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[eurolisp] ELS 2009 Registration open
by Marco Antoniotti 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Apologies for the multiple postings. ************************************************************************ 2nd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2009) Milan, Italy, May 27-29, 2009 Universita` degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca www.european-lisp-symposium.org ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PARTECIPATION ********************** Registration is now open at www.european-lisp-symposium.org Scope and Program Highlights: ***************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The European Lisp Symposium 2009 program includes presentations of high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives, all involving Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, and so on. Kent Pitman will give the keynote address on Thursday, May 28. The presentations will be divided into two categories. * Original contributions. * Work in progress describing ongoing work that will be discussed in the form of a "writers' workshop". The writers' workshops will take place at the symposium in Milan on May 28, 2008. Social Events: ************** Friday 29th evening, Conference Banquet Saturday 30th morning, Guided tour to the "Futurismo" Exhibit in the center of Milan; 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto; stretching it, the harbinger of Lisp 50 years later. Program Chair: ************** * Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Local Chair: ************ * Marco Antoniotti, DISCo, Universita` Milano Bicocca, Italy Program committee: ****************** * Giuseppe Attardi, Universita` di Pisa , Italy * Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Irene Durand, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Marc Feeley, Universit` de Montreal, Canada * Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA * Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA * Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA * Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK * Kent Pitman, PTC, USA * Christian Queinnec, Universite` Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK * Robert Strandh, Universite` Bordeaux 1, France * Mark Tarver, Lambda Associates, UK * Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France * JonL White, TheGingerIceCreamFactory of Palo Alto, USA * Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan Registration Fees: ****************** * Early registration before April 25, 2008: Students EU60, regular EU120. * Late registration before May 16, 2008: Students EU80, regular EU160. * Onsite registration: Students EU100, regular EU220. Registration will include the proceedings, coffee breaks, the symposium dinner and other amenities. Accommodation is not included. -- Marco Antoniotti

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[eurolisp] Call for Presentations: Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2009
by Nick Levine 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2009 Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End Call for Presentations Sponsored by SIGPLAN Co-located with ICFP 2009 Edinburgh, Scotland, 4 September 2009 __________________________________________________________ Presentation proposals due 15 May 2009 http://cufp.galois.com/2009/call.html __________________________________________________________ Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25 years, and remain fertile ground for programming language research. Recently, however, developers in industrial, governmental, and open-source projects have begun to use functional programming successfully in practical applications. In these settings, functional programming has often provided dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of thinking about the original problem. The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these users of functional programming. The workshop supports the increasing viability of functional programming in the commercial, governmental, and open-source space by providing a forum for professionals to share their experiences and ideas, whether those ideas are related to business, management, or engineering. The workshop is also designed to enable the formation and reinforcement of relationships that further the commercial use of functional programming. Providing user feedback to language designers and implementors is not a primary goal of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs. Speaking at CUFP If you use functional programming as a means, rather than as an end, we invite you to offer to give a talk at the workshop. Alternatively, if you know someone who would give a good talk, please nominate them! Talks are typically 25 minutes long, but can be shorter. They aim to inform participants about how functional programming played out in real-world applications, focusing especially on the re-usable lessons learned, or insights gained. Your talk does not need to be highly technical; for this audience, reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering aspects are, if anything, more important. You do not need to submit a paper! If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, send an e-mail to francesco(at)erlang-consulting(dot)com or jim(dot)d(dot)grundy(at)intel(dot)com by 15 May 2009 with a short description of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long. Program Plans CUFP 2009 will last a full day and feature a keynote presentation from Bryan O'Sullivan, co-author of Real World Haskell. The program will also include a mix of presentations and discussion sessions. Topics will range over a wide area, including: * Case studies of successful and unsuccessful uses of functional programming; * Business opportunities and risks from using functional languages; * Enablers for functional language use in a commercial setting; * Barriers to the adoption of functional languages, and * Mitigation strategies for overcoming limitations of functional programming. There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. This will be the sixth CUFP, for more information - including reports from attendees of previous events and video of recent talks - see the workshop web site: http://cufp.galois.com/

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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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[eurolisp] [CfPart] Lisp50@OOPSLA
by Pascal Costanza 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Lisp50@OOPSLA ...celebrating the 50th birthday of Lisp at OOPSLA 2008 Monday, October 20, 2008 Nashville, Tennessee, USA co-located with OOPSLA 2008 participation is free for all OOPSLA participants registration for at least one conference day at OOPSLA is required URL: http:www.lisp50.org Feed: http://lisp50.blogspot.com Invited Speakers + William Clinger, Northeastern University, USA + Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium + Richard Gabriel, IBM Research, USA + Rich Hickey, Independent Consultant, USA + Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA + Fritz Kunze, USA + Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, USA + John McCarthy, USA + Kent Pitman, PTC, USA + Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA + Herbert Stoyan, University of Erlangen, Germany + Warren Teitelman, Google Inc., USA + JonL White, USA Titles, abstracts, biographies and schedule will be announced at the Lisp50 webpage and blog in the coming days and weeks. Abstract In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports about his then ongoing effort for designing a new programming language that would be especially suited for achieving artificial intelligence. That report was the first one to use the name LISP for this new programming language. 50 years later, Lisp is still in use. This year we are celebrating Lisp's 50th birthday. OOPSLA 2008 is an excellent venue for such a celebration, because object-oriented programming benefited heavily from Lisp ideas and because OOPSLA 2008 takes place in October, exactly 50 years after the name Lisp has been used publicly for the first time. We will have talks by John McCarthy himself, and numerous other influential Lispers from the past five decades. We will also take a look at the next 50 years of Lisp. Organizers + Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium + Richard Gabriel, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA + Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany + Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Burlington, MA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Supported by + IBM Research + LispWorks Ltd + Franz Inc. + Clozure Associates -- 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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[eurolisp] My travel plans for September - pubs, anyone?
by Andreas Fuchs 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hi there, It seems like I'll get to travel around Europe in the the next few weeks, so this might be a good time to arrange meetings of fellow lispers, preferably in the evening, possibly involving sitting down somewhere, and ordering beverages. (-: I'll be in London for a week on September 15-19, and in Amsterdam on September 24-26. So, if local lispers are interested in meeting up, please announce on this list (: -- Andreas Fuchs, (http://|im:asf@|mailto:asf@)boinkor.net, antifuchs

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[eurolisp] Calling Common Lisp Game Developers
by Jobs At OMAC 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

We are currently seeking talented Lisp Game Developers who are passionate about game development and want to play a major role in developing and maintaining new features for one of our persistent browser games. This particular title uses Hunchentoot, but all other code has been developed in house using the Mnesia database for persistence. This particular game is not released yet but has already generated interest from over 35,000 players globally. If you're interested in developing Persistent Browser Games using SBCL and want to know more then send us an email at lisp(a)omacindustries.com The preferred location for this role is in Dublin, Ireland but we are also open to hearing from anyone who prefers to work remotely. http://omacindustries.com

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[eurolisp] [ELW'08] Important news
by Didier Verna 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, here are some important news on the 5th European Lisp Workshop, July 7, Pahpos, Cyprus, co-located with ECOOP 2008: * The paper selection process is over; the final programme will be available shortly. Stay tuned for the upcoming call for participation! * We now have the abstracts for the two keynote presentations: Lisp for the 21st Century (Mark Tarver) As Lisp reaches its 50th anniversary, the talk looks at some of the reasons why Lisp has not found a wider acceptance amongst the programming community. Part of the reasons lie in a vicious cycle between education and industry within which Lisp is trapped. One solution is the L21 project - to produce a rationalized and revised update of Lisp for the C21. Qi fits many of the constraints of the L21 project. The talk concludes on what needs to be done within Qi and the Lisp world to bring Lisp to the center stage. A Detailed Look at the Lisp Nature of Clojure (Rich Hickey) The small essential core of Lisp makes dialects easy to define and implement. Most dialects are viewed skeptically by the community, as their features can be realized via the extensibility mechanisms of Scheme or Common Lisp. However, functional programming, interoperability, extensibility and concurrency objectives call for different decisions at many Lisp design points. Meeting those objectives in a Lisp dialect testifies to the continued vitality of the Lisp idea. This talk will provide a rationale for Clojure as a substantive and unique dialect of Lisp, and details of its design and implementation on the JVM. * Courtesy of EPITA, the workshop will have printed proceedings. A PDF version will also be made available on the website after the event. * Finally, please note that the official ELW website, http://elw.bknr.net, now contains an archive of all past occurrences of the workshop. -- 5th European Lisp Workshop at ECOOP 2008, July 7: http://elw.bknr.net/2008/ Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (0)1 53 14 59 22 didier(a)xemacs.org

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