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Ph.D. Student Position on Dynamic Reflective Language Integration with FPGAs for Robotic Applications
by jannik.laval July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013

Dear Smalltalkers, We are searching for a PhD Student. Following you will find the proposal. Best regards, ====== Location: Mines de Douai and ENSTA Brest (France) Advisor and contacts: Noury Bouraqadi, Luc Fabresse, Jannik Laval (car(a)mines-douai.fr, website: http://car.mines-douai.fr/) Loïc Lagadec (loic.lagadec(a)ensta-bretagne.fr) Profile: the candidate must hold a recent Master of Science degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and must have solid skills in dynamic reflective language and OOP. 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 Enseignant-Chercheur Tél. : 03 27 71 26 32 Mines Douai 941 rue Charles Bourseul BP 10838 59508 Douai Cedex _______________________________________________________

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[ANN] Amber 0.11.0 released!
by Nicolas Petton July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

Amber 0.11.0 released! * About the release Three months have passed and we are happy to announce the release of Amber 0.11.0! Some numbers about this release: 433 commits by 13 committers, increasing the number of core committers to 25. 50 unit tests were added to the kernel, bringing us to 313 unit tests in total. Since the last release 60 issues were closed, bringing us to 499 issues closed. This release includes a lot of bug fixes, improvements to the CLI, as well as a preview of the next IDE, named Helios. Amber now also uses a CI server [1]. To try the Helios, the new IDE, open the helios.html page, or evaluate in any other amber page `amber.loadHelios()`. The compiler also received some improvements, especially regarding message send optimisations and super sends. Here's the list of commits and closed issues: https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/commits/master https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/issues?direction=desc&sort=updated… There is a lot more to come with Helios, a stepping debugger based on the AST is in progress and currently in the 'debugger' branch on GitHub. * Installing Amber from NPM To install amber from NPM, run npm install amber * Migration from Amber 0.10.0 Amber compiled code should be compatible with Amber 0.10.0, but recompiling is needed in order to get contexts working: Compiler new recompile: (Package named: 'MyPackage') classes. (Package named: 'MyPackage') commit * API changes 0.11.0: * AnnouncementSubscription use #valuable: instead of #block: (deprecated) * AbstractCodeGenerator inherits from Object, not NodeVisitor * Object>>printString * replace >>printString with >>printOn: * replace >>storeString with >>printString * PackageLoader is now PackageHandler (>>commit: >>setupPackagenamed:prefix: >>ajaxPutAt:data: * Package>>fetch: is now Package>>load: * Package>>fetch:prefix: is now Package>>load:prefix: * Queue>>front replaced by Queue>>next * Queue>>frontIfAbsent: replaced by Queue>>nextIfAbsent: * Queue>>back: replaced by Queue>>nextPut: * smalltalk.addMethod() does not use explicit JS selector * JSObjectProxy>>canForwardMessage: replaced by use of JSObjectProxy>>lookupProperty: with asJavaScriptSelector * JSObjectProxy>>forwardMessage: replaced by explicit JSObjectProxy>>forwardMessage:withArguments: * String>>asJavaScriptSelector moved to Kernel-Objects package + Object>>asString + Object>>putOn: + String>>isVowel + Collection>>putOn: + CharacterArray>>putOn: + Stream>><< + Stream>>write + SequenceableCollection>>newStream + SequenceableCollection>>readStream + SequenceableCollection>>stream + SequenceableCollection>>streamClass + SequenceableCollection>>writeStream + Collection>>isImmutable + Stream>>nextPutString: + StringStream>>nextPutString: + JSStream>>nextPutClassRefFunction: + String>>crlfSanitized + inlined Block now also responds to >>value: + Parser: split literal into runtimeLiteral and parseTimeLiteral + Parser: write #(4 #(5 6 #()) 7) as #(4 (5 6 ()) 7) + Parser: write #(#on:do: #Object) as #(on:do: Object) + Parser: Symbols for binarie selectores + Package>>commit + AIContext>>initializeLocals + ASTInterpreter>>withBlockContext: + smalltalk.allSelectors() + Object>>isCompiledMethod + Object>>isPackage + Object>>isBehavior + ClassMoved Announcemen class + Behavior>>includesBehavior: + Environment>>classes + Environment>>allSelectors + Environment>>removeProtocol: + Environment>>renameProtocol:to:in: + CompiledMethod>>protocol: + Smalltalk>>globalJsVariables + Smalltalk>>addGlobalJsVariable: + Smalltalk>>deleteGlobalJsVariable: - Object>>storeOn: - Object>>log:block: - Object>>printNl - Compiler-IR.st >>javascriptSelector - Compiler-IR.st >>nextPutVar: - Kernel-Collections.st >>asSuperSelector - Collection>>readStream - Collection>>stream - Collection>>streamClass - Collection>>writeStream - Symbol class (replaced with String) - IRInlinedNonLocalReturn class - IRInlinedSend>>nonLocalReturnInliner - IRNonLocalReturnInliner class - Package>>dependencies - Package>>dependencies: - Package>>properties - Package>>jsProperties - Package>>jsProperties: - Package>>propertiesAsJSON - Package>>propertyAt: - Package>>propertyAt:ifAbsent: - Package>>propertyAt:put: - Browser>>ajaxPutAt:data: We hope you join us in developing Amber and having fun! Fork at github, join in #amber-lang on freenode and hop onto the mailing list. The Amber crew [1] https://travis-ci.org/amber-smalltalk/amber

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Smalltalkers wanted for Cincom ChannelStream! One of two jobs still open
by Schickel, Yvonne July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

The position of Lead Software Engineer with the Cincom ChannelStream team has been filled. However, we're still looking for a dynamic colleague to join us as *** Software Engineer***... · English: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/2013-06-software-engineers/ · French: http://documentoutput.cincom.fr/2013/06/developpeurs/ If you're interested, get in touch with us quickly! Regards Yvonne ******************************************** Yvonne Schickel Marketing Manager Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Tel.: +49 6196 9003-0 E-Mail: yschickel(a)cincom.com<mailto:yschickel@cincom.com> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.com<http://documentoutput.cincom.com/> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.fr Connect with us! RSS: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/feed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChannelStream LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cincom-systems Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CincomSystems Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) ******************************************** From: Esug-list [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] On Behalf Of Schickel, Yvonne Sent: 19 June 2013 11:36 To: esug-list(a)lists.esug.org list Subject: [Esug-list] Smalltalkers wanted ! Two job openings for Cincom ChannelStream We're hiring! Cincom is looking for two experienced Smalltalkers - a Lead Software Engineer and a Software Engineer - to strengthen the development team for our document output product Cincom ChannelStream (developed in Smalltalk). Applications are accepted until the positions are filled. · English: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/2013-06-software-engineers/ · French: http://documentoutput.cincom.fr/2013/06/developpeurs/ Regards Yvonne ******************************************** Yvonne Schickel Marketing Manager Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG Tel.: +49 6196 9003-0 E-Mail: yschickel(a)cincom.com<mailto:yschickel@cincom.com> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.com<http://documentoutput.cincom.com/> http://DocumentOutput.cincom.fr Connect with us! RSS: http://documentoutput.cincom.com/feed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChannelStream LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cincom-systems Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CincomSystems Geschäftsführer/Managing Directors: Thomas M. Nies, Gerald L. Shawhan oHG mit Sitz/based in Schwalbach/Ts. (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRA 2653) Pers. haftender Gesellschafter/Partner liable to unlimited extent: Cincom Systems Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Amtsgericht Königstein/Ts. HRB 5069) ********************************************

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Fwd: [Pharo-users] Pharo Opportunity
by Stéphane Ducasse July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > From: Chris <cpmbailey(a)btinternet.com> > Subject: [Pharo-users] Pharo Opportunity > Date: July 2, 2013 7:50:39 PM GMT+02:00 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > Reply-To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org> > > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is not the best place for this type of post but I'm not sure where else would be appropriate. > > I work for a company in the Midlands UK who are using Linux, Apache, Pharo, Postgres and also Python and C# and are looking to recruit. If anyone is interested then please drop me a private email. We are looking primarily for Smalltalk because the skills are obviously harder to come by. The main web application is built with Seaside. C# is also desirable but I expect most developers have worked with C# type languages before. We also use Python for signal processing algorithm development so any experience in that area is useful > > Thanks > Chris > > cpmbailey(a)btinternet.com

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Social Event
by laurent laffont July 2, 2013

July 2, 2013

Hello, je suis passé à l'Oasis ce matin pour aller plus loin sur la soirée: - mercredi 11 septembre bien réservé - il nous fait un devis "tout compris", open bar, ... + facture pour acompte dans les 15 jours. On affinera au plus tard 2 semaines avant la soirée quand on connaîtra le nombre exact de participants - apéro + buffet, les gens pourrons circuler et aller où ils veulent. Une personne de l'Oasis s'occupera d'un barbecue. - voulez-vous du champagne ? - abris en cas de pluie OK - on peut arriver à partir de 16h30 - on peut installer vidéo-projecteur (faut l'amener) si on veut montrer des choses pour la remise des awards - pas de soucis pour distribuer les bières ESUG + petite présentation d'Artmalté - une sono sera sur place si on veut diffuser de la musique. A nous d'amener la playlist (balladeur, ordi, ...) A ce propos, est-ce que ça vous intéresse de prendre un petit groupe de zic ? Je pense par exemple au trio Yolanda, c'est acoustique (chants, violon, accordéon, violoncelle), musique des balkans. A+ Laurent

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Fwd: [rmod] SmalltalkHub upgrade!
by Stéphane Ducasse June 28, 2013

June 28, 2013

> SmalltalkHub upgrade! > > Hi, I'm pleased to announce a new SmalltalkHub upgrade. > This upgrade includes quite some bug fixes and speed improvements. > > - new buttons to delete mcz files and packages > - deleting projects will delete mcz files > - team can now also be deleted > - the MCZ cache is now correctly flushed when required > - Private projects are now hidden from all public timelines > - Speed improvements for some Mongo requests > > Issue fixes: > > - issue 16: Cannot delete project > - Issue 1: Monticello Registration snippet should not supply user name > - Issue 5: Some message should be shown when you try do delete the only member of a Team > - Issue 6: I just got to see an Amber debugger while trying to log out > - Issue 25: Remove packages does not work > - Issue 23: Encoding problem > > You can follow the bug tracker of SmalltalkHub and report issues there: https://code.google.com/p/smalltalk-hub/issues > > Cheers, > Nico

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Pharo slides and lectures
by Stéphane Ducasse June 27, 2013

June 27, 2013

Hi guys we started an official pharo slide share stream. http://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject Stef

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Deadline Extension : International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies - IWST
by Loïc Lagadec June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013

Dear all, *!!! Tomorrow is the last day for submitting to IWST !!!* *Due to numerous requests the deadline for submissions has been extended until june 22, 2013.* This is a kind reminder that the deadline for *International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies* (IWST 2013) is approaching (june 22). The call for paper is accessible online at: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2013/InternationalWorkshop. As for past editions, accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Libary. IWST 2009 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1735935> IWST 2010 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1942790> IWST 2011 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166929> IWST 2012 : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2448963> 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 Loïc Lagadec & Alain Plantec co-chairs of IWST 2013. --

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STIC 2013 Videos
by James Robertson June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

I'm posting the videos to my regular feed, and have set up a landing page here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/stic13.ssp Also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aumV3VUz66Rs8-xcD8V57ZTBNYPlzmj James Robertson http://www.jarober.com jarober(a)gmail.com

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WE HIRE : SENIOR SMALLTALK / JAVA SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
by Bertrand Wunderlich June 19, 2013

June 19, 2013

Hi everybody, Leading Banking Services in Luxembourg is seeking : Software Developer - SMALLTALK / JAVA Role/Area : developer to participate to technical design, coding, unit testing and bug fixing in the context of GVAS 2011. Qualifications/required skills : Software engineer with advanced SMALLTALK and JAVA development skills. Experience in smalltalk development is required. If possible, experience in financial industry and ability to coach people. English is the working language. Starting date : ASAP. Estimated duration of the mission : until December 2014 (minimum). Location : LUXEMBOURG. Salary : negociable. Please send me your resume if you're interested in that offer. Bertrand Wunderlich Recruitment officer NFS S.A. 4, Place de Strasbourg L-2562 LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG T : +352 20 40 80 42 P : +352 661 500 151 www.nfs.lu

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