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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or you could Tweet using #BostonLisp to communicate before or during the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I don’t know if I’ll be there or not tomorrow, but sometimes I’ve been away from my email and have wished there were a simple public way to find out what’s up in case I wanted to drop in last minute. Twitter would offer one such way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Marc Battyani [mailto:marc.battyani@fractalconcept.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 07, 2013 4:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alex Plotnick<br><b>Cc:</b> boston-lisp@common-lisp.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Boston Lisp Meeting 2013-08-08T18:00<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Hi Alex,<br><br>Maybe you should advertize the Lisp meetings in meetup <br><a href="http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34">http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34</a><br><br>See you all tomorrow.<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2/8/13 14:18 , Alex Plotnick wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32"><http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32></a>).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>young enough to join a research project to build one of these things.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>makes a good occasion to talk about it.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Bio:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>