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Re: [Esug-list] [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF

by Nowak, Helge

Dear all, I have received several interesting suggestions about innovative ideas, on this list and privately. I would love to see these pursued! Unfortunately this competition is for _German_ universities and research institutes only. And the idea givers come from elsewhere. Thus we would need a German research group who would take these ideas and bring them to life. And, we would need permission and support by the idea givers to use and implement their ideas. Whether this would result in any remuneration? I don't know. Are there people out there who would want to take this challenge? If yes, I would be happy to help coordinate things. Cheers Helge [cross-posted to ESUG] Helge Nowak Cincom Smalltalk Technical Account Manager Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Humboldtstraße 3 60318 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY office mobile website email +49 89 89 66 44 94 +49 172 74 00 402 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com hnowak(a)cincom.com A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Donald E. Vick oHG mit Sitz/based in Frankfurt am Main (Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRA 50297) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) --- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT --- This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be privileged and confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited, please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alexandre Bergel [mailto:alexandre.bergel@me.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. April 2019 04:11 An: mpirogovsky(a)aol.com Cc: Bernhard Höfner <bernhard.hoefner(a)web.de>; Nowak, Helge <HNowak(a)cincom.com>; VisualWorks mailing list list <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu> Betreff: Re: [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF Hello, Just to share a bit of the work being done in the Southern Hemisphere: - The book https://agileartificialintelligence.github.io is going well, and will be published by Apress - Popular AI libraries written in Python are accessible from Smalltalk. Here is a report about it: http://bergel.eu/MyPapers/Infa18a-Keras.pdf I can provide more information if necessary... Cheers, Alexandre > On Apr 16, 2019, at 3:35 PM, mark pirogovsky <mpirogovsky(a)aol.com> wrote: > > About AI in Smaltalk: > > > Bernhard Höfner wrote: >> Thank you, Helge, I had no clue but I felt something like this. >> …at least it would be an excellent advertisement for Smalltalk when >> it succeeds and therefore maybe it would be worth to harness the forces in the Smalltalk community, no matter if Squeak, Pharo, VisualWorks… But Smalltalk will not have any effect without an excellent partner for hardware and for AI algorithms. Maybe the suitable Fraunhofer institute? At least they invented mp3. > > In mid 90ies I was part of the Smalltalk project where the Neural network was paired with the distributed computing and n-tier architecture. The Neural Net part was running on bunch of Windows computers running Win 3.1. Each of the PC would get data from the central Database, analyze and learn from it and post suggestion and modes to neural network back to the database. > > The effectiveness was quite amazing. It was in real production for a > while. I wonder if something like this still quietly exists in some > bank or investment place or CIA > >> From the early 90th I know that much of the pretended slowness of Smalltalk was absorbed by the more efficient programs due to better analysis, concepts, design and development tools (and maybe developers ? ). >> >> Best Regards, Bernhard > > Today reincarnation of the VisualWorks performs just as good as many compiled languages thanks to the VM optimization and excellent JIT algorithms.

April 30, 2019

Re: [Esug-list] [preANN] ESUG 2019: Cologne Aug 26 to 30

by Philippe Marschall

Hello Marcus Do you already know whether and if so when there will be a Camp Smalltalk? I know you're probably very busy with a lot of more important things but it would help me, and hopefully others, book a hotel and flight in advance. Cheers Philippe On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:43 AM Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are happy to announce that we finally managed to fix everything for the 2019 edition: > > ZWEIDENKER is hosting ESUG 2019 in Cologne/Germany. It will be the last week of August (26 to 30). > > The address of the conference venue is: > Stadtgarten, Venloer Strasse 40, 50672 Köln / Germany > https://www.stadtgarten.de/en/stadtgarten/anfahrt > > We will add more information about Hotels and open the reservation system as soon as possible. > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

April 28, 2019

Call for Papers, The Programming Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2

by Fabio Niephaus

======================================================================== The Programming Journal The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Call for Papers for Volume 4, Issue 2 http://programming-journal.org/cfp/ Follow us @programmingconf ======================================================================== The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming was created with the goal of placing the wonderful art of programming on the map of scholarly works. Many academic journals and conferences exist that publish research related to programming, starting with programming languages, software engineering, and expanding to the whole Computer Science field. Yet, many of us feel that, as the field of Computer Science expanded, programming, in itself, has been neglected to a secondary role not worthy of scholarly attention. That is a serious gap, as much of the progress in Computer Science lies on the basis of computer programs, the people who write Them, and the concepts and tools available to them to express computational tasks. The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming aims at closing this gap by focusing primarily on programming: the art itself (programming styles, pearls, models, languages), the emerging science of understanding what works and what doesn’t work in general and in specific contexts, as well as more established engineering and mathematical perspectives. We solicit papers describing work from one of the following perspectives: Art: knowledge and technical skills acquired through practice and personal experiences. Examples include libraries, frameworks, languages, APIs, programming models and styles, programming pearls, and essays about programming. Science (Theoretical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through mathematical formalisms. Examples include formal programming models and proofs. Science (Empirical): knowledge and technical skills acquired through experiments and systematic observations. Examples include user studies and programming-related data mining. Engineering: knowledge and technical skills acquired through designing and building large systems and through calculated application of principles in building those systems. Examples include measurements of artifacts’ properties, development processes and tools, and quality assurance methods. Independent of the type of work, the journal accepts submissions covering several areas of expertise, including but not limited to: - General-purpose programming - Data mining and machine learning programming, and for programming - Database programming - Distributed systems programming - Graphics and GPU programming - Interpreters, virtual machines, and compilers - Metaprogramming and reflection - Model-based development - Modularity and separation of concerns - Parallel and multi-core programming - Program verification - Programming education - Programming environments - Security programming - Social coding - Testing and debugging - User interface programming - Visual and live programming All details, including the selection process are described on http://programming-journal.org/cfp/ Details on the submission processed are available at http://programming-journal.org/submission/ Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present at the <Programming>’20 conference in Porto, Portugal from March 23-26: https://2020.programming-conference.org/ ## Upcoming Deadlines We solicit submissions for the following upcoming deadlines: Submission: June 1 First notification: August 1 Revised submission: September 1 Final notification: September 7 Camera-ready: September 15 We’ll also solicit submissions for Issue 3, for full details, see: https://programming-journal.org/timeline/ ## Standing Review Committee Volume 4 Christophe Scholliers, Ghent University Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Didier Verna, EPITA / LRDE France Diego Garbervetsky University of Buenos Aires Edd Barrett, King's College London Erik Ernst, Google Felienne Hermans, Leiden University Francisco Sant'Anna, Rio de Janeiro State University Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität Gordana Rakic, University of Novi Sad Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Jonathan Edwards, US Jun Kato, AIST Japan Luke Church, University of Cambridge Matthew Flatt, University of Utah Michael L. Van De Vanter, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Nicolás Cardozo, Universidad de los Andes Colombia Stephen Kell, University of Kent ## Editors Stefan Marr (Editor Volume 4), University of Kent Cristina V. Lopes (Editor-in-Chief), University of California, Irvine

April 25, 2019

Small Pharo developer contract

by Stéphane Ducasse

Hi guys This may interest some of you. Stef -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 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

April 20, 2019

[Ann] VA Smalltalk News: April 17, 2019

by Mariano Martinez Peck

Greetings All, Instantiations pushed out a big news announcement today! Lots and lots happening...VA Smalltalk is definitely moving forward! Check out the announcement: https://mailchi.mp/instantiations/va-smalltalk-news-april-17 Kind Regards, -- Mariano Martinez Peck Email: marianopeck(a)gmail.com Twitter: @MartinezPeck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-mart%C3%ADnez-peck/

April 17, 2019

Re: [Esug-list] [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF

by Nowak, Helge

Dear Bernhard, Alexandre and all, Thanks Bernhard for pointing to this. I would have missed it completely… The German BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung = German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology) started this competition for German universities and public research centers. It is targeted at increasing energy efficiency for AI systems. The aim is to increase Germany’s competencies and competitiveness in this sector which is deemed to be a future key technology with the potential of disruptive innovation. It is clear that the energy efficiency is less determined by what programming language is used and what virtual machine is run on some standard hardware. The real gains are rather found in maybe novel algorithms, surely in novel hardware architectures and implementations. Indeed, when you look at the details of the competition (link below) that is exactly the case: any proposed solutions submitted to the competition must belong to one of three categories: FPGAs, ASIC s in 130 nm technology or ASICs in FDSOI technology. Close hardware/software co-design is explicitly requested. Not eligible are solutions that only optimize software components or use commercially available hardware unchanged. Does this mean that this competition is of no interest to ambitious Smalltalkers? No! In contrary. With Smalltalk being a perfect interactive modeling, exploration and simulation tool we Smalltalkers can help our competition team to build, explore and optimize their ideas before and while building them in hardware. Also hardware is nothing without software. Smalltalk is in my view best positioned to execute the desired co-design in a co-evolutionary way. Certainly we could demonstrate modern “agile” engineering approaches as a side-means to increase competitiveness. Everyone interested should take a look at the competition here: https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-2371.html (in German, obviously). Please also forward to all people who might be interested. Cheers Helge Helge Nowak Cincom Smalltalk Technical Account Manager [http://internal.cincom.com/signature/logo.png]<http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/> Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Humboldtstraße 3 60318 Frankfurt am Main GERMANY office mobile website email +49 89 89 66 44 94 +49 172 74 00 402 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com hnowak(a)cincom.com A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero. -- Albert Einstein Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Donald E. Vick oHG mit Sitz/based in Frankfurt am Main (Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main HRA 50297) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) --- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT --- This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be privileged and confidential. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited, please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. Von: Alexandre Bergel [mailto:alexandre.bergel@me.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 12. April 2019 19:08 An: Bernhard Höfner <bernhard.hoefner(a)web.de> Cc: VisualWorks mailing list list <vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu>; pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org Betreff: Re: [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF Hello, We conducted some experiment in characterizing virtual machine from an energetic point of view. Results are not public yet. This is just to say this is a topic that I am interested in. Cheers, Alexandre On Apr 11, 2019, at 5:29 PM, Bernhard Höfner <bernhard.hoefner(a)web.de<mailto:bernhard.hoefner@web.de>> wrote: Hello Group, the German BMBF advertised a reward for the most energy efficient AI system, see: https://www.bmbf.de/de/mehr-ki-erfordert-weniger-energie-8156.html (in German), and I am wondering what is the position of Smalltalk in that field or what it could be. From the early 90th I know that much of the pretended slowness of Smalltalk was absorbed by the more efficient programs due to better analysis, concepts, design and development tools (and maybe developers ? ). Best Regards, Bernhard

April 15, 2019