Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-06-12T18:00

[Alex Plotnick]

I'm pleased to announce that Jonathan Smith will present his work on
'$-Calculisp' at the next Boston Lisp meeting. The meeting will take place
on Wednesday, 12 June at 6:00 PM, in the Star Conference room at MIT's
Stata Center (MIT 32-D463; <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>).

$-Calculus (pronounced  cost calculus), is a descriptive fourth generation
language designed for modeling parallel algorithms, artificial intelligence
applications, and bounded super-Turing computation. $-Calculisp is a domain
specific language modeled on $-Calculus and implemented in Common Lisp.
$-Calculisp is implemented using a variety of techniques based on Common Lisp's
unique macro and object system facilities. Rather than being an interpreter,
it is a macro compiler, expanding $-Calculisp code into efficiently compiled
Common Lisp code. It is intended to be a robust extension to the Common Lisp
language, as such, it allows for integration of regular common lisp functions
alongside $-Calculisp code.

Jonathan Smith is a software engineer at NovaSparks, where he currently works
on their HPCC lisp to VHDL compiler infrastructure. Previously, he worked at
Westinghouse Electric Company, where he supported their ShuffleWorks product
line. Shuffleworks is an expert system, (written in Lisp) for coordinating
nuclear fuel movement within power plants.