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Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-05-23T18:30 THIS THURSDAY! Faré: Tutorial on ASDF3
by fare＠tunes.org 23 May '13

23 May '13

Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-05-23T18:30 -- Faré: Tutorial on ASDF3 When? TONIGHT, Thursday May 23rd 2013 at 6:30pm. Where? MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room at the Stata Center). http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3D32 Who Speaks? François-René Rideau will give a Tutorial on ASDF3 I'm sorry about the short notice on this one; communications problems of all kinds have been gumming up the works. Please feel free to spread the word about the meeting via whatever mechanisms are available to you. Talk details follow. I hope to see you all there! Title: "ASDF 3, or lessons in building portable Common Lisp programs" Summary: "ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) has been the de facto standard Common Lisp build system for over ten years. I recently rewrote it completely, several times, all along mostly preserving backwards compatibility. The latest incarnation, ASDF 3, in addition to fixing deep design bugs older than ASDF itself, also includes extensive portability library, UIOP, not to be confused with an existing parallelizing extension, POIU. I will show how to use ASDF, explain the recent improvements, and discuss the challenges of writing portable Common Lisp programs and what that means for the past and future of Lisp." About the speaker: "François-René Rideau is a Lisp plumber. On good days, he designs great piping for persistent data, to be used in airline reservation system of ITA (now part of Google). On bad days, he dons his rubber gloves and scrubs the pipes. He also has a blog, Cybernethics, where he writes on liberty, music, programming, and dynamic systems in general." I apologize for a last minute notice. The piping system is down.

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Gathering tomorrow?
by Ben Hyde 23 May '13

23 May '13

http://xach.livejournal.com/318093.html "Boston Lisp meetings are a lot of fun. Here's Alex Plotnick's announcement for the next meeting: I'm pleased to announce that François-René Rideau will speak at the next Boston Lisp meeting on his recent work on ASDF 3. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 23 May at 6:30 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>). …. "

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Get-together this week?
by Zach Beane 07 May '13

07 May '13

I'm in town for work this week, is there any interest in an informal get-together on Wednesday or Thursday? Zach

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Re: Get-together this week?
by Mason Loring Bliss 07 May '13

07 May '13

CBC works. I wouldn't be opposed to an Indian restaurant for some future get together, also - there are some good ones in range. Sent via my T-Mobile CrackBerry

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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-04-10T18:30
by Alex Plotnick 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

I'm pleased to announce that Professor Harry Mairson of Brandeis University will be speaking on "Functional Geometry and the Traité de Lutherie". Professor Mairson will discuss the use of functional programming to describe the outlines of eighteenth-century stringed instruments, as explained in the 2006 book by Luthier François Denis, "Traité de Lutherie". The programming metaphor is entirely Euclidean, incloving only straightedge and compass constructions, with few (if any) numbers, and no Cartesian equations or grid. The goal is to characterize common patterns in instrument design: not only the abstraction of straightedge and compass constructions, but also of higher-order components in the instrument design process. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 10 April at 6:30 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>). After the talk, we will adjourn to Mary Chung's for dinner. I look forward to seeing you all there!

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[boston-lisp] April meeting?
by Mason Loring Bliss 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

I've been out of circulation lately, but I'd be interested in attending another meeting. Are there any plans for April? -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

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[boston-lisp] Boston Lisp Dinner tomorrow Wednesday 2013-03-13 at 1830 at Mary Chung
by Faré 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

I just found out that Cyrus Harmon is in town tomorrow. https://github.com/slyrus?tab=repositories Let's use that as a catalyst and have a Boston Lisp Meeting. Since it's a bit late to negotiate, I unilaterally propose we meet at Mary Chung next to Central Sq at 6:30pm. It's cheaper, tastier and less crowded and noisy than the CBC. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars. — Serbian proverb

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[boston-lisp] Lisp reading group...
by Faré 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Maybe some of you are interested in starting a Lisp reading group? http://www.aiwinter.org/ —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. — Thomas Jefferson

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[boston-lisp] [Extended Deadline] European Lisp Symposium 2013 - Madrid - June 1-4
by Didier Verna 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

;; ______ _ _____ _ __ ____ ;; | ____| | | / ____| ( ) /_ | |___ \ ;; | |__ | | | (___ |/ | | __) | ;; | __| | | \___ \ | | |__ < ;; | |____ | |____ ____) | | | ___) | ;; |______| |______| |_____/ |_| |____/ ;; ;; European Lisp Symposium 2013 - ELS'13 ;; Madrid, Spain ;; ;; June 1-4, 2013 ;; ;; http://els2013.european-lisp-symposium.org/ ** DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 17th ** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The main theme of the 2013 European Lisp Symposium is on the use of these languages with respect to the current grand challenges: big tables, open data, semantic web, network programming, discovery, robustness, runtime failures, etc. The European Lisp Symposium 2013 solicits the submission of papers with these specific themes in mind, alongside the more traditional tracks which have appeared in the past editions. We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries, and applications. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180 minutes. Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last for no more than 5 minutes. All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998. Invited speakers: Florian Loitsch, Google: Dart, why you should care. Gérard Assayag, Ircam: Lisp and Music Research. Important dates: March, 17th 2013: submission deadline ** EXTENDED ** April, 5th 2013: acceptance results June, 1-4 2013: symposium Program Commitee: Pascal Costanza, Intel, Belgium Ludovic Courtes, INRIA, France Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Florian Loitsch, Google, Denmark Christian Queinnec, UPMC, France Kurt Noermark, Aalborg University, Denmark Olin Shivers, Northeastern University, USA Manuel Serrano, INRIA, France Didier Verna, EPITA, France Chair: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll, local organizer Christian Queinnec, PC co-chair Manuel Serrano, PC co-chair -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com

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[boston-lisp] Alex Plotnick is our new organizer
by Faré 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

I haven't done anything for Boston Lisp in February, but Alex Plotnick has volunteered to replace me as organizer of our meetings. Thanks a lot, Alex! Alex: do you have plans for this month? Our contacts for rooms: at MIT, Gerald J. Sussman <gjs(a)csail.mit.edu> at NorthEastern, Eli Barzilay <eli(a)barzilay.org>, at Harvard, Greg Morrisett <greg(a)eecs.harvard.edu> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."

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