From andy.latto at pobox.com Tue Nov 18 15:20:15 2008 From: andy.latto at pobox.com (Andy Latto) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:20:15 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] [boston-lisp-announce] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> References: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > > Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I > work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly > Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We > appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos > you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by > sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We > won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll > keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any > such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. I plan to attend the meeting. -- Andy.Latto at pobox.com From ecooper at MIT.EDU Tue Nov 18 19:52:43 2008 From: ecooper at MIT.EDU (Erica L Cooper) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:52:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> References: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: hi, I would like to RSVP for this talk. thanks, erica On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Far? wrote: > 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. > http://fare.livejournal.com/136992.html > > Gregory will introduce a way of thinking about the meanings of English > words as programs (c.f. SHRDLU), cast the problem of language learning > as a search through the space of possible programs, and show first > steps in learning. Gregory has created a system called Sepia that > makes it relatively easy to write small lexicons that implement some > semantic theory for a domain. Applications that Gregory and several > colleagues have had fun with include: > > * understanding dates and times and other measures: "next Wednesday" > * finding and linking names of people, organizations, places > * telling a robot what to do with stuff on a table: "touch the red one" > * asking about spatial paths in video: "show people entering the kitchen" > * a toy gossip world: "John loves Mary" "Who does not hate Mary?" > * a little number theory: "18 is twice the sum of its digits" > > These applications are inherently brittle, and manual construction > gets harder as the application grows. The research goal is to > construct new meaning programs with little human input, or with input > from non-programmers. Given a problem phrase, Sepia uses standard ways > to find similar words that it knows. Its current approach is to take > the meanings of those words and makes small changes, looking for a > combination that produces the target meaning. > > Both the system as a whole and the language of semantics are > implemented in the GNU/Guile flavor of Scheme. > > Gregory Marton is a PhD student in computer science at MIT, and this > is his dissertation topic. His first language is Hungarian, and since > meeting English at age eight, he has wondered about meanings and how > to learn language. He has a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in > Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park, 1999. > > * > > The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 > (6pm) at MIT, Room 34-401B. > > As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 34, on the 4th floor. > This is the usual location, on 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge. > > 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 > > Many thanks go to Alexey Radul for arranging for the room, and to MIT > for welcoming us. > > * * > > Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I > work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly > Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We > appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos > you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by > sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We > won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll > keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any > such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. > > * * * > > The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on October 27th had over 30 > participants. Tim McNerney gave copious background on the Thinking > Machines Corporation and its line of massively parallel computer as an > introduction to his work on automated verification of a compiler > optimization pass through abstract interpretation. Both the > presentation and the following discussion were very lively. > > We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all > the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html > > 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 > > 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. > > [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] > When all lawful citizens are disarmed, will we have an omnipresent police > state to protect us from armed criminals? > > _______________________________________________ > Seminars mailing list > Seminars at lists.csail.mit.edu > https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/seminars > From agj at alum.mit.edu Tue Nov 18 19:47:46 2008 From: agj at alum.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:47:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] [boston-lisp-announce] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> (fahree@gmail.com) References: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081118194746.591F651D759@voluntocracy.org> | Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:15:35 -0500 | From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=" | | 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. http://fare.livejournal.com/136992.html | | ... | | Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I | work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly | Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We | appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos | you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by | sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. I plan to attend. From fahree at gmail.com Tue Nov 18 22:10:50 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:10:50 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] Fwd: [hackers] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <492336A2.3040601@itasoftware.com> References: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> <492336A2.3040601@itasoftware.com> Message-ID: <653bea160811181410h76b73a20ld8e00f3b4bd0301a@mail.gmail.com> Dear boston-lisp-meeting-register, Please count me, my so Lauren, Gremio the speaker & Alexey in, in addition to Dan W below. [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Weinreb Date: 2008/11/18 Subject: Re: [hackers] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B To: Far? I expect to be there. -- Dan From peabo at peabo.com Fri Nov 21 00:11:35 2008 From: peabo at peabo.com (Peter Olson) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:11:35 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] RSVP food Message-ID: From lincoln at techhouse.org Mon Nov 24 03:24:23 2008 From: lincoln at techhouse.org (Lincoln Quirk) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:24:23 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] Register 2 people Message-ID: <20081124032423.GA13675@th3.techhouse.brown.edu> I have myself and one other person coming.. Sorry for the late notice. From michelle.fullwood at gmail.com Mon Nov 24 14:25:45 2008 From: michelle.fullwood at gmail.com (Michelle Fullwood) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:25:45 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] +1 for today's Lisp meeting Message-ID: <3a4ab0da0811240625k382286b9y797634bbb5b7b57c@mail.gmail.com> Hi Sorry for the late response but I only just saw this announcement - I intend to attend this evening's Lisp meeting. Thanks Michelle Fullwood -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com Mon Nov 24 16:12:58 2008 From: marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com (Marc Battyani) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:12:58 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] I'll be there Message-ID: <492AD28A.8070005@fractalconcept.com> Cheers, Marc From andy.latto at pobox.com Mon Nov 24 17:36:48 2008 From: andy.latto at pobox.com (Andy Latto) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:36:48 -0500 Subject: [boston-lisp-meeting-register] [boston-lisp-announce] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday November 24th 2008 at 1800 at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: References: <653bea160811180615y417de6cu1c31f967ad6aff51@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Andy Latto wrote: >> >> Buffet: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I >> work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly >> Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We >> appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos >> you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by >> sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We >> won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll >> keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any >> such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. > > I plan to attend the meeting. Sorry for the late notice, but I'm sick, and will not be able to attend. -- Andy.Latto at pobox.com