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[eurolisp] [ANN] 2nd European Lisp & Scheme Workshop
by Pascal Costanza 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

This is actually a draft announcement. We are still waiting for some information from the ECOOP organizers, and the workshop website isn't online yet (this is mainly my fault). In order not to delay the most important details any further, here is what we already have. A more detailed announcement is to follow soon. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop | | July 26 - Glasgow, Scotland - co-located with ECOOP 2005 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ************************************************************************ Important - The workshop will include a keynote by Richard P. Gabriel. (pending) - We are looking for papers & for breakout group proposals! (see below) ************************************************************************ Important Dates: Submission deadline: May 16, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 27, 2005 ECOOP early registration deadline: pending For more information contact pc(a)p-cos.net Organizers ********** Pascal Costanza, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Theo D'Hondt, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Arthur Lemmens, Independent Consultant, Amsterdam Manuel Serrano, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Website: Hans Huebner, Berlin Overview ******** Lisp has a tradition of providing a fruitful basis for language design experiments for many decades. The structure of Lisp, including its current major dialects Common Lisp and Scheme, makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard. It is, arguably, the most complete and advanced object system of any language. Despite having somewhat disappeared from the radar of popular computer science, Lisp has 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 one-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. Papers ****** Suggested Topics: * Macro programming * Metaprogramming * Reflection * New language features / abstractions * 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 *************** We want to promote to take advantage of meeting other Lispers and Schemers face to face by organizing breakout groups around focused topics. Example topics: 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; compare and enhance curricula for computer science education. And so on. 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 Submissions should be mailed as PDF 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.

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Re: [eurolisp] Bigger room for European Common Lisp Meeting
by Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Arthur and Edi, thank you very much for your endured/ing efforts. This time I'm in and no more p.o.'ed -- and will look for room & transports after registration, instead of usually doing it the other way round :). Who will be traveling from the Frankfurt area, and at what time/day? Regards, Jörg Höhle.

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[eurolisp] Publieksdag "Philosophy of Information: The world as a Computer"
by Sebastian Stern 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hello, I am going to the "Philosophy of Information: The world as a Computer" presentation at the University of Amsterdam, on March 11, 2005. John McCarthy will be there too. If anyone want to join me, you can find more information here: http://www.student.uva.nl/mwijs/object.cfm/objectID=47CA7CBA-242D-4667-9FD98 37543767591 Sebastian Stern

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[eurolisp] Bigger room for European Common Lisp Meeting
by Arthur Lemmens 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hi, After much deliberation we've decided to switch to a bigger room (in the same building) for the European Common Lisp Meeting in Amsterdam. This room has 20 more seats than the other one. We added the 8 persons who were on the waiting list, and now have 12 places left. This is the third and last time that we switched rooms for this meeting, so if you'd like to participate please register soon at http://weitz.de/meeting Regards, Arthur Lemmens

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[eurolisp] Only 10 places left for European Common Lisp Meeting
by Arthur Lemmens 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Hi, Registrations for the European Common Lisp Meeting in April have come in at an astonishing speed. Eight days after we announced the meeting, we're at 65 registrations. Our meeting room has a capacity of 75 persons, so there are only 10 seats left at the moment. If you don't want to miss the event, you should probably register now (at http://weitz.de/meeting) because it looks like it will only take a couple of days before the meeting is fully booked. Looking forward to meeting you all in Amsterdam, Edi Weitz & Arthur Lemmens

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[eurolisp] European Common Lisp Meeting, Amsterdam, April 2005
by Edi Weitz 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

[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.

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[eurolisp] Looking for potential PhD students
by Pascal Costanza 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

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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[eurolisp] International Lisp conference 2005 -- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
by Ernst van Waning 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

[Please accept our apologies if you receive this message more than once] 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

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[eurolisp] [ANN] Closer Project
by Pascal Costanza 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

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!

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[eurolisp] munich lisp users
by Jim Newton 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

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

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