[boston-lisp-meeting-register] Re: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday May 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B

[Dimitris Vardoulakis]

Hi,
I'd like to register for the next Boston-Lisp meeting

thanks,
Dimitris

2008/4/29 Faré <fahree at gmail.com>:
> Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Tuesday May 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B
>
>  NB: 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
>
>  Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA
>
>  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.
>
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