This page provides an overview of the events and media appearances related to the ambient-oriented programming-related research.

Andoni Lombide Carreton presented AmbientTalk and its extensions for writing mobile RFID-enabled applications at the German droidcon conference.

March 24, 2011
Berlin, Germany

• See the slides of the talk given at droidcon.de here.

In February 2011, datanews publish an article about AmbientTalk including an interview to Dries Harnie and Tom Van Cutsem held during the droidcon.be conference.

• Download the article in Dutch here

The implementation of Jasper's robot developed during his 3r bachelor project (guided by Christophe Scholliers) has won the XMOS project of the month (June 2011).

• Information about the his robot can be found here .

This year, Christophe Scholliers presents the work done with his students about programming abstractions for the XMOS multicore embedded hardware in the Embedded Room at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (Fosdem 2011)

February 5, 2011
Brussels, Belgium

• See the abstract of the talk here.

Dries Harnie presented AmbientTalk at the second Belgian droidcon conference.

January 21, 2011
Brussels, Belgium

• See Dries slides about the talk at droidcon.be here
• See the weScribble demo showed at droidcon.be here.

The implementation of Ruben's Scheme interpreter done in his master thesis (guided by Christophe Scholliers and Wolfgang De Meuter) has won the XMOS project of the month (October 2010).

• Information about the price can be found here .

The EOS Magazine includes in the January 2011 issue an article about the work of Lode Hoste during his master thesis about language abstractions for multi touch systems (guided by Christophe Scholliers and Wolfgang De Meuter).

• Download the EOS article in Dutch or French.

Wolfgang De Meuter and Elisa Gonzalez Boix were selected to participated in the foto exposition euReka! 48 onderzoekers in de kijker organized by IWOIB/IRSIB to promote research in Brussels.

• Location:
  • Royal Park from 1 to 31 September 2010
  • Central Station from 5 to 30 November 2010
  • Halles Saint-Géry from 1 December 2010 to 31 January 2011
  • City 2 Shopping Mall from 23 February to 23 March 2011.
• See their photo here and read their interview here.

In July 2010, datanews published an article about AmbientTalk including an interview to Tom Van Cutsem held during the Emerging Languages Camp conference.

• Read the DataNews article here.

Tom Van Cutsem presented AmbientTalk at the conference on emerging programming languages EMC2010 during OSCON.

July 22, 2010
Portland, Oregon

• See the Channel 9 interview with Tom, Mark Miller, Jonathan Shapiro and Gilad Bracha here.

Lode Hoste won Alcatel Lucent’s ‘Master Thesis Award 2010 for his thesis work on language abstractions for multi touch systems under the guidance of Christophe Scholliers and Wolfgang De Meuter.

• Read the Datanews article about this here

Wolfgang De Meuter and Elisa Gonzalez Boix presented AmbientTalk in the Embedded Room at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (Fosdem 2010)

February 7, 2010
Brussels, Belgium

• See the abstract of the talk here.

• Download the slides of the talk here