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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…

Excellent Description of Sista! Nice job Eliot and Clément!

Chris Muller posted: The mission-control app I’ve been working on this year appeared in a special episode of CBBC Newsround yesterday! http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/36247103 The segment about Reserve Protection Agency with several screenshots of the app begins at time index 9:40 and runs until 12:25.  I recommend watching the entire episode, though, it’s a worthwhile message. No…

Dear Smalltalkers, ESUG’16 registration is open! http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Conference-Registration We also provide you a selected list of hotels here: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Hotels See you @ Prague, Luc — Dr. Luc Fabresse Associate-Professor in Computer Science Mines Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom, France http://car.mines-douai.fr/luc/