[boston-lisp-meeting-register] [Pl-seminar] Boston Lisp Meeting Monday 2009-09-30: Christine Flood

[Daniel Brown]

I plan to attend.

 Daniel Brown

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:49, Francois-Rene Rideau <fare at tunes.org> wrote:
> Boston Lisp Meeting:
> Wednesday 2009-09-30
> Christine Flood
>
> http://fare.livejournal.com/147676.html
>
> A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place
> on Wednesday, September 30th 2009 at 1800 at NEU WVG 108,
> where *Christine* Flood will speak about
> *Project Fortress*.
>
> Additionally, we will have two 5-minute Lightning Talks,
> each followed by 2-minute Q&A. Speakers to be announced.
>
> Also, there will be a buffet offered by ITA Software.
> Registration is not necessary but appreciated.
> See details below.
>
>                                       *
>
> *Christine Flood* will speak about
> *Project Fortress*.
>
> Project Fortress is a programming language designed at Sun Labs
> with these fundamental principles:
> What you write on your white board works
> (Standard Mathematical Syntax).
> Implicit Parallelism
> (Let the runtime system exploit the fine grained parallelism in your algorithm).
> Languages should be designed from the ground up to grow over time
> (A small fixed core with as much of Fortress as possible in Fortress libraries).
> Other features include strong static typing and transactional memory.
> This talk will give you an overview of the language
> and walk through some examples.
> Feel free to check out our open source implementation
> and language specification at
> http://ProjectFortress.sun.com/
>
> Christine Flood is a research scientist at Sun Microsystems Labs.
> She has been working in the field of computer science for 20 years.
> Her interests are in programming language design and implementation
> particularly garbage collection and parallelism.
> She's a former Symbolics/MIT hacker.
>
>                                      * *
>
> At every meeting, before the main talk,
> there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks"
> 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 for registration.
>
>                                     * * *
>
> *The Lisp Meeting will take place on
> Wednesday September 30th 2009 at 1800 (6pm)
> at NEU WVG 108.*
>
> This is neither the usual day of the week, nor the usual location.
> This is at Northeastern University, in the West Village G residence building
> which is right behind the Computer Science building WVH
> (see this picture http://tmp.barzilay.org/wvh.jpg )
> when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue
> (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station,
> or possibly Museum of Fine Arts;
> you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line).
> As the number indicates, the room is on the first floor.
>
> Northeastern maps and direction:
>  http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html
>
> Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room,
> and to Northeastern University for welcoming us.
>
>                                    * * * *
>
> Dinner:
> ITA Software http://itasoftware.com/careers/
> a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclaimer: 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 correct amount and kind of food.
> Tell us by sending email to
> boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net.
> We won't send any acknowledgement 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.
>
> Somehow, we the organizers got mixed up at the July meeting,
> and the promised buffet didn't materialize.
> I offer my sincere apologies to all concerned for this blatant failure.
>
>                                   * * * * *
>
> The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on August 31th
> had about 20-odd participants.
> Emmanuel Schanzer talked about
>  Teaching Mathematics and Problem-Solving through Programming ,
> preceded by lightning talks by
> Gregory Marton on Teaching Linguistics through Programming
> and Alex Plotnick on Gabriel's Gimmick.
> http://fare.livejournal.com/146665.html
>
> 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://boston-lisp.org/
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> 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.
>
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