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[eurolisp] 50th anniversary
by Thomas F. Burdick 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Wednesday, 4 March, will be the 50th anniversary of the publication of AIM-8, wherein McCarthy described the first running LISP implementation. Sounds like a birthday to me! There's no Paris/IDF users group that I'm aware of, so I'll ask here: any one interested in meeting up next Wed, or for a belated celebration on Friday the 6?

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[eurolisp] International Lisp Conference 2009
by Nick Levine 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Register now! Early registration ends after March 1. THE INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE, 2009 Sunday, March 22 through Wednesday, March 23 The Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Presented by the Association of Lisp Users In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN Featuring four invited speakers: * David Moon (co-founder of Symbolics, Inc.) Genuine, full-power, hygienic macro system for a language with syntax * Gerald Jay Sussman (MIT) Evolvability and Robust Design * Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown) The Moby Scheme Compiler for Smartphones, or, Is That a Parenthesis in Your Pocket? * Olin Shivers (Northeastern) The Anatomy of a Loop: A Story of Scope and Control As well as: * Seven tutorials (no extra charge) * Fifteen technical papers * Seven demonstrations * Lightning talks (you can give you own; first-come, first-served) * An all-star panel on the future of Lisp * Debate: Are Macros a Menace? * Birds of a feather sessions, and other informal discussions * Banquet at the Hyatt-Regency, with special entertainment (no extra charge) Meet the top Lisp experts and practitioners in the world. Learn how to get the most out of Lisp. Find about about the latest developments from research and industry. The conference is a rare opportunity for face-to-face interaction, sharing knowledge and ideas with the experts of the worldwide Lisp community. Students are especially welcome. Everyone will have a great time! Here's where to find all the information: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/ Sponsored by: * ITA Software, Inc. * Franz Inc. * LispWorks Limited * Clozure Associates LLC * Mathematical Systems, Inc. * Ravenbrook Limited General chair: Daniel L. Weinreb Program chair: Guy L. Steele Jr. For further information, please write to ilc09-program-committee at alu dot org. (Please redistribute this notice to whomever might be interested, and make copies of the conference poster and distribute them everywhere: http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/publicity)

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[eurolisp] CFP: COP Workshop at ECOOP'09
by Jorge Vallejos 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

(Apologies for multiple reception of this email) CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP'09) Co-located with the 23rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'09) http://prog.vub.ac.be/cop09 OVERVIEW Context information plays an increasingly important role in our information centric world. Software systems must adapt to changing contexts over time, and must change even while they are running. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages and development environments do not support this kind of dynamic change very well, leading developers to implement complex designs to anticipate various dimensions of variability. Context-oriented Programming (COP) directly supports variability depending on a wide range of dynamic attributes, making it possible to dispatch run-time behavior on any properties of the execution context. By now, several researchers have started to work on Context-oriented Programming and related ideas, and first implementations ranging from first prototypes to mature platform extensions used in commercial deployments have illustrated how multi-dimensional dispatch can indeed be supported effectively to achieve expressive run-time variation in behavior. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Interesting application domains and scenarios * Programming language abstractions for context-oriented programming (e.g. dynamic scoping, roles, traits, prototype-based extensions) * Configuration languages (e.g. feature description interpreters, transformational approaches) * Interaction between non-functional programming concerns and context- oriented programming (e.g. security, persistence, concurrency, distribution). * Modularization approaches for context-oriented programming (e.g. aspects, modules, layers, plugins). * Guidelines to include context-oriented programming in programs (e.g. best-practices, patterns) * Runtime support for context-oriented programming (e.g. reflection, dynamic binding) * Tool support SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Potential attendants are expected to submit either a paper of 4 (at most 6) pages in ACM format, presenting scientific and/or empirical results about uses of context-oriented programming or new approaches for software engineering purposes or a short essay of 2 (at most 3 pages) defending a position about where research on context-oriented programming should be heading in the near future. Submissions are required in electronic form. Please use the link below to submit your paper at the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_info.cgi?a=c012bfd03377 Submissions will be selected by our selection committee. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Wednesday 8th April, Paper submission Friday 8th May, Paper acceptance Tuesday 7th July, Workshop PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Haupt, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan Kim Mens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Hans Schippers, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Éric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (organizer) Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, United States (organizer) Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany (organizer) Jorge Vallejos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (organizer) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, United States Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany Jorge Vallejos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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[eurolisp] International Lisp Conference - website up and registrations open
by Nick Levine 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

The conference website for ILC 2009 is up and running. Registrations are open. Gerald Sussman, Shriram Krishnamurthi and David Moon as invited speakers; five tutorials, fifteen technical papers, and seven demonstrations; lightning talks: you can give your own (first come, first served); an all-star panel session on the Future of Lisp; the Great Macro Debate; Birds-0f-A-Feather session, and other informal discussions; banquet at the Hyatt-Regency, with special entertainment. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/ -nick

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