In case anyone missed the call for participation on planet.lisp.org or
other mailing lists...
(Who else on this list will be attending?)
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pascal Costanza
> Date: September 18, 2008 11:43:24 AM PDT
> To: Lispworks HUG <lisp-hug(a)lispworks.com>
> Subject: [CfPart] Lisp50@OOPSLA
>
>
> 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, pc@, http://p-cos.net
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
> Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
Also, look forward to ILC at MIT.
http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/
Since there were only a few LispSea presentations in 2007 and none
this year so far (more about that later), I've wondered what else
might work for everyone on this list?
There are about 50 people subscribed, yet what do we know about one
another?
Some of you are earning a good living developing almost exclusively in
Common Lisp. Some have gone deep into Clojure while others kept up
with Clozure. Others have occasional digressions into JavaScript.
Which Lisp are you? What are your preferred implementations?
(Allegro, CMU CL, LispWorks, SBCL,...)
Working with Lisp in your day job? As a consultant? Moonlighting for
your own project/startup? A recruiter lurking for that ideal
candidate (because you've observed Lisp-heads coding circles around
the 20 year veteran C/C++ guy) and sense the Lisp renaissance emerging?
Also, if you happen to have posted your own Road To Lisp (here's mine: http://wiki.alu.org/Daniel_Pezely%27s_Road_to_Lisp)
, it might be worth adding the link to keep from repeating yourself.
So... Who are you?
Thanks,
-Daniel
--
first name at last name dot com
