[Apologies if you get this announcement more than once.]
Hi!
Arthur Lemmens and I are trying to organize a "European Common Lisp
Meeting" and I think we've managed to assemble a quite impressive
line-up of speakers.
The meeting will be in Amsterdam on April 24, 2005, and here's the
list of the fellow Lispers who'll give a talk:
- Jans Aasman
- Dave Fox
- Luke Gorrie
- Antonio Menezes Leitao
- Christophe Rhodes
- Robert Strandh
- Espen Vestre
All details can be found on this website:
<http://weitz.de/meeting>
We hope that very many of you will be able to attend this meeting and
make it a success. Please, if you consider joining us, use the
registration facility that can be found at the website above.
We're looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam in April!
Cheers,
Edi.
Hi everyone,
I have recently started to work at the Programming Technology Lab at
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel - see http://prog.vub.ac.be/ - as some
of you probably already know. ;)
If you have recently finished your master's or diploma thesis, or will
do so in the near future, and are looking for a Lisp-friendly
environment to start working on a PhD, please feel free to contact me
via email. There is a good chance that you can get a grant for working
here.
We are mostly interested in programming language design, but also touch
other subjects that are related (applications, software engineering,
etc.). Among other things, we are interested in various kinds of
metaprogramming, reflection, object models, metaobject protocols,
software evolution, aspect-oriented programming, etc. I am especially
interested in context-oriented programming, i.e. finding good
abstractions for making software behave differently according to the
context in which it is used.
Good knowledge of one or more Lisp dialects is a big plus, preferably
Common Lisp, ISLISP or Scheme. Knowledge of other dynamic languages,
like Smalltalk, Self, Prolog and other examples of those language
families is also a plus.
When you contact me, please tell me a little bit about yourself (max. 4
pages): What you have worked on for your master degree, what your
interests are, what you would like to work on in the future, and so on.
Please add a paragraph or two about some wild ideas that you have about
how programming should evolve in the future, or what computer science's
biggest mistakes in the past have been.
Cheers,
Pascal
--
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulder of giants. - Isaac Newton
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
International Lisp Conference 2005
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org
Stanford University
June 19-22, 2005
Sponsored by:
The Association of Lisp Users
Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University
General Information:
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, the Organizing Committee of ILC 2005 is encouraging
submissions in the particular areas of: functional language design
and implementation, mathematical and scientific computing,
artificial intelligence, data mining, business intelligence,
bioinformatics, telecommunications and networking, the semantic
web, music, and entertainment technologies.
Further details are available at the conference web site.
General correspondence on ILC 2005 may be sent to ilc2005(a)alu.org.
Technical Program:
Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes
are invited for the following categories: papers, exhibits,
workshops, tutorials, and panel discussions. The official
language of the conference is English.
Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submissions: March 15, 2005
Author notification: March 31, 2005
Deadline for final paper submission: April 30, 2005
Organizing Committee:
Chair: Carl Shapiro (SRI International)
Members: Rusty Johnson (ALU)
Peter Lindahl (ALU)
Contact: ilc05-organizing-committee(a)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(a)alu.org
Here is an announcement of the Closer Project. This project is an
umbrella project for a few subprojects whose aim is to improve the
usability of the CLOS MOP across different Common Lisp implementations.
The project website is at http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/
The first step (which already exists to a large degree) is a library
that checks what features of the AMOP specification is supported by a
given CL implementation. This results in a number of keywords that
describe the various aspects of a MOP which can, for example, be used
to conditionalize one's source code (when added to *features*).
Currently, the following Common Lisp implementations are supported:
* Allegro Common Lisp, 6.2 Trial Version
* CLisp, 2.33.80
* CMU CL, experimental port to Mac OS X, 2004-01-28-020
* LispWorks 4.3 for Macintosh, Personal Edition
* OpenMCL 0.14.2-p1
* SBCL 0.8.18
...and some other implementation that I am not allowed to talk about.
The second step (which exists as a rough sketch) is a compatibility
library that provides a package that adds missing features and/or
replaces existing features with versions that better reflect the AMOP
specs. If the latter is not possible, I try to provide utility
functions that allow one to work around restrictions.
Finally, the Closer project should host a few example metaclasses,
including some of the examples given in AMOP, and probably others as
well. For example, my goal is to move some of the stuff from AspectL to
the Closer project in order to turn this into a more coherent library.
It is important to provide example applications of the MOP because they
implicitly provide test cases against which new MOP implementations can
be checked for compatibility.
So in the long run, the Closer project should help to bring the MOP
into a shape that Common Lisp programmers can better rely on across
many implementations.
Pascal
Disclaimer: This project is in a very early stage. Don't publish any
findings about existing MOP implementations based on the software
offered there with the implicit suggestion that they are facts. It is
very likely that the code includes bugs and misinterpretations of the
AMOP specification. You have been warned!
hi everyone, i'd like to announce the mailing list
munich-lisp(a)common-lisp.net
If anyone in the area of munich is interesting in joining
the list, please visit the web page
http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/munich-lisp
and subscribe yourself to the list.
I look forward to hearing from all of you.
-jim
Hi!
I have finally exported the slides of my talk about BKNR, and put them
online (as well as the LISP file I went through as an example).
They are both available at:
http://bl0rg.net/~manuel/bknr-vortrag/
BKNR Sputnik has been released online at:
http://bknr.net/
The version on bknr.net has been slightly fixed so that the XML
import/export compiles correctly on ACL.
Cheers, Manuel
This monthly beer, pretzels & parentheses extravaganza happens tonight St.
Urho's at 1900, in Helsinki. Be there or hack COBOL.
(For those in the right geographical area unable to give up COBOL on such
short notice, this night of revelry recurs in the same location on first
Tuesday of every month.)
See also: http://www.s2.org/~chery/events/helsinki-lispers-pub-night
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."
Hi!
Just a reminder: The next meeting of Hamburg Lispers will be on Sunday
(the day after tomorrow) at 2pm at the Landesjugendring Hamburg[1],
Güntherstr. 34. This is the same location we had the last time, in
case you were there.
Preliminary schedule:
14.15 - 15.00: Lothar Hotz
NetCLOS <http://lki-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~hotz/home.html>
15.15 - 16.00: Pascal Costanza
AspectL <http://common-lisp.net/project/aspectl/>
16.15 - 17.00: Manuel Odendahl
bknr <http://bknr.net/bknr>
17.15 - 17.45: Arthur Lemmens
The "CL-USER" project
Afterwards, there's a chance to talk, drink, and eat at the
"Literaturhaus Café"[2] at 7pm. Please send a short email if you want
to come with us so I can make a reservation.
Cheers,
Edi.
[1] <http://www.ljr-hh.de/>
[2] <http://www.literaturhaus-hamburg.de/>
[This is a Dutch one-day conference on using functional programming in
university education. It's probably mostly about languages like Haskell
and Helium, not Lisp. The talks will be in Dutch. I'm not involved in
its organization, just promoting it a bit.]
--
Er worden op de "FP-dag" door informatica-docenten van vooral
universteiten wat praatjes gegeven over hoe functioneel programmeren
wordt onderwezen, in welke talen, hoe studenten dat ervaren, en wat er
beter kan.
Hoewel niet over Lisp, maar vooral over Haskell en het Nijmeegse Helium,
vond ik het wel interessant de vorige keer, dus daarom ga ik er weer
heen. Het is in Groningen, 7 januari, tijd nog onbekend (uur of 10?),
plaats: Senaatszaal van Academiegebouw (centrum).
Dit keer georganiseerd door mensen van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
Info over vorige keer, toen het in Enschede was en er nog een andere
BeNeLux-Lisper was: <http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~jankuper/fpdag2004.html>
Mijn verslagje van vorige keer:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/benelux-lispers/message/52>
Mailing list, met sporadisch discussie/aankondiging:
<https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/fp-nl/2004-November/thread.html>
- Willem
Hi all,
on Monday, the 29. November 2004 at 19:00 hours, the third monthly Berlin
LISP User groups' meeting takes place at c-base (http://c-base.org/). Please
join in to talk about LISP and associated topics.
Die c-base befindet sich im Erdgeschoß des zweiten Hinterhauses in der
Rungestraße 20 in Berlin Mitte. Falls die Tür im Durchgang abgeschlossen ist,
muß man hinten am Ufer durch die Glastür gehen. Nicht verzagen.
Greetings,
Hans