Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-10-04 François-René Rideau on the Lisp Interface Library
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A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 4th 2012 at 1800 at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room). François-René Rideau will speak about LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience.
Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers welcome.
| 1 François-René Rideau on LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience |
François-René Rideau will present his work on the Lisp Interface Library, that uses Interface-Passing Style to provide parametric polymorphism to Common Lisp in a way that integrates with the ad-hoc polymorphism of CLOS. LIL implements both pure and stateful data structures, and provides automatic transformers from one kind of interface to the other, and from Interface-Passing Style to traditional object-oriented style.
François-René Rideau is a cybernetician who currently works at Google on Common Lisp infrastructure for an airline reservation system.
| 2 Lightning Talks |
At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and answers.
The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org.
| 3 Time and Location |
The Lisp Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 4th 2012 at 1800 (6pm) at MIT 32-D463 (Star conference room).
The Star conference room, MIT 32-D463 on the fourth floor of the Ray and Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139. NB: there are two sets of elevators, you want to use those on the south-western side, further away from Main St.
MIT map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32
Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stata+Cent
Many thanks go to Professor Gerald J. Sussman for arranging for the room, and to MIT for welcoming us.
| 4 Dinner |
We don't have any sponsors to offer us dinner, but we're big boys and can provide for ourselves. After the conference, we will head down to Mary Chung's on Central Square.
| 5 More about the Meeting |
We are resuming the Boston Lisp Meeting after a hyatus of over a year and a half.
We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html
For more information, see our web site
http://common-lisp.net/project/boston-li
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