[LispSea] Fwd: Lisp50 at OOPSLA

[Justin Grant]

I will definitely be there.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Pezely <djp07 at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> In case anyone missed the call for participation on planet.lisp.org or other
> mailing lists...
>
> (Who else on this list will be attending?)
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Pascal Costanza
>> Date: September 18, 2008 11:43:24 AM PDT
>> To: Lispworks HUG <lisp-hug at lispworks.com>
>> Subject: [CfPart] Lisp50 at OOPSLA
>>
>>
>> Lisp50 at OOPSLA
>> ...celebrating the 50th birthday of Lisp at OOPSLA 2008
>>
>> Monday, October 20, 2008
>> Nashville, Tennessee, USA
>> co-located with OOPSLA 2008
>> participation is free for all OOPSLA participants
>> registration for at least one conference day at OOPSLA is required
>>
>> URL: http:www.lisp50.org
>> Feed: http://lisp50.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>> Invited Speakers
>>
>> + William Clinger, Northeastern University, USA
>> + Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
>> + Richard Gabriel, IBM Research, USA
>> + Rich Hickey, Independent Consultant, USA
>> + Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
>> + Fritz Kunze, USA
>> + Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, USA
>> + John McCarthy, USA
>> + Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
>> + Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
>> + Herbert Stoyan, University of Erlangen, Germany
>> + Warren Teitelman, Google Inc., USA
>> + JonL White, USA
>>
>> Titles, abstracts, biographies and schedule will be announced at the
>> Lisp50 webpage and blog in the coming days and weeks.
>>
>>
>> Abstract
>>
>> In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports
>> about his then ongoing effort for designing a new programming language
>> that would be especially suited for achieving artificial intelligence.
>> That report was the first one to use the name LISP for this new
>> programming language. 50 years later, Lisp is still in use. This year we
>> are celebrating Lisp's 50th birthday. OOPSLA 2008 is an excellent venue
>> for such a celebration, because object-oriented programming benefited
>> heavily from Lisp ideas and because OOPSLA 2008 takes place in October,
>> exactly 50 years after the name Lisp has been used publicly for the
>> first time. We will have talks by John McCarthy himself, and numerous
>> other influential Lispers from the past five decades. We will also take
>> a look at the next 50 years of Lisp.
>>
>>
>> Organizers
>>
>> + Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
>> + Richard Gabriel, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA
>> + Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany
>> + Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Burlington, MA, USA
>>
>> Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
>>
>> Supported by
>> + IBM Research
>> + LispWorks Ltd
>> + Franz Inc.
>> + Clozure Associates
>>
>> --
>> Pascal Costanza, pc@, http://p-cos.net
>> Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
>> Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
>
>
>
> Also, look forward to ILC at MIT.
> http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2009/
>
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