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Sacha Krakowiak

	Affiliation:	Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
	Address:	Projet Sardes INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Inovallée - 655 avenue de l'Europe 38330 Montbonnot - St Martin (France)

	E-mail:	firstname dot lastname at inria dot fr

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Teaching

As professor emeritus, I have no teaching duties since September 2007. Below is a list of courses I taught in recent years, with their slides. I make no commitment to keep this material up to date.
My main activities are as follows:

some work on the history of computing (in French), see here.
a project of a virtual museum of computing (Cervin).
an e-book on Middleware Architecture (this project is dormant for the time being).

[all the remaining links in this section are to pages in French]

Systèmes et Applications Répartis [Distributed Systems and Applications] (Master year 2, Vocational track - Génie Informatique and Ingénieurs RICM Polytech’ Grenoble)

see here an account of the experience with a lab project associated with this course

Algorithmique et techniques de base des systèmes répartis [Algorithms and Techniques for Distributed Systems] (Master year 2, Research track)
Introduction aux systèmes d’exploitation et aux réseaux [Introduction to Operating Systems and Networks] (Licence [B.S.], year 3)
Construction d’Applications Parallèles et Réparties [Construction of Parallel and Distributed Applications] - (Master year 2, Research track)
Réseaux et Applications Réparties [Networks and Distributed Applications] - (Master year 1)

also coordinating an option course: Adaptable Middleware

Études d’Approfondissement [Case Studies on Distributed Systems and Applications]

L'enseignement des “systèmes” [teaching “systems”: why, what, how, for whom?]

École d’été sur l’Intergiciel et la Construction d’Applications Réparties (ICAR 2006), Aug. 28-Sep. 1, 2006. This is the last in a series of summer schools on Middleware and Distributed Applications, which includes: ( summer 2003 | summer 1999 | summer 1998 | summer 1996 )

A book based on the contents of the 2006 school is on line.

Research

Projects:

Last: Sardes (System Architecture for Reflective Distributed Environments), a project of INRIA and of the LIG Laboratory.

Past: Sirac, Guide, ...
Ancient: ..., Ésope
In a former life: see this

Research Interests: operating systems, distributed systems, adaptable systems; patterns and frameworks for middleware.

Publications

list
see also the publications page of the Sardes project

Wide Audience Presentations

Papers

La naissance du génie logiciel [The Birth of Software Engineering], Interstices, September 2014
Les débuts d'une approche scientifique des systèmes d'exploitation [The Beginnings of a Scientific Approach to Operating Systems], Interstices, February 2014
La naissance des systèmes d'exploitation [The Birth of Operating Systems], with J. Mossière, Interstices, April 2013
Vers un musée virtuel de l’informatique [author : Aconit], in the colloquium “Vers un musée de l'informatique et de la société numérique” [Towards a Museum of Computer Science and the Digital Society], CNAM, Paris, November 2012
Derrière la technique, la science informatique [Behind the Technique, The Science of Computing], with J. Mossière et J.-P. Verjus, ibid.
Alan Turing, du concept à la machine [Alan Turing, from Concept to Machine], Interstices, October 2012
Xerox PARC et la naissance de l'informatique contemporaine [Xerox PARC and the Birth of Modern Computing], Interstices, April 2012
Naissance des langages de programmation [The Birth of Programming Languages, with J. Mossière], Interstices, January 2012
Le modèle d'architecture de von Neumann [The von Neumann Architecture Model], Interstices, November 2011

Talks

Le virtuel en informatique, de la machine au musée (pdf), Aconit, Grenoble, avril 2012
Six lectures and discussions on the History of Computer Science [wide audience, in French] (January - February, 2011)
Au cœur de l’informatique, le logiciel, Aconit, Grenoble, May 2010 [a wide-audience presentation on software]

Recent Talks

Une brève histoire de l'informatique [A Brief History of Computing], conférence de rentrée, École de Management des Systèmes d'Information, Grenoble, September 2015
Quelques aspects de l’histoire des systèmes d’exploitation [Some Aspects of the History of Operating Systems]. Séminaire d’histoire de l’informatique du CNAM, Paris, January 2015 [video] [pdf]
Histoires de temps en informatique : concurrence, parallélisme, synchronisation [About Time in Computing: Concurrency, Parallelism, Synchronization]. Séminaire grenoblois d’histoire de l’informatique et du numérique, Aconit, November 2014 [video] [pdf]
Systems Architecture, Advances and Challenges, 1st LICIA workshop, Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 2011
Une brève histoire de l’informatique, partie 1, partie 2 [A Brief History of Computing], ENSSIB (École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques), Lyon, November 2011
Quelques défis actuels de l’informatique [Some Current Challenges of Computer Science], Journées nationales de l’APMEP (Association des professeurs de mathématiques de l’enseignement public), Grenoble, October 2011
Architecture des systèmes, avancées et défis, [Systems Architecture, Advances and Challenges]. “Keynote talk” du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), December 2, 2010 (watch video)
C’est quoi, au fond, l’informatique ? [What Is Computer Science, Anyway?], Congrès Specif, Tours, January 2010
Architecture-based systems management, BCS Advanced Programming Specialist Group, London, December 2009
Patrons et canevas pour l’intergiciel [Patterns and Frameworks for Middleware] (pdf), École ICAR'06 , August 2006
Table ronde sur l'enseignement des systèmes, UFR Informatique et Math. Appliquées, Grenoble

La discipline “systèmes” : état et évolution [The “Systems” Discipline: Status and Evolution] (pdf)

1st Franco-Mexican School on Distributed Systems (Xalapa, Mexico), May 2002

Patterns & Frameworks for Middleware Construction (pdf)

Conference CFSE-RENPAR-SYMPA (Paris, April 2001)

Invited talk : Architecture des systèmes, passé et avenir [Systems Architecture, Past and Present] (pdf)

Last update: September 9, 2015