Hi Michele-- I'm very interested in pursuing a PhD. I started developing with Smalltalk while studying music and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. I went on to develop interactive audio tools at Atari Games, consumer electronics applications at Interval Research, and AI research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, all with Smalltalk. I've participated in the Squeak and Pharo communities since they began, and have served on the Squeak board for several years. I wrote the Flow, Naiad, and Spoon frameworks, for Smalltalk streaming (including remote messaging), change management (including team collaboration), and minimal system deployment (including distributed operation). I would love to pursue them in the context of a PhD. There's more information about them on my blog[1] and website[2]. I use them in my own work with remote music collaboration, improvisation, and livecoding[3]. I look forward to speaking with you! thanks, -C [1] http://thiscontext.com [2] http://netjam.org/cv [3] http://toplap.org -- Craig Latta netjam.org +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)