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STIC 2014 dates and location?
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 30, 2014

Jan. 30, 2014

Hi guys Is there any dates and location for STIC 2014? Stef

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Really nice web site for Smalltalk job posts!
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 29, 2014

Jan. 29, 2014

Good work James! http://smalltalkjobs.wordpress.com

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Fwd: Smalltalk Digest January 2014
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 29, 2014

Jan. 29, 2014

> > If you are having trouble viewing this email message, launch your browser here. > > > January 2014 > > > Grow with Us! > > Product Team Enhancements – Be Part of Our Growing Cincom Smalltalk Team! > Let Us Help You Succeed > > Partnering for Success – Doing Our Best to Help Clients and Partners Succeed > A Worthy Cause > > Cycle for Survival – Help Win the Battle against Rare Cancers > Check It Out! > > New Tutorials – "Common Tools" Tutorial Videos to Be Launched > Conference Announcement – European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference Date and Location Announced > Making It Happen! – Smalltalk Makes the Impossible Possible > Progress in Testing – Searching for a New Testing Tool? > New Cincom® ObjectStudio® Release – Cincom ObjectStudio 8.5 Now Available! > New Cincom® VisualWorks® Release – Cincom VisualWorks 7.10 Now Available! > Performance Considerations – Concurrency and Leveraging Multi-Core PCs – The Solution? MatriX > Task Simplification – Are You Looking to Boost Application Performance? > A Shared Cornerstone – The Cincom Smalltalk Foundation > Getting the Word Out – Cincom Smalltalk and Social Media Channels > Focusing on the Customer – New Cincom Smalltalk Customer Portal > Watch It! – Cincom Smalltalk Videos and Our Presence on YouTube > Availability of Information – New Product Information Readily Available on the Cincom Smalltalk Website > Academia – The Cincom Smalltalk Academic Program > Serving the Smalltalk Community – Cincom Smalltalk Community Blogs > Smalltalk News Repositories > > News from the Cincom Smalltalk Team > Upcoming Events > > August 16-17, 2014 — Camp Smalltalk, Cambridge, England > August 18-22, 2014 — European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) Conference, Cambridge, England > Update on Smalltalk Events > Smalltalk Job Opportunities > > Visit the Smalltalk Jobs Blog > Cincom Smalltalk Team Seeks Cincom VisualWorks Senior Software Engineer > > > > 55 Merchant St. • Cincinnati, OH 45246 • phone: 800-2CINCOM • fax: 513-612-2000 > view in browser • legal notice • privacy policy • subscription preferences > Cincom, the Quadrant Logo, Cincom Smalltalk, ObjectStudio and VisualWorks > are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cincom Systems, Inc. > All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. > ©2014 Cincom Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved >

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[CFP] Dyla'14, Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications, at PLDI, Edinburgh
by Damien Cassou Jan. 23, 2014

Jan. 23, 2014

[CFP] Dyla'14, Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications, at PLDI, Edinburgh - What: 8th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications. - Where: Co-located with PLDI'14, Edinburgh, UK - When: June 12th, Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Submission deadline: March 15th More info on the website: http://www.lifl.fr/dyla14/ Dyla is a place where developers and researchers can discuss new advances in the design, implementation and application of dynamically-typed languages. The expected audience of this workshop includes practitioners and researchers sharing the same interest in dynamically-typed languages. Lua, Python, Ruby, JavaScript and others are gaining a significant popularity both in industry and academia. Nevertheless, each community has the tendency to only look at what it produces. Broadening the scope of each community is the goal of the workshop. To achieve this goal Dyla's program and organization committees are composed of leading persons from many such languages. Topics -- - live programming - programming language extensions - programming environment extensions - domain-specific languages & tooling - executing environments - static & dynamic analyses - meta-object protocols - optional type-checking - reverse engineering - testing environments Organizing committee: -- - Damien Cassou, University of Lille 1, FR - Carl Friedrich Bolz, King's College London, GB - Johan Andersson, Burtcorp in Gothenburg, SE - Roberto Ierusalimschy, Catholic Univ. in Rio de Janeiro, BR - Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE Program committee: -- - Anne Etien, University Lille 1, France - David Schneider, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, DE - Didier Verna, EPITA/LRDE, France - Edd Barrett, Department of Informatics, King's College London, GB - Joe Gibbs Politz, Brown University, USA - Peng Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA - Tim Felgentreff, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, DE - T. Stephen Strickland, University of Maryland, US - Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA - Zachary P. Beane, Portland, USA - the 5 workshop organizers Abstract: -- Java and C# have been a major influence in the adoption of object-oriented language characteristics: academic features like interfaces, garbage collection, and meta-programming became technologies generally accepted by the industry. However, with the adoption of these languages, their limitations became apparent, as testified by industry reactions: invokedynamic has been included in the latest Java virtual machine release; the dynamic language runtime (DLR) is gaining popularity; C# adopted dynamic as a valid static type. Researchers and practitioners struggle with static type systems, overly complex abstract grammars, simplistic concurrency mechanisms, limited reflection capabilities, and the absence of higher-order language constructs such as delegation, closures, and continuations. Dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Lua are a step forward in addressing these problems and are getting more and more popular. To make these languages mainstream, practitioners have to look back and pick mechanisms up in existing dynamic languages such as Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk and Self. The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where practitioners can discuss new advances in the design, implementation and application of dynamically-typed languages that, sometimes radically, diverge from the statically typed class-based mainstream. Another objective is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features in this context. Format and Submission Information -- The workshop will have a demo-oriented style. The idea is to allow participants to demonstrate new and interesting features and discuss what they feel is relevant for the dynamic-language community. To participate in the workshop, you can either - submit (before March 15th 2014) an article (ACM Tighter Alternate style) describing your presentation and/or tool. Your article, which must include from 2 to 15 pages, will be carefully reviewed by the program committee. If accepted, your article will be presented during the workshop and be published to the ACM Digital Library (at your option) and the workshop's web site. Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dyla14. - or give a 10-minute lightning demo of your work. A dedicated session will be allocated for this, provided there is ample time available. In this case, send us the title of your demo. A session on pair programming is also planned. People will then get a chance to share their technologies by interacting with other participants.

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ESUG 2014 in Cambridge
by Damien Cassou Jan. 23, 2014

Jan. 23, 2014

The ESUG board is glad to announce that the 22nd ESUG conference will be held in Cambridge, England, from August 18th to 22nd 2014. You can join us earlier at Camp Smalltalk the 16th and 17th. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014 -- Damien Cassou, on behalf of the ESUG board

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[ANN] Amber 0.12.3 released
by Nicolas Petton Jan. 22, 2014

Jan. 22, 2014

Deal Smalltalkers, After 2 months of development, we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.3. Highlights: * Several UI improvements in Helios * Subclasses of `nil` can be created * Several fixes for IE8 * amber.js can be loaded asynchronously (it must have an id 'amber-path-mapper' in that case) * JQuery updated to ~1.10.2; jquery-ui updated to match * CodeMirror updated to ~3.20.0 Commits: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/compare/0.12.2...0.12.3 Issues: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?milestone=__&state=closed API Changes: * Package Import-Export renamed to Kernel-ImportExport * A dozen of methods moved from Object to ProtoObject * HashedCollection >> at:ifAbsentPut: pushed up to SequenceableCollection * HashedCollection >> , is now allowed (removed shouldNotImplement) * HashedCollection and Dictionary both subclasses of AssociativeCollection * Smalltalk class moved to SmalltalkImage class, Smalltalk is now global var * Smalltalk current deprecated in favour of Smalltalk * Smalltalk at:[put:] deprecated in favour of Smalltalk globals at:[put:] * <smalltalk.ClassName> deprecated in favour of <globals.ClassName> + CompiledMethod >> + defaultProtocol + Behavior >> + compile:protocol: + removeProtocolIfEmpty: + Package >> + load + loadFromNamespace: + Package class >> + load: + load:fromNamespace: + PackageTransport >> load + PackageHandler >> load: + AmdPackageHandler >> load: + Set >> removeAll + AssociativeCollection class + BucketStore class + SmalltalkImage >> + globals + vm + settings + Setting class + String >> + asSetting + asSettingIfAbsent: + settingValue + settingValueIfAbsent: + settingValue: + Smalltalk global variable - CompiledMethod >> - category: (use #protocol:) - defaultCategory - Behavior >> compile:category: - HTMLCanvas class >> - browserVersion - isMSIE - isMozilla - isOpera - isWebkit Cheers, The Amber crew

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PhD Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications
by jannik laval Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

The position is available now. Interested candidates may apply as soon as possible. *Title:* Ph.D. Student Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications *Location:* Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) *Advisor and contacts:* Noury Bouraqadi (noury.bouraqadi(a)mines-douai.fr) Luc Fabresse (luc.fabresse(a)mines-douai.fr) Loïc Lagadec (loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr) Jannik Laval (jannik.laval(a)mines-douai.fr) *Profile:* the candidate must must hold a recent Master of Science degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk). *Description of the work:* The goal of this PhD is to study Smalltalk integration with FPGAs for robotic applications. This integration will enable us get the best from both worlds. Developers are provided with a high-level dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk) for building and debugging their applications. Still, we can have high performances by projecting part of the programs into FPGAs. These reconfigurable hardware chips can achieve performance faster than C programs, while consuming much less energy. The work to do can decompose into the following tasks: -Build reference robotic applications fully in Pharo Smalltalk using actual robots (see http://car.mines-douai.fr/robots/) -Analyze these applications to identify critical parts to project on FPGAs to significantly increase performances (speed, energy) -Do the actual projection to FPGA and evaluate performances of the transformed applications -Generalize the approach and define a methodology for turning Smalltalk code into FPGA -Propose a solution to automate the methodology The Ph.D student will receive a grant which net amount is approximately 1420 euros per month for 3 years (36 months). He will be co-supervised by Loïc Lagadec from the ENSTA-Bretagne (Lab-STICC, Brest) and Jannik Laval, Luc Fabresse and Noury Bouraqadi from Ecole des Mines de Douai (CAR, http://car.mines-douai.fr/) The first 18th month will be spent in Douai (Lille area), while the last half of the PhD will be spent in Brest. However, during the full 3 years, there will be a strong interaction with co-supervisers from both labs. *Bibliography:* -A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot. R. Brooks. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 2. Num 1. March, 1985. -RCS: A Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent MultiAgent Systems. J.S. Albus and A. J. Barbera. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2004). Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. -Handbook of Robotics. Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib editors. Springer. 2008. -Multi-Level Simulation of Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Platforms. D. Picard and L. Lagadec. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2012. -High-level synthesis for FPGAs: From Prototyping to Deployment. Jason cong and stephen neuendorffer and juanjo noguera and kees vissers and zhiru zhang. IEEE Transactions on Computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems. Vol. 30. Num 4. April, 2011. -The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor. S. Vassiliadis and S. Wong and G. Gaydadjiev and K. Bertels and G. Kuzmanov and E. Moscu Panainte. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2004. -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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[JOB] [Academia] Tenured Researcher Positions at Inria
by Marcus Denker Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

Tenured Researcher Positions at INRIA ======================== The yearly competition for Inria research positions started. (Deadline: Feb 14th) RMoD is looking for researchers to apply for joining our team at Lille/France with permanent (tenured) positions: CR2 "Young graduate scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/young-graduate-scientis… - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - formally no other research experience required, in practice the competition is very hard and a strong academic CV is needed on a level that requires, besides a very good PhD, at least1-2 years of post-doctoral research. CR1 "Young experienced scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/senior-researcher/ - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - 4 years of research experience. - very strong academic CV. DR2 "Senior researcher" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/senior-researcher/ - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - at least 8 years experience in research - very strong academic CV. The positions are tenured after a probation period of 12 Months. Duties --------- -> Research (No teaching) -> Help manage the Research Group. -> Be involved with the self-governance of the Inria Lab and Inria as a whole. -> Guide PhD Students (And therefore get a french habilitation to be able to formally supervise PhD students) -> Help acquiring additional funds for PhD Students, Postdocs and Engineers -> Transfer of research results to the real world. (this means: making things real is valued. Not just paper writing) 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/en/institute/inria-in-brief/key-figures -> 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>

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ESUG Twitter reaches 500 followers
by Marcus Denker Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

Hi, ESUG sometimes the last days (or weeks?) reached 500 followers on twitter! https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk Marcus

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Weekly Pharo blog is out :)
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 19, 2014

Jan. 19, 2014

Hi guys I started a blog http://association.pharo.org/web/weekly Why yet another blog? I got exhausted, sick, and I had to stop reading mails and other computer activities. Then after a couple of weeks (well I’m addict so these are days) not reading mails about Pharo I realise that there is no condensed information where you are not forced to read hundreds of mails to know what is happening. Since I need to cure myself and relax, I decided that I will batch my Pharo email reading (Yes I can) and I will extract blog entries because emails vanished under their own stream. They will not be polished but you will find information about our crazy moving fast community. And I hope that you will enjoy it. Stéphane http://stephane.ducassse.free.fr

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