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[preANN] ESUG 2019: Cologne Aug 26 to 30
by Marcus Denker May 21, 2019

May 21, 2019

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.

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ESUG 2019 - Call for IWST
by Stéphane Ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Here is the announce for the IWST19 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies Cologne, Germany; August 27-29th, 2019 More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/cfpIWST2019.html On behalf of the pc chairs

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ESUG 2019 - Call for Presentations
by Stéphane Ducasse May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

Please distribute the following call The ESUG board is pleased to announce that the 27th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Cologne, Germany 26-30 August 2019; with Camp Smalltalk 24-25 August 2019. The conference is co-organized by ZWEIDENKER. More information at: https://esug.github.io/2019-Conference/call2019.html -------------------------------------------- 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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SPLASH 2019 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions
by Aggelos Biboudis May 10, 2019

May 10, 2019

SPLASH 2019 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions ================================================== Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH will host a variety of 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. The following workshops will be co-located with SPLASH 2019. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) * AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for Software Engineering on Parallel Computing Systems) * DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) * IC (Incremental Computing) * LIVE (Live Programming) * META (Metaprogramming) * NJR (Normalized Java Resource) * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) * STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) *The submission deadline for all workshops is Fri 2 Aug 2019 (AoE).* AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) ------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/agere-2019 The AGERE! workshop focuses on programming systems, languages, and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents, and -- more generally -- on high-level programming paradigms which promote decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. AGERE covers both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. AI-SEPS (AI-Inspired and Empirical Methods for SE on Parallel Computing Systems) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/seps-2019 The AI-SEPS workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners addressing the challenges and issues of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms and HPC systems. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies are promising approaches to tackle these issues, as well as approaches that use traditional empirical and experimental methods. The workshop title reflects a change from the previous editions, with emphasis placed on the trend of AI-inspired software engineering techniques for performance. We aim to advance the state of the art in all aspects of techniques on software engineering and parallel computing systems such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis; performance analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. DSM (Domain-Specific Modeling) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/dsm-2019 Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems and software development faster and easier. In DSM, the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working directly with domain concepts. Some possible topics for submission to the workshop include: experience reports, creation of metamodel-based languages, novel approaches for code generation from domain-specific models, language evolution, metamodeling frameworks and languages, and tool support for DSMs. IC (Incremental Computing) ----------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/ic-2019 The second Workshop on Incremental Computing (IC) will provide a space where PL enthusiasts and researchers can discuss incremental computing problems and solutions. A good talk at IC probably consists of one or more of the following: explain an existing language or framework for incremental computing; outline an incremental computing domain in detail, highlighting challenges; outline a new incremental computing problem, or problem domain; or, propose a new language or framework for incremental computing. This list is not exhaustive, but merely suggestive. LIVE (Live Programming) ----------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/live-2019 The LIVE workshop invites submissions of ideas for improving programming via liveness. Live programming gives the programmer immediate feedback on the behavior of a program as it is edited, replacing the edit-compile-debug cycle with a fluid programming experience. The most commonly used live programming environment is the spreadsheet, but there are many others. The study of live programming is now a [re-]established area of research. This year we would like to reflect on what has been achieved, what has been learnt, and what remains to be done, growing up from a nascent community into a discipline that can build on previous work. We especially welcome reflection upon prior work, including proposals to integrate, generalize, or theoretically frame them. We will do this whilst maintaining the shared spirit of LIVE, encouraging a focus on the human experience of programming. The LIVE workshop is a forum for early-stage work to receive constructive criticism. We accept short papers, web essays with embedded videos, and demo videos. META (Metaprogramming) ---------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/meta-2019 The changing hardware and software landscape along with the increased heterogeneity of systems make metaprogramming once more an important research topic to handle the associated complexity. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools using them. The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with formal reasoning about reflective programs, continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how it affects software maintainability. While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and others, academia still needs to bring it to the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as formal methods and empirical studies for such systems and languages. NJR (Normalized Java Resource) ------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/njr-2019 Software researchers increasingly take advantage of large software repositories when they design new tools. How do we make such repositories maximally useful for research? In particular, how do we make them more searchable, make interaction scriptable, and ensure that we can run both static and dynamic analyses? Additionally, how do we make the results from tools reproducible, how do we label programs with ground truth, and how do we measure whether a repository is representative of real-world applications? NJR 2019 will be the third workshop in a series that addresses these questions. The goal is for researchers in academia and industry to share new ideas, demonstrate recent tools, and discuss directions for research and development. REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages and Systems) ------------------------------------------------------ Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2019 Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design -- so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) -- have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. STOKED (Spatio-Temporal platforms for Observations and Knowledge of Earth Data) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/stoked-2019 Global coverage and temporal resolutions of earth observation imagery data is increasing at an unprecedented rate, generating trillions of new pixels of data daily. The challenge with this "big data" is finding practical ways to extract knowledge and deliver it to end users at scale, both due to the complex nature and the sheer volume of information. Detailed, standardized geographic information is required to enable a new era of spatial temporal analytics—enabling insights to understand, monitor, and manage the earth’s resources in a sustainable manner. This can be accomplished through massive aggregation of data from remote sensors coupled with novel approaches to preparing, analyzing, and interacting with data. Modern spatio-temporal platforms will soon be using 3D visual interactive maps with close to real-time deep learning algorithms. In addition to system infrastructure and UI/UX challenges, we also need to address the normalization problems of data, particularly with data generated from multiple sensors. Use cases in climate change and emergency response in "extreme events" would see immediate benefit from this kind of platform. STOKED will provide an opportunity for researchers and stakeholders from this broad spectrum of applications and domains to start to design future platforms from an interdisciplinary perspective. VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) -------------------------------------------------- Call: https://2019.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2019 The concept of Virtual Machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual Machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues.

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(Senior/Principal) Software Engineer in Development / Smalltalk Entwickler (m/w)
by Stéphane Ducasse May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

https://de-de.nexus-ag.de/karriere/softwareengineerindevelopment -------------------------------------------- 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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Visit Tokyo 27 June - 5 July
by Stéphane Ducasse May 4, 2019

May 4, 2019

Dear Pharoers/Smalltalkers from Japan (and other countries) I will visit (mainly) Tokyo from 27 of June to 5th of July 2019. I will give several talks and one is scheduled to the Smalltalk User group (Oda Tomohiro is organising it). I will give some talks to researchers and companies. I’m really excited to meet people. Do not hesitate to contact me so that we can plan extra meetings. I really want to see what you are doing and how to support the community. 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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Re: [Esug-list] [vwnc] most energy efficient AI system - challenge of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF
by Nowak, Helge April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

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.

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Call for Papers, The Programming Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2
by Fabio Niephaus April 25, 2019

April 25, 2019

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

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Small Pharo developer contract
by Stéphane Ducasse April 20, 2019

April 20, 2019

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

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[Ann] VA Smalltalk News: April 17, 2019
by Mariano Martinez Peck April 17, 2019

April 17, 2019

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/

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