~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 16th European Lisp Symposium In-Cooperation-With: ACM SIGLAN

Call for Participation

April 24-25, 2023 Startup Village, Amsterdam, Nederlands

https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2023

Sponsored by EPITA, DIRO, MLPrograms, Franz Inc., and SISCOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Recent News ~~~~~~~~~~~ Registrations are now open (early bird deadline: April 9) Keynote speakers announced (see below)

Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Author notification: March 26, 2023 - Final papers due: April 9, 2023 - Early registration deadline: April 9, 2023 - Symposium: April 24-25, 2023

Scope ~~~~~

The European Lisp Symposium is a premier forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation, and application of any of the Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, SKILL, Hy, Shen, Carp, Janet, uLisp, Picolisp, Gamelisp, TXR, and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming - macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - language design and implementation - language integration, inter-operation, and deployment - development methodologies, support, and environments - educational approaches and perspectives - experience reports and case studies

Keynotes ~~~~~~~~ ##### Artificial Intelligence: a Problem of Plumbing? -- Gerald J. Sussman, MIT CSAIL, USA

We have made amazing progress in the construction and deployment of systems that do work originally thought to require human-like intelligence. On the symbolic side we have world-champion Chess-playing and Go-playing systems. We have deductive systems and algebraic manipulation systems that exceed the capabilities of human mathematicians. We are now observing the rise of connectionist mechanisms that appear to see and hear pretty well, and chatbots that appear to have some impressive linguistic ability. But there is a serious problem. The mechanisms that can distinguish pictures of cats from pictures of dogs have no idea what a cat or a dog is. The chatbots have no idea what they are talking about. The algebraic systems do not understand anything about the real physical world. And no deontic logic system has any idea about feelings and morality.

So what is the problem? We generally do not know how to combine systems so that a system that knows how to solve problems of class A and another system that knows how to solve problems of class B can be combined to solve not just problems of class A or class B but can solve problems that require both skills that are needed for problems of class A and skills that are needed for problems of class B.

Perhaps this is partly a problem of plumbing. We do not have linguistic structures that facilitate discovering and building combinations. This is a fundamental challenge for the programming-language community. We need appropriate ideas for abstract plumbing fittings that enable this kind of cooperation among disparate mechanisms. For example, why is the amazingly powerful tree exploration mechanism that is used for games not also available, in the same system, to a deductive engine that is being applied to a social interaction problem?

I will attempt to elucidate this problem and perhaps point at avenues of attack that we may work on together.

##### Gradual, Multi-Lingual, and Teacher-Centric Programming Education -- Felienne Hermans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederlands

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Programme Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stefan Monnier, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada

Programme Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark Evenson, not.org, Austria Marco Heisig, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Ioanna Dimitriou, Igalia S.L., Germany Robert Smith, HRL Laboratories Mattias Engdegård Marc Feeley, Université de Montréal, Canada Marc Battyani, FractalConcept Alan Ruttenberg, National Center for Ontological Research, USA Nick Levine, Ravenbrook Ltd, UK Ludovic Courtès, Inria, France Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA Irène Durand, Université Bordeaux 1, France Jay McCarthy, Brigham Young University, USA Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant, Cisco Christopher League, Long Island University, NY, USA Pascal Costanza, Intel, Belgium Christian Queinnec

Local Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~ Breanndán Ó Nualláin, Machine Learning Programs, Nederlands