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

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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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