2nd Call for Participation: 2nd JML Spec-a-thon: JML^2, 18-20 November 2009, Dublin, Ireland
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2nd Call for Participation: 2nd JML Spec-a-thon: JML^2, 18-20 November 2009, Dublin, Ireland
by Joseph Kiniry
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2nd Call for Participation 2nd JML Spec-a-thon: JML^2 18-20 November 2009 University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland There are only two and a half weeks to go before the 2nd JML Spec-a-thon takes place in Dublin. We have 13 registered attendees so far, but have room for more! The website has been updated with location information on housing, transport, and more. What new news is there with regards to the Dublin Spec-a-thon? How about a nice dinner out on Thursday night followed by an Irish pub visit? Perhaps there will be goodies given away to attendees appropriate for Irish Winters? And what about special tutorial sessions for attendees who are not JML addicts? All this and more, available to you, interested attendee, with no registration costs! Best, Joe and Dan --- Here is a revised version of the original announcement, as a reminder: What, you may ask, is a JML Spec-a-thon? It's a gathering of JML researchers and users for intense collaboration on JML development. This is the second of what we expect to be a series of approximately semi-annual events. It is a continuation of the inaugural Spec-a-thon held on 26-28 May 2009 at the University of Washington Tacoma, and is similar in spirit to the JML Winter School that was held in 2008, but is longer, more intense, and geared more toward output production and goal setting than toward education. As part of this Spec-a-thon, there will also be a "keynote"-like talk open to to the public at UCD. The main focus for all Spec-a-thons is on writing good, usable specifications for many of the modern Java core classes that presently lack them. In OpenJML, we finally have a JML compiler that can take full advantage of generics and the other new language features introduced over the last several years, but the vast majority of available specs are still for Java 1.4 classes, lacking both generics and new APIs. Addressing this situation will help make JML more attractive to developers and more suitable for use in coursework. The last Spec-a-thon had several super-short talks given by participants in the morning on their current work, available tools, techniques in specification writing, and more. The balance of the day, and often into the night, participants worked as individuals and in small groups on new tools, specifications, and documentation, gave tutorials to each other, and more. For some participants, some of each day also focused on "pair specification writing," which is basically a wacky combination of an OpenBSD Hackathon and formal methods "extreme programming". A secondary focus of Spec-a-thons is on setting community-wide goals for the coming year in JML-related tool development and research. The second half of 2009 has been a great time for JML, with the Inaugural Spec-a-thon in late May and the Dagstuhl seminar in July. Continued face-to-face coordination of the goals of the JML community can only be helpful. The Inaugural and Second JML Spec-a-thons are supported by a Formal Methods Europe (FME) Small Projects grant, as well as local research grants at University College Dublin. There is also an opportunity for students and researchers involved with COST Action IC0701 "Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software" to participate using COST funds. Participants in this latter category will be obligated to attend a full week of Spec-a-thon activities due to funding agency restrictions, I.e., we will actually be starting Spec-a-thon activities on Monday, 16 November. While this level of support is not sufficient for us to cover meals and lodging for the event for all participants, it is enough for us to provide small travel subsidies to several attendees, as we did for the inaugural Spec-a-thon. This is designed primarily to allow interested graduate students, and those who otherwise might not be able to travel to the Dublin area, to attend. We have post detailed information about the event on the JML Spec-a-thons website Email jmlspecs-specathon@... for more information about travel subsidies and registration; we hope to see you there! Participants in the inaugural Spec-a-thon are encouraged to pipe up with their quick reflections on the event. -Dan Zimmerman and Joe Kiniry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Jmlspecs-interest mailing list Jmlspecs-interest@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmlspecs-interest |
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