November 2008 - boston-lisp-meeting-register@common-lisp.net

Re: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] [boston-lisp-announce] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B
by Andy Latto 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

> > Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I > work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly > Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We > appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos > you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by > sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We > won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll > keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any > such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. I plan to attend the meeting. -- Andy.Latto(a)pobox.com

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[boston-lisp-meeting-register] I'll be there
by Marc Battyani 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Cheers, Marc

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[boston-lisp-meeting-register] +1 for today's Lisp meeting
by Michelle Fullwood 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi Sorry for the late response but I only just saw this announcement - I intend to attend this evening's Lisp meeting. Thanks Michelle Fullwood

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[boston-lisp-meeting-register] Register 2 people
by Lincoln Quirk 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

I have myself and one other person coming.. Sorry for the late notice.

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[boston-lisp-meeting-register] RSVP food
by Peter Olson 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

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[boston-lisp-meeting-register] Fwd: [hackers] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B
by Faré 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Dear boston-lisp-meeting-register, Please count me, my so Lauren, Gremio the speaker & Alexey in, in addition to Dan W below. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Weinreb <dlw(a)itasoftware.com> Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [hackers] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B To: Faré <fahree(a)gmail.com> I expect to be there. -- Dan

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Re: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B
by Erica L Cooper 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

hi, I would like to RSVP for this talk. thanks, erica On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Faré wrote: > Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B > Gregory Marton will give a talk about the meanings of English words as programs. > http://fare.livejournal.com/136992.html > > Gregory will introduce a way of thinking about the meanings of English > words as programs (c.f. SHRDLU), cast the problem of language learning > as a search through the space of possible programs, and show first > steps in learning. Gregory has created a system called Sepia that > makes it relatively easy to write small lexicons that implement some > semantic theory for a domain. Applications that Gregory and several > colleagues have had fun with include: > > * understanding dates and times and other measures: "next Wednesday" > * finding and linking names of people, organizations, places > * telling a robot what to do with stuff on a table: "touch the red one" > * asking about spatial paths in video: "show people entering the kitchen" > * a toy gossip world: "John loves Mary" "Who does not hate Mary?" > * a little number theory: "18 is twice the sum of its digits" > > These applications are inherently brittle, and manual construction > gets harder as the application grows. The research goal is to > construct new meaning programs with little human input, or with input > from non-programmers. Given a problem phrase, Sepia uses standard ways > to find similar words that it knows. Its current approach is to take > the meanings of those words and makes small changes, looking for a > combination that produces the target meaning. > > Both the system as a whole and the language of semantics are > implemented in the GNU/Guile flavor of Scheme. > > Gregory Marton is a PhD student in computer science at MIT, and this > is his dissertation topic. His first language is Hungarian, and since > meeting English at age eight, he has wondered about meanings and how > to learn language. He has a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in > Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park, 1999. > > * > > The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 > (6pm) at MIT, Room 34-401B. > > As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. > This is the usual location, on 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge. > > MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34 > > Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA > > Many thanks go to Alexey Radul for arranging for the room, and to MIT > for welcoming us. > > * * > > Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I > work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly > Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We > appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos > you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by > sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We > won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll > keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any > such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. > > * * * > > The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on October 27th had over 30 > participants. Tim McNerney gave copious background on the Thinking > Machines Corporation and its line of massively parallel computer as an > introduction to his work on automated verification of a compiler > optimization pass through abstract interpretation. Both the > presentation and the following discussion were very lively. > > We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all > the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html > > For more information, see our new web site boston-lisp.org. For posts > related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: > http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to > our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting > > Please forward this information to people you think would be > interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message > multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list > where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. > Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare(a)tunes.org. > > [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] > When all lawful citizens are disarmed, will we have an omnipresent police > state to protect us from armed criminals? > > _______________________________________________ > Seminars mailing list > Seminars(a)lists.csail.mit.edu > https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/seminars >

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Re: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] [boston-lisp-announce] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B
by Aubrey Jaffer 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

| Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:35 -0500 | From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=" <fahree(a)gmail.com> | | Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT | 34-401B Gregory Marton will give a talk about the meanings of English | words as programs. http://fare.livejournal.com/136992.html | | ... | | Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I | work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly | Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We | appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos | you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by | sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. I plan to attend.

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