The following announcement is interesting for Common Lisp users,
because the atelier on Computational Construction Grammar is
completely based on Common Lisp environments.
Here is the full announcement:
Date: 14-Jul-2007 - 19-Jul-2007
Organisers: Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels
An exciting summerschool is being organised this summer in Erice,
Sicily.
The school focuses on recent research in modeling language evolution
using
computational, robotic, and mathematical approaches.
The main school (http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/erice2007/index.html)
brings
together about 30 lecturers, with linguists including: Ben Bergen,
Bill Croft,
Bruno Galantucci, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Jean-Marie Hombert, Jim
Hurford, Laura
Michaelis, Bill Wang.
There is a specialised atelier (http://www.csl.sony.fr/erice2007/) on
using
Computational Construction Grammar for modeling language evolution with
exercises and hands-on experience.
Interested participants should email as soon as possible to
tagora2007(a)csl.sony.fr
and check out the websites.
Cheers,
Pascal
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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Call for Papers
Dyla 2007: 3rd Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications
July 31, 2007, Berlin (Collocated with ECOOP 2007)
http://dyla2007.unibe.ch
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Objective
=========
The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where we can discuss
new advances in the conception, implementation and application of
object-oriented languages that radically diverge from the statically
typed class-based reflectionless doctrine. The goal of the workshop
is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features
in this context. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not
limited to:
- agents, actors, active object, distribution, concurrency and
mobility
- delegation, prototypes, mixins
- first-class closures, continuations, environments
- reflection and meta-programming
- (dynamic) aspects for dynamic languages
- higher-order objects & messages
- ... other exotic dynamic features which you would categorize as OO
- multi-paradigm & static/dynamic-marriages
- (concurrent/distributed/mobile/aspect) virtual machines
- optimisation of dynamic languages
- automated reasoning about dynamic languages
- "regular" syntactic schemes (cf. S-expressions, Smalltalk, Self)
- Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Lisp, Self, ABCL, Prolog, ...
- ... any topic relevant in applying and/or supporting dynamic
languages.
We solicit high-quality submissions on research results
and/or experience. Submitted papers must be unpublished
and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions
should not exceed 10 pages, LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs).
Submission
==========
Prospective attendees are requested to submit a position paper or an
essay (max 10 pages, references included) on a topic relevant to the
workshop to Alexandre Bergel (Alexandre.Bergel(a)cs.tcd.ie).
Submissions are demanded to be in .pdf format and should arrive
before May 13, 2007.
A selection of the best papers will be made, which will require an
extension for an inclusion in a special issue in Electronic
Communications of the EASST (eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de). For this
purpose, a new deadline will be set after the workshop.
Moreover, Springer publishes a Workshop-Reader (as in the case of
previous ECOOPs) which appears after the Conference and which
contains Workshop-Reports (written by the organizers) and not the
position papers submitted by the participants.
Important dates
===============
Submission due: May 13, 2007
Notification of Authors: May 31, 2007
ECOOP'07 Early Registration Date: June 15th.
Workshop: July 31, 2007
Organisers
==========
Alexandre Bergel
Wolfgang De Meuter
Stéphane Ducasse
Oscar Nierstrasz
Roel Wuyts
Program committee
=================
Alexandre Bergel (LERO & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Johan Brichau (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Pascal Costanza (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Stéphane Ducasse (University of Annecy, France)
Erik Ernst (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of
Potsdam, Germany)
Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA)
Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research Labs, Canada)
Laurence Tratt (King's College London, UK)
Roel Wuyts (IMEC & Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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| 4th European Lisp Workshop |
| July 30 - Berlin, Germany - co-located with ECOOP 2007 |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Important Dates
Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 13, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2007
ECOOP early registration deadline: June 15, 2007
For more information visit http://lisp-ecoop07.bknr.net/
Contact: Pascal Costanza, pc(a)p-cos.net
Organizers
**********
Pascal Costanza, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Theo D'Hondt, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hans Huebner, Software Developer, Berlin
Arthur Lemmens, Independent Consultant, Amsterdam
Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Overview
********
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics,
AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor
applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge
Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language,
Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web
Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
-- Kent Pitman
Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In the
decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for language
design experiments as well as the preferred implementation language for
applications in diverse fields.
The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to
implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common
Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first
object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and
retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming
language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming
languages that followed.
It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing
interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence
worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being
transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented
Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.
This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages
in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and suggestions
for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to
capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want
to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new
approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the
strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies.
The workshop will have two components; there will be formally-presented
talks, and for breakout groups discussing or working on particular
topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for short, informal
talks and demonstrations on experience reports, underappreciated
results, software under development, or other topics of interest.
Papers
******
Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and
half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers.
We encourage that papers be published on the website in order to provide
background information in advance.
Suggested Topics
New language features or abstractions
Experience reports or case studies
Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries
Educational approaches
Software Evolution
Development Aids
Persistent Systems
Dynamic Optimization
Implementation techniques
Innovative Applications
Hardware Support for Lisp systems
Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming
Breakout Groups
***************
The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and
work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and
provide for rooms and infrastructure.
Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups
Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution
Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching)
Environments for creating web applications
Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects
Persistence Systems
Compiler technology
Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems
Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education
Submission Guidelines
*********************
Potential attendees are encouraged to submit either of the following:
* a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or
empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for
software engineering purposes;
* a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where
research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in
the near future;
* a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an
agenda and/or expected results.
Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Pascal Costanza (pc(a)p-cos.net)
before the submission deadline.
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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* *
* Dynamic Languages Symposium 2007 *
* at ooPSLA 2007 - http://www.oopsla.org *
* *
* Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 22, 2007 *
* *
* http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/ *
* *
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Important dates:
****************
* Submission of papers: June 1, 2007 *hard deadline*
* Author notification: June 30, 2007
* Final versions due: July 7, 2007
* DLS 2007: October 22, 2007
* OOPSLA 2007: October 21-25, 2007
Scope:
******
The Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at OOPSLA 2007 in Montreal,
Canada, is a forum for discussion of dynamic languages, their
implementation and application. While mature dynamic languages including
Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Self, and Prolog continue to grow and inspire
new converts, a new generation of dynamic scripting languages such as
Python, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript are successful in a wide range of
applications. DLS provides a place for researchers and practitioners to
come together and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for
future research and development.
DLS 2007 invites high quality papers reporting original research,
innovative contributions or experience related to dynamic languages,
their implementation and application. Accepted Papers will be published
in the OOPSLA conference companion and the ACM Digital Library.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
*************************************************
* Innovative language features and implementation techniques
* Development and platform support, tools
* Interesting applications
* Domain-oriented programming
* Very late binding, dynamic composition, and runtime adaptation
* Reflection and meta-programming
* Software evolution
* Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
* Dynamic optimization
* Hardware support
* Experience reports and case studies
* Educational approaches and perspectives
* Object-oriented, aspect-oriented, and context-oriented programming
Submissions and proceedings
***************************
We invite original contributions that neither have been published
previously nor are under review by other refereed events or
publications. Research papers should describe work that advances the
current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest
and should describe insights gained from substantive practical
applications. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper
based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality.
Papers are to be submitted electronically at
http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls2007/ in PDF format.
Submissions must not exceed 12 pages and need to use the ACM format,
templates for which can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Program chairs:
***************
* Pascal Costanza, Programming Technology Lab,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut,
University of Potsdam, Germany
Program committee:
******************
* Gilad Bracha, Cadence Design Systems, USA
* Johan Brichau, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
* William Clinger, Northeastern University, USA
* William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Stephane Ducasse, Universite de Savoie, France
* Brian Foote, Industrial Logic, USA
* Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
* Jeremy Hylton, Google, USA
* Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University, USA
* Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Michael Leuschel, Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany
* Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory, USA
* Martin von Loewis, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
* Philippe Mougin, OCTO Technology, France
* Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland
* Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
* Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
* Nathanael Schaerli, Google, Switzerland
* Anton van Straaten, AppSolutions.com, USA
* Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs, Canada
* Dave Ungar, USA
* Allen Wirfs-Brock, Microsoft, USA
* Roel Wuyts, IMEC & Unversite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
Here are some news about the International Lisp Conference '07:
+ The list of accepted papers and speakers together with a conference
schedule is now available at http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/schedule
An exact time table is not available yet, but we expect the
conference to start at 8:30 am and end at 6 pm on the weekdays.
+ See more information about the accepted papers (authors and
abstracts) at http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/speakers
+ Note that early registration ends in about a week, so hurry to get
the discount of 20% on conference fees. See http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/registration for more details on registration.
Cheers,
Pascal
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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| |
| Call for Participation |
| |
| INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2007 |
| |
| http://www.international-lisp-conference.org |
| |
| Clare College, Cambridge, England - April 1-4, 2007 |
| |
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In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN
Sponsored by The Association of Lisp Users
General Information:
The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2007
International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge, England
at Clare College from April 1st to 4th, 2007.
This year's program consists of tutorials at beginners' and
advanced levels, prominent invited speakers from the Lisp and
Scheme communities, an excellent technical session, tours of
Central Cambridge, Anglesey Abbey and Ely, and a quintessential
English experience: a traditional dinner served in the college's
Great Hall. The advance registration deadline is March 11th.
The ILC'07 programming contest is also still running until
March 3rd. For more details, see
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/contest
Schedule:
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/schedule
Saturday, March 31st
Optional tour of Cambridge
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tours#city
Sunday, April 1st
Tutorials and workshops
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tutorials
- Ernst van Waning, Extended Tutorial: Common Lisp in One Day
- Pascal Costanza, Context-oriented Programming in Common Lisp
- Richard Brooksby, Improve your Lisp using the Memory Pool System
- Duane Rettig, Optimizing and Debugging Programs in Allegro CL
Monday, April 2nd
Invited presentations
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/speakers
- Christian Queinnec, Teaching CS to undergraduates at UPMC
- Michael Sperber,
It's All about Being Right: Lessons from the R6RS Process
- Herbert Stoyan, Lisp: Themes and History
Presentations of accepted papers
Tuesday, April 3rd
Invited presentations
- Jans Aasman, Scalable Lisp Applications
- Ralf Moeller, Building a Commercial OWL Reasoner with Lisp
- Manuel Serrano,
HOP: An Environment for Developing Web 2.0 Applications
Presentations of accepted papers
Annual meeting of the Association of Lisp Users
Conference banquet
Wednesday, April 4th
Invited presentations
- Richard Jones, Dynamic Memory Management
- John Mallery, Lisp/CL-HTTP
Presentations of accepted papers
Thursday, April 5th
Optional tour of Anglesey Abbey and Ely
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tours#ely
Conference Registration:
Conference registration is now open. Simply visit
http://international-lisp-conference.org/2007/registration
The advance registration deadline is March 11th. You can get
further discounts as an ACM/SIGPLAN and/or ALU member.
Registration includes: access to all events, morning and afternoon
teas / coffees, self-service lunch, banquet (Tuesday April 3rd),
proceedings and hopefully a conference t-shirt. Accomodation is
available in Clare College's "Memorial Court".
http://international-lisp-conference.org/2007/venue#accomodation
Credit cards and PayPal are accepted, as are cheques (sterling or
US dollars) and international bank transfers.
Organizing Committee:
Co-Chairs: Carl Shapiro (SRI International)
Pascal Costanza (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Members: Rusty Johnson (ALU)
Peter Lindahl (ALU)
Program Chair: JonL White (The Ginger Ice Cream Factory / ALU)
Contact: ilc07-program-committee at alu.org
Local chair: Nick Levine (Ravenbrook / ALU)
General correspondence: ilc07-organizing-committee at alu.org
Mailing Lists:
General conference announcements are made on a very occasional
basis to the low-volume mailing list ilc07-announce.
http://www.alu.org/mailman/listinfo/ilc07-announce
If you're thinking of participating in ILC 2007, you should
either join this list or take an occasional look at the archives.
http://www.alu.org/pipermail/ilc07-announce
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
while finishing the last pages of the second draft of my diploma thesis
i thought:
well, there are less then 2 month' left till the ILC in Cambridge,
so perhaps now would be the time to arrange everything, book a flight,
arrange for accomodation, pay the fees ...
only there is a little problem:
i have absolutely no spare money to spend.
yes. i know i should get myself a decent job.
i will do that right after i finish my diploma thesis
(which is about support vector classification
and schould be ready by the end of next week).
still that doesn't bring me any closer to visiting the ILC
(which isn't held in Europe that often)
so i want to make a proposition:
I solve your problem in return for you solving mine.
..
as an example i would offer to implement:
Sequentiell Minimal Optimization for SVM(by Platt)
[with the improved Heuristics by Keerthi et.al.],
or the Nearest Point Algorithm(proposed by Keerthi)
in a language of your choice(Common Lisp, Ocaml, C, C++, ..).
perhaps you have a farm and need a hand for two weeks
i could drive your tractor and clean the stables[1]
or maybe you are a philantrophic and would like to contribute an
Interior Point algorithm for Linear or Quadratic Programming
to the Common Lisp community (GPL, LLGPL, BSD, ..) ..
i would implement that for you.
if any of the above matches you,
please do not hesitate to contact me.
for anybody interested enough:
i will set up a page at
http://sky.math.uni-rostock.de/christian_wants_to_be_at_the_ILC/
to keep you updated
thank you very much for taking the time to read this post
yours
christian bahls
maths student
university of rostock
rostock, germany
[1] it might be that you think this was a joke, while it wasn't
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There are several news about this year's International Lisp
Conference to be held in Cambridge, UK in the first week of April.
+ The Register has published a press release about the conference at
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/
2007/02/03/2007_international_lisp_conference/. Now we're trying to
use this to raise the profile of Lisp in general and ILC 2007 in
particular by getting the article "dugg", so that lots of other
people will notice it.
Please, take a minute to help us by visiting the article and
following the "Digg this" link. Or you can go straight to
http://digg.com/programming/Let_s_Lisp_again
(If you haven't previously joined digg, it's free and will take you
another minute.)
+ There is a conference poster available for download at http://
www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/images/poster.jpg
Please print it off and distribute it everywhere.
+ Finally, you can show off your Lisp programming skills by providing
implementations for the conference's programming contest. See http://
www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/contest for more details.
Pascal
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
Howdy!
The second meeting of the Stockholm Lispers is wednesday the 31st!
There were four of us the first time (Mats Westin, Henrik Hjelte, Ties
Stuij, myself) so applying Arthur & Edi's formula we'll be eight this
time and it'll be the first and last time we manage to meet in my cosy
living room. :-)
Any Lispers are welcome, just send me a mail if you'll come by!
(Otherwise there might not be enough beer for you :-))
(This is essentially a forward from lisp(a)lisp.se because that list
feels a bit closed and may not reach everyone it should.)
Tid: 17:30 onsdag jan 31
Address: Mosebacke Torg 14A
T-Bana: Slussen
Portkod: 0951
Lagenhet: Genom gård och inom huset till vänster. En trappa upp.
Mobilen: 0701 040 041
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