Next Boston Lisp Meeting Monday February 23th 2009 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B Dimitris Vyzovitis Programming gerbils: Distributed programming with PLT-Scheme http://fare.livejournal.com/139926.html Dimitris Vyzovitis will give a talk about Programming gerbils: Distributed programming with PLT-Scheme. vyzo will talk about gerbil, a little language for distributed programming using PLT-Scheme. Gerbil is a macro language that provides facilities for actor-based distributed programs and transparent network simulation. vyzo is a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab who suffers from a severe scheme addiction. His website is at http://web.media.mit.edu/~vyzo/ * The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday February 23th 2009 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. * * Dinner: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclaimer: 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 correct amount of food. Tell us by sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We won't send any acknowledgement 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 January 26th had over 30 participants. David O'Toole gave a wide-ranging overview of the hacks he uses to write the meanings of English words as programs, and how computers could learn such programs through various interactions. 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 at tunes.org.