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[choose] Dan Ingalls Talk Monday 30th of August at Berne

by stéphane ducasse

The CHOOSE executive board and the Software Composition Group of the University of Berne are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Dan Ingalls: "Better Behavior in Object-Oriented Programming" When: Monday 30th August 2004 Time: 17h15 Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ This event is free even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.choose.s-i.ch/. NOTE: registration for this event is required because we have to prepare the apero. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. Better Behavior in Object-Oriented Programming ==================================== I used to have no interest in software security, and even to disdain it as a pedantic and non-creative area. I have recently reversed this position, and I would like to share my new-found enthusiasm for security in OOP. My feeling is that a tasteful combination of good formal techniques and a Squeak-like kernel could bring simplicity and flexibility to robust system design, and many desirable properties to Squeak and malleable systems like it. Using this single thread (and I am trying to think of a better word than "security"), I hope to tie together issues of type specification, mutability, change management, multiprocessing and distributed computing. Bio == Dan Ingalls has been the principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the byte-coded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976. He also invented BitBlt, the general-purpose graphical operation that underlies most bitmap graphics systems today, as well as pop-up menus. He has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award for Outstanding Young Scientist, and the ACM Software Systems Award. Dan's major contributions to the Squeak system include the original conception of a Smalltalk written in itself and made portable and efficient by a Smalltalk-to-C translator. He also designed the generalizations of BitBlt to arbitrary color depth, with built-in scaling, rotation, and anti-aliasing. Dan leads the external Squeak community through active participation in e-mail discussions, and attention to regular releases and reasonable support. Dan Received his B.A. in Physics from Harvard University, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. While working toward a PhD at Stanford, he started a company to sell a software measurement invention that he perfected. As the challenges and rewards of industry have continued to hold his interest, he never returned to academia. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: Seaside: Building Complex Web Applications Simply Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member [ ] SSUG Member choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/ Prof. Stéphane DUCASSE [ | ] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes Open Source Smalltalks: http://www.squeak.org, http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html Free books for Universities at http://www.esug.org/sponsoring/promotionProgram.html Online Free Books at http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/

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[choose] Invitation to ESUG-Teachers Day on Friday, September the 10th in Koethen (Anhalt) / Germany

by Markus Gaelli

ESUG-Teachers Day Kickoff Event We are pleased to invite you to the first Teachers Day of the ESUG-European Conference of Smalltalk Technology. http://www.esug.org/conferences/twelfthsmalltalkjointevent2004/esug- teachersday/ The meeting will be held place on Friday, September the 10th 2004 in Köthen (Anhalt). Goal We want to bring together German speaking teachers and active Smalltalk developers to show the possibilities of object-oriented modelling and simulation in educational environments. Especially we want to • introduce different usage-scenarios of Smalltalk environments in classrooms, which could reach from simulations in physics and mathematics to building multimedia content and animations in the fine arts. • collect ideas for tutorials and start curriculae • plan actions to introduce Smalltalk and especially Squeak-Distribution to German speaking schools. • plan further co-operations and start, if possible, concrete classroom activities. The following topics will be presented: • Caro and Bot: A Smalltalk-Environment for Children from 11, to learn programming • Experience report about the use of Swikis and Smalltalk at the French School of Bern • Short Intro of Squeak and the German Squeak Association Squeak e.V. • Etoys: A drag'n drop Script- and simulation environment • Report of the anual School-Squeaker-Meeting in Chicago • StarSqueak / Kedama: StarLogo in Squeak, an environment to simulate emergent behavior • Smallland: Experience report about the use of free Software in Spanish Schools: Squeak is installed there on 80000 computers, 50 teachers create curriculae We are happy about more experience reports and presentations. If you want to participate or to show, what you do with Smalltalk, please register by sending a mail to gaelli(a)iam.unibe.ch with • your name and email-address • and i.a. the title of your presentation/tutorial/etc. with a short description Time and Place Friday, September 10th at 9.00 o'clock in Köthen at the Hochschule Anhalt (FH) // Fachbereich Informatik //Lohmannstraße 23 Costs This event can be visited for 50 Euro, independent from the conference, including lunch. Cheers, Markus, Marcus + Stef choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/

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