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[chicago-lisp] Chicago LUG meeting
by John Quigley 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Everyone: This is to notify you that the Chicago Linux and Lisp groups will be meeting this coming Saturday, February 10, 2007, at our standard location, The Chicago Institute of Design. Presentation topics for the Linux track: * The Io Programming Language (John Quigley) * AJAX Generation Using Perl (Michael Stemle) * An Introduction to LaTex (Tristan Sloughter) There is currently no set agenda for the Lisp group. If you are interested in helping bootstrap Chicago Lisp, please come! Further information can be found online: * http://www.chicagolug.org/ * http://www.chicagolisp.org/ We look forward to seeing you all there. Any questions or comments can be directed towards me. - John Quigley email: jquigley(a)jquigley.com phone: 312.351.3671

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[chicago-lisp] Correction: TFP 2007 Submission Deadline is Tomorrow
by TFP 2007 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Dear Colleagues, Apologies in advance for the "p.m." ommission. This is a kind reminder that the deadline for extended abstract submissions to TFP 2007 is tomorrow, Feb. 1 at 11:59 p.m. EST. We are also pleased to announce that the TFP 2007 invited speaker is John McCarthy, Stanford University. For further details, please visit our website at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ . The TFP 2007 program committee looks forward to receiving your submissions! Best wishes, Marco ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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[chicago-lisp] TFP 2007 Submission Deadline is Tomorrow
by TFP 2007 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Dear Colleagues, This is a kind reminder that the deadline for extended abstract submissions to TFP 2007 is tomorrow, Feb. 1 at 11:59 EST. We are also pleased to announce that the TFP 2007 invited speaker is John McCarthy, Stanford University. For further details, please visit our website at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ . The TFP 2007 program committee looks forward to receiving your submissions! Best wishes, Marco ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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Re: [chicago-lisp] News and updates
by John Quigley 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

I'm emailing the list as a whole in the hopes that my response will clear up similar points of confusion that others may have. John A. Debay wrote: > I would like to know more about exactly how these meetings break down, > in terms of Lisp versus non-Lisp content. I unfortunately couldn't go to > the meeting last Saturday because of a previous commitment, but I > nonetheless had reservations about sitting through 2 hours of LUG > presentations before getting to anything I was interested in. The two groups are set to meet in parallel. The space we use is a very large media/academic area, with multiple meeting and work rooms, numerous white boards and projectors, etc. We meet simultaneously for the purpose of convenience, and because there is an overlap of interest between the two groups. By running in parallel, we're offering two separate tracks of talks that people can join in on depending upon their interest level. One of the most challenging aspects of this system is a lack of leadership. While we have plenty of interested attendees, we haven't had any people step up who are willing to assist in organizing. I'm happy to provide the space, the server, and to organize the people; that said, I can't consistently lead Chicago Lisp during the actual meetings, since I have responsibilities with Chicago Linux. I'm looking for shared (or group) leadership. Our next scheduled meeting is in less than three week's time, on February 10th. If I can get confirmation that people are coming, I'll begin advertising in the various PL communities around Chicago. I also intend to get a stub page up with at least basic information pertaining to our group: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ Hope This information helps, please send along any further thoughts and comments. - John Quigley

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Re: [chicago-lisp] News and updates
by John Quigley 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Corey Sweeney wrote: > Is there a LISP meeting today? I've responded to Corey separately (via cell), but I'll duplicate my response here. There's no Chicago Lisp meeting today, largely because I didn't get any response before today. Let's plan for next time (in three weeks), shall we? I'm at the Chicago Linux meeting right now, and we have a few (new) people here who came specifically for Lisp; a sign that we're gathering some further interest? - John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] Final Call for Papers: TFP 2007, New York, USA
by TFP 2007 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

CALL FOR PAPERS Trends in Functional Programming 2007 New York, USA April 2-4, 2007 http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ NEW: Abstract submission is now opened! Link: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/submissions.html NEW: Invited Talk: John McCarthy, Standford University The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2007 is co-hosted by Seton Hall University and The City College of New York (CCNY) and will be held in New York, USA, April 2-4, 2007 at the CCNY campus. SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: o Dependently Typed Functional Programming o Validation and Verification of Functional Programs o Debugging for Functional Languages o Functional Programming and Security o Functional Programming and Mobility o Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications o Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications o Functional Languages for Embedded Systems o Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing o Functional GRIDs o Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse) o Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages o Novel Memory Management Techniques o Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages o Program Transformation Techniques o Empirical Performance Studies o Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages o New Implementation Strategies o any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2007 program chair, Marco T. Morazan, at tfp2007(a)shu.edu. SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) by the program committee. Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. Further details can be found at the TFP 2007 website. POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we intend to continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: February 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2007 Registration Deadline: March 2, 2007 Camera Ready Full Paper Due: March 9, 2007 TFP Symposium: April 2-4, 2007 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Clements California Polytechnic State University, USA Marko van Eekelen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands Benjamin Goldberg New York University, USA Kevin Hammond University of St. Andrews, UK Patricia Johann Rutgers University, USA Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany Rita Loogen Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK Marco T. Morazán (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK Chris Okasaki United States Military Academy at West Point, USA Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, USA John Reppy University of Chicago, USA Ulrik P. Schultz University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Clara Segura Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jocelyn Sérot Université Blaise Pascal, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Olin Shivers Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt University, UK David Walker Princeton University, USA ORGANIZATION Symposium Chair: Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK Programme Chair: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA Treasurer: Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK Local Arrangements: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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[chicago-lisp] News and updates
by John Quigley 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Folks: Sorry for the quiet on my end over the past few weeks, I've been somewhat unplugged from the Net in an attempt to get some rest during the holidays. I've recently purchased and setup our domain name: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ It currently redirects to the Chicago LUG website, but I'll be putting up a stub page for us in the next few days. Some news updates: - Over the holidays I organized the acquisition of a new server for the Chicago Lisp and LUG groups. It's a nice machine, specifically a Dell PowerEdge Xeon 3GHz, 2GB RAM and hardware RAID. I've also organized for a new collocated hosting of the machine, in a nice data center down south with redundant OC3s. In short, we're in great shape. I expect everything to be up and running around the end of January. - The Chicago LUG is meeting a week from this coming Saturday, on January 20th, 2007 at 3:00p at the Institute of Design. It may be appropriate for us to meet as the Lisp group again, as well, in order to more clearly define where we intend to go as a group in '07. I'll leave this up to you folks to determine whether this is necessary or not, and what the logistics will be. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and best of luck to you all in the new year. Regards, John Quigley

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[chicago-lisp] favorite lisp intro book?
by Vinay Doma 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

There seem to be a wealth of online resources for learning lisp. If you were to recommend a single online book (or one in a dead tree format) to someone with programming skills, which one would it be? Here's a few resources I'm familiar with - * Practical Common Lisp - http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ * Successful Lisp - http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html * SICP lectures by Abelson & Sussman - http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ * On Lisp by PG - http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html * Teach yourself Scheme in FixNum days - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html * The Scheme Programming Language - http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/ Thanks, Vinay

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[chicago-lisp] Second Call for Papers: TFP 2007, New York, USA
by TFP 2007 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

CALL FOR PAPERS Trends in Functional Programming 2007 New York, USA April 2-4, 2007 http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2007 is co-hosted by Seton Hall University and The City College of New York (CCNY) and will be held in New York, USA, April 2-4, 2007 at the CCNY campus. The TFP symposium is the successor to the successful series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003 (co-located with IFL), in Munich, Germany in 2004, in Tallinn, Estonia in 2005 (co-located with ICFP and GPCE), and in Nottingham, UK in 2006 (co-located with Types). For further general information about TFP please see the TFP homepage at http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ . SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: o Dependently Typed Functional Programming o Validation and Verification of Functional Programs o Debugging for Functional Languages o Functional Programming and Security o Functional Programming and Mobility o Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications o Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications o Functional Languages for Embedded Systems o Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing o Functional GRIDs o Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse) o Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages o Novel Memory Management Techniques o Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages o Program Transformation Techniques o Empirical Performance Studies o Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages o New Implementation Strategies o any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2007 program chair, Marco T. Morazan, at tfp2007(a)shu.edu. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students, acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new subject trends. A prize for the best student paper is awarded each year. SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) by the program committee. Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. The submission must clearly indicate to which category it belongs to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It should also indicate whether the main author or authors are research students. Formatting details can be found at the TFP 2007 website. Submission procedures will be posted on the TFP 2007 website as the submission deadline is reached. The papers in the draft proceedings will also be made available on-line under the following conditions, with which all authors are asked to agree: The documents distributed by this server have been provided by the contributing authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we intend to continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming. All TFP authors will be invited to submit revised papers after the symposium. These will be refereed using normal conference standards and a subset of the best papers, over all categories, will be selected for publication. Papers will be judged on their contribution to the research area with appropriate criteria applied to each category of paper. Student papers will be given extra feedback by the Program Committee in order to assist those unfamiliar with the publication process. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: February 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2007 Registration Deadline: March 2, 2007 Camera Ready Full Paper Due: March 9, 2007 TFP Symposium: April 2-4, 2007 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Clements California Polytechnic State University, USA Marko van Eekelen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands Benjamin Goldberg New York University, USA Kevin Hammond University of St. Andrews, UK Patricia Johann Rutgers University, USA Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany Rita Loogen Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK Marco T. Morazán (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK Chris Okasaki United States Military Academy at West Point, USA Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, USA John Reppy University of Chicago, USA Ulrik P. Schultz University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Clara Segura Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jocelyn Sérot Université Blaise Pascal, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Olin Shivers Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt University, UK David Walker Princeton University, USA ORGANIZATION Symposium Chair: Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK Programme Chair: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA Treasurer: Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK Local Arrangements: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA SPONSORS The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University The Department of Computer Science, The City College of New York The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software of The City College of New York The Grove School of Engineering of The City College of New York We are actively looking for additional TFP sponsors, who may, for example, help to subsidise attendance by research students. If you or your organisation might be willing to sponsor TFP, or if you know someone who might be willing to do so, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair, Marco T. Morazan, or the Symposium Chair, Henrik Nilsson. Your students will be grateful! ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/

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[chicago-lisp] announcement for next meeting?
by Corey Sweeney 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

We have a meeting comming up on the 16th i think. Is there gonna be a announcement, with some kind of link? (I want to copy the announcement to another mailing list after it gets sent) Corey -- ((lambda (y) (y y)) (lambda (y) (y y)))

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