From marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com Wed Oct 22 15:41:00 2008 From: marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com (Marc Battyani) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:41:00 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Boston Lisp meeting for October Message-ID: <48FF498C.1020505@fractalconcept.com> Hi, Is there a Boston Lisp meeting on Monday 2008-10-27? Cheers, Marc From fahree at gmail.com Fri Oct 24 03:49:32 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:49:32 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Boston Lisp meeting for October In-Reply-To: <48FF498C.1020505@fractalconcept.com> References: <48FF498C.1020505@fractalconcept.com> Message-ID: <653bea160810232049m1cb839c1j520ad1edcc1d553d@mail.gmail.com> 2008/10/22 Marc Battyani : > Hi, > > Is there a Boston Lisp meeting on Monday 2008-10-27? > > Cheers, > > Marc Yes. We'll meet at 1800 in room 32-124, on the first floor of the Stata Center (note: different room from usual). Tim McNerney will be speaking about Verifying the Correctness of Compiler Transformations on Basic Blocks using Abstract Interpretation. Sorry for the late confirmation. [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] H. L. Mencken's Law: Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. Martin's Extension: Those who cannot teach -- administrate. From marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com Fri Oct 24 03:57:49 2008 From: marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com (Marc Battyani) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:57:49 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Boston Lisp meeting for October In-Reply-To: <653bea160810232049m1cb839c1j520ad1edcc1d553d@mail.gmail.com> References: <48FF498C.1020505@fractalconcept.com> <653bea160810232049m1cb839c1j520ad1edcc1d553d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <490147BD.1080400@fractalconcept.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fahree at gmail.com Fri Oct 24 04:51:32 2008 From: fahree at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Far=E9?=) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:51:32 -0400 Subject: [boston-lisp] Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday September 29th 2008, 6pm at MIT 34-401B In-Reply-To: <653bea160809062142u3da506a4yc881ad4480c8ecb@mail.gmail.com> References: <653bea160809062142u3da506a4yc881ad4480c8ecb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <653bea160810232151u2ee95db7n85fb58f8fbd6a820@mail.gmail.com> Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday October 27th 2008, 6pm at MIT 32-124 NB: ITA Software, a fine employer of Lisp hackers (disclosure: I work there), is kindly purchasing a buffet to accompany our Monthly Boston Lisp Meeting. Anyone who attends is welcome to partake. We appreciate it if you let us know you're coming, and what food taboos you have, so that we can order the right amount of food. Tell us by sending email to boston-lisp-meeting-register at common-lisp.net. We won't send any acknowledgment unless requested; importantly, we'll keep your identity and address confidential and won't communicate any such information to anyone, not even to our sponsors. * Tim McNerney will give a talk about Verifying the Correctness of Compiler Transformations on Basic Blocks using Abstract Interpretation. Tim McNerney, currently software engineer at ITA Software, will discuss some work he did years ago at Thinking Machines Corporations on a native code parallel Fortran compiler for the Connection Machine. The compiler used abstract interpretation to verify correctness of some program transformations relating to register allocation. This actually helped systematically detect and eliminate a class of subtle bugs that was previously crippling the compiler. * * The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday October 27th at MIT, Room 32-124. As the numbers indicate, this is in Building 32, on the 1st floor. That's the Stata Center, the funny looking building at the corner of Main St and Vassar St. Note that this location is different from the usual location in adjacent building 34. MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?selection=32 Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32+Vassar+St,+Cambridge,+MA+02139,+USA Many thanks go to Alexey Radul for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us. * * * The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on September 29th had over 60 participants. Rich Hickey had two standing ovations, and you can see the talk on http://clojure.blip.tv/. We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. For more information, see our new web site boston-lisp.org. For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting My apologies for this late announce. We had some difficulties regarding the room that I took too long to resolve. My apologies also if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. I'm using a new set of Bcc: for distribution. Feedback welcome by private reply. [ Fran?ois-Ren? ?VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No! Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln, explaining the difference between lexical scoping and dynamic scoping