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[eurolisp] [CfP] 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop
by Pascal Costanza 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Call for Participation 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop ===================================== July 26 - Glasgow, Scotland - co-located with ECOOP 2005 Supported by ALU For more information visit http://lisp-ecoop05.bknr.net or contact pc(a)p-cos.net. News (June 2, 2005) =================== Important Dates + Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2005 + Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2005 + ECOOP early registration deadline: June 24, 2005 + Final paper submission deadline: July 15, 2005 Other News ========== + Richard P. Gabriel has agreed to give a keynote talk at the workshop: "On the Interaction of Life and Machines in Self-Sustaining Systems" Software systems today are produced according to a manufacturing model: A finished product is constructed at the factory and shipped to its final destinationwhere it is expected to act like any other machine-reliably but oblivious to its surroundings and its own welfare. Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future. A promising approach seems to be to separate software that does the work from software that keeps the system alive. + The submission deadline has been extended to June 10, 2005. Due to the late publication of the fee structure for the ECOOP conference, we have split submission into two phases: You can submit an abstract of your paper or breakout group proposal before June 10 and we will notify you of acceptance or rejection on June 17. The final paper / breakout group proposal should be submitted by July 15. + The early registration deadline for ECOOP 2005 is June 24, 2005. Participating is cheaper than you may think: If you only participate at the workshop, the fee is 180 pounds (ca. 260 Euros or 320 US-Dollars) or 90 pounds (ca. 130 Euros or 160 US-Dollars) for students. This includes coffee breaks and lunches on the two workshop days, the main reception on the first workshop day and access to BoFs and the poster display on the two workshop days. See http://2005.ecoop.org/fees.html for full details. 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, including Common Lisp and Scheme as its major dialects of today, 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 at the beginning of the 1990's. It is, arguably, the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, and has influenced many other object-oriented programming languages that were to follow. Despite having somewhat disappeared from the radar of popular computer science, Common Lisp and Scheme are still alive and have just started to gain momentum again. There is a steadily growing interest in Lisp as such, with numerous user groups having formed recently worldwide, and Lisp's metaprogramming notions that are being transferred to other languages to different extents, as for example in AOP, MDA, DSL, and so on. This two-day workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We want to solicit papers and suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We also 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 be split into two parts: The first part is for talks with a more classroom-like atmosphere, the second will consist of a number of sessions for breakout groups discussing or working on particular topics. Papers ====== Presentations on the workshop can take anything between 5 minutes and an hour. Additional time will be given for questions and answers. Papers may be published on the website in order to provide background information in advance. Suggested topics for presented papers + Macro programming + Metaprogramming + Reflection + New language features / abstractions + Persistence Systems + Hardware support for Lisp systems + Case studies + Experience reports + Industrial applications + Object-Oriented Programming + Declarative Programming + Aspect-Oriented Programming + Domain-Oriented Programming + Generative Programming + Ambient Intelligence + Unanticipated Software Evolution + Design Patterns + Educational Perspectives 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 + Discuss the feature set of the next version of Slime + Work on details of the CLRFI process + Exchange experiences with various macro systems for Scheme + Detail a wishlist for R6RS + Environments for creating web applications + Persistence systems + Compiler technology + Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems + Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education In order to have effective discussions at those breakout groups, we are negotiating meeting rooms for an extra day in addition to the actual workshop with the ECOOP organizers. Submission Guidelines ===================== Potential attendants are expected to submit + either a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp- and Scheme-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes + or a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research and practice based on Lisp and Scheme 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 Abstract submissions should be mailed as PDF or text to Pascal Costanza (pc(a)p-cos.net) before the submission deadline. Please indicate whether you need an earlier notification of acceptance than the official date. The final paper should be mailed before the respective submission deadline - afterwards, we cannot guarantee timely publication at the website anymore. Registration ============ This workshop is co-located with ECOOP 2005, and this time it is one of the official workshops at that conference. Therefore, registration, fee and accomodation are all handled through the conference organization. See the conference website and especially http://2005.ecoop.org/fees.html and http://2005.ecoop.org/travel.html for further information. Advance registration to the workshop is handled through the primary contact person of the Workshop, Pascal Costanza (pc(a)p-cos.net) Please contact him by regular email with your submission or input to the workshop in order to receive your login to the workshop website. Include your preferred login name for the workshop website with your application. Further information for participants will be provided on the workshop website. Organizing Committee ==================== The organizing comitee consists of the following people: + Pascal Costanza, http://www.pascalcostanza.de, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (contact organizer) + Theo D'Hondt, http://prog.vub.ac.be/~tjdhondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium + Arthur Lemmens, Independent Consultant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands + Manuel Serrano, http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France -- Pascal Costanza Vrije Universiteit Brussel mailto:Pascal.Costanza@vub.ac.be Programming Technology Lab http://www.pascalcostanza.de Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel (Belgium)

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[eurolisp] [ANN] European Lisp & Scheme Workshop - NEWS
by Pascal Costanza 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Here are some news with regard to the 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop in Glasgow, Scotland on July 26, 2005. - Richard Gabriel (http://www.dreamsongs.com) has agreed to give a keynote talk at the workshop. Title and abstract will be announced at the workshop website soon. - The submission deadline for papers and breakout group proposals has been extended to June 5, 2005. - The early registration deadline for ECOOP 2005 is June 13, 2005. Before that date, the fees for participating at the workshop should be considerably lower. However, the fee structure hasn't been announced yet. This will (hopefully) happen during the next few days at http://2005.ecoop.org/fees.html Please watch the workshop website at http://lisp-ecoop05.bknr.net during the next one or two weeks for more updates. Cheers, Pascal -- 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop July 26 - Glasgow, Scotland - co-located with ECOOP 2005 http://lisp-ecoop05.bknr.net/

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[eurolisp] Helsinki lispers' pub night this Thursday
by Nikodemus Siivola 31 May '05

31 May '05

Helsinki lispers' pub night[1] time: first Thursday of each month (2nd of June), 19:00- place: Annankadun William K.[2] Cheers, Helsinki Lispers 1. http://www.s2.org/~chery/events/helsinki-lispers-pub-night 2. http://www.oluthuone.com/ravintolat/w_anna.php

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[eurolisp] International Lisp Conference, June 2005
by Nick Levine 31 May '05

31 May '05

Please distribute this message to your constituents! Note well: The advance registration deadline is June, 1! ANNOUNCEMENT International Lisp Conference, Stanford University, June 19-22 2005 http://international-lisp-conference.org The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce that Stanford University will host the next International Lisp Conference between June 19 and 22. ILC 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of the seminal 1980 Lisp conference held at Stanford in August of 1980. This year, technical presentations cover a broad range of subjects woven together with the common thread of Lisp technology. Topics include: functional language design and implementation, mathematical and scientific computing, artificial intelligence, data mining, business intelligence, bio-informatics, telecommunications and networking, the semantic web, music, and entertainment technologies. A complete speakers list and schedule is available on-line. http://international-lisp-conference.org/speakers.html http://international-lisp-conference.org/schedule.html The International Lisp Conference also includes a comprehensive tutorial program including an all-day Common Lisp tutorial. http://international-lisp-conference.org/tutorials.html We look forward to seeing you at Stanford! Registration: REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! Credit cards and PayPal are accepted. Simply visit http://international-lisp-conference.org/registration.html The advance registration deadline is June, 1 2005. http://international-lisp-conference.org/deadline.html General Information: In-Cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Sponsored by: The Association of Lisp Users Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University Organizing Committee: Chair: Carl Shapiro (SRI International) Members: Rusty Johnson (ALU) Peter Lindahl (ALU) Contact: ilc05-organizing-committee (at) alu.org Program Committee: Chair: JonL White (ALU) Members: Jans Aasman (Franz, Inc.) John Adams (Space Telescope Science Institute) John Amuedo (Signal Inference Corporation) Kazuyuki Hashimoto (Electronic Arts) Larry Hunter (UCHSC) Nick Levine (Ravenbrook Limited) Christian Queinnec (Universite Paris 6) Nancy Reed (University of Hawaii) Jeff Shrager (Stanford University) Mark Stickel (SRI International) Michael Travers (Hyperphor) Taiichi Yuasa (Kyoto University) David Wilkins (SRI International) Contact: ilc05-program-committee (at) alu.org

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[eurolisp] Student internship
by Thomas F. Burdick 24 May '05

24 May '05

If you know anybody who would be interested in this, please pass it along. thanks! The Cadence Design Systems VCAD group in Munich, Germany, is looking for a University student intern for a period of two to six months. You would be working on one of the following projects, depending on our needs and your strengths: * Project planning and scheduling software. This will be used to track our utilization of our developers, and to aid in planning for on-going and future projects. * Package configuration management software. We deliver to our customers custom configurations built out of a large number of pieces of software and other intellectual property. We are rewriting the system we use to specify, track, and build these deliveries. * Common Lisp bindings to a large C++ library. We are working on a system to automatically generate the low-level bindings, as well as designing a higher-level interface meant for direct use by application programmers. The implementation language for all of the above will most likely be Common Lisp, although lesser languages such as Java, Perl, and Tcl may play a role as well. We are looking for someone who either has experience programming in a Lisp language, or is interested in learning Lisp in a production environment, and is comfortable in several mutually unrelated programming languages (eg, C, Smalltalk, and PostScript; or Java, Prolog, and SPARC assembly language). Our environment is Unix-based (Solaris and Linux), so you should have a basic familiarity with Unix. Other things that would be nice, but are not required: some theoretical familiarity with relational databases (eg, you took a database class or read the textbook from one); Windows programming experience; Oracle experience; experience with C++, SQL, and Prolog. Virtual CAD (VCAD) is a group within Cadence providing EDA (Electronic Design Automation) related services. The internship is with the software development group within VCAD. Cadence's software products are scripted with the SKILL language, a Lisp language with two dialects: one Franz Lisp-like dialect, and one Scheme-like dialect. The VCAD software group also uses Common Lisp where appropriate. If you are interested, please contact Thomas F. Burdick (tfb(a)cadence.com) and Jim Newton (jimka(a)cadence.com) For more information about VCAD, see: http://www.cadence-europe.com/solutions/vpage.cfm?pID=1 http://www.cadence-europe.com/eEuronews/mar_05/features.html

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[eurolisp] International Lisp Conference, June 2005
by Nick Levine 09 May '05

09 May '05

ANNOUNCEMENT International Lisp Conference, Stanford University, June 19-22 2005 http://international-lisp-conference.org The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce that Stanford University will host the next International Lisp Conference between June 19 and 22. ILC 2005 marks the 25th anniversary of the seminal 1980 Lisp conference held at Stanford in August of 1980. This year, technical presentations cover a broad range of subjects woven together with the common thread of Lisp technology. Topics include: functional language design and implementation, mathematical and scientific computing, artificial intelligence, data mining, business intelligence, bio-informatics, telecommunications and networking, the semantic web, music, and entertainment technologies. A complete speakers list is now available on-line. http://international-lisp-conference.org/speakers.html The International Lisp Conference also includes a comprehensive tutorial program including an all-day Common Lisp tutorial. http://international-lisp-conference.org/tutorials.html We look forward to seeing you at Stanford! Registration: REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! REGISTER ON-LINE! Credit cards and PayPal are accepted. Simply visit http://international-lisp-conference.org/registration.html The advance registration deadline is June, 1 2005. http://international-lisp-conference.org/deadline.html General Information: In-Cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN Sponsored by: The Association of Lisp Users Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University Organizing Committee: Chair: Carl Shapiro (SRI International) Members: Rusty Johnson (ALU) Peter Lindahl (ALU) Contact: ilc05-organizing-committee (at) alu.org Program Committee: Chair: JonL White (ALU) Members: Jans Aasman (Franz, Inc.) John Adams (Space Telescope Science Institute) John Amuedo (Signal Inference Corporation) Kazuyuki Hashimoto (Electronic Arts) Larry Hunter (UCHSC) Nick Levine (Ravenbrook Limited) Christian Queinnec (Universite Paris 6) Nancy Reed (University of Hawaii) Jeff Shrager (Stanford University) Mark Stickel (SRI International) Taiichi Yuasa (Kyoto University) David Wilkins (SRI International) Contact: ilc05-program-committee (at) alu.org

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[eurolisp] Amsterdam videos, photos, etc.
by Edi Weitz 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hi! We've started to assemble presentations, photos, and other stuff from the European Common Lisp Meeting 2005 at <http://weitz.de/eclm2005/>. If you also have photos you'd like to see there send us a link. (You can also send the photos themselves but please contact me before sending them so I can give you an alternate email address.) Pending clearance from the speakers we can also offer "bootleg quality" videos of some of the talks (thanks to James Anderson) - Peter Seibel's talk is already online. If you can provide a mirror for these large files (approx. 600MB per talk) please contact me. Cheers, Edi.

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[eurolisp] Amsterdam photos, anyone?
by Edi Weitz 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

So, if anyone has made photos at the Amsterdam meeting and wants them to get published he/she can send them to me. We're trying to set up a little webpage with the presentation and it'd be nice if we could also add a couple of pictures. Oh, and if you're going to send a lot of them please send me a note first. I've deliberately forbidden my server to accept emails larger than 2MB but I can up that limit temporarily if needed. Cheers, Edi.

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[eurolisp] Amsterdam bookstore recommendations?
by Tayssir John Gabbour 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hi all, Are there any good Amsterdam bookstores, particularly with good tech books? Arthur, if possible, I'd be grateful if you could bring any of your parallel lisp books to the restaurant today. Don't stress yourself out though if it's inconvenient. I'm bringing a copy of Berkeley/Bobrow's book "The Programming Language Lisp: Its Operation and Applications". In case anyone wants to borrow it for bedtime reading Saturday or anything. Thanks! Tayssir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[eurolisp] Web Application Frameworks in Smalltalk and Common Lisp
by Pascal Costanza 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Web application frameworks in Smalltalk and Common Lisp ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Monday, 25th of April 2005, Vrije Universiteit Brussel http://prog.vub.ac.be/events/2005/BADL/WebApplicationFrameworks.html The VUB (Programming Technology Lab), ULB (deComp), Belgian Assocation for Dynamic Languages (BADL) and the Belgian Smalltalk User Group (BSUG) are very pleased to invite you to two presentations about web application frameworks based on Smalltalk and Common Lisp. The two presenters are the main authors of the respective frameworks and will show you first-hand overviews and illustrate examples from, and experiences with, real-world use scenarios. It will be especially interesting to see what advantages the use of non mainstream dynamic programming languages brings to the table in a domain that is specifically targeted by Java and .NET frameworks. We also expect a heated discussion about the merits of the use of continuations in Seaside and the lack thereof in the Fractal Framework. ;) The schedule for this event, held on Monday 25th of April, is as follows: - 15:00 - 16:00 Avi Bryant, Seaside - 16:00 - 17:00 Marc Battyani, Fractal Framework - 17:00 - 18:00 Open Podium Discussion This event is rounded out with a little reception. The venue for the event is the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. For a description of how to get there see http://www.vub.ac.be/english/campEt.html The exact location is still to be determined and will be announced at the following website: http://prog.vub.ac.be/events/2005/BADL/WebApplicationFrameworks.html Please make sure to register for the event at the website, so we can plan ahead. The number of places will be limited according to the exact location of the event, and will be announced at the website. Below are the abstracts of the presentations and the biographies of the speakers. Avi Bryant, Seaside +++++++++++++++++++ On the web, abstraction is a dirty word. The dominant paradigms and philosophies of web development -- CGI, Servlets, Server Pages, REST -- provide only a thin wrapper around the low-level details of HTTP, and encourage you to use the rough stones of the transport protocol as the direct building blocks of your application. Web developers by and large reject any further abstraction in the way that assembly hackers once rejected structured programming: it's too inflexible, uses too many resources, and above all, it doesn't let you see what's *really* going on. As a result, web applications suffer the same problems now that assembly language programs did years ago; they're fragile, verbose, difficult to maintain and ill-suited to reuse. That's not to say that better abstractions aren't available. The Lisp and Scheme communities have been working on them for years. Paul Graham's ViaWeb pioneered the use of closures, not query parameters, to capture application state in each link. Christian Quiennec showed how to use first class continuations to invert the flow of control of HTTP and put the server back in the driver's seat. Macro packages like htmlgen bring HTML into the language itself, opening up much more than a template system can provide. Meanwhile, object-oriented packages like WebObjects have demonstrated how to decompose the web page into a tree of stateful, interacting objects, allowing a finer granularity of development. Seaside combines these ideas and others with the rich development environment of Smalltalk to provide a stable, complete, and innovative web application platform. This talk will introduce Seaside, and will focus in particular on the ways in which these abstractions can be leveraged to enable reuse: how to use closures, continuations, and intelligent HTML generation to destroy the intra- and inter-page coupling that is holding web development back. Marc Battyani, Fractal Framework ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Web sites have evolved from static documents to simple applications (eCommerce) and now to complete applications. Today, frameworks like J2EE and .Net are used for writing these applications made of tens to hundreds of object classes. These huge frameworks suffer from the limitations of their programming languages. Other frameworks, based on continuations, are emerging but still have limitations for complex applications. The Framework presented here has been used in production since 2001 and shows how the unique qualities of Common Lisp can boost the productivity by more than an order of magnitude for writing web applications compared to J2EE/.Net. This framework automatically generates the presentation, modification, validation, storage and data integrity layers of all the object classes of an application. It provides session management, web controls and a unique way for collaborative work. Internally, it makes extensive use of the Meta Object Protocol, CLOS generic functions, lexical closures, and on the fly code generation and compilation. The speakers ++++++++++++ Avi Bryant is the co-founder of Smallthought Systems Inc. Much of his work centers around the use of Squeak Smalltalk as a platform for commercial software development. As an actively contributing member of the Squeak community, he maintains its standard version control system, as well as packages for web development and relational and object database access. As a consultant, he has helped companies develop Squeak-based products for the travel, theatre, and finance industries, higher education, and mobile devices. Avi is based in Vancouver, Canada but currently residing in The Netherlands. Marc Battyani's professional activities involve electronics design and writing software. He is the founder of Fractal Concept and the author of several open-source libraries (mod_lisp, cl-pdf, cl-typesetting). He works on various domains ranging from medical or industrial systems and applications to network infrastructure management web applications for banks as well as 3D software for robotized testing equipment, 6D real time positioning systems for the industry and the military, smart environmental radio sensors, etc. All the application software is written in Common Lisp with Fractal Concept's web application framework. Marc has a MSc in electronics and a MSc in computer science. He lives near Fontainebleau in France.

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