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ESUG 2014 in Cambridge
by Damien Cassou Jan. 23, 2014

Jan. 23, 2014

The ESUG board is glad to announce that the 22nd ESUG conference will be held in Cambridge, England, from August 18th to 22nd 2014. You can join us earlier at Camp Smalltalk the 16th and 17th. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014 -- Damien Cassou, on behalf of the ESUG board

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[ANN] Amber 0.12.3 released
by Nicolas Petton Jan. 22, 2014

Jan. 22, 2014

Deal Smalltalkers, After 2 months of development, we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.12.3. Highlights: * Several UI improvements in Helios * Subclasses of `nil` can be created * Several fixes for IE8 * amber.js can be loaded asynchronously (it must have an id 'amber-path-mapper' in that case) * JQuery updated to ~1.10.2; jquery-ui updated to match * CodeMirror updated to ~3.20.0 Commits: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/compare/0.12.2...0.12.3 Issues: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?milestone=__&state=closed API Changes: * Package Import-Export renamed to Kernel-ImportExport * A dozen of methods moved from Object to ProtoObject * HashedCollection >> at:ifAbsentPut: pushed up to SequenceableCollection * HashedCollection >> , is now allowed (removed shouldNotImplement) * HashedCollection and Dictionary both subclasses of AssociativeCollection * Smalltalk class moved to SmalltalkImage class, Smalltalk is now global var * Smalltalk current deprecated in favour of Smalltalk * Smalltalk at:[put:] deprecated in favour of Smalltalk globals at:[put:] * <smalltalk.ClassName> deprecated in favour of <globals.ClassName> + CompiledMethod >> + defaultProtocol + Behavior >> + compile:protocol: + removeProtocolIfEmpty: + Package >> + load + loadFromNamespace: + Package class >> + load: + load:fromNamespace: + PackageTransport >> load + PackageHandler >> load: + AmdPackageHandler >> load: + Set >> removeAll + AssociativeCollection class + BucketStore class + SmalltalkImage >> + globals + vm + settings + Setting class + String >> + asSetting + asSettingIfAbsent: + settingValue + settingValueIfAbsent: + settingValue: + Smalltalk global variable - CompiledMethod >> - category: (use #protocol:) - defaultCategory - Behavior >> compile:category: - HTMLCanvas class >> - browserVersion - isMSIE - isMozilla - isOpera - isWebkit Cheers, The Amber crew

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PhD Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications
by jannik laval Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

The position is available now. Interested candidates may apply as soon as possible. *Title:* Ph.D. Student Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications *Location:* Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) *Advisor and contacts:* Noury Bouraqadi (noury.bouraqadi(a)mines-douai.fr) Luc Fabresse (luc.fabresse(a)mines-douai.fr) Loïc Lagadec (loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr) Jannik Laval (jannik.laval(a)mines-douai.fr) *Profile:* the candidate must must hold a recent Master of Science degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk). *Description of the work:* The goal of this PhD is to study Smalltalk integration with FPGAs for robotic applications. This integration will enable us get the best from both worlds. Developers are provided with a high-level dynamic reflective language (Smalltalk) for building and debugging their applications. Still, we can have high performances by projecting part of the programs into FPGAs. These reconfigurable hardware chips can achieve performance faster than C programs, while consuming much less energy. The work to do can decompose into the following tasks: -Build reference robotic applications fully in Pharo Smalltalk using actual robots (see http://car.mines-douai.fr/robots/) -Analyze these applications to identify critical parts to project on FPGAs to significantly increase performances (speed, energy) -Do the actual projection to FPGA and evaluate performances of the transformed applications -Generalize the approach and define a methodology for turning Smalltalk code into FPGA -Propose a solution to automate the methodology The Ph.D student will receive a grant which net amount is approximately 1420 euros per month for 3 years (36 months). He will be co-supervised by Loïc Lagadec from the ENSTA-Bretagne (Lab-STICC, Brest) and Jannik Laval, Luc Fabresse and Noury Bouraqadi from Ecole des Mines de Douai (CAR, http://car.mines-douai.fr/) The first 18th month will be spent in Douai (Lille area), while the last half of the PhD will be spent in Brest. However, during the full 3 years, there will be a strong interaction with co-supervisers from both labs. *Bibliography:* -A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot. R. Brooks. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 2. Num 1. March, 1985. -RCS: A Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent MultiAgent Systems. J.S. Albus and A. J. Barbera. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2004). Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. -Handbook of Robotics. Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib editors. Springer. 2008. -Multi-Level Simulation of Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Platforms. D. Picard and L. Lagadec. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2012. -High-level synthesis for FPGAs: From Prototyping to Deployment. Jason cong and stephen neuendorffer and juanjo noguera and kees vissers and zhiru zhang. IEEE Transactions on Computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems. Vol. 30. Num 4. April, 2011. -The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor. S. Vassiliadis and S. Wong and G. Gaydadjiev and K. Bertels and G. Kuzmanov and E. Moscu Panainte. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2004. -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ École des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://car.mines-douai.fr/

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[JOB] [Academia] Tenured Researcher Positions at Inria
by Marcus Denker Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

Tenured Researcher Positions at INRIA ======================== The yearly competition for Inria research positions started. (Deadline: Feb 14th) RMoD is looking for researchers to apply for joining our team at Lille/France with permanent (tenured) positions: CR2 "Young graduate scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/young-graduate-scientis… - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - formally no other research experience required, in practice the competition is very hard and a strong academic CV is needed on a level that requires, besides a very good PhD, at least1-2 years of post-doctoral research. CR1 "Young experienced scientist" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/senior-researcher/ - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - 4 years of research experience. - very strong academic CV. DR2 "Senior researcher" http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/senior-researcher/ - a doctorate (or equivalent degree) - at least 8 years experience in research - very strong academic CV. The positions are tenured after a probation period of 12 Months. Duties --------- -> Research (No teaching) -> Help manage the Research Group. -> Be involved with the self-governance of the Inria Lab and Inria as a whole. -> Guide PhD Students (And therefore get a french habilitation to be able to formally supervise PhD students) -> Help acquiring additional funds for PhD Students, Postdocs and Engineers -> Transfer of research results to the real world. (this means: making things real is valued. Not just paper writing) About Lille and Inria: --------------------------- -> Lille is located in the north of france. (one hour from Paris, 1h20 from London, 35 min from Brussels, by train) -> French food, combined with good Belgium beer. -> RMoD: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr -> INRIA Lille: http://www.inria.fr/lille/ -> INRIA in General: http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/inria-in-brief/key-figures -> Lille: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille - http://wikitravel.org/en/Lille Interested? Please contact Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> and Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>

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ESUG Twitter reaches 500 followers
by Marcus Denker Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

Hi, ESUG sometimes the last days (or weeks?) reached 500 followers on twitter! https://twitter.com/esugsmalltalk Marcus

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Weekly Pharo blog is out :)
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 19, 2014

Jan. 19, 2014

Hi guys I started a blog http://association.pharo.org/web/weekly Why yet another blog? I got exhausted, sick, and I had to stop reading mails and other computer activities. Then after a couple of weeks (well I’m addict so these are days) not reading mails about Pharo I realise that there is no condensed information where you are not forced to read hundreds of mails to know what is happening. Since I need to cure myself and relax, I decided that I will batch my Pharo email reading (Yes I can) and I will extract blog entries because emails vanished under their own stream. They will not be polished but you will find information about our crazy moving fast community. And I hope that you will enjoy it. Stéphane http://stephane.ducassse.free.fr

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Re: [Esug-list] ESUG @ Cambridge needs you
by John O'Keefe Jan. 16, 2014

Jan. 16, 2014

Tudor asked in late December if there was any information on the dates for ESUG 2014. Since the organizing committee is probably still being formed, I'm not surprised that there was no answer. So I will just ask that as soon as someone knows about the dates, please post that information since travel plans need to be made. Thanks, John John O'Keefe [|], CTO/Principal Smalltalk Architect, Instantiations Inc.

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[HELP] Phratch translation
by jannik.laval Jan. 16, 2014

Jan. 16, 2014

Dear smalltalkers, phratchers and everybody interested to help Phratch development. We need you as an international community. Phratch needs your help to be multilingual. The most of work is already done, It is based on the Scratch work (Thank you for all the supported languages). Now, as Phratch has a lot of new features, we need to translate each of these new features. For each of the following languages (ar, bg, ca, cs, da, de, el, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fr_CA, gl, he, hr, ht, hu, id, is, it, ja_hira, ja, kn, ko, lt, mk, mn, mr, ms, ne, nl, no, pl, pt_br, pt, ro, ru, rw, sk, sl, sv, th, tr, uk, vi, zh_cn, zh_tw), we need to complete the lines available in the phratch issue tracker (https://code.google.com/p/phratch/issues/detail?id=120) You can post your work as a comment or send me a mail, I will then integrate it in Phratch. For each expression there is a msgid in english, that should not be changed. Then, there is a msgstr that should be complete in the specific language. All elements in the $$ (like $Number$) are variables, they should not be changed but they have to be integrated in your translation. For example, in french: === msgid "replace costume $Number$ with $NewCostume$" msgstr "remplacer le costume $Number$ avec $NewCostume$" === There is less than 130 small expressions. It is 1 or 2 hours of work, and it helps us a lot. Thank you for your help. Cheers, Jannik

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Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk Meetup in Zürich, January 6th
by jtuchel＠objektfabrik.de Jan. 5, 2014

Jan. 5, 2014

Hi everybody, this is just a final reminder for our Smalltalk-Meetup in Zürich at 7pm tomorrow. We'll meet at the Restaurant Steinfels near Hardbrücke. We are now 7 people, bringing together a few decades of Smalltalk experience and quite a few interesting backgrounds from our projects. So if you want to join us, just drop in to the restaurant tomorrow night. We'll let the waiters know that anybody asking for "Smalltalk" is looking for us. So you are guaranteed to find us! I really look forward to chatting with people! See you tomorrow Joachim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Objektfabrik Joachim Tuchel mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de Fliederweg 1 http://www.objektfabrik.de D-71640 Ludwigsburg http://joachimtuchel.wordpress.com Telefon: +49 7141 56 10 86 0 Fax: +49 7141 56 10 86 1

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Re: [Esug-list] Smalltalk Meetup in Zürich, January 6th
by Joachim Tuchel Jan. 4, 2014

Jan. 4, 2014

Hi Joseph, Great, I look forward to meeting you again! It is the same restaurant. Maybe I should have asked for ideas first. Let's discuss on monday where we could have the next one at a quieter place in the area. Joachim Joseph Pelrine <jplists(a)metaprog.com> schrieb: >I'll be there, Is that the same crowded restaurant we were at last time? > >Cheers >Joseph > >On 28.12.13 17:41, jtuchel(a)objektfabrik.de wrote: >> Hi lists, >> >> you may already have seen it, but just in case you haven't: we're going >> to sit down for some Burgers or Pizza and beer and all things Smalltalk >> at Restaurant Steinfels in Zürich[1] on Monday, January 6th, starting at >> 7pm. >> >> So if you are interested in meeting with other Smalltalk developers or >> to get in touch with old and new friends, this may be your chance. >> >> If you'd like to join us, please let me know so that I can reserve a >> bigger table for the evening. If you want to drop in last minute, please >> don't hesitate, we're happy to meet you! >> >> Joachim >> >> >> [1] http://www.steinfels-zuerich.ch >> >> > >-- >Joseph Pelrine [ | ] >MetaProg GmbH >Email: jpelrine(a)metaprog.com >Web: http://www.metaprog.com > >As soon as you introduce people, things become complex. > >_______________________________________________ >Esug-list mailing list >Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >

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