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[JOB, Academia] PhD Position at INRIA Lille

by Marcus Denker

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

Feb. 27, 2012

[vwnc] Call for Submission on Special issue on "Advances in Dynamic Languages"

by Andres Valloud

================================================ 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

Feb. 20, 2012

[JOB, Academia] three-year Researcher Positions at INRIA

by Marcus Denker

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

Feb. 17, 2012

Job Opening...

by Stéphane Ducasse

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

Feb. 17, 2012

24-25 May 2012: Pharo conference registration is ready

by Stéphane Ducasse

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

Feb. 13, 2012

[JOB, Academia] Postdoc Chile/France

by Marcus Denker

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

Feb. 9, 2012

Re: [Esug-list] ESUG Experience Day

by Niall Ross

Dear Joachim et al, a few thoughts on your criteria for a Smalltalk industry conference, FWIW, mostly arising from my ESUG 2011 preparatory research. Joachim Tuchel wrote: > * Speakers have to provide relevant (from the point of view of a > Smalltalk legacy project) content. It doesn't necessarily have to be > new / exciting content, but relevant to today's Smalltalk projects. In > big corporations, these often need to catch up with technologies that > were considered bleeding edge 10 years ago. But still they are > relevant for these projects. This is not to say that newer topics > should be kept out of an industry conference, but they should be > introduced in a way that put them in perspective of such a project. > This is the most important point to me. If your aim is a compelling case for sizable numbers of legacy project attenders, the "why should you attend" question is best answered by a mix of experience reports from commercial projects and topic talks that have relevance to introducing some no-longer-bleeding-edge technology to an existing project, e.g. to its evolving requirements. Like you, I think some bleeding edge topics add value, but only if the above are met. > * It should be during normal working season, not in the summer or > winter holidays When preparing ESUG 2011, I did an analysis of attendance at prior conferences, both totals and specifically looking at attendees from the non-academic world. _Within_ _that_ _range_ (mid-August up to mid-September, the latter being outside the holiday season by most definitions), there was not the correlation your point would suggest; au contraire, the best numbers seemed to cluster round the traditional dates. However the effect was not strong (and of course, interacted with many other factors) and it could be that comparison with something well away from the holiday season would show a different effect. I also did anecdotal research which comments on both this and your next point. ... > * It must take place on a weekday between tuesday and thursday. Only > Geeks stay until like to travel home on friday evening or even stay > until saturday morning. > ... This is only one example of personal and country/culture effects. Some people indeed want Tuesday to Thursday. Others want the convenience of starting or ending on a weekend. Some want holiday season so they can piggy-back holiday before or after the conference - just on a weekend or a whole other week. Camp Smalltalkers, of course, want their weekend. Others of course, very much don't want that. The when of holiday season also varies: America has less annual holiday than the UK or Europe, and that affects when they think 'holiday season' starts and ends. To sum up that para: it is not only Greek Smalltalkers who do not conform to your rule. :-) There is no one right answer for the Smalltalk comunity and whatever you choose you will lose as well as gain. Such data as I know suggests that the kind of conference that ESUG is seems to suit its typical date, commercial as well as academically, at least as against small variations of them. IIRC, the ST vendor conferences choose much different dates (e.g. late May or early December). As I expect you know, avoiding dates that are close to some other event important to some segment of the audience can also be quite a task. Mere length is an issue. the data suggests ESUG's week-long conference (plus weekend for Camp Smalltalkers) derives more gain than loss from its in/near-holiday-season dates; the calculation for a shorter one could differ. Smalltalk solutions usually puts its three days at the start of a weekend, as it is doing this year, sometimes at the end of a weekend. Offhand, I do not recall an StS in the middle of a week. The start or end week dates have certainly suited me in the past, and I assume it suits at least some others or STIC would have been pressed to change things. And, of course, mere length increases cost (both financial cost and opportunity cost). There are Smalltalkers who do not find it easy to leave work alone for a day, and told me they'd attend some ESUG 2011 morning or afternoon sessions if and only if the venue were close enough that they could also be in the office that day. That is an extreme case, but informative. Length and location interact in various ways. One feature of start-week dates is the cheaper transatlantic air fares you can get by travelling out on Saturday - often more than enough to counterbalance the cost of accommodation for that night. Some commercial attenders are cash-rich and time-poor and for them that is not a consideration. Others have cost-related levels of approval where it does matter. Weekend also affects perceived length: if a transatlantic conference starts Tuesday, the employer loses the Monday travelling time, whereas if it starts on Monday, the employee loses it. That can affect whether the employer wants to send them (always negatively) and whether the employee wants to go (negatively or positively: I have several times arranged journeys to visit friends I seldom see over the weekend and so break up travel, making reaching a distant conference less arduous). To a degree, the same thing applies to nearer conferences. > * It must take place in a country where many businesses use Smalltalk. > The ESUG data certainly suggests that having a sizable Smalltalk group near at hand is a driver. > There may be people from other countries, but few of them. > Not true of ESUG but I assume you're thinking it will be true of the kind of conference you have in mind. > If we want to meet people from several countries, we need a little > road show that travels to two or three countries in Europe. > That reduces the cost to attendees by raising it to organisers - good if the conference can afford it. There is one downside to attenders - you meet fewer people outside the range you meet anyway at your national STUG and similar: the smaller individual meetings may have less buzz. That ends my comments. Here are my personal preferences, provided simply as a data point.: - I prefer start or end of week dates, for financial, flexibility, holiday-piggybacking and see-more-of-fellow-attenders reasons. In-holiday-season is neither a special plus nor a minus.. - All my time in Smalltalk, I've been on the time-rich, cash-poor side of the equation: as an employee, my task has always been to get persmission to spend the money, never to get permission for the time away; when a contractor, of course, I made my own time decisions and paid my own bills. HTH Niall Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________

Feb. 1, 2012

Cancel or Not the conference? **Important** Pharo Conference Call for Date Feedback

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys So far I got only 4 replies so I will wait until next monday and if there is no more feedback than that we will probably cancel the conference. Stef On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Feb. 1, 2012