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Upcoming deadlines SPLASH'16 in Amsterdam: OOPSLA & Onward!
by Tijs van der Storm 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ # Important dates OOPSLA Papers: * Submissions due: March 23, 2016 * Author Response: May 19 - May 21, 2016 * Author Notification: June 1, 2016 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2016 Onward! Papers & Essays: * Submissions due: April 1, 2016 * First notification: May 20, 2016 * Revised papers: July 15, 2016 * Final notification: July 31, 2016 * Camera ready: August 26, 2016 # SPLASH 2016 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, systems, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ## OOPSLA Research Papers Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Wed 23 March, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla ## Onward! Research 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: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward-2016-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 an exploration of a topic, its impact, or 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 by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area 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: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward2016-essays ## More information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2016.splashcon.org Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University) Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes (University of California, Irvine) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Michael Hind (IBM Research) and Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju (CWI) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) /************************************************************************************/ -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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1st Call for Contributions for SPLASH'16: OOPSLA, Onward!, Workshops, DLS, SLE, GPCE
by Tijs van der Storm 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

/************************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************************************/ FIRST COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Doctoral Symposium Posters Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Software Language Engineering (SLE) Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) /************************************************************************************/ # SPLASH 2016 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, systems, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ## OOPSLA Research Papers Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Wed 23 March, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-oopsla ## Onward! Research 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: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward-2016-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 an exploration of a topic, its impact, or 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 by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area 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: Fri 1 April, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/onward2016/onward2016-essays ## Workshops The SPLASH Workshops track 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. Late Phase Submissions of Workshop Proposals due: Fri 4 Mar, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash2016-workshops ## 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. Submissions due: Thu 30 Jun, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-ds ## 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. Poster submissions due: Fri 8 Jul, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages — from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to Javascript — on real-world practice, and research, continues to grow. We invite high quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions due: Fri 10 June, 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dls-2016/dls-2016-papers ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term “software language” is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). SLE solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Submissions due: Fri 17 June, 2016 (abstracts); Fri 24 June, 2016 (papers) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/sle-2016/sle-2016-papers ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Submissions due: Fri 17 June, 2016 (abstracts); Fri 24 June, 2016 (papers) http://2016.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2016/gpce-2016-papers ## Information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2016.splashcon.org Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands ## Organization: SPLASH General Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) OOPSLA Papers Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Athens) Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University) Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes (University of California, Irvine) DLS PC Chair: Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio) SLE PC Co-Chairs: Emilie Balland (Sensational AG) and Daniel Varro (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) GPCE PC Chair: Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig) Doctoral Symposium Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Matthias Hauswirth (University of Lugano) and Steve Blackburn (Australian National University) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) and Tijs van der Storm (CWI) Artifacts Co-Chairs: Michael Hind (IBM Research) and Michael Bond (Ohio State University) Workshops Co-Chairs: Jan Rellermeyer (IBM Research) and Craig Anslow (Middlesex University, London) Posters Co-Chairs: Sebastian Erdweg (TU Darmstadt) and Jeff Huang (Texas A&M University) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: Patrick Lam (University of Waterloo) and Sam Guyer (Tufts University) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Daco Harkes (TU Delft) and Giovanni Viviani (University of British Columbia) Publications Chair: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju (Purdue University) Publicity and Web Co-Chairs: Tijs van der Storm (CWI) and Ron Garcia (University of British Columbia) Web Technology Chair: Eelco Visser (TU Delft) /************************************************************************************/ -- Researcher Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Master of Software Engineering Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Dr. Tijs van der Storm @ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Office: L225 | Phone: +31 (0)20 5924164 | Address: Science Park 123 P.O. Box 94079 | Postal code: 1090 GB | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Postdoc Position at VUW on Grace
by James Noble 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, based in Wellington, New Zealand. This is a two year fixed term position. The main objective of this position is to conduct high quality research in Programming Languages and Software Engineering, within the Grace Programming Langauge design project (gracelang.org) This will include design, implementation, and support work on the Grace language, Grace libraries, interactive and livecoding development environments, and open-source community building. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to teaching in Software Engineering and Computer Science. Candidates must have a PhD in Programming Languages or Object-Orientation and a good research and publication track record in these areas. If you would like to discuss the position before making an application, please email Professor James Noble, kjx(a)ecs.vuw.ac.nz, including in your email a copy of your CV, list of publications and a paragraph explaining why we should appoint you to this position. Application deadline: 31st July 2014. James Noble

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(no subject)
by Tobias Wrigstad 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Call for PARTICIPATION ** THE 2014 UPMARC SUMMER SCHOOL ** The 2014 UPMARC Summer School on Multicore Computing focuses on research trends for scalable and correct multicore programs and systems and will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden in July 28th and 29th, 2014. This year, the school is colocated with ECOOP, the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming, and its associated events. The school is subsidized by the UPMARC research programme of Uppsala University (seehttp://upmarc.se). Courses The school consists of a number of lectures and talks from international leaders in their field: * Cormac Flanagan, University of California, Santa Cruz Stephen Freund, Williams College Analysis techniques to detect concurrency errors * Viktor Vafeiadis, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Program logics for relaxed memory consistency * Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol An introduction to many-core parallel computing with OpenCL * Viktor Klang, TypeSafe Dr. Streamlove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the flow In addition, the school will include a session where participants can present posters and demos of their own research in the area of multicore/parallel computing. School Objective The objective of this year's summer school is to offer foundational tutorials accompanied by a selection of exiting new emerging technologies in the areas of analysis for finding errors in concurrent programs, on program logics for reasoning about program correctness in the presence of relaxed memory consistency, on programming multicore systems using OpenCL and Scala/Akka, all given by leading experts of the community. We aim to attract graduate students and young scientists and, through tutorials and lectures, prepare them for research on identifying and addressing fundamental challenges that will enable all programmers to leverage the potential performance from the ongoing shift to multicore programming. We also aim to provide a fun and stimulating environment for students to meet and establish connections with other students, world-class researchers from academia and industry, local faculty, and other senior scientists. For more information about the school, including how to register see: http://upmarc.se/events/SS2014 We strongly encourage people interested in participating to register as soon as possible. In particular, note that the early registration deadline for ECOOP'14 and its associated events is Saturday, 28th of June 2014. Kostis Sagonas and Roland Grönroos

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ECOOP 2014: Call for Participation
by Tobias Wrigstad 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

(*Apologies for multiple copies*) CALL for PARTICIPATION ** ECOOP - European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ** ---------------------------------------------------------------- Uppsala, Sweden July 28th -- August 1st, 2014 http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE Saturday 28th June 2014 http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/registration.php INVITED SPEAKERS Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research Cambridge) William Cook (University of Texas at Austin) Robert France (Colorado State University) Tudor Gîrba Erik Meijer (Applied Duality Inc.) The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premier international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. AFFILIATED EVENTS & WORKSHOPS ECOOP Summer School with 13 great speakers [http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/programme/ecoop-school.php] UPMARC Summer School with 5 great speakers [http://upmarc.se/events/SS2014] ECOOP PhD Symposium [http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/calls/doctoral-symposium.php] COP -- Context Oriented Programming [http://prg.is.titech.ac.jp/events/cop14/] FTfJP -- Formal Techniques for Java-Like Programs [http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/FTfJP2014/] ICOOOLPS -- Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems [http://soft-dev.org/events/icooolps14/] IWACO -- International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities, and Ownership [http://www.ownership-types.org/iwaco14/] JSTools -- Tools for JavaScript Analysis [http://www.csl.cs.uni-saarland.de/jstools/2014/] PLAS -- Programming Language and Analysis for Security [http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=5237] PLE -- Programming Language Evolution [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/cprg/ple14/] Scala -- Fifth annual Scala Workshop [http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2014/] ACCEPTED PAPERS - State-Sensitive Points-to Analysis for the Dynamic Behavior of JavaScript Objects Shiyi Wei and Barbara G. Ryder - Self-Inferencing Reflection Resolution for Java Yue Li, Tian Tan, Yulei Sui and Jingling Xue - Finding Reference-Counting Errors in Python/C Programs with Affine Analysis Siliang Li and Gang Tan - An Evaluation of Call Graph Construction Algorithms for Scala Karim Ali, Marianna Rapoport, Ondřej Lhoták, Julian Dolby and Frank Tip - Safely Composable Type-Specific Languages Cyrus Omar, Darya Kurilova, Ligia Nistor, Benjamin Chung, Alex Potanin and Jonathan Aldrich - Graceful Dialects Michael Homer, Timothy Jones, James Noble, Kim B. Bruce and Andrew P. Black - Structuring Documentation to Support State Search: A Laboratory Experiment about Protocol Programming Joshua Sunshine, James D. Berbsleb and Jonathan Aldrich - Reusable Concurrent Data Types Vincent Gramoli and Rachid Guerraoui - TaDA: A Logic for Time and Data Abstraction Pedro Da Rocha Pinto, Thomas Dinsdale-Young and Philippa Gardner - Infrastructure-Free Logging and Replay of Concurrent Execution on Multiple Cores Kyu Hyung Lee, Dohyeong Kim and Xiangyu Zhang - Understanding TypeScript Gavin Bierman, Martin Abadi and Mads Torgersen - Sound and Complete Subtyping between Coinductive Types for Object-Oriented Languages Davide Ancona and Andrea Corradi - Spores: A Type-Based Foundation for Closures in the Age of Concurrency and Distribution Heather Miller, Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky - Rely-Guarantee Protocols Filipe Militão, Jonathan Aldrich and Luís Caires - Stream Processing with a Spreadsheet Mandana Vaziri, Olivier Tardieu, Rodric Rabbah, Philippe Suter and Martin Hirzel - Implicit Staging of EDSL Expressions: A Bridge Between Shallow and Deep Embedding Maximilian Scherr and Shigeru Chiba - Babelsberg/JS - A Browser-based Implementation of an Object Constraint Language Tim Felgentreff, Alan Borning, Jens Lincke, Robert Hirschfeld, Yoshiki Ohshima, Bert Freudenberg and Robert Krahn - Automated Multi-Language Artifact Binding and Refactoring between Java and DSLs used by Java Frameworks Philip Mayer and Andreas Schroeder - Retargetting Legacy Browser Extensions to Modern Extension Frameworks Rezwana Karim, Mohan Dhawan and Vinod Ganapathy - Capture-Avoiding and Hygienic Program Transformations Sebastian Erdweg, Tijs Van Der Storm and Yi Dai - Converting Parallel Code from Low-Level Abstractions to Higher-Level Abstractions Semih Okur, Cansu Erdogan and Danny Dig - Portable and Efficient Run-time Monitoring of JavaScript Applications using Virtual Machine Layering Erick Lavoie, Bruno Dufour and Marc Feeley - An Executable Formal Semantics of PHP Daniele Filaretti and Sergio Maffeis - Identifying Mandatory Code for Framework Use via a Single Application Trace Naoya Nitta, Izuru Kume and Yasuhiro Takemura - Cooperative Scheduling of Parallel Tasks with General Synchronization Patterns Shams Imam and Vivek Sarkar - MiCA: A Compositional Architecture for Gossip Protocols Lonnie Princehouse, Rakesh Chenchu, Zhefu Jiang, Kenneth Birman, Nate Foster and Robert Soulé - Semantics of (Resilient) X10 Silvia Crafa, David Cunningham, Vijay Saraswat, Avraham Shinnar and Olivier Tardieu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Richard Jones, University of Kent (UK) **PC Chair** Davide Ancona, DIBRIS, Università di Genova (Italy) Sven Apel, University of Passau (Germany) Walter Binder, University of Lugano (Switzerland) Steve Blackburn, Australian National University (Australia) Ana Cavalcanti, University of York (UK) Satish Chandra, Samsung Electronics (US) Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Uppsala University (Belgium/Sweden) Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Isil Dillig, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) Amer Diwan, Google (USA) Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University (Belgium) Robby Findler, Northwestern University (USA) Irene Finocchi, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) Christian Hammer, Saarland University (Germany) Laurie Hendren, McGill University (Canada) Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University (Japan) Tomas Kalibera, Purdue University (USA) Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego (USA) Yu David Liu, SUNY Binghamton (USA) Cristina Lopes, UC Irvine (USA) Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Nick Mitchell, IBM Research (USA) Eliot Moss, University of Massachusetts (USA) Jens Palsberg, UCLA (USA) Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research (UK) Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens (Greece) Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford (UK) EXTERNAL REVIEW COMMITTEE Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Ioana Baldini, IBM Research (USA) Eric Bodden, TU Darmstadt (Germany) Sebastian Burckhardt, Microsoft Research (USA) Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo (Japan) Ferruccio Damiani, Università di Torino (Italy) Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo (Canada) Sophia Drossopolou, Imperial College London (UK) Erik Ernst, Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) Matthew Flatt, University of Utah (USA) Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine (USA) Kathryn E Gray, University of Cambridge (UK) Sam Guyer, Tufts University (USA) Matthias Hauswirth, University of Lugano (Switzerland) Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo (Norway) Christian Kästner, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Jörg Kienzle, McGill University (Canada) Ondrej Lhoták, University of Waterloo (Canada) Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) Romain Robbes, University of Chile (Chile) Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST (South Korea) Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv University (Israel) Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig (Germany) Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen (Germany) Alexander J. Summers, ETHZ (Switzerland) Frank Tip, University of Waterloo (Canada) Laurence Tratt, Kings College London (UK) Greta Yorsh, Queen Mary University of London (UK) ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Organising Chair Tobias Wrigstad, Uppsala University Programme Chair Richard Jones, University of Kent Workshop Chair Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano Poster and Demo Chair Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology Artefact Evaluation Co-Chairs Camil Demetrescu, Sapienza University of Rome Erik Ernst, Aarhus University Publicity Chair Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo Student Volunteer Chair Jürgen Börstler, Blekinge Institute of Technology Summer School Co-Chairs Jan Vitek, Purdue University James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington Sponsor Co-Chairs Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo Erik Ernst, Aarhus University Wine Chair Reiner Hähnle, Darmstadt University Local Organising Co-Chairs Johannes Borgström, Uppsala University Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Uppsala University Professional Conference Organiser Merja Immonen, Akademikonferens Local Student Aides Johan Östlund, Uppsala University Stephan Brandauer, Uppsala University Elias Castegren, Uppsala University Webmaster Stephan Brandauer, Uppsala University

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News from Grace-land
by Andrew P. Black 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

A few news items to share with you. Last week, James Noble and Andrew Black were both at PLDI in Beijing, and gave a short Grace tutorial. We had some interesting discussions with the participants, which included both teachers and language designers, and are encouraged by the growing interest in Grace We also heard last week that the paper "Grace: the absence of (inessential) difficulty" that we had submitted to Onward! has been accepted. A copy of the submission is on the Gracelang web site. ( http://gracelang.org/documents/onward-draft2012.pdf ) Over the next month we will be revising the paper in line with the requests made by the referees, so if you have comments, suggestions, or hints on areas needing clarification, this would be an excellent time to send them to us. Finally, a reminder that a prototype implementation of Grace, called minigrace, is available (start at http://gracelang.org/applications/minigrace/ ). The compiler is written in Grace, and is complete enough to compile itself, so although there is much work that still needs to be done, we are making progress. A few students and professors in Wellington, Pomona and Portland are spending their winters and summers writing Grace code. If you just want to try out some simple scripts, minigrace will run in any javascript-enabled web browser: no download or installation is needed. Just point your browser at http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~mwh/minigrace/js/ Andrew

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Grace @ ECOOP+PLDI; release of minigrace
by James Noble 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi all Several Grace folks will be at ECOOP+PLDI in Beijing in this week. In particular: • Mon 11 June – Michael Homer will talk about Grace at STOP • Wed 13 June – James Noble will give a PLDI tutorial on Grace Andrew will be in Beijing for the PLDI half of the week, and James and Michael around for the whole week. If you’re interested in Grace, come to one of these talks, or we’d love to catch up with you some other time this week. In other news, we have (slowly) released "minigrace", an early prototype compiler for Grace, that handles most of the dynamically typed parts of the language, and is getting better on types & generics. Minigrace was built in Wellington by Michael Homer, with Tim Jones & Jan Larres joining in this year. minigrace is nowhere near production quality: but it does work - it is self-hosted on C, on JavaScript (accessible on a web page), and (temporarily) to Java. We have some projects starting to experiment with libraries and APIs, and to get a feeling for the language as a whole. details are here: http://gracelang.org/applications/minigrace/ if you're keen, there is yet another mailing list for details about the implementation cheers James

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Grace @ SPLASH; New version of language spec out
by James Noble 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi Grace Interest a quick email to remind you that we will be at SPLASH next week: - a Grace BOF on Monday night, probably starting with a quick overview as some people will want to go on to the F# BOF that starts half an hour later.. - a Grace design workshop on the Friday after the conference to talk over the design in detail. I've also made the latest version of the (still very rough) spec at http://gracelang.org/documents/index.html cheers Andrew, Kim, James,

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Grace - collections & events
by James Noble 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi Grace supporters a quick email about ongoing discussions & events. * There is an ongoing discussion on the Grace blog about syntax & support for collections - we're interested in finding out what people think about some options here: (http://gracelang.org/applications/2011/09/06/notations-for-collections/) * We're also interested in thoughts around generics and pattern matching - see the discussion from the ECOOP workshop: (http://gracelang.org/applications/2011/08/18/from-lancaster-to-portland/) * If you're planning to attend the SPLASH / OOPSLA conference later October in Portland, Oregon, we're planning Grace workshops on the evening of Monday 24th Oct & full day on Friday 28th. Let us know if you're thinking of coming to either workshop. (http://gracelang.org/applications/2011/08/24/203/) * Finally, if you're thinking of coming to the Grace workshop, or anything else at SPLASH / OOPSLA, the early registration deadline is tomorrow. (see http://splashcon.org/2011/) cheers James (& Kim & Andrew)

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Grace BOFs & Design Workshops at SPLASH (OOPSLA)
by James Noble 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Dear Grace Supporters We're now planning the next Grace workshop(s) in Portland Oregon in conjunction with the SPLASH conference. Based on the successful ECOOP workshops, at this stage we're thinking of holding: * a BOF on Monday Oct 24 in the evening -- after the Educators' Symposium, the Dynamic Languages' Symposium, PLOP, and the workshops (including Plateau & FOOL) which are on Sunday and Monday. All three of us will be there for a general report-back on the project to date. * a Design Workshop on Friday Oct 28th (the day after the conference) working over open questions in the design in detail (probably the module & type systems). This will be held at Portland State University, an easy tram ride from the conference venue & hotels. We expect some people would stay only for the morning, others til mid-afternoon. We'd love to see as many of you as possible at the BOF and at design workshop. If you're able to come, please let us know by emailing James, kjx(a)ecs.vuw.ac.nz, so we have some idea who's coming. Alterantively, if there is are reasons why the proposed dates don't work --- but other dates might --- again let us know! Andrew & James will be around for all SPLASH, so we'll also be able to catch up then. We'll probably arrange to go out for dinner on the Thursday evening after the conference (before the Friday workshop), and we can probably organise another BOF during the conference if many people can attend neither Monday nor Friday. We look forward to catching up with everyone at SPLASH/OOPSLA this year, and hope may of you will be able to come to the BOF and the workshop. cheers Andrew & Kim & James

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