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Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop at ECOOP | Call for Papers

by Robert Hirschfeld

Call for Papers *** Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop *** July 18 (Mon), 2016 Co-located with ECOOP 2016 in Rome 2016.ecoop.org/track/PX-2016 programming-experience.org/px16 === Abstract === Imagine a software development task. Some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. <crossfade to developers exiting the vast workroom> The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it's exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly ("liveness"); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop. === Submissions === Submissions are solicited for Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16). The thrust of the workshop is to explore the human experience of programming—what it feels like to program, or more accurately, what it should feel like. The technical topics include exploratory programming, live programming, authoring, representation of active content, visualization, navigation, modularity mechanisms, immediacy, literacy, fluency, learning, tool building, and language engineering. Submissions by academics, professional programmers, and non-professional programmer are welcome. Submissions can be in any form and format, including but not limited to papers, presentations, demos, videos, panels, debates, essays, writers' workshops, and art. Presentation slots will be between 30 minutes and one hour, depending on quality, form, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions directed toward publication should be so marked, and the program committee will engage in peer review for all such papers. Video publication will be arranged. All artifacts are to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=px16) Papers and essays must be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format (10 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style, http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) There is no page limit on submitted papers and essays. It is, however, the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested and motivated to read the paper. Reviewers are under no obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper or essay if they do not find the initial part of it interesting. === Format === Paper presentations, presentations without papers, live demonstrations, performances, videos, panel discussions, debates, writers' workshops, art galleries, dramatic readings. === Review === Papers and essays labeled as publications will undergo standard peer review; other submissions will be reviewed for relevance and quality; shepherding will be available. === Important dates === Submissions: April 15, 2016 (anywhere in the world) Notifications: May 13, 2016 PX/16: July 18, 2016 === Publication === Papers and essays accepted through peer review will be published as part of ACM's Digital Library; video publication on Vimeo or other streaming site; other publication on the PX workshop website. === Organizers === Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard P. Gabriel, Dreamsongs and IBM Almaden Research Center, United States Hidehiko Masuhara, Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan === Program committee === Carl Friedrich Bolz, King's College London, United Kingdom Gilad Bracha, Google, United States Andrew Bragdon, Twitter, United States Jonathan Edwards, CDG Labs, United States Jun Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, United States Yoshiki Ohshima, Viewpoints Research Institute, United States Michael Perscheid, SAP Innovation Center, Germany Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Marcel Taeumel, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Alessandro Warth, SAP Labs, United States === Flyer === http://programming-experience.org/px16/media/PX16CfP.pdf -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

March 10, 2016

Upcoming deadlines SPLASH'16 in Amsterdam: OOPSLA & Onward!

by Tijs van der Storm

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ # Important dates OOPSLA Papers: * Submissions due: March 23, 2016 * Author Response: May 19 - May 21, 2016 * Author Notification: June 1, 2016 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2016 Onward! Papers & Essays: * Submissions due: April 1, 2016 * First notification: May 20, 2016 * Revised papers: July 15, 2016 * Final notification: July 31, 2016 * Camera ready: August 26, 2016 # SPLASH 2016 The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, systems, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ## OOPSLA Research Papers Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Wed 23 March, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla ## Onward! Research Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward-2016-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward2016-essays ## More information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2016.splashcon.org Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University) Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes (University of California, Irvine) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Michael Hind (IBM Research) and Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) /************************************************************************************/ -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

March 9, 2016

Why you should follow the Pharo mooc :)

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear ESUGers and others I really encourage you to register and follow the Pharo Mooc. https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about?platform=hootsu… I do not imagine that you will learn something about our lovely language but the idea behind the mooc is to offer for free all the mooc resources - videos (around 80 videos including lectures) - slides (61 lectures) - exercises - quiz - miniprojects to the community to push people to give lectures. So following the mooc can you you arguments to push people to teach Smalltalk. For your information, the building of this mooc has been estimated to 180 K Euros. In addition, the number of participants to the mooc is a criteria of success and there too we are watched. There is a python mooc of course. Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

March 7, 2016

smart Smalltalker and more available :)

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi smalltalker friends Anthony is looking for a job in a non english speaking country with nice cultural events. Contact him directly. > Greetings vwnc-ers and, by extension, vw-deviants > > I am leaving the Cincom VisualWorks dev team. It's been a pleasure interacting with you all, and in some cases, chatting, even when it has been a bit spiky :) > > I will be somewhat footloose and fancy-free. If anyone has a need for an experienced Smalltalker (the architect and implementor of UISkinning and UILayout), especially one with additional extensive frontend/JS/Java/Swift/ObjC/Haskell/React/Reactive/Clojure/Erlang/Ruby, startup, and design experience, I'd love to hear from you. I'm especially keen on moving, either to the east coast of Australia (BNE/SYD/MEL), Europe/UK, or north-east US (NY/MA/VT et al). > > Cheers, > > Antony Blakey > -------------------------- > Ph: +61 438 840 787 > > Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. > -- Flower A. Newhouse > Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

March 5, 2016

PDF4Smalltalk 1.4 release

by Stéphane Ducasse

Dear all, Version 1.4 of the PDF library PDF4Smalltalk has been released to the public store (with MIT licence). The library now supports Smalltalk images (pictures) to be inserted into PDFs. There is some documentation: http://christianhaider.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pdf:images <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__christianhaider.de_doku…> . Any Smalltalk image can be added to a PDF (with masks and alpha transparency). The attachment is a demo page as a teaser. The implementation is supposed to be complete in the sense that ALL Smalltalk images should be convertible to PDF. With a drawback: due to missing image compression algorithms (JPEG, JBIG2 and others), not the most space saving representation is used (only Zip compression). Also, not all images found in PDFs can be converted to Smalltalk images. This is again due to missing image compression filters and, for PDF images with other color spaces than /DeviceRGB and /DeviceGray, due to missing color conversion methods. The feature is well tested and reasonable efficient. But, of course, there will be bugs I don’t know about. Please, if you see something fishy, tell me and I’ll fix it. The library works in all VisualWorks versions from 7.10 up (Jenkins tested). Is there anyone who uses the library with previous versions of VisualWorks? Happy hacking, Christian christian.haider(a)smalltalked-visuals.com <mailto:christian.haider@smalltalked-visuals.com> P.S. This overdue feature was realized thanks to the encouragement of Bob Nemec, author of Report4PDF, and funding from his employer, the Canadian engineering company HTS. P.P.S. I am going to move my business more towards PDF and I will try to develop tools and services around PDF. If anybody knows projects interested in PDF related work, I would be glad to hear about it J . -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr <http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/> http://www.synectique.eu <http://www.synectique.eu/> / http://www.pharo.org <http://www.pharo.org/> 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

March 2, 2016