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| CALL FOR PAPERS |
| 5th European Lisp Workshop |
| July 7, Paphos, Cyprus - co-located with ECOOP 2008 |
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Important Dates:
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Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 04, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2008
ECOOP early registration deadline: June 01, 2008
5th European Lisp Workshop: July 07, 2008
For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2008/
Contact: Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr
Organizers
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Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Hans Hübner, Software Developer, Berlin
Overview
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"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and
Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining,
EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent
Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation,
Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling,
Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they
happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In
the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for
language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation
language for applications in diverse fields.
The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to
implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common
Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first
object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and
retains the most complete and advanced object system of any
programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented
programming languages that followed.
It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing
interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence
worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being
transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented
Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based
languages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and
suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp
provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software
engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers
proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their
experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp
technologies.
The workshop will have two components: there will be
formally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working on
particular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for
short, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports,
underappreciated results, software under development, or other topics
of interest.
Papers
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Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes
and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and
answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, to
provide all participants with background information in advance.
Suggested Topics:
- New language features or abstractions
- Experience reports or case studies
- Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries
- Educational approaches
- Software Evolution
- Development Aids
- Persistent Systems
- Dynamic Optimization
- Implementation techniques
- Innovative Applications
- Hardware Support for Lisp systems
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Breakout Groups
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The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.
Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups:
- Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution
- Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching)
- Environments for creating web applications
- Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects
- Persistence Systems
- Compiler technology
- Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
- Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education
Submission Guidelines
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Potential attendees are encouraged to submit:
- a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
software engineering purposes,
- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
the near future,
- a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
agenda and/or expected results.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna
(didier(a)lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline.
--
Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.
Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier
EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (0)1 44 08 01 85
94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (0)1 53 14 59 22 didier(a)xemacs.org
Regarding Meetings, I would like to find (please send me personal email)
* co-organizers, to make sure these meetings will be well-organized
and keep running even when I won't be there to organize. Please send
me mail and/or come meet me on March 3 at 6pm at the CBC.
* feedback from potential participants - I want to know how many
people I should reserve room and/or catering for (if I find sponsors).
* ideas for talks - you have something to say, or someone you know
around Boston has great ideas that you would like to hear - tell me.
* possibly a web developer (preferably using some Lisp platform) to
host a site, blog, mailing-lists, etc.
NB: I've updated my call for speakers, participants and sponsors at
http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html
[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
-- Edgar Waston Howe
I have been working on an object system for Emacs Lisp, based on
prototypes (not classes.) It's in beta but definitely will have had a
1.0 release by April. Can I give a brief talk and demonstration?
The page is at http://dto.mamalala.org/notebook/eon.html
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> From: boston-lisp-request(a)common-lisp.net
> Subject: boston-lisp Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1
> To: boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:01:40 -0500
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At what time is the meeting, I may be coming in from NY, but strangely there is also a meeting of the Artificial intelligence group called Grey Thumb on that same date and
that evening it would be beneficial to link with them as well since Common lisp, scheme and Arc had origins especially Common Lisp in Artificial intelligence and is the best
use of it. They meet at the Irish restaurant in Central Square called " Asgard "
Thank You;
Derek
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Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting - Call for Speakers, Participants and Sponsors.
(Please forward this message to interested people. Apologies for
message received multiple times.)
I will be organizing a monthly Boston Lisp Meeting.
By "Lisp", I mean any programmable programming system. However,
speakers and attendants will be welcome to discuss any ideas relevant
to programmers using or developing such a programmable programming
system, whatever language was or wasn't previously used to express
those ideas.
The meetings take place on the first Monday of every month at 6pm.
The regular format of these meetings would be a one hour conference
followed by free-for-all discussions around drinks and food.
Conference meetings would include two speakers, on a strict schedule
of 15' presentation + 5' Q&A.
Additional slots of 3' flash presentation + 2' Q&A could be available
for project updates, demos or calls to the public. We may give more
time to exceptional speakers, especially those who come from afar.
We encourage both veterans and newbies to come and meet, maybe
becoming collaborators, mentors or disciples on some Lisp project,
whether as a hobby, as an academic endeavor, as a paid job, or as a
startup.
I am seeking sponsorship from corporate or academic sponsors to host
the event, and maybe even offer food. I have a few leads but no
definite answer yet. The event will take place with or without such
sponsor.
(I am also open to suggestions for improvements about these meetings:
different timing, food before the conference, etc. Also, we'll adapt
the meetings to the availability of interesting speakers. If we are
short in speakers, we may include such a conference only bimonthly or
quarterly, and skip directly to the drinks and food the rest of the
time. If we are overwhelmed with great speakers, we may have
conferences more often.)
The mailing-list boston-lisp(a)common-lisp.net will be revived as the
place to discuss these events. You can subscribe at
http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/boston-lisp
The next meeting will be on Monday, March 3rd 2008. No conference is
schedule at this time, only a meeting for Lispers to have fun and for
potential conference organizers to prepare the future meetings in
April and beyond. We'll meet at the CBC http://www.cambrew.com/
The first meeting with a conference will be on Monday April 7th 2008.
Whether you are an academic, an industrial programmer, a student or a
hobbyist, you are invited to join us at these meetings. And if you
have something interesting to say or know someone who has, please
submit a potential speech by sending mail to fare(a)tunes.org.
Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to:
* Interesting applications written in some Lisp system.
* How to use, implement or combine programming language features:
metaprogramming, macros, modules, non-determinism, security,
concurrency, reversibility, etc.
* Use of semantics for better program synthesis (aka overcoming issues
in software engineering with programming language support).
* Use of semantics for better program analysis (aka types, proofs,
tests, abstract interpretation, etc.)
* Implementation techniques for programming languages (concurrency
issues, resource management, etc.)
* How to share code between Lisp systems and alien environments.
* How programming languages and systems evolve, and Lisp systems in particular.
* How Lispers can better help each other.
[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
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