia] PhD Position at INRIA Lille
by Marcus Denker Feb. 27, 2012

Feb. 27, 2012

INRIA has a new call for PhD Student positions. Description ============ To support the creation and evolution of complex systems, dynamic languages provide support for reflection. A reflective system contains a model of itself to enable runtime change: if we change the model, the system changes and vice versa. Reflection allows the programmer to do any kind of change at runtime, even those that render the system useless or breach any kind of security guarantees. Reflection is an established research theme and has seen a lot of work over the last decades. The question of how to control reflection and related that of secure reflective systems in general has not seen much research activity. The goal of this PhD is to propose a new secure reflective language kernel for dynamic languages. The following points should be explored: - Study existing models of security. - Study existing reflective systems and especially prior work on security and reflection. - Propose a new, secure model of reflection. - Implemented the model in a dynamic, object-oriented language. References =========== - Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse, Damien Pollet, Alexandre Bergel, and Mathieu Suen. Read-Only Execution for Dynamic Languages. In Proceedings of the 48th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns (TOOLS'10), Malaga, Spain, 2010. - Marcus Denker, Mathieu Suen, and Stéphane Ducasse. The Meta in meta-object architectures. In Proceedings of TOOLS EUROPE 2008, volume 11 of LNBIP, pages 218–237, 2008. - Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse, Markus Gaelli and Roel Wuyts, “On the Revival of Dynamic Languages,” Proceedings of Software Composition 2005, Thomas Gschwind and Uwe Aßmann (Eds.), vol. 3628, LNCS 3628, 2005, pp. 1-13 - Mark S. Miller and Jonathan S. Shapiro. Paradigm Regained: Abstraction Mechanisms for Access Control. In Proceedings of the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, p. 224-242, 2003. Skills and Profile ==================== - You must hold a Master's in computer science, control engineering, mathematics, scientific computation or an equivalent diploma. - Nationality is not taken into consideration. - Knowledge in programming language design - Object-oriented programming with knowledge of Smalltalk About Lille and INRIA: ====================== - Lille is located in the north of France at the border to Belgium - one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train. - French food, combined with belgian beer. - RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr - INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ - INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr - Lille: -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille -http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Benefits ======== - Duration : 36 months – starting date of the contract : October 2012, 15th - Salary: 1957,54 EUR the first two years and 2058,84 EUR the third year Monthly salary after taxes: around 1597,11 EUR the 1st two years and 1679,76 EUR the 3rd year (social security included). - Possibility of French courses - Help for housing - Scientific Resident card and help for husband/wife visa Additional Information ====================== - Application deadline: 4 May 2012 - Info on INRIA PhD Positions 2012: http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/phd/campaign-2012 - Before applying, please contact the scientist advisor: marcus.denker(a)inria.fr Permanent URL of this call: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2012-02-27 All RMOD Jobs: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Jobs -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[vwnc] Call for Submission on Special issue on "Advances in Dynamic Languages"
by Andres Valloud Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

================================================ Special issue on "Advances in Dynamic Languages" ================================================ Special issue of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming (SCICO) Context ------- Over recent years we have seen an increased interest in dynamic programming languages such as Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, PHP, JavaScript, Self, Python, Ruby, and so on. These languages have taken a prominent role in teaching, web development, scripting, rapid prototyping, tool building, language engineering, and many other domains. For this special issue we invite high-quality papers that focus on novel research related to dynamic programming languages and applications of these languages. We are interested in research that uses dynamic languages in the context of, but not restricted to: - Aspects, aspect Languages and applications. - Ambient intelligence, ubiquitous / pervasive computing and embedded systems. - Compilation technology, optimization, virtual machines. - Language engineering, extensions. - Model-driven engineering / development. - Meta-modeling, reflection and meta-programming. - Programming in the large; design, architectures and components. - Programming environments, browsers, user interfaces, UI frameworks. - Source-code analysis and manipulation (static analysis, refactoring, type inference, metrics). - Testing, eXtreme Programming / practices. - Web services, internet applications, event-driven programming. - Experience reports. The special issue is associated with the Smalltalks 2011 conference. The Smalltalks series of conferences (www.fast.org.ar) is a lively forum on Smalltalk-based software technologies that brings together more than 200 people from both academia and industry for a period of three days. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be written in English, in PDF-format and should not exceed 25 pages (including references and figures), using the Elsevier journal format. The LaTeX template for this format can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex Papers must be submitted through the EES submission system located at http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp. When reaching the "Article type" step in the submission process, it is important to select "Special issue: Advances in Dynamic Languages". Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 experts within the domain. The accepted papers will be published in a special edition of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming. Papers submitted must not have been previously published (at least 30% new material) and must not be under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must strictly adhere to submission guidelines. If you have questions, please send an e-mail to Jannik Laval (jlaval(a)labri.fr) and Andy Kellens (akellens(a)vub.ac.be) Important dates (tentatively) ----------------------------- - Submission round 1: March 16, 2012 - Feedback round 1: May 17, 2012 - Submission round 2: June 29, 2012 - Feedback round 2 (final notification): August 17, 2012 - Camera ready version: September 14, 2012 Guest editors ------------- - Andy Kellens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Jannik Laval (LaBRI Bordeaux, France) . _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc

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[JOB, Academia] three-year Researcher Positions at INRIA
by Marcus Denker Feb. 17, 2012

Feb. 17, 2012

INRIA has a new call for three-year Researcher positions. RMOD is looking for researchers to apply for joining our team at Inria Lille. -Six "Starting Research Positions" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/starting-research-posit… -Have a French doctorate or an equivalent international degree; -From 2 to 7 years experience in research (after the thesis); -No age or nationality conditions. -Two "Advanced Research Positions" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/advanced-research-posit… -Have a French doctorate or an equivalent international degree; -Be able to prove at least eight years of research and/or post-doctoral academic or industrial experience; -No age or nationality conditions. DEADLINE for both is March 10, 2012. At RMOD, Research directions are - Software Engineering / Software Evolution - Dynamic Reflective Programing Languages - Security and Dynamic Languages About Lille and INRIA: ------------------------------ - Lille is located in the north of france. - one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train. - French food, combined with good Belgium beer. - RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr - INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille - INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr - Lille: --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille --http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Interested? Please contact Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> and Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> For all RMOD Jobs, see: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Jobs -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Job Opening...
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 17, 2012

Feb. 17, 2012

Begin forwarded message: > From: S Krish <krishnamachari.sudhakar(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Pharo-project] Opening... > Date: February 16, 2012 10:13:08 PM GMT+01:00 > To: pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > Reply-To: Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://ie.linkedin.com/jobs/jobs-Smalltalk-Senior-Software-2124837 > > Just in case I can put it in perspective.. . > > This is a VA App of about 3 million lines of code.. > > Ported to Java and now live. The VA work is now to maintain and sustain it till Java can get its handle over all the major implementations over the years ahead. > > That said it is great base, built over the last 19 years from a Enfin Smalltalk base, comparable to Kapital.. though a different domain that is vast and complex financial market. > > Fun to master the domain and its implementation therein in Smalltalk. > > -Skrish

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24-25 May 2012: Pharo conference registration is ready
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 13, 2012

Feb. 13, 2012

http://pharoconference.eventbrite.com/ The Pharo core team organises a Pharo Conference hosted at INRIA Lille Nord Europe located at Villeneuve D'ascq (close to Lille). Pharo is an open-source Smalltalk http://www.pharo-project.org The goals of the conference is to bring companies, developers and users together. You are invited to propose a talk on - your business with pharo - a technical presentation of a framework or solution you built with pharo - experience reports Please contact stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr and marcus.denker(a)inria.fr for possible presentations. Stef

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[JOB, Academia] Postdoc Chile/France
by Marcus Denker Feb. 9, 2012

Feb. 9, 2012

Postdoc position in software engineering at University of Chile in cooperation with INRIA ===================================================================== A post-doctoral research position is available with the Pleiad Lab (University of Chile) and the RMoD Group (INRIA Lille Nord Europe). The position is targeted for research on software maintenance and software visualization. Validation of research hypotheses will be carried out using the Pharo programming language. Experience with it, or any other Smalltalk dialect, is a plus (but not necessary). The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to develop independent research initiatives within the scope of the position, design and contribute to the research experiments conducted by Pleiad and RMoD. There is no teaching duty associated with this position. Both Pleiad and RMoD offer a creative, productive and multicultural staff and students, with many collaboration opportunities. Pleiad and RMoD have an extensive expertise and an advanced infrastructure related to software analysis, data mining, testing, meta-modeling and language semantics. The position is funded by INRIA for a period of 12 or 18 months. In order to foster the collaboration between France and Chili, the candidate will have to share his time between Lille, France and Santiago, Chile. The candidate must hold a PhD in computer science, finished max 2 years ago. Contact Persons: Alexandre Bergel and Stéphane Ducasse More about... - PLEIAD: http://pleiad.dcc.uchile.cl - RMOD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr - Pharo: http://www.pharo-project.org - Moose: http://www.moosetechnology.org (permanent link of this call: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2012-02-09) -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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ESUG Experience Day
by Janko Mivšek Feb. 1, 2012

Feb. 1, 2012

Hi guys, To attract more business oriented people back to Smalltalk, let we organize one day of ESUG conference for business oriented content. For start let we name it simply as an ESUG Experience day. So that its intention is clear and attractive for those people. And let we do some marketing in this direction too. And all in one day, those people cannot afford a whole week for a mostly technical conference. I know from my experience that presentations of real Smalltalk systems convinced me to Smalltalk back in 1995, when I visited my first ESUG in Utrecht/NL. It was at the IBM building and much more business people around. This gave me an impression of seriousness of Smalltalk. Also content was half technical half experiences/business oriented. Also from talks with those people you actually get a feeling what tool is considered professional and accepted for more business oriented development, which is a stated goal of Pharo, for instance. Getting those people together with Pharo development team can really help. For presenters is also a plus because they come in contact with potential customers, even some long standing business partnership can start at such an opportunity. What do you think? Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si

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**Important** Pharo Conference Call for Date Feedback
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 1, 2012

Feb. 1, 2012

Hi guys We want to organize a Pharo Conference @ lille around business and companies in May/June 2012. Now we need you to understand what is the best to organize because we have some constraints (like not good access to rooms on saturday). Could you reply to the following questions: Are you planning to attend: Yes No Would you attend two days: Yes No Would you like to present something: Yes No Would you prefer to have (remove the one you do not like) - one friday and one saturday or - two days during the week would be not a problem. Would you like to have Handons: Yes No Business/Experience returns: Yes No What are the following dates that are ok for you? Frid 11- Satur 12 May 2012: Yes No Thur 10- Frid 11 May 2012: Yes No Mond 14- Tuesd 15 May 2012: Yes No Tuesd 15- Wedn 16 May 2012: Yes No Thur 24 - Frid 25 May 2012: Yes No Frid 25- Satur 26 May 2012: Yes No Stef

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