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Call for Participation: <Programming> 2019
by Fabio Niephaus Feb. 18, 2019

Feb. 18, 2019

<Programming> 2019 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 1-4, 2019, Genova, Italy http://2019.programming-conference.org The International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming is a new conference focused on programming topics including the experience of programming. We have named it <Programming> for short. The conference is co located with the 12th European Lisp Symposium, several workshops, a poster and a demo session and the student research competition. Registration: February 25, 2019 (Early Registration Deadline) Register: https://2019.programming-conference.org/attending/Registration Venue: Hotel Bristol Palace, Genova https://2018.splashcon.org/venue/splash-2018-venue Keynotes: Heather Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) Lars Bak (Toitware Aps) Workshops PX/19 ProWeb’19 MiniPLOP ICW: Interconnecting Code Workshop MoreVMs’19 Salon des Refusés CoCoDo VPT Co-located Symposia 12th European Lisp Symposium (ELS) Invited Talks MoreVMs’19: Guilherme Ottoni (Facebook) ELS: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) ELS: Stefan Monnier (Université de Montréal) ELS: Christophe Rhodes (Goldsmiths, University of London) ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Davide Ancona, University of Genova Local Organizing Chair: Elena Zucca, University of Genova Program Chair: Matthew Flatt, University of Utah Organizing Committee: Walter Cazzola (Workshops Co-Chair), Università degli Studi di Milano Luca Franceschini (Student Volunteer Co-Chair), DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Philipp Haller (Student Research Competition Co-chair), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Maurizio Leotta (Poster Co-Chair), DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Stefan Marr (Workshops Co-Chair), University of Kent Toni Mattis (Student Volunteer Co-Chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany Ana Milanova (Student Research Competition Co-Chair), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Fabio Niephaus (Publicity Co-Chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Tobias Pape (Web Technology Chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Manuel Rigger (Demo Chair), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Coen De Roover (Poster Co-Chair), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Guido Salvaneschi (Publicity Co-Chair), TU Darmstadt, Germany Program Committee: Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Oakland University Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano Ravi Chugh, University of Chicago Joeri De Koster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Michael Greenberg, Pomona College Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, University of Potsdam Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Kell, University of Cambridge Stefan Marr, University of Kent Tamara Rezk, Inria Joshua Sunshine, Carnegie Mellon University Steffen Zschaler, King's College London ******************************************************** <Programming> 2019 is kindly supported by AOSA ******************************************************** For more information, visit http://2019.programming-conference.org

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[ANN] Registration for Pharo Days 2019 open!
by Esteban Lorenzano Feb. 11, 2019

Feb. 11, 2019

Dear all, I am pleased to announce that registration for Pharo Days 2019 is now open! Pharo days is a gathering of the Pharo community to exchange, discuss and code with your online colleagues. Join us to share your experiences and help to make a better Pharo! To register, please proceed to the Pharo Days 2019 web page: https://pharo.org/2019PharoDays <https://pharo.org/2019PharoDays>, or go directly to the association event: https://association.pharo.org/event-3255426 <https://association.pharo.org/event-3255426>. (Yes, the schedule is still to be defined, stay tuned). If there are any questions or problems, I am happy to answer them. Esteban Ps: I’m sorry for multiple posts ;)

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Camp Smalltalk Charlotte 2019 Update!
by Mariano Martinez Peck Feb. 4, 2019

Feb. 4, 2019

Hello Smalltalkers, Camp Smalltalk Charlotte 2019 is looking good! At this point we are over half full. Looks like some cool demos using different Smalltalk dialects are already lining up. A google groups forum has been created for attendees so everyone can collaborate beforehand. Attendees will get an invitation for group access shortly after registering. This event is happening March 29th – March 31st 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Please register for the event as spots will be limited. Event details and registration info are available at the following link: Camp Smalltalk Charlotte 2019 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fcamp-sm…> Hope to see you there! -- Mariano https://twitter.com/MartinezPeck http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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Dates of ESUG 2019 ?
by Johan Brichau Jan. 31, 2019

Jan. 31, 2019

Hi, Are the dates for ESUG 2019 determined? I was searching for info but could not find anything. It would be great to know them when planning our holidays to make sure not to miss the conference ;) cheers Johan Brichau

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ESUG 2018 Videos
by Sean P. DeNigris Jan. 25, 2019

Jan. 25, 2019

Were these ever published? ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/ESUG-f1589038.html

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SPLASH 2019: 1st Combined Call for Contributions
by Aggelos Biboudis Jan. 22, 2019

Jan. 22, 2019

/****************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'19) Athens, Greece Sun 20 - Fri 25 October 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /****************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) /****************************************************************************/ 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, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * SPLASH Workshops * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) * SPLASH-I * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2019 will host a variety of high quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Submissions are currently being accepted on a rolling basis. The rolling call will close on Fri 15 Mar, 2019. https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-workshops ## PACMPL Issue OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Fri 5 Apr, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-oopsla ## Onward! 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: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-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 long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about 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 the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—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: Mon 22 April, 2019 https://2019.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2019-Onward-Essays ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) >From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Abstracts due: Wed 29 May, 2019 Submissions due: Wed 5 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2019 ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2019 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2019 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri 14 Jun, 2019 Submissions due: Fri 21 Jun, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2019 ## Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) The International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR, formerly ManLang) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems around, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). Submissions due: Mon July 8, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/mplr-2019 ## SPLASH-I SPLASH-I is a series of high-quality talks that highlight the challenges that are on the forefront of both research and practice across the SPLASH community's broad spectrum of domains and techniques. We invite the community to propose speakers (including themselves) through our call for contributions. Submissions due: Fri May 17, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SPLASH-I ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. The poster session is held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat 7 Sep, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Posters ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. This year, the John Vlissides Award will be presented to a symposium participant showing significant promise in applied software research. All participants to the Doctoral Symposium are eligible. The award includes a prize of $2,000. Submissions due: Fri 12 Jul, 2019 http://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Student Research Competition abstract due: Fri July 12, 2019 https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-SRC ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2019. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2019. https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: https://2019.splashcon.org/ Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: * Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) Onward! Papers Chair: * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Onward! Essays Chair: * Tomas Petricek (Alan Turing Institute) DLS Program Chair: * Stefan Marr (University of Kent) GPCE General Chair: * Ina Schaefer (Technische Universität Braunschweig) GPCE Program Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen) SLE General Chair: * Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Bruno Oliveira (University of Hong Kong) * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) SLE Publicity Chair: * Andrei Chiş (Feenk GmbH, Switzerland) SLE AEC Co-Chairs: * Emma Söderberg (Lund University) * Abel Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) MPLR General Chair: * Tony Hosking (Australian National University / Data61) MPLR Program Chair: * Irene Finocchi (Sapienza University of Rome) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (Facebook) * Michael Carbin (MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Neville Grech (University of Athens, University of Malta) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Colin S. Gordon (Drexel University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Chair: * Christoph Reichenbach (Lund University) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Éric Tanter (University of Chile & Inria Paris) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) * David Darais (University of Vermont) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) * Tony Antoniadis (University of Athens) Publications Chair: * Magnus Madsen (Aarhus University) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Tijs van der Storm (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / University of Groningen) Local Arrangements Chair: * George Fourtounis (University of Athens) Accessibility Chair: * Kostas Saidis (University of Athens) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Caitlin Sadowski (Google) * Jaeheon Yi (Google) Video Chair: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs: * Aggelos Biboudis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) /****************************************************************************/

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Pharo mooc
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 7, 2019

Jan. 7, 2019

Hi there is a competition for the mooc loved by its users: you can vote for the Pharo mooc at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPtKTnyRqJDlJ53A7Ml-nVoKRrz9ijz9L… 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

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New book: Pharo with Style
by Stéphane Ducasse Dec. 30, 2018

Dec. 30, 2018

Hello Fellow Pharoers and Smalltalk lovers I'm happy to announce a new little book to improve the culture around Pharo. I will revise it in the future so you can feel free to send feedback and pull requests to https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/Booklet-PharoWithStyle Stef "The best way to predict the future is to invent" so I do it. :) -------------------------------------------- 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

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‹Programming› 2019 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions
by Fabio Niephaus Dec. 13, 2018

Dec. 13, 2018

=========================================================================== ‹Programming› 2019 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions =========================================================================== To build a community and to foster an environment where participants can exchange ideas and experiences related to practical software development, ‹Programming› will host a number of workshops, during the days before the main conference. The workshops will provide a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on programming and applied software development in general for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. We also encourage practical, hands-on workshops in which participants actually experience one or several aspects of practical software development. The following workshops are co-located with ‹Programming› 2019. MoreVMs’19: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MoreVMs’19 aims to bring together industrial and academic programmers to discuss the design, implementation, and usage of modern languages and runtimes. Possible topics include reuse of language runtimes, modular implementation, language design, and compilation strategies. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2019 Extended Abstract Deadline: 11 Jan 2019 PX/19 5th Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Programming Experience (PX) Workshop is about what happens in that room when programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially in an exploratory way. We are interested in this experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/px-2019-papers Submission Deadline: 27 Jan 2019 VPT 2019: Seventh International Workshop on Program Transformation and Verification --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the fields of Program Verification and Program Transformation. There is a great potential for beneficial interactions between these two area. The workshop will provide a forum where researchers from these fields may interact and foster new developments. The workshop solicits research, position, application, and system description papers with a special emphasis on case studies, demonstrating viability of the interactions between the research fields of program transformation and program verification in a broad sense. Call: http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2019/ Submission Deadline: 8 Jan 2019 LANGETI’19: Languages and Tools for Next Generation Testing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LANGETI workshop invites for submission of research papers and tool demonstrations developing new languages and tools that explore novel techniques to test next generation applications. We specially encourage new ideas on testing and its application domain that will spark discussion during the workshop. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/langeti-2019-papers Submission Deadline: 11 Jan 2019 PASS’19: Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack (PASS) ’19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PASS’19 seeks contributions at the interaction of programming languages and computer systems, such as programming abstractions for emerging platforms, runtime performance and energy optimization, software tool support for systems, systems-level reasoning and verification, language-based security, and systems programming and debugging. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/home/PASS-2019 Submission Deadline: 15 Jan 2019 ICW 2019: Interconnecting Code Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modern computer systems are often loosely coupled compositions of heterogeneous components. An important part of modern programming is the art, science, and engineering of interconnecting disparate code components to offer larger services in a reliable and scalable manner. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate an ongoing discussion, and advance the state of the art of interconnecting code. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/icw-2019-papers Initial Abstract Deadline: 11 Jan 2019 Salon des Refusés 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salon des Refusés was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. We bring the same to programming research, creating a space for interesting ideas that are difficult to reduce to a proof or a naive measurement. Call: https://shift-society.org/salon/call-for-papers Submission Deadline: 7 Jan 2019 MiniPLoP 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patterns are a systematic way to capture the experience of experts about good designs or best practices and document these nuggets of wisdom in an accessible way for peers. You can submit papers with 2-3 patterns for a discussion in a Writer’s Workshop session. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/PLOP-2019-papers Submission Deadline: 31 Jan 2019 ProWeb’19: 3rd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ProWeb’19 is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss advances in programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art technology for the web. Call: https://2019.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2019-papers Submission Deadline: 15 Jan 2019

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Agile Artificial Intelligence book
by Alexandre Bergel Dec. 12, 2018

Dec. 12, 2018

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The first 6 chapters of Agile Artificial Intelligence are now stable. Now is a good time for reviewing them. The chapters are available online from: https://agileartificialintelligence.github.io/ You can also see that the structure of the book has evolved. I believe that the part are stable. Maybe content of Part II and Part III can still evolve. You can contribute to the chapters by simply making a pull-request. People who do so, (i) will have their name listed on the book website, (ii) will have their name in the printed version of the book, and (iii) I will be very happy to invite you for a beer next time we meet. Thanks to all of you who have pushed the book and sent encouragements. The community deserves your effort. Kind regards, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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