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Papers
		Generics of a Higher Kind by Adriaan Moors, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, Submitted to OOPSLA 2008, Nashville (TN), March 2008.
		Safe Type-level Abstraction in Scala by Adriaan Moors, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, FOOL 2008, San Francisco (CA), January 2008.
		Implementing Joins using Extensible Pattern Matching by Philipp Haller, EPFL, and Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije University, Belgium, Tech Report LAMP-REPORT-2007-004, August 2007.
		Translation Correctness for First-Order Object-Oriented Pattern Matching by Burak Emir, EPFL, Qin Ma, OFFIS, Oldenburg, and Martin Odersky, EPFL, Tech Report LAMP-REPORT-2007-003, June 2007.
		Towards Equal Rights for Higher-Kinded Types by Adriaan Moors, K.U.Leuven, Frank Piessens, K.U.Leuven, and Martin Odersky, EPFL. MPOOL 2007, July 2007.
		Actors that Unify Threads and Events Tech report by Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky. January 2007.
		Matching Objects With Patterns Tech report (draft) by Burak Emir, Martin Odersky, and John Williams. January 2007.
		Scalable Programming Abstractions for XML Services by Burak Emir, EPFL, Sebastian Maneth, UNSV Sydney, and Martin Odersky, EPFL Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks, Vol. 4028, pp. 103--126, Springer-Verlag, September 2006.
		Event-Based Programming without Inversion of Control by Philipp Haller, EPFL and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of JMLC 06, Oxford, August 2006.
		A Core Calculus for Scala Type Checking by Vincent Cremet, EPFL, François Garillot, ENS Paris, Sergueï Lenglet, ENS Lyon, and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of MFCS 06, Stará Lesná, August 2006.
		On Embedding Domain-specific Languages with User-friendly Syntax by Gilles Dubochet, EPFL Proceedings of the 1st ECOOP Workshop on Domain-Specific Program Development, pp. 19–22, Nantes, July 2006.
		The Scala Plugin for Eclipse by Sean McDirmid, EPFL and Martin Odersky, EPFL Proceedings of the Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop at ECOOP 2006, Nantes, July 3-7, 2006.
		Scalable Component Abstractions by Martin Odersky, EPFL, and Matthias Zenger, Google Proceedings of OOPSLA 2005, San Diego, October 2005.
		The Expression Problem in Scala Report by T.N. Esben & al., Aarhus University, May 31, 2005.
		Inner Classes and Virtual Types by Philippe Altherr and Vincent Cremet, EPFL, I&C Technical Report No. 2005013, March 2005.
		Independently Extensible Solutions to the Expression Problem by Matthias Zenger and Martin Odersky, EPFL, I&C Technical Report No. 200433, March 2004.
		Programmation Multi-niveaux dans Scala by Damien Pous, ENS Lyon, Project report, August 2003.
		A Nominal Theory of Objects with Dependent Types (also known as the "vObj paper") by Martin Odersky, Vincent Cremet, Christine Röckl, Matthias Zenger, EPFL Proceedings of ECOOP 2003, July 2003.
		Scala and AsmL side by side by Stéphane Micheloud, EPFL, Internal paper, May 2003.
		PiLib: A Hosted Language for Pi-Calculus Style Concurrency by Vincent Cremet and Martin Odersky, EPFL Dagstuhl Proceedings: Domain-Specific Program Generation, March 2003.

Talks
		The Scala Experience — Programming With Functional Objects by Martin Odersky, EPFL Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ 2007), September 2007.
		Scala Actors -- Scalable Multithreading on the JVM by Philipp Haller, EPFL Invited talk at IBM Development Lab Boeblingen, May 2007.
		The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems? by Martin Odersky, EPFL Google Tech Talks, November 2006.
		Tackling Concurrency — Language or Library ? by Martin Odersky, EPFL Intel PL Seminar Series, November 2006.
		Tutorial on Writing Modular Programs in Scala by Gilles Dubochet and Martin Odersky 13 September 2006 at JMLC, Oxford. Try the full hands-on tutorial (with documentation and source code), and its solution. Both packages contain a Scala compiler and are completely stand-alone.
		Poor Man's Type Classes by Martin Odersky, EPFL IFIP WG 2.8, July 2006.
		The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems? by Martin Odersky, EPFL POPL 2006, January 2006.
		Types for Objects and Modules by Martin Odersky, EPFL Dagstuhl Proceedings: Domain-Specific Program Generation, March 2003.

Theses
		Object-Oriented Pattern Matching PhD Thesis report by Burak Emir, EPFL, Thesis No. 3899, October 2007.
		An Object-Oriented Programming Model for Event-Based Actors Master Thesis report by Philipp Haller, Karlsruhe University, May 2006. N.B. The software package can be installed using sbaz and the API documentation is available from the author's web page.
		A Typed Intermediate Language and Algorithms for Compiling Scala by Successive Rewritings PhD Thesis report by Philippe Altherr, EPFL, Thesis No. 3509, March 2006.
		Foundations for Scala: Semantics and Proof of Virtual Types PhD Thesis report (draft) by Vincent Cremet, EPFL, Thesis No. 3556, May 2006.
		Compiling Scala for the Java Virtual Machine PhD Thesis report by Michel Schinz, EPFL, Thesis No. 3302, September 2005.