From vinay.doma at gmail.com Fri Jan 12 20:05:01 2007 From: vinay.doma at gmail.com (Vinay Doma) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:05:01 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] favorite lisp intro book? Message-ID: There seem to be a wealth of online resources for learning lisp. If you were to recommend a single online book (or one in a dead tree format) to someone with programming skills, which one would it be? Here's a few resources I'm familiar with - * Practical Common Lisp - http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ * Successful Lisp - http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html * SICP lectures by Abelson & Sussman - http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ * On Lisp by PG - http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html * Teach yourself Scheme in FixNum days - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html * The Scheme Programming Language - http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/ Thanks, Vinay From jquigley at jquigley.com Fri Jan 12 20:38:21 2007 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:38:21 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] favorite lisp intro book? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45A7F1BD.8050104@jquigley.com> Vinay Doma wrote: > If you were to recommend a single online book (or one in a dead tree > format) to someone with programming skills, which one would it be? If I were to recommend a single such book, it would have to be PAIP: http://norvig.com/paip.html If you're interested in a battery of books, I could make such a recommendation, as well. - John Quigley From jquigley at jquigley.com Fri Jan 12 21:04:55 2007 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:04:55 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] News and updates Message-ID: <45A7F7F7.5040209@jquigley.com> Folks: Sorry for the quiet on my end over the past few weeks, I've been somewhat unplugged from the Net in an attempt to get some rest during the holidays. I've recently purchased and setup our domain name: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ It currently redirects to the Chicago LUG website, but I'll be putting up a stub page for us in the next few days. Some news updates: - Over the holidays I organized the acquisition of a new server for the Chicago Lisp and LUG groups. It's a nice machine, specifically a Dell PowerEdge Xeon 3GHz, 2GB RAM and hardware RAID. I've also organized for a new collocated hosting of the machine, in a nice data center down south with redundant OC3s. In short, we're in great shape. I expect everything to be up and running around the end of January. - The Chicago LUG is meeting a week from this coming Saturday, on January 20th, 2007 at 3:00p at the Institute of Design. It may be appropriate for us to meet as the Lisp group again, as well, in order to more clearly define where we intend to go as a group in '07. I'll leave this up to you folks to determine whether this is necessary or not, and what the logistics will be. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and best of luck to you all in the new year. Regards, John Quigley From tfp2007 at shu.edu Sat Jan 20 13:21:40 2007 From: tfp2007 at shu.edu (TFP 2007) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:21:40 -0500 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Final Call for Papers: TFP 2007, New York, USA Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Trends in Functional Programming 2007 New York, USA April 2-4, 2007 http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ NEW: Abstract submission is now opened! Link: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/submissions.html NEW: Invited Talk: John McCarthy, Standford University The symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming. It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium refereeing process then selects the best articles presented at the symposium for publication in a high-profile volume. TFP 2007 is co-hosted by Seton Hall University and The City College of New York (CCNY) and will be held in New York, USA, April 2-4, 2007 at the CCNY campus. SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles are solicited in any of these categories: Research Articles leading-edge, previously unpublished research work Position Articles on what new trends should or should not be Project Articles descriptions of recently started new projects Evaluation Articles what lessons can be drawn from a finished project Overview Articles summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium. Articles on the following subject areas are particularly welcomed: o Dependently Typed Functional Programming o Validation and Verification of Functional Programs o Debugging for Functional Languages o Functional Programming and Security o Functional Programming and Mobility o Functional Programming to Animate/Prototype/Implement Systems from Formal or Semi-Formal Specifications o Functional Languages for Telecommunications Applications o Functional Languages for Embedded Systems o Functional Programming Applied to Global Computing o Functional GRIDs o Functional Programming Ideas in Imperative or Object-Oriented Settings (and the converse) o Interoperability with Imperative Programming Languages o Novel Memory Management Techniques o Parallel/Concurrent Functional Languages o Program Transformation Techniques o Empirical Performance Studies o Abstract/Virtual Machines and Compilers for Functional Languages o New Implementation Strategies o any new emerging trend in the functional programming area If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of TFP, please contact the TFP 2007 program chair, Marco T. Morazan, at tfp2007 at shu.edu. SUBMISSION AND DRAFT PROCEEDINGS Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the review of extended abstracts (6 to 10 pages in length) by the program committee. Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the symposium for publication in the draft proceedings and on-line. Further details can be found at the TFP 2007 website. POST-SYMPOSIUM REFEREEING AND PUBLICATION In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we intend to continue the TFP tradition of publishing a high-quality subset of contributions in the Intellect series on Trends in Functional Programming. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: February 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2007 Registration Deadline: March 2, 2007 Camera Ready Full Paper Due: March 9, 2007 TFP Symposium: April 2-4, 2007 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Clements California Polytechnic State University, USA Marko van Eekelen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands Benjamin Goldberg New York University, USA Kevin Hammond University of St. Andrews, UK Patricia Johann Rutgers University, USA Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Ludwig-Maximilians Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Rita Loogen Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK Marco T. Moraz?n (Chair) Seton Hall University, USA Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK Chris Okasaki United States Military Academy at West Point, USA Rex Page University of Oklahoma, USA Ricardo Pena Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, USA John Reppy University of Chicago, USA Ulrik P. Schultz University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Clara Segura Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jocelyn S?rot Universit? Blaise Pascal, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Olin Shivers Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Phil Trinder Heriot-Watt University, UK David Walker Princeton University, USA ORGANIZATION Symposium Chair: Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK Programme Chair: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA Treasurer: Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University, UK Local Arrangements: Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, USA ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jquigley at jquigley.com Sat Jan 20 22:29:43 2007 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:29:43 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] News and updates In-Reply-To: References: <45A7F7F7.5040209@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <45B297D7.10506@jquigley.com> Corey Sweeney wrote: > Is there a LISP meeting today? I've responded to Corey separately (via cell), but I'll duplicate my response here. There's no Chicago Lisp meeting today, largely because I didn't get any response before today. Let's plan for next time (in three weeks), shall we? I'm at the Chicago Linux meeting right now, and we have a few (new) people here who came specifically for Lisp; a sign that we're gathering some further interest? - John Quigley From jquigley at jquigley.com Tue Jan 23 20:54:55 2007 From: jquigley at jquigley.com (John Quigley) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:54:55 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] News and updates In-Reply-To: References: <45A7F7F7.5040209@jquigley.com> <45B297D7.10506@jquigley.com> Message-ID: <45B6761F.5020609@jquigley.com> I'm emailing the list as a whole in the hopes that my response will clear up similar points of confusion that others may have. John A. Debay wrote: > I would like to know more about exactly how these meetings break down, > in terms of Lisp versus non-Lisp content. I unfortunately couldn't go to > the meeting last Saturday because of a previous commitment, but I > nonetheless had reservations about sitting through 2 hours of LUG > presentations before getting to anything I was interested in. The two groups are set to meet in parallel. The space we use is a very large media/academic area, with multiple meeting and work rooms, numerous white boards and projectors, etc. We meet simultaneously for the purpose of convenience, and because there is an overlap of interest between the two groups. By running in parallel, we're offering two separate tracks of talks that people can join in on depending upon their interest level. One of the most challenging aspects of this system is a lack of leadership. While we have plenty of interested attendees, we haven't had any people step up who are willing to assist in organizing. I'm happy to provide the space, the server, and to organize the people; that said, I can't consistently lead Chicago Lisp during the actual meetings, since I have responsibilities with Chicago Linux. I'm looking for shared (or group) leadership. Our next scheduled meeting is in less than three week's time, on February 10th. If I can get confirmation that people are coming, I'll begin advertising in the various PL communities around Chicago. I also intend to get a stub page up with at least basic information pertaining to our group: http://www.chicagolisp.org/ Hope This information helps, please send along any further thoughts and comments. - John Quigley From vinay.doma at gmail.com Thu Jan 25 07:33:27 2007 From: vinay.doma at gmail.com (Vinay Doma) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:33:27 -0600 Subject: [chicago-lisp] News and updates In-Reply-To: <45B6761F.5020609@jquigley.com> References: <45A7F7F7.5040209@jquigley.com> <45B297D7.10506@jquigley.com> <45B6761F.5020609@jquigley.com> Message-ID: Count me in for Feb 10th. Let me know if you need any help. Lisp rules! Vinay On 1/23/07, John Quigley wrote: > > I'm emailing the list as a whole in the hopes that my response will > clear up similar points of confusion that others may have. > > John A. Debay wrote: > > I would like to know more about exactly how these meetings break down, > > in terms of Lisp versus non-Lisp content. I unfortunately couldn't go to > > the meeting last Saturday because of a previous commitment, but I > > nonetheless had reservations about sitting through 2 hours of LUG > > presentations before getting to anything I was interested in. > > The two groups are set to meet in parallel. The space we use is a very > large media/academic area, with multiple meeting and work rooms, > numerous white boards and projectors, etc. > > We meet simultaneously for the purpose of convenience, and because there > is an overlap of interest between the two groups. By running in > parallel, we're offering two separate tracks of talks that people can > join in on depending upon their interest level. > > One of the most challenging aspects of this system is a lack of > leadership. While we have plenty of interested attendees, we haven't > had any people step up who are willing to assist in organizing. I'm > happy to provide the space, the server, and to organize the people; that > said, I can't consistently lead Chicago Lisp during the actual meetings, > since I have responsibilities with Chicago Linux. I'm looking for > shared (or group) leadership. > > Our next scheduled meeting is in less than three week's time, on > February 10th. If I can get confirmation that people are coming, I'll > begin advertising in the various PL communities around Chicago. I also > intend to get a stub page up with at least basic information pertaining > to our group: > > http://www.chicagolisp.org/ > > Hope This information helps, please send along any further thoughts and > comments. > > - John Quigley > _______________________________________________ > chicago-lisp site list > chicago-lisp at common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/chicago-lisp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tfp2007 at shu.edu Wed Jan 31 14:37:57 2007 From: tfp2007 at shu.edu (TFP 2007) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:37:57 -0500 Subject: [chicago-lisp] TFP 2007 Submission Deadline is Tomorrow Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, This is a kind reminder that the deadline for extended abstract submissions to TFP 2007 is tomorrow, Feb. 1 at 11:59 EST. We are also pleased to announce that the TFP 2007 invited speaker is John McCarthy, Stanford University. For further details, please visit our website at: http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ . The TFP 2007 program committee looks forward to receiving your submissions! Best wishes, Marco ************************************************************************************ Dr. Marco T. Morazan TFP 2007 Program Committee Chair http://cs.shu.edu/tfp2007/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tfp2007 at shu.edu Wed Jan 31 15:26:45 2007 From: tfp2007 at shu.edu (TFP 2007) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:26:45 -0500 Subject: [chicago-lisp] Correction: TFP 2007 Submission Deadline is Tomorrow Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Apologies in advance for the "p.m." ommission. This is a kind reminder that the deadline for extended abstract submissions to TFP 2007 is tomorrow, Feb. 1 at 11:59 p.m. EST. We are also pleased to announce that the TFP 2007 invited speaker is John McCarthy, Stanford University. 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