Smalltalk Senior Software Engineer Position @ Misys, Dublin, Ireland
Misys is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Smalltalk skills for a full-time permanent position.
Contact stan.shepherd (at) Misys.com
Misys is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Smalltalk skills for a full-time permanent position.
Contact stan.shepherd (at) Misys.com
INRIA RMoD is looking for a full-time young engineer for helping with developing our research infrastructure. Young engineer means someone who finished with a degree (Master or Engineer) not longer than 2 years ago.
The engineer position is focussed on virtual machine related work. As researchers, we need a system to explore new ideas with. The job of the engineer is to help us by improving the infrastructure we use for our daily work.
What this of course means is that it’s kind of a cool job: work in a research lab, but no paper writing, no teaching, no administration. In addition:
Lille is an active city but not expensive (lot of students...), centrally located with good connections by train to everywhere (including CDG and Brussels airports).
The idea of the job is to strengthen RMoD with regard to virtual machine development and improve our research infrastructure. In research we are often faced with doing experiments that need VM changes. We want to be able to make these changes as easy as possible so researchers can focus on trying out new ideas.
In particular we are working on an easy to understand and modify research virtual machine that is implemented in Smalltalk. The goal here is not a fast production VM but instead infrastructure that is easy to learn and extend for research experiments.
The job will include working on the research VM as well as helping with Pharo related VM level development:
Therefore we are looking for a candidate with some prior experience with Smalltalk (Pharo/Squeak) and possibly some background in implementation of dynamic languages.
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The north of France is becoming an attractor to the Smalltalk community. Not only there are a bunch of Smalltalkers in both Lille (INRIA Rmod team) and Douai (Ecole des Mines de Douai), but we have now an international event that seems to become a regular gathering of the community.
After last years deep into Smalltalk spring school, we have this year the first Pharo Conference. It will be held on 24-25 may in INRIA. Talks submitted so far make me believe that it will be again a success. And It’s free. So, register now!
7th National Conference on “Control Architectures of Robots” CAR’2012
Nancy, INRIA / LORIA, 10-11 May 2012
Deadline: April 9th, 2012
The CAR conference gathers researchers of the french robotics community interested in the transverse theme of embedded software for controlling autonomous robots. This event is an opportunity to meet other scientists and get an overview of research currently conducted in french labs.
As mobile robotics and bio-inspired models seem to be moving toward an interesting convergence, CAR 2012 proposes a dedicated focus on distributed architectures and bio-inspired systems. Therefore, this year we are glad to welcome Prof. Dr. Herman Bruyninckx (Univ. Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. Dominique Martinez (INRIA Cortex, France) as invited speakers of CAR 2012.
As for precedent editions, the CAR’s scientific committee expects papers and slides in english to favor the international visibility of presented work. Submissions can be either full papers, or extended summaries (i.e. short papers). As for a demonstration session, contact the scientific board giving details of the demonstration (live demo, video, etc) you want to perform during the conference. This will help to organize such a session. Topics of main interest covering multi-robot collaboration themes : Networked robots, sensors and actuators Teleoperation and remote control for networked robots Distributed control and communication in swarms Coordination in heterogeneous flocks of robots Hardware-in-the-loop simulation Distributed control architectures technology (eg bio-inspired architecture, …) Experience reports and lessons learned from multi-robot case studies Other topics : Task planning Interaction between planners and other components of the architecture Programming languages for robotics Middleware for robotics Scientific challenges and perspectives for robotic software
Intent to submit a paper (title + keywords): 2th April 2012 Paper submission (full paper or extended abstract): 9th April 2012 Paper Acceptation Notification : 23th April 2012 Camera Ready due : 4th May 2012 Conference: 10-11 May 2012
As a recreation for Christmas holidays, I hacked Bot Grid Simulator to render a winter landscape. It is still a robot simulation, since snow flakes are robots with a simple behavior. There about 500 of them. Hope you’ll enjoy the video. Merry Christmas and happy new year 2012.