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Sep. 23rd, 2012

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Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-10-04 François-René Rideau on the Lisp Interface Library

Boston Lisp Meeting:
Thursday 2012-10-04
François-René Rideau on LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience

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A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 4th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). François-René Rideau will speak about LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience.

Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers welcome.

1 François-René Rideau on LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience

François-René Rideau will present his work on the Lisp Interface Library, that uses Interface-Passing Style to provide parametric polymorphism to Common Lisp in a way that integrates with the ad-hoc polymorphism of CLOS. LIL implements both pure and stateful data structures, and provides automatic transformers from one kind of interface to the other, and from Interface-Passing Style to traditional object-oriented style.

François-René Rideau is a cybernetician who currently works at Google on Common Lisp infrastructure for an airline reservation system.

2 Lightning Talks

At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and answers.

The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org.

3 Time and Location

The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 4th 2012 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room).

The Star conference room, MIT 32-D463 on the fourth floor of the Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139. NB: there are two sets of elevators, you want to use those on the south-western side, further away from Main St.

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Many thanks go to Professor Gerald J. Sussman for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us.

4 Dinner

We don't have any sponsors to offer us dinner, but we're big boys and can provide for ourselves. After the conference, we will head down to Mary Chung's on Central Square.

5 More about the Meeting

We are resuming the Boston Lisp Meeting after a hyatus of over a year and a half.

We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html

For more information, see our web site http://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/ For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting

Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare at tunes.org.

Aug. 17th, 2012

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Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-08-30 Eli Barzilay on Hygienic Macros for Beginners & Power Users

A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 30th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). Eli Barzilay will speak about Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users.

Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers to be announced.

1 Eli Barzilay on Hygienic Macros for Beginners and Power Users

Eli Barzilay will explain how you too can enjoy the power and safety of hygienic macro to build the syntactic abstractions with which to elegantly express your programs.

Eli Barzilay, who teaches and does research at NEU, is one of the maintainers of PLT Racket.

2 Lightning Talks

At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and answers.

The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org.

3 Time and Location

The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 30th 2012 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room).

The Star conference room, MIT 32-D463 on the fourth floor of the Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139. NB: there are two sets of elevators, you want to use those on the south-western side, further away from Main St.

MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32

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Many thanks go to Professor Gerald J. Sussman for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us.

4 Dinner

We don't have any sponsors to offer us dinner, but we're big boys and can provide for ourselves. Before we start the conference, we'll organize a big pizza order, where those who want can chip in; after the conference is when we'll eat it.

5 More about the Meeting

We are resuming the Boston Lisp Meeting after a hyatus of over a year and a half.

We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html

For more information, see our web site http://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/ For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting

Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare at tunes.org.

Jan. 8th, 2009

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday January 26th 2009 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B

David O'Toole will give a talk about Common Lisp and Rogue-like Games.

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday January 26th 2009 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT, Room 34-401B.

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Nov. 18th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B

Gregory Marton will give a talk about the meanings of English words as programs.

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT, Room 34-401B.

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Oct. 24th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday October 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 32-124

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Tim McNerney will give a talk about Verifying the Correctness of Compiler Transformations on Basic Blocks using Abstract Interpretation.

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday October 27th at MIT, Room 32-124.

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Sep. 6th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday September 29th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

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Rich Hickey will give a 90' talk about Clojure.

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday September 29th at MIT, Room 34-401B.

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Aug. 12th, 2008

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No Boston Lisp Meeting for August - Next Meeting in September

Due to the organizer (me) doing too many other things this summer and lacking the foresight to delegate, no speaker was found for August. I don't feel like rushing things so late in the game, so unless a surprise speaker is found on short notice, there won't be a Boston Lisp Meeting this August.

But lo and behold, we have speakers for September and October. On Monday September 29th 2008, 1800, Rich Hickey will give a long talk on Clojure, his new Lisp dialect for the JVM, at the usual venue MIT 34-401B. Official announcement will follow later this month.

In October (Monday 27th?), Tim McNerney will hopefully talk about his past work on verification of correctness of a compiler transformation pass through abstract interpretation.

Jul. 13th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday July 21st 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

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Jay McCarthy will give a 25' talk about Cryptographic Protocol Explication and End-Point Projection.

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday July 21st at MIT, Room 34-401B.

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Jun. 5th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Wednesday June 25th 2008, 6pm at NEU Shillman Hall Room 135

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Danny Yoo will give a 25' talk about DivaScheme.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi will give a 50' talk about Relationally-Parametric Polymorphic Contracts

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The Lisp Meeting will take place on Wednesday June 25th at Northeastern University, Shillman Hall Room 135.

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Apr. 28th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday May 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclosure: I work there), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so we may order the correct amount of food.

Ivan Krstić will give a 25' talk about Security and Programming Languages. Ivan Krstić http://radian.org/ is notably the prized author of Bitfrost, the security architecture for the OLPC XO laptop.

Greg Cooper will give a 50' talk about FrTime: A Dataflow Extension of DrScheme. Dataflow programming extends functional programming with time-varying values called signals. Signals provide a simple, declarative mechanism for expressing event-driven programs without callbacks or explicit side-effects. This talk will present FrTime, an extension of PLT Scheme with dataflow evaluation. The language's distinguishing features include an event-driven evaluation model, transparent reuse of Scheme code, support for reactive data structures, and integration with the DrScheme programming environment. The talk will include a demonstration of the language and programming environment, along with a discussion of the key design decisions and main ideas underlying the implementation strategy. Greg Cooper developed FrTime while he was a graduate student at Brown University, working with Shriram Krishnamurthi. He now works for ITA Software.

Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to accommodate for the availability of our main speaker.

The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor.

MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34

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PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on April 22nd was a success with 40 participants, despite a few organizational glitches for which I apologize. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations.

PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html

PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times.

For more information, see our new web site boston-lisp.org. For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting

Apr. 2nd, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday April 22nd 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (full disclosure: I work there), has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net with a list of attendees so we may order the correct amount of food. No registration, no food.

Peter Dillinger will give a 25' talk about Theorem proving with ACL2s. ACL2, "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp", was recognized with the 2005 ACM Software System Award for its power and usefulness in verifying safety-critical applications. New users, however, found it difficult to use for a variety of reasons. ACL2s < http://acl2s.peterd.org/acl2s/ > is an Eclipse-based development environment we have made to make ACL2 easier to learn and use. Peter C. Dillinger is a Ph.D. Student at Northeastern University, Panagiotis Manolios, advisor.

Hans Hübner will give a 50' presentation of The BKNR Common Lisp web application development environment. BKNR < http://bknr.net/ > is a one-stop repository of open source Common Lisp modules used to develop and deploy web applications, featuring a pure Lisp transaction based persistence layer. Hans Hübner has been a hacker for over 20 years, and has discovered Common Lisp as his favourite programming language in 2001. He is a freelance consultant whose research interests include persistence systems and hardware to support dynamic programming.

Please note that the meeting is taking place at an unusual date, to accommodate for the availability of the main speaker, who is coming from Berlin (Germany) to talk to us.

The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor.

MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34

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PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 31st was a big success, with about 70 participants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations.

PPS: We're still looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but not enough confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >.

PPPS: Please forward this information to people who would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times.

For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or check our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting

Mar. 17th, 2008

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Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday March 31st 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

PLEASE REGISTER FOR FOOD! ITA Software has kindly offered to sponsor a dinner for our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Please send mail directly to me fare at tunes (dot org) with list of attendees so I may order the correct amount of food. No registration, no food.

Alexey Radul will speak about What I hate most about Scheme and what I'm doing about it. Alexey Radul is a graduate student at MIT. He uses the Scheme programming language, for which he has written an extension for probabilistic programming.

Rahul Jain will present DefDoc. DefDoc is a lisp-based document description and processing system. Both macros and object-orientation are available so that the description of a document can be focused as much as possible on content and structure. Rahul Jain is a New York based consultant who programs in Common Lisp for fun and profit.

The Lisp Meeting with take place at MIT, room 34-401B. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor.

MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=34

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PS: The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on March 3rd was a big success, with about 40 attendants. Thanks a lot to all those who came. I hope we'll meet again and have more of those interesting conversations.

PPS: We're more than ever looking for speakers. We have a lot of potential speakers, but few confirmed speakers at scheduled dates. The call for speakers and all the other details are at < http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html >.

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Feb. 15th, 2008

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Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting - Call for Speakers, Participants and Sponsors

(Please forward this message to interested people. Apologies for message received multiple times. Permanent URL so far: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html for this call and http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting for the monthly meeting in general)

I will be organizing a monthly Boston Lisp Meeting.

By "Lisp", I mean any programmable programming system. However, speakers and attendants will be welcome to discuss any ideas relevant to programmers using or developing such a programmable programming system, whatever language was or wasn't previously used to express those ideas. (Note how I specifically avoided including or excluding any given system as Lisp. Anyone programming a programming system is welcome; people writing COBOL with parentheses will probably get bored.)

The meetings will usually take place on the last Monday of every month at 6pm. (Not the first Monday, which conflicts with the meetings of Grey Thumb, not the 4th Monday which is harder to figure out, not on Tuesdays, and not according to any of the other rules that were or weren't considered. Exceptions will be made to accommodate speakers or organizers.)

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