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[ANN] ILC 2014 call for papers reminder
by Marc Feeley 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

ILC 2014 - International Lisp Conference "Lisp on the Move" August 14-17 2014, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Scope: Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major influence for almost all programming languages and for all sufficiently complex software applications. The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, SKILL, HOP etc. This year's focus will be directed towards integrated solutions, including mobile computing. We especially invite submissions in the following areas: * Pervasive computing * Interoperability * Portability * Implementation challenges/tradeoffs for embedded/mobile platforms * Language support for mobile toolkits and frameworks * Language support for distribution * Language support for reliability, availability, and serviceability * Mobile IDEs * Mobile applications Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not limited to: * Language design and implementation * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Applications (especially commercial) * Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming * Domain-specific languages * Programming paradigms and environments * Efficient parallel and concurrent computation * Language support for managing both manual and automatic GC * Theorem proving * Scientific computing * Data mining * Semantic web Technical Programme: Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories: Papers: Technical papers of up to 10 pages that describe original results. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries and applications. Workshops: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for groups of people who intend to work on a focused topic for half a day. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for 1 to 2 hours. Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel member who are willing to partake in a discussion. The conference will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. For inquiries about any other kind of participation (commercial exhibits, advertising, prizes, book signing etc.), please see the contacts below. Important Dates: - May 18, 2014: Submission deadline - June 09, 2014: Notification of acceptance - June 29, 2014: Final Papers due - August 14, 2014: Conference 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. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilc14 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada) Programme Chair: Didier Verna (EPITA Research lab, Paris, France) Local chair: Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada) Programme Committee: to be announced Contacts: * General Questions: ilc14-organizing-committee at alu.org * Programme Committee: ilc14 at easychair.org For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org

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ELS 2014 Registration now open / 2nd Call for papers
by Didier Verna 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

ELS'14 - 7th European Lisp Symposium IRCAM, Paris, France May 5-6, 2014 http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ Latest News: * Registration is now open. Early registration fee until April 13. See http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-registration-full.html * Submission deadline is approaching. Still one month to submit a paper! * Thanks to our new sponsors, Lispworks and Franz Inc.! http://www.lispworks.com/ http://franz.com/ 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 7th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: - Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Language design and implementation - Language integration, inter-operation and deployment - Development methodologies, support and environments - Educational approaches and perspectives - Experience reports and case studies Please note that IRCAM, the conference venue, is a French institute for research on music and acoustics. Submissions relating Lisp to music or other acoustical matters will hence be particularly welcome, although given no heightened favor during the review process. We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 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. The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. 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. Important dates: - TODAY: Mark your calendar. Start planning now! - 09 Mar 2014: Submission deadline - 31 Mar 2014: Notification of acceptance - 13 Apr 2014: Early registration deadline - 21 Apr 2014: Final Papers due - 05 May 2014: Symposium. Join us there! Programme chair: Kent Pitman, Hypermeta Inc., U.S.A. Local chairs: Didier Verna, EPITA Research Lab, France Gérard Assayag, IRCAM, Paris, France Programme committee: To be announced later Local organizers: Daniela Becker, EPITA Research Lab, France Sylvie Benoit, IRCAM, Paris, France Search Keywords: #els2014, ELS 2014, ELS '14, European Lisp Symposium 2014, European Lisp Symposium '14, 7th ELS, 7th European Lisp Symposium, European Lisp Conference 2014, European Lisp Conference '14 Ircam STMS Lab, IRCAM / CNRS / UPMC -- Please help crowdfund my next Jazz quartet album !! http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/quartet-the-second-album Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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Fwd: Racket Salon Boston (A Boston-area Meet-Up for Racketeers and Friends)
by Daniel King 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

I'm organizing a meet up in Boston for people interested in Racket. I imagine there are interested parties on the Boston LISP list as well, so I'm cross-posting the announcement here. Hope to see some of you there. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel King <daniel.zidan.king(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Racket Salon Boston (A Boston-area Meet-Up for Racketeers and Friends) To: "users(a)racket-lang.org" <users(a)racket-lang.org> Racket Salon Boston will happen December 9th at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. The meeting location is West Village H room 366. We have three confirmed speakers. I will be talking about my experience using Racket for machine learning. Asumu Takikawa will demo how to use Typed Racket with classes & objects. Greg Hendershott will speak about an interesting, but not-yet-decided topic! If you know you will be attending please send me an email so I know how many to expect. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Daniel King <daniel.zidan.king(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Racket Salon Boston is a meet up for folks interested in Racket and > functional programming. Each meeting consists of a couple talks, > chit-chat, and a group outing for dinner. > > The atmosphere is open to people of all skill levels and interests. We > are eager to meet students, professionals, hobbyists, and other > interested individuals! > > The inaugural meeting of Racket Salon Boston will be held on the Ninth > of December from 7pm to 10pm at Northeastern University. You probably > want to subscribe to our calendar [2]. > > We're looking for speakers to share with us their stories of Racket > hacks, frustrations, and joys. If you're interested in sharing some > wisdom, please contact me [1]. > > If you know you'll attend, we would love an RSVP so we can plan for > space accordingly. Nonetheless, don't skip out just because you > haven't RSVP'ed in advance! > > [1] https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/1nl1bmna43u6n5989ee1uannao%40group.cal… > [2] daniel.zidan.king(a)gmail.com > > Notice repeated here: https://dekvek.com/racket-salon > > -- > Dan King -- Dan King

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7th European Lisp Symposium, May 5/6 2014, Paris
by Didier Verna 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

ELS'14 - 7th European Lisp Symposium IRCAM, Paris, France May 5-6, 2014 http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ 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 7th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: - Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Language design and implementation - Language integration, inter-operation and deployment - Development methodologies, support and environments - Educational approaches and perspectives - Experience reports and case studies Please note that IRCAM, the conference venue, is a French institute for research on music and acoustics. Submissions relating Lisp to music or other acoustical matters will hence be particularly welcome, although given no heightened favor during the review process. We invite submissions in the following forms: Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 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. The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. 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. Important dates: - TODAY: Mark your calendar. Start planning now! - 09 Mar 2014: Submission deadline - 31 Mar 2014: Notification of acceptance - 21 Apr 2014: Final Papers due - 05 May 2014: Symposium. Join us there! Program Committee: Chair: Kent Pitman, Hypermeta Inc., U.S.A. Local Organizers: Didier Verna, EPITA Research Lab, France Gérard Assayag, IRCAM, France Members: To be announced later Search Keywords: #els2014, ELS 2014, ELS '14, European Lisp Symposium 2014, European Lisp Symposium '14, 7th ELS, 7th European Lisp Symposium, European Lisp Conference 2014, European Lisp Conference '14 -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info

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Upcoming meetings?
by Matt Lee 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

I'm wondering if there are any upcoming meetings? The website is years out of date, but I found references on Zach Beane's blog that refer to more recent meetings. Best, matt

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Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00
by Alex Plotnick 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>). Abstract: The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was young enough to join a research project to build one of these things. Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that makes a good occasion to talk about it. Bio: Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon.

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Get-together this week?
by Zach Beane 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I'm in town this week, is there any interest in getting together for an informal dinner on, say, Wednesday night? Zach

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10 audio-only recordings of talks given at Boston Lisp in 2008
by Robert Levy 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Does anyone have any suggestions for where to host these files? One idea would be to turn them into videos and put them on Vimeo or Youtube. What do you think? I'm temporarily sharing them publicly on my Google Drive. At one point I hosted them from a sever out of my apartment, but then I moved and the files went offline for a while (my bad, irresponsible. The broken hyperlinks can be found at http://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwfTY3yg-RLQbk1tdnZJWjExVzg/edit?usp=sharing boston-lisp-1/2008-04-22b-Hans-Hubner-BKNR.mp3 boston-lisp-1/2008-04-22a-Peter-Dillinger-ACL2s.mp3 boston-lisp-1/2008-03-31b-Rahul-Jain-DefDoc.mp3 boston-lisp-1/2008-03-31a-Alexey-Radul-test-scheme-differences.mp3 boston-lisp-1/2008-05-27-Greg-Cooper-FrTime.mp3 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwfTY3yg-RLQWjhtTS13RTBqM2M/edit?usp=sharing boston-lisp-2/2008-07-21-Jay-McCarthy-cryptographic-protocol-explication.mp3 boston-lisp-2/2008-06-25b-Shriram-Krishnamurthi-relationally-parametric-polymorphic-contracts.mp3 boston-lisp-2/2008-06-25a-Danny-Yoo-DivaScheme.mp3 boston-lisp-2/2008-10-27-Tim-McNerney-connection-machine.mp3 boston-lisp-2/2008-10-27b-Greg-Pfeil-oopsla-lisp50.mp3

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(Reminder) Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-06-12T18:00
by Alex Plotnick 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Just a reminder: Jonathan Smith will be presenting his work on '$-Calculisp' tonight (12 June) at 6:00 PM in the usual place (MIT 32-D463). Note the time change from the last few meetings. Jonathan's abstract follows. See you there! -- Alex $-Calculus (pronounced cost calculus), is a descriptive fourth generation language designed for modeling parallel algorithms, artificial intelligence applications, and bounded super-Turing computation. $-Calculisp is a domain specific language modeled on $-Calculus and implemented in Common Lisp. $-Calculisp is implemented using a variety of techniques based on Common Lisp's unique macro and object system facilities. Rather than being an interpreter, it is a macro compiler, expanding $-Calculisp code into efficiently compiled Common Lisp code. It is intended to be a robust extension to the Common Lisp language, as such, it allows for integration of regular common lisp functions alongside $-Calculisp code.

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Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-06-12T18:00
by Alex Plotnick 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

I'm pleased to announce that Jonathan Smith will present his work on '$-Calculisp' at the next Boston Lisp meeting. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 12 June at 6:00 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>). $-Calculus (pronounced cost calculus), is a descriptive fourth generation language designed for modeling parallel algorithms, artificial intelligence applications, and bounded super-Turing computation. $-Calculisp is a domain specific language modeled on $-Calculus and implemented in Common Lisp. $-Calculisp is implemented using a variety of techniques based on Common Lisp's unique macro and object system facilities. Rather than being an interpreter, it is a macro compiler, expanding $-Calculisp code into efficiently compiled Common Lisp code. It is intended to be a robust extension to the Common Lisp language, as such, it allows for integration of regular common lisp functions alongside $-Calculisp code. Jonathan Smith is a software engineer at NovaSparks, where he currently works on their HPCC lisp to VHDL compiler infrastructure. Previously, he worked at Westinghouse Electric Company, where he supported their ShuffleWorks product line. Shuffleworks is an expert system, (written in Lisp) for coordinating nuclear fuel movement within power plants.

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