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VA Smalltalk Newsletter
by Marcus Denker April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

(Forwarded by request) https://mailchi.mp/instantiations/draft-va-smalltalk-news-2860809 <https://mailchi.mp/instantiations/draft-va-smalltalk-news-2860809> http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/ESUGblog/2018-04-11 <http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/ESUGblog/2018-04-11> VA Smalltalk News VAST 9.0 Success Story, New VAST Release Coming Soon, Growing our Staff Dear VA Smalltalk User, There has been so much going on at Instantiations since the v9.0 release of VA Smalltalk and we've been looking forward to giving you this update. VA Smalltalk 9.0 - Rock Solid Stability! Last September we launched the v9.0 release of VA Smalltalk which introduced our new 32 & 64-bit virtual machines. Since that time we have been delighted to hear how smoothly our customers are transitioning their production systems to 64-bit technology. The stability of our modernized virtual machines since launch has proven to be fantastic! Instantiations has always taken great care and pride in providing compatible and stable software to help protect our customers' investments as they move their systems forward. For more information, download the v9.0 data sheet by clicking here <http://www.instantiations.com/PDFs/datasheet_vast.pdf>. New Instantiations Staff Member We are very pleased to announce that well-known Smalltalker Mariano Martinez Peck has joined the VA Smalltalk engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer on January 1, 2018. Mariano holds a PhD in Computer Science from RMOD-INRIA and the École Des Mines de Douai in France. His academic research has been published across various international journals and he has been developing commercial software for more than ten years in various industries such as financial services, simulations, retail and logistics. In his new role at Instantiations, Mariano will be a key contributor in the continued development and modernization of VA Smalltalk and will be involved in all aspects of product development and architecture. New Release of VA Smalltalk Coming This Summer Our next release of VA Smalltalk (v9.1) is shaping up to be one of the largest feature releases Instantiations has ever done. Additionally, will be releasing a new version of VAST on Linux which will be utilizing our state-of-the-art 32 & 64-bit virtual machines. The VAST engineering team has been working incredibly hard and plans to provide VA Smalltalk v9.1 this summer. When v9.1 is released, we will send out another announcement to let you know. Remember, if you have a current support agreement the upgrade is free! It is a pleasure to update you with all the exciting news that is happening at Instantiations and thank you again for your continued support. Onward and upward! Seth Berman President & CEO

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HRWorks is hiring
by Stéphane Ducasse April 10, 2018

April 10, 2018

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Robin Schwegler <robin.schwegler(a)hrworks.de> > Subject: Re: Industrial members / new logo HRworks > Date: 10 April 2018 at 10:14:43 GMT+2 > To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > > > hope you're well. Here is our pharo project in english: https://www.hrworks.de/en/international-applicants/thesis-transferring-visu… <https://www.hrworks.de/en/international-applicants/thesis-transferring-visu…> 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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CFP - IWST 2018 - International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
by Stéphane Ducasse April 5, 2018

April 5, 2018

CFP - IWST 2018 - International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] [Please send to interested colleagues / mailing-lists] ************************************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS IWST 2018 — International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies http://esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/International-Workshop-IWST_18 <http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2017/International-Workshop-IWST_…> Cagliari, Italy; Between September 10th and 14th, 2018 ************************************************************************************************************ ------------------- Goals and scopes ------------------- The goals of the workshop is to create a forum around advances or experience in Smalltalk and to trigger discussions and exchanges of ideas. The topics of your paper can be on all aspect of Smalltalk, theoretical as well as practical. Participants are invited to submit research articles or industrial papers. This year we want to open two different tracks: one research track and one industrial track with less scientific constraints. We expect papers of three kinds: Short position papers describing emerging ideas Long research papers with deeper description of experiments and of research results. Industrial papers with presentation of real and innovative Smalltalk applications; this kind of paper should enlighten why Smalltalk is really appropriate for your application. We will not enforce any length restriction. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Submission deadline: June 15th, 2018 Notification deadline: July 20th, 2018 Workshop : between September 10th and 14th, 2018 All accepted papers will be published in ACM DL (To be confirmed) ------------------- Topics ------------------- We welcome contributions on all aspects, theoretical as well as practical, of Smalltalk related topics such as: -Aspect-oriented programming, -Design patterns, -Experience reports, -Frameworks, -Implementation, new dialects or languages implemented in Smalltalk, -Interaction with other languages, -Meta-programming and Meta-modeling, -Tools ------------------- Best Paper Award ------------------- To encourage the submission of high-quality papers, the IWST organizing committee is very proud to announce a Best Paper Award for this edition of IWST. We thank the Lam Research Corporation for its financial contribution which makes it possible for prizes for the three best papers: 1000 USD for first place, 600 USD for second place and 400 USD for third place. The ranking will be decided by the program committee during the review process. The awards will be given during the ESUG conference social event. The Best Paper Award will take place only with a minimum of six submissions. Notice also that to be illegible, a paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the author and that the presenting author must be registered at the ESUG conference. ------------------- Publication ------------------- Both submissions and final papers must be prepared using the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm <http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm>. This site also contains links to useful informations on how to write effective submissions. ------------------- Submission ------------------- All submissions must be sent via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst18 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwst18> ------------------- Program chairs ------------------- Anne Etien (Université de Lille, France) Loic Lagadec (Ensta Bretagne, France) ------ Plus d'infos sur le GDR GPL : http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr -------------------------------------------- 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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Onward! 2018 | Call for Papers
by Robert Hirschfeld Feb. 25, 2018

Feb. 25, 2018

=========================================================== Call for Papers =========================================================== Onward! 2018 Co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 4 - 9, 2018, Boston, USA https://2018.onward-conference.org 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. Onward! has two tracks that accept submissions: Papers and Essays. ### Call for 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. Anessay 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 aphilosophical 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. Instructions for authors and further information at: https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-Onward-Essays ### Call for Onward! Papers Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not looking for research-as-usual papers—conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged. Instructions for authors and further information at: https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-papers ### Important Dates for both Essays and Papers Submission deadline: 23 April 2018 Primary notification: 11 June 2018 Revisions deadline: 15 July 2018 Final notification: 30 July 2018 ### Program Chairs Richard P. Gabriel, Dream Songs, Inc. & HPI, USA (Essays Chair) Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Papers Chair) ### Onward! 2018 Essays Program Committee Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Elisa Baniassad, University of British Columbia, Canada Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Charlotte Herzeel, imec, Belgium Graham Hutton, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Jenny Quillien, Embodied Making Institute, United States Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh, United States ### Onward! 2018 Papers Program Committee Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Daan Leijen, Microsoft Research, USA Dave Thomas, Kx Systems, Canada Friederich Steimann, Fernuniversität, Germany Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany Heather Miller, Northeastern University, USA Jonathan Edwards, MIT, USA Nada Amin, University of Cambridge, UK Peng Wu, Huawei America Research Lab, USA Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ralf Lammel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil Sean McDirmid, Independent Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK Stephane Ducasse, INRIA, France Vincent St-Amour, Northeastern University, USA Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ========================================================== -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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[JOB][Research] 3 Year Starting Research Positions
by Marcus Denker Feb. 20, 2018

Feb. 20, 2018

Inria opended a call for starting researchers. This is a three year contract. REQUIREMENTS - Have a French doctorate or an equivalent international degree - From 2 to 8 years of experience in research (after the thesis) - No age or nationality conditions. - Deadline: April 3rd, 2018 Before writing their research program, the applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the teams or project(s)-teams leaders concerned by their applications. More information on the official website: https://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/starting-research-posi… MISSION Join one of our two lines of research: Tools for Software Maintenance or New Programming Language Constructs for Software Evolution. THE REGION Lille is strategically located in Northern Europe with train connections to Paris (1h), London (1h30) and Brussels (30 min.) The Nord Pas de Calais region is a dynamic area in both industry and research for computer science with companies that are european leaders in their branch. Lille, the capital of northern France is an attractive metropolis of over 1 million inhabitants. Cost of living in Lille is lower than that of very big cities such as Paris and London. THE TEAM RMoD is an Inria research project team. It consists of 5 permant researchers (Inria CR and DR, as well as University Assistant Professors) and Engineers, postdocs and students (Master and PhD). RMoD is an international team with more than 20 members from six countries. LINKS: RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr Lille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Please contact the head of the research team: Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr or one of the following group members: Nicolas.Anquetil(a)inria.fr, Marcus.Denker(a)inria.fr Permanent Link: https://rmod.inria.fr/web/blog/2018-02-19

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[JOB][Research] 3 Year Advanced Research Position
by Marcus Denker Feb. 19, 2018

Feb. 19, 2018

Inria opended a call for experienced researchers. This is a three year contract, with in total 8 research positions. REQUIREMENTS - Have a French doctorate or an equivalent international degree - Be able to prove at least eight years of research and/or post-doctoral academic or industrial experience; - No age or nationality conditions. - Deadline: April 3rd, 2018 Before writing their research program, the applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the teams or project(s)-teams leaders concerned by their applications. More information on the official website: https://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/advanced-research-posi… MISSION Join one of our two lines of research: Tools for Software Maintenance or New Programming Language Constructs for Software Evolution. THE REGION Lille is strategically located in Northern Europe with train connections to Paris (1h), London (1h30) and Brussels (30 min.) The Nord Pas de Calais region is a dynamic area in both industry and research for computer science with companies that are european leaders in their branch. Lille, the capital of northern France is an attractive metropolis of over 1 million inhabitants. Cost of living in Lille is lower than that of very big cities such as Paris and London. THE TEAM RMoD is an Inria research project team. It consists of 5 permant researchers (Inria CR and DR, as well as University Assistant Professors) and Engineers, postdocs and students (Master and PhD). RMoD is an international team with more than 20 members from six countries. LINKS: RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr Lille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Please contact the head of the research team: Stephane.Ducasse(a)inria.fr or one of the following group members: Nicolas.Anquetil(a)inria.fr, Marcus.Denker(a)inria.fr Permanent Link: https://rmod.inria.fr/web/blog/2018-02-17

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ESUG 2018 Call for Presentations
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 18, 2018

Feb. 18, 2018

Please distribute around :) Call-for-Presentations 26rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference The ESUG board is pleased to announce that the 26th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Cagliari, Italy 10-14 September 2018; with Camp Smalltalk 8-9 September 2018. The conference is co-organized by University of Cagliari and the Agile Group of the faculty of computer science. http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/ This call includes: - Developer Forum - Smalltalk Technology Award - International Workshop http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/International-Workshop-IWST_… - Student Volunteer http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/Student-volunteers You can support the ESUG conference in many different ways: =============================================== - Sponsor the conference. New sponsoring packages are described at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/About/BecomeSponsor - Submit a talk, a software or a paper to one of the events. See below. - Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance. Students can get free registration and hosting if they enrol into the the Student Volunteers program. See below. Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference Call For Participation ================ We are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk. You will have 30 min for presentations and 45-60 min for hand-ons tutorial. The list of topics for the normal talks and tutorials includes, but is not limited to the following: -Micro Services, Container, Cloud, Big Data, -XP practices, Development tools, Experience reports -Model driven development, Web development, Team management -Meta-Modeling, Security, New libraries and frameworks -Educational material, Embedded systems and robotics -SOA and Web services, Interaction with other programming languages -Teaching Pearls and Show us Your Business -Show your business 10 min session (Get prepared!!) How to submit? ============ Submissions deadline is 15 of June 2018 Notification of acceptance will be on done on the fly. Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the last minute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request to Stephane.Ducasse[at]inria.fr AND USE THE following header [ESUG 2018 Developers] Title: Please follow the template below the email will be automatically processed! Name: Email: Abstract: Bio: Any presentation not respecting this form will be discarded automatically. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ====================================== Read the page: *http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/International-Workshop-IWST_18* Technology Award Competition ======================== The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete. More information at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/Innovation-Technology-Awards Student Volunteer Program ===================== If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference. More information at http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2018/Student-volunteers We hope to see you there and have fun together. -------------------------------------------- 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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Call for Posters: <Programming> 2018
by Sylvia Grewe Feb. 15, 2018

Feb. 15, 2018

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Programming> 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Mon 9 - Thu 12 April 2018 Nice, France http://2018.programming-conference.org/ ******************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS ******************************************************** Important dates: - Poster abstract submission: Sunday, March 4th - Notification: Friday, March 9th - Poster Presentation: Tuesday, April 10th Posters are an integral part of <Programming>. We are soliciting quality contributions for the regular Poster Session of <Programming> (submissions due March 4th). The Poster Session aims at showcasing very recent or ongoing work, clarifying problem statements, vetting solutions, or identifying evaluation methods in an interactive way. It will offer an excellent opportunity for authors to receive feedback from the <Programming> community and encourage one-to-one and small group discussions on a technical topic. Students are especially encouraged to submit their ongoing work and to introduce it to peer researchers. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on the conference Web site. The <Programming> Posters track will take place on Tuesday, April 10th and will be organized jointly with the ACM Student Research Competition Poster track, thus fostering interactions between all presenters and attendees. Poster author(s) are required to attend the scheduled poster session, so that they can discuss their work with conference attendees. Poster Submission Guidelines: Posters will be evaluated based on their contribution and relevance to <Programming>. Poster submissions should be sent to<Yves.Roudier(a)i3s.unice.fr>as a 1-2 page extended abstract in PDF format. This document should contain: - the poster title; - names and affiliations of the authors (one of whom should be named as a contact person); - motivation and the addressed problem, proposed solution, and/or novel contributions of the proposal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Interns looking around for position
by Stéphane Ducasse Feb. 15, 2018

Feb. 15, 2018

While waiting to understand why Maxime cannot post to ESUG I forward to you his announce. stef > From: Maxime Roelandt <mroelandt(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: > Date: 14 February 2018 at 21:06:39 GMT+1 > To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > > Hi all, > > I'm searching for an internship as student of Master's 2 degree in Computer Science at University of Lille1. > > My skills are essentially in Smalltalk and C. > > Minimum 1500 € net salary. > I am available from March : Period 4 to 6 months. > > I've worked for RMoD team, two times : > - 2016 : FileOuterNG -> VisualWorks code converter to Pharo > - 2017 : Pillar reengineering. > > Please find attached my CV if you're interested in > > ++ > > -------------------------------------------- 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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[JOB][PhD] Infrastructure and Language Kernels for IoT Systems
by Marcus Denker Jan. 30, 2018

Jan. 30, 2018

The RMOD team of INRIA Lille and the CAR theme of IMT Lille Douai have an open position for a PhD student on Infrastructure and language kernels for IoT Systems. Description ========== Over the last years, the RMOD team of INRIA Lille and the CAR theme of IMT Lille Douai have been working together on creating tiny language core. For example, Guillermo Polito demonstrated in his PhD a fully reflective kernel that fits into 80 kb of memory and that it is possible to have hyper specialized kernels down to 11 kb. We have also worked on remote debugging (PhD of N. Papoulias) and dynamic code updates (PhD of P. Tesone) of such kernels. All of these works are prototyped in Pharo. More recently, RMOD have been working on advanced probes mechanisms (M. Denker) and a solid remote debugging infrastructure (D. Kudriashov). The goal of this PhD is to revisit the architecture around such mini-kernels for building IoT applications. The plan is to: ============= • improve the tools to edit, compile, debug, deploy and update such kernels on IoT devices. Learn how to debug remotely and dynamically update such IoT systems using the TelePharo/PharoThings environment. This task will be in cooperation with M. Denker and D. Kudriashov on remote debugging for IoT and G. Polito for the kernel edition and tooling. • define some language extensions to manage groups of IoT devices to program them at once. Managing hundreds or even thousands of IoT devices is a challenging task. We want to explore different solutions to help deploying and updating groups of IoT devices using some registration mechanism in a cloud server or some groups/roles based approaches for example. Note that ZweiDenker GmbH http://zweidenker.de/en/ is interested in collaboration on the IoT cloud management infrastructure • expressing the architecture of IoT applications. We would like to explore also how to express IoT architectures and what are the abstractions that should be offered to developers such as expressing event-driven architectures with declarative ECA (Event-Conditions-Actions) rules. But we will study a couple of typical IoT applications. • dynamically update an IoT application. An IoT application needs to adapt itself because unreachable or faulty devices or the diminution of available bandwith. We would like that the whole application can reconfigure itself in such situations as Guillaume Grondin proposes it in its PhD. • explore Lightweight Virtual Machines. Virtual machines in the IoT context are very powerful for incremental deployment or dynamic updates. In this task, we would like to investigate what is the minimal memory consumption that we can reach for a VM usable for IoT. Application ========= To apply, please send us : • a CV, • a copy of your Master diploma • a copy of your Master thesis • 2 (two) reference letters, with the contact details of the referents • links to videos of demos of your experiments and/or simulations The application materials should be sent by email to Prof. S. Ducasse stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr. Email subject must start with : [PhD-RMoD-CAR-2018]. Bibliography ========= • Guillermo Polito, Stephane Ducasse, N Bouraqadi, L Fabresse, M Mattone. Virtualization Support for Dynamic Core Library Update. Onward !, Oct 2015, Pittsburg, USA. • Guillermo Polito. Virtualization Support for Application Runtime Virtualization and Extension. Ph.D. Thesis 2015. Co-delivree par l’Universite de Lille et l’Ecole des Mines de Douai. • Extended results of Tornado : A Run-Fail-Grow approach for Dynamic Application Tayloring. Ecole des mines de Douai, France. 50p, July 2014 • Nick Papoulias, Noury Bouraqadi, Luc Fabresse, Stephane Ducasse and Marcus Denker, Mercury: Properties and Design of a Remote Debugging Solution using Reflection, Journal of Object Technology, 14, 1 :1-36, 2015 Links ===== • Pharo: http://www.pharo.org • PharoThings: https://github.com/pharo-iot/PharoThings • INRIA RMOD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr • INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille • INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr • Lille: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille • http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Permanent Link: https://rmod.inria.fr/web/blog/2018-01-25

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