The Weekly Squeak

Eliot gave a terrific presentation about the current state of the community and what we might do to improve it. Evelyn (Lin) Ostrom 1933-2012 Eight principles for managing a commons Clearly defined boundaries Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs Collective choice arrangements Monitoring Graduated sanctions Fast and fair conflict resolutions Local autonomy Polycentric governance http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commons-strategies…

7th Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) Co-located with SPLASH 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands PLATEAU 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with.…

Mario Wolczko writes: In early 2015 I was honored to be invited to develop and present a graduate course on Virtual Machines at UC Berkeley. The result is CS294-113: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes, which was presented in the Fall of 2015. This page contains the materials from that course. All materials are Copyright © Oracle…