More important news: - The International Lisp Conference 2007 is again held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN. - This especially means that the proceedings will be published with an ISBN at the ACM Digital Library. Pascal Begin forwarded message:

From: Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net> Date: 19 November 2006 18:25:40 GMT+01:00 To: eurolisp@common-lisp.net Subject: [CfP] International Lisp Conference '07 (news)

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2007 | | | | http://www.international-lisp-conference.org | | | | Clare College, Cambridge, England - April 1-4, 2007 | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

Sponsored by:

The Association of Lisp Users

Important news:

+ Registration for the conference is now open. Take advantage of early registration discounts by registering early. There are also discounts for ACM and ALU members. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/registration

+ Mailing lists for prospective participants have been set up. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/mailing-lists

+ We have applied for ACM SIGPLAN In-cooperation status and expect to be able to publish the proceedings for ILC'07 in the ACM Digital Library.

+ We are delighted that the following have accepted invitations to speak at the conference:

Richard Jones (University of Kent) John Mallery (MIT CSAIL) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology) Christian Queinnec (Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie) Manuel Serrano (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Michael Sperber (University of Tuebingen) Herbert Stoyan (University of Erlangen)

We will announce a few more invited speakers soon. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/speakers

+ The program committee has been formed. http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/committee

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.

We encourage submissions in diverse areas, including but not limited to: language design and implementation, software engineering, mathematical and scientific computing, artificial intelligence, data mining, business intelligence, bioinformatics, telecommunications and networking, the semantic web, music, and entertainment technologies.

Alongside our usual four day program of tutorials and prominent invited speakers, and excellent technical sessions, this year there will also be workshops and demonstrations sessions.

The official language of the conference is English. Further details are available at the conference web site.

Technical Program:

Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories.

Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original results, and/or extended abstracts of 4 pages with full papers sent soon after.

Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries and applications.

Workshops: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for groups of people who intend to work on a focussed topic for half a day.

Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for indepth presentations about topics of special interest for 90 - 180 minutes.

Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel member who are willing to partake in a discussion.

Conference Registration:

Conference registration is now open. Simply visit http://international-lisp-conference.org/2007/registration

The advance registration deadline is March 11th. but if you register before December 31st we'll give you another 20% off the advance registration price.

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.

Important Dates:

Please send contributions before the submission deadline to the program committe (ilc07-program-committee at alu.org).

Deadline for abstract submissions: December 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance or rejection: February 5, 2007 Deadline for final paper submissions: March 2, 2007

Advance registration deadline: March 11, 2007 Advance advance registration deadline: December 31, 2006

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

Program Committee:

Jeff Dalton (University of Edinburgh) Rainer Joswig (Valtech) Hsiao Kuroda (Mathematical Systems Inc.) Nick Levine (Ravenbrook) Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab) Joe Marshall (Google Inc.) Scott McKay (ITA Software) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Julian Padget (University of Bath) Jeff Shrager (Stanford University and Xerox PARC) Mark Stickel (SRI International)

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

-- Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium