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Back from ICFP 2006

Romain Lenglet — 2006-09-26T11:41:58+09:00

I am back from Portland, OR, USA. I have attended the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshop, the ACM SIGPLAN ICFP conference, and the CUFP workshop. I have taken a few photographs of all events.

The article about Dryverl that I have presented in the Erlang workshop, and the presentation's slides, are freely available.

Presentation about software engineering at the Takasaki High School

Romain Lenglet — 2006-02-28T14:04:01+09:00

The JSPS has published on their web site a presentation I made at the Takasaki High School last October. That talk was in the context of the Science Dialogue program, in which JSPS-funded post-doc scientists like me give talks to high-school students.

The subject of my talk was a general introduction to the education system in France and to my research domains: software engineering, software architecture and systems management. This was kind of a refreshing experience. I went with Pr. Chiba as a translator, because my Japanese is too minimal to give a talk in Japanese. ^_^

In the photo on the left, you can see students in front of notebook computers, during the discussion session after my talk: I made them type commands in Windows' shell, to experiment with Internet protocols (nslookup, ping, etc.). The student standing up is the one who volunteered to impersonate an IP router. I had brought Ethernet cables with me, and made students impersonate a TCP stack, an IP stack, etc. and made them exchange packets in the form of paper envelopes. That was fun. ^_^

Three steps to make a conference look more attractive

Romain Lenglet — 2006-01-12T17:17:21+09:00

Here are a few steps to make a conference look more attractive:

Put the name of a nice touristic place directly into the conference's name. Doesn't a “39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences” (HICSS'06) sound much more attractive than a simple “International Conference on System Sciences”?
Make the conference happen in winter, preferably just after new year's vacations (so that it feels like a vacation extension...). Surely, January 4-7 makes Hawaii attractive to foreigners (nowadays, the temparature here in Tokyo is about 5°C).
On the conference website, put a picture of attendees wearing casual Hawaiian shirts.

New position paper and poster: Application of Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis in Open Distributed Systems Management

Romain Lenglet — 2005-08-31T13:05:15+09:00

I have presented a poster (in A0 format) and a two-pages position paper, at the JSSST SPA-SUMMER 2005 workshop (4th Summer Workshop on Systems for Programming and Applications), that took place at the Isawa hot spring, 2005-08-22 to 23.