TUE, APR 22: PETER DILLINGER ON ACL2S; HANS HÜBNER ON BKNR (Bruce Lewis)
Peter Dillinger spoke about Theorem proving with ACL2s. ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s is an Eclipse-based development environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis Manolios, advisor. Hans Hu"bner gave a presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment. BKNR is a one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based persistence layer. He showed createrainforest.org as an example application, as well as a Google Earth version. Hans Hu"bner has been a hacker for over 20 years, and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming.
Illustrated at http://ourdoings.com/boston-lisp/2008-04-22
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I just posted materials from my presentation:
http://www.peterd.org/acl2s-boston-lisp/
See also, of course
http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/doc/
and
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/
Thanks to the 40 people who attended. And thanks to ITA Software for the indian food (from India Pavilion) and the pizzas (from Bertucci's).
Peter Dillinger posted his presentation material: http://www.peterd.org/acl2s-boston-lisp/ http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/doc/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/
Hans Hübner also posted his slides on his blog: http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2008/04/bknr-at-boston-lisp-meteing.html http://bknr.net/pdf/datastore-presentation.pdf http://bknr.net/
Next meeting will be on TUESDAY, May 27th 2008 at 1800, probably at the same place. Speaking will be Ivan Krstić (on security and programming languages?) and Greg Cooper (on FrTime).
ITA will be our sponsor for the dinner that will follow. Please register for food.
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