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Tuesday, April 14 2020

ELS 2020 happening online, and for free

Hi all,

this is the latest (and probably last) update on the status of ELS 2020 with regard to the current pandemic. Jumping to the conclusion: ELS 2020 will take place on April 27-28, as initially planned, but as an online event.

In order to minimize the technical risks, the talks are being recorded, and will be broadcast according to the schedule advertised on the website (still subject to last minute modifications). We still want the event to be interactive, so the broadcasts will be accompanied with a live chat for discussion. Specific instructions for joining the event will be advertised on the website in a timely fashion.

I am writing this the day after French president Macron announced one more month of confinement here, and that the European borders would remain closed "until further notice". I am now convinced that this is the best solution for us, under these circumstances. Simply cancelling the event was of course completely out of the question. Organizing a fully interactive online event was considered too risky. Finally, postponing the physical event would have meant doubling the workload of the organizers, planning for an uncertain date, most probably after summer, which would also have put us too close to ELS 2021 (which will happen around the end of March, in co-location with <Programming> again).

Of course, it is frustrating for everyone to miss the opportunity to meet face to face as we do each and every year, but again, under the circumstances, I truly think this is the best we can do, and I want to thank all the people for whom this new setting implies an additional workload.

Since the very early days of ELS, we made a point in keeping the event as cheap as possible. Because the financial cost for this year was considerably reduced, we decided to make the event free and open to anyone, if it's any consolation. We also hope that this can be an incentive to bring a larger audience to the symposium, and perhaps spread the Lisp virus a bit more!

Looking forward to watching the talks and reading you on the live chat! Stay safe.

ELS 2020

Sunday, March 29 2020

ELS 2020 COVID update

Dear all,

as promised two weeks ago, here is an update on the current situation of ELS 2020. Thank you all for your patience.

  1. Given the evolution of the world-wide situation with regard to the COVID pandemic, it will come as no surprise that we have to cancel the Zurich event.
  2. I have consequently closed the registrations, and I will proceed with full refunding this afternoon. Note owever that it will take some time for the money to get back to your accounts.
  3. In the meantime, the reviewing process has continued as usual, and I'm happy to announce that thanks to the authors, the PC, and under the supervision of Ioanna, we now have a preliminary programme online! At least, this will already give you a taste of what we have this year.
  4. A fallback solution is still under consideration, so stay tuned for updates. What I can tell you right now is this: a fully online event is very unlikely. More likely would be a semi-interactive online event, with the broadcasting of pre-recorded talks and a real-time channel for interaction. We have not completely ruled out the possibility of just postponing the physical event, but that solution is not very probable. Finally, if we go for an online event, I will make sure that it will be free and open for anyone to "attend".

So, this is what I can tell you right now. Finally, I also want to extend my warmest thanks to all the persons who showed their support (notably financial, which is critical), by staying optimistic and registering anyway, hoping for the best. This means a lot.

Stay safe!

Tuesday, March 3 2020

Onward! Essays 2020 Call for Papers

			    Onward! Essays 2020
    ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and
		  Reflections on Programming and Software

		     Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel
				Chicago, USA

			    November 18--20 2020

			    Part of SPLASH 2020
	      Systems, Programming Languages and Applications:
			   Software for Humanity

	 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Onward-essays



Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to
do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages,
communities, applications and education.

Compared to other conferences, Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and
more open to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. It is not
looking for research-as-usual papers. To allow room for bigger, bolder
and/or less mature ideas, it accepts less exact methods of validation, such
as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial
examples.

Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about
topics important to the software community (there is also a parallel Papers
track with a seperate announcement).

An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about
the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what
is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be
a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal
journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the
topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming
languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of
software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological,
psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings.


Format and Selection:

Onward! essays must describe unpublished work that is not currently
submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN's Republication
Policy. Submitters should also be aware of ACM's Policy and Procedures on
Plagiarism. Onward! essays should use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart
format. Please refer to the conference's website above for full details.

The Onward! Essays track follows a two-phase review process. Essays are
peer-reviewed in a single-blind manner. Accepted essays will appear in the
Onward! Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, and must be presented at the
conference. Submissions will be judged on the potential impact of the ideas
and the quality of the presentation.


Important dates:

All deadlines are midnight, anywhere on Earth.

Essay submission:         23 April
First-round notification: 11 June
Second-round submission:  15 July
Final notification:       30 July
Conference:               18--20 November


Programme Committee:

Didier Verna, EPITA Research lab, France (Program Chair)

Anya Helene Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway
Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile
Jean Bresson, Ableton, Germany
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, Université de Montréal, Québec
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
Donya Quick, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Gordana Rakić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Friday, February 1 2019

Final call for papers: ELS 2019, 12th European Lisp Sympoiusm

		ELS'19 - 12th European Lisp Symposium

			 Hotel Bristol Palace
			    Genova, Italy

			    April 1-2 2019

		   In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN
		In co-location with <Programming> 2019
		  Sponsored by EPITA and Franz Inc.

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

Recent news:
- Submission deadline extended to Friday February 8.
- Keynote abstracts now available.
- <Programming> registration now open:
  https://2019.programming-conference.org/attending/Registration
- Student refund program after the conference.


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 12th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM Computing Classification System 2012 concepts and
terms. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els2019

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.


Important dates:
 -    08 Feb 2019 Submission deadline (*** extended! ***)
 -    01 Mar 2019 Notification of acceptance
 -    18 Mar 2019 Final papers due
 - 01-02 Apr 2019 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Nicolas Neuss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Programme committee:
  Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
  Marc Battyani, FractalConcept, France
  Pascal Costanza, IMEC, ExaScience Life Lab, Leuven, Belgium
  Leonie Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany
  R. Matthew Emerson, thoughtstuff LLC, USA
  Marco Heisig, FAU, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  Charlotte Herzeel, IMEC, ExaScience Life Lab, Leuven, Belgium
  Pierre R. Mai, PMSF IT Consulting, Germany
  Breanndán Ó Nualláin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  François-René Rideau, Google, USA
  Alberto Riva, Unversity of Florida, USA
  Alessio Stalla, ManyDesigns Srl, Italy
  Patrick Krusenotto, Deutsche Welle, Germany
  Philipp Marek, Austria
  Sacha Chua, Living an Awesome Life, Canada

Search Keywords:

#els2019, ELS 2019, ELS '19, European Lisp Symposium 2019,
European Lisp Symposium '19, 12th ELS, 12th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2019, European Lisp Conference '19

Monday, November 7 2016

10th European Lisp Symposium, April 3-4 2017, Brussels, Belgium

		ELS'17 - 10th European Lisp Symposium

		   VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
			       Belgium

			   April 3-4, 2017

		In co-location with <Programming> 2017
		  Sponsored by Brunner Software GmbH

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998. The conference proceedings will be
published in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els17

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission by entering either "paper", "demo", or "tutorial" in the
Keywords field.


Important dates:
 -    30 Jan 2017 Submission deadline
 -    27 Feb 2017 Notification of acceptance
 -    20 Mar 2017 Final papers due
 - 03-04 Apr 2017 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Alberto Riva, University of Florida, USA

Programme committee:
  Marco Antoniotti, Università Milano Bicocca, Italy
  Marc Battyani, FractalConcept
  Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Marc Feeley, Université de Montreal, Canada
  Stelian Ionescu, Google
  Rainer Joswig, Independent Consultant, Germany
  António Menezes Leitão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Nick Levine, RavenPack
  Henry Lieberman, MIT, USA
  Mark Tarver, Shen Programming Group
  Jay McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  Christian Queinnec, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
  François-René Rideau, Bridgewater Associates, USA
  Nikodemus Siivola, ZenRobotics Ltd
  Alessio Stalla, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

Search Keywords:

#els2017, ELS 2017, ELS '17, European Lisp Symposium 2017,
European Lisp Symposium '17, 10th ELS, 10th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2017, European Lisp Conference '17

Thursday, March 24 2016

ELS 2016 registration now open!

Some people do seem to be in the starting blocks for the 9th European Lisp Symposium. One person has already booked his flight, while 3 people from Poland registered yesterday, with the web form that I was still testing. All of this, without the final programme being available, and hell, we're still missing a couple of reviews!

Thank you for the confidence! The registration page is now officially open! :-)

Wednesday, November 4 2015

ELS 2016 second invited speaker announced!

We're happy to announce our second invited speaker for the next European Lisp Symposium (May 9-10 2016, Krakow, Poland). Francis Sergeraert (Institut Fournier, Grenoble, France) will be speaking about lexical closures and complexity. All the details are already on the website...

Tuesday, October 20 2015

ELS 2016 first invited speaker announced!

We're happy to announce our first invited speaker for the next European Lisp Symposium (May 9-10 2016, Krakow, Poland). Pierre Castéran (University of Bordeaux, France) will be speaking about program proof and synthesis with Coq. All the details are already on the website...

Wednesday, October 14 2015

In Cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN for ELS

We're happy to announce that the European Lisp Symposium is now "In Cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN". The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Wednesday, October 7 2015

ELS 2016 Call for Papers

		 ELS'16 - 9th European Lisp Symposium
	       AGH University of Science and Technology
			    Kraków, Poland

			    May 9-10, 2016

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

		Sponsored by EPITA and AGH University


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 9th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.

Important dates:

 -   19 Feb 2016 Submission deadline
 -   25 Mar 2016 Notification of acceptance
 -   15 Apr 2016 Early registration deadline
 -   22 Apr 2016 Final papers due
 - 9-10 May 2016 Symposium

Programme chair:
  Irène Durand, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France

Local chair:
  Michał Psota, Emergent Network Defense, Kraków, Poland


Programme committee:
  Antonio Leitao — INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade
    de Lisboa, Portugal
  Charlotte Heerzel — IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  Christian Queinnec — University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France
  Christophe Rhodes — Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
  Didier Verna  — EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
  Erick Gallesio — University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
  François-René Rideau, Google, USA
  Giuseppe Attardi — University of Pisa, Italy
  Henry Lieberman — MIT, USA
  Kent Pitman, HyperMeta Inc., USA
  Leonie Dreschler-Fischer — University of Hamburg, Germany
  Pascal Costanza — Intel Corporation, Belgium
  Robert Strandh — University of Bordeaux, France

Search Keywords:

#els2016, ELS 2016, ELS '16, European Lisp Symposium 2016,
European Lisp Symposium '16, 9th ELS, 9th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2016, European Lisp Conference '16

Monday, October 5 2015

ELS 2016 coming in hot!

We're happy to announce that the next European Lisp Symposium will be held at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland, on May 9-10. Stay tuned for updates, upcoming CfP, invited speakers and lots of good stuff!

Wednesday, August 5 2015

The Return of Segfaults

I was watching the discussion between Gilad Bracha and Matthias Felleisen on gradual typing this afternoon (it's available on YouTube). This was the last event at the STOP workshop, part of ECOOP 2015 in Prague. I couldn't attend it because I was somewhere else (Curry On) at the time. The discussion is interesting, but if you go all the way, in the last 10 minutes or so, you will notice that Matthias seems to be completely obsessed with what he calls the "Return of the SegFaults".

Basically, the point is the following. Mathias dislikes the optional types in Common Lisp because it's opening the door to unsafety. Initially, any dynamic language has a sound type system (all type errors are caught; at run-time, yes, but they are caught). As soon as you introduce an optional type system ala Lisp, the compiler implementors are "pushed" to use the provided type information for optimization, hence weakening the type system and breaking soundness. It's the "return of segfauts".

Of course, I agree with that, at least on the principle. Yes, Common Lisp's weak, optional type system is an antiquated thing. However, it seems to me that Matthias is forgetting two important things on the practical level:

  1. by default in many implementations that I know, if not all of them, introducing type declarations doesn't actually break the soundness of the type system but leads to even more type checking. For example, (defun plus (a b) (+ a b)) works on every possible numerical value, but add (declare (type fixnum a b)) in there and it will suddenly stop working on anything else but integers. It's only if you require the compiler to optimize for speed at the expense of safety that you effectively weaken your type system.
  2. In practice, the risk of re-introducing segfaults in your application may be mitigated by the interactive aspect of the development (TDD made easier, simultaneous write / compile / run / test / debug phases etc.).

So my impression is that Matthias is largely exaggerating the problem, but I'm not really qualified to tell. That's why I would like to know from you guys, working with Lisp in the industry, writing large applications, lots of type annotations, and (declaim (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (debug 0)) (EDIT: that's exaggerated of course, I really mean breaking safety for performance reasons): how much of a problem the "return of the segfaults" really is in practice ?

As a side note, this reminds me of the dynamic vs. lexical scoping debate. Many people were and still are strongly opinionated against dynamic scoping by default. Of course, I too, at least in principle. But how dangerous dynamic scoping really is in practice (EDIT: I'm not talking about expressiveness, e.g. closures, here. Only unsafety.)? What I can tell you is that in the 15 years I was actively maintaining the XEmacs codebase, I may have run into name clashes due to dynamic scoping... twice.

Tuesday, May 19 2015

DSL 2015 Call for Papers

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                        C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                        ======== DLS 2015 ===========
                             
                   11th Dynamic Languages Symposium 2015
                               October, 2015
                   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
                          http://DLS2015.inria.fr


                        Co-located with SPLASH 2015
                      In association with ACM SIGPLAN

The 11th Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) at SPLASH 2015 is the
premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and
research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and
applications. The influence of dynamic languages -- from Lisp to
Smalltalk to Python to Javascript -- on real-world practice and
research continues to grow.

DLS 2015 invites high quality papers reporting original research,
innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages,
their implementation, and applications. Accepted papers will be
published in the ACM Digital Library, and freely available for 2 weeks
before and after the event itself.  Areas of interest include but are
not limited to:

    Innovative language features and implementation techniques
    Development and platform support, tools
    Interesting applications
    Domain-oriented programming
    Very late binding, dynamic composition, and run-time adaptation
    Reflection and meta-programming
    Software evolution
    Language symbiosis and multi-paradigm languages
    Dynamic optimization
    Hardware support
    Experience reports and case studies
    Educational approaches and perspectives
    Semantics of dynamic languages

== Invited Speaker ==

DLS is pleased to announce a talk by the following invited speaker:

  Eelco Visser: Declare your Language.
  

== Submissions and proceedings ==

Submissions should not have been published previously nor under review
at other events. Research papers should describe work that advances
the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad
interest and should describe insights gained from substantive
practical applications. The program committee will evaluate each
contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity,
length, and originality.

Papers are to be submitted electronically at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=dls15 in PDF
format. Submissions must be in the ACM format (see
http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) and not exceed 12
pages. Authors are reminded that brevity is a virtue.

DLS 2015 will run a two-phase reviewing process to help authors make
their final papers the best that they can be. After the first round of
reviews, papers will be rejected, conditionally accepted, or
unconditionally accepted. Conditionally accepted papers will be given
a list of issues raised by reviewers. Authors will then submit a
revised version of the paper with a cover letter explaining how they
have or why they have not addressed these issues. The reviewers will
then consider the cover letter and revised paper and recommend final
acceptance or rejection.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Important dates

    Abstract Submissions: Sun 7 Jun 2015
    Full Submissions: Sun 15 Jun 2015
    First phase notification: Mon 27 Jul 
    Revisions due: Mon 3 Aug
    Final notification: Mon 17 Aug
    Camera ready: Fri 21 21 Aug

Program chair

    Manuel Serrano, Inria Sophia-Antipolis,
        dls15@easychair.org

Program committee

    Carl Friedrich Bolz, DE
    William R. Cook, UTexas, USA
    Jonathan Edwards, MIT, USA
    John Field, Google, USA
    Matt Flatt, USA
    Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit, BE
    Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, DE
    Benjamin Livshits, Microsoft, USA
    Crista Lopes, UC Irvine, USA
    Kevin Millikin, Google, DN
    James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
    Manuel Serrano, Inria, FR (General chair)
    Didier Verna, EPITA, FR
    Jan Vitek, Purdue, USA
    Joe Politz, Brown University, USA
    Olivier Tardieu, IBM, USA

Monday, January 19 2015

ELS 2015 programme committee members announced

The programme committee members for this year's European Lisp Symposium has just been announced. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, on the keyboards...

  • Sacha Chua — Toronto, Canada
  • Edmund Weitz — University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
  • Rainer Joswig — Hamburg, Germany
  • Henry Lieberman — MIT, USA
  • Matthew Flatt — University of Utah, USA
  • Christian Queinnec — University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France
  • Giuseppe Attardi — University of Pisa, Italy
  • Marc Feeley — University of Montreal, Canada
  • Stephen Eglen — University of Cambridge, UK
  • Robert Strandh — University of Bordeaux, France
  • Nick Levine — RavenPack, Spain

Wednesday, January 14 2015

Insider Threat Detection at Haystax

Reported to me by Craig Norvell: Haystax appears to have some interesting Lisp projects in the works. Combining Lisp, Prolog, RDF (AllegroGraph), and a BBN for insider threat detection solutions.

From their website:

Haystax's predictive models are continuously updated based on the prevailing threat environment making it highly suitable for both detection and continuous evaluation of threats. These unique models go beyond traditional web and business intelligence to enable organizations to achieve contextual real-time situational awareness by fusing all operationally relevant information - private, public, video and live feeds - into consolidated views to show patterns and identify threats that are usually buried in too much noise or not placed in proper context.

Here is a Technical paper, and the STIDS Conference website. If you are interested, it looks like you can also attend a webcast on January 21st.

Friday, December 5 2014

[CfP] ELS 2015, 8th European Lisp Symposium, Apr. 20-21, London

		 ELS'15 - 8th European Lisp Symposium
		    Goldsmiths College, London, UK

			  April 20-21, 2015

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/

	  Sponsored by EPITA, Franz Inc. and Lispworks Ltd.


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 8th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
    about topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to
    180 minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.

Important dates:

  - 22 Feb 2015: Submission deadline
  - 15 Mar 2015: Notification of acceptance
  - 29 Mar 2015: Early registration deadline
  - 05 Apr 2015: Final papers
  - 20-21 Apr 2015: Symposium

Programme chair:
    Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK

Local chair:
    Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Programme committee:

    To be announced

Search Keywords:

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Tuesday, January 21 2014

Richard P. "dick" Gabriel to be the first keynote speaker at ELS 2014

Hello everyone,

it's an immense pleasure to welcome Richard P. "dick" Gabriel as the first keynote speaker of the 7th European Lisp Symposium. You can read about his talk on this page. This will hopefully make people wake up early on the fist day :-)

EDIT and we now have 2 more guest speakers: Pascal Costanza and Gábor Melis! Can't wait!

Tuesday, January 7 2014

ELS 2014 Programme Committee

The preliminary Programme Committee for the next European Lisp Symposium has just been selected! We have a nice team coming in hot... See http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-organization-full.html.

Wednesday, December 18 2013

ILC 2014 Call for Papers

2014 is going to be a busy year for Lisp. The 7th European Lisp Symposium (Paris, May) will be followed by the International Lisp Conference (August, Montréal). ILC 2014's Call for Papers is just out! And this year, we have a special focus for you...

	       ILC 2014 - International Lisp Conference
			  "Lisp on the Move"

     August 14-17 2014, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

	      Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users

	     http://www.international-lisp-conference.org


Scope:

Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major
influence for almost all programming languages and for all
sufficiently complex software applications.

The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of
Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of
any of the Lisp dialects.  We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to
participate.

We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp
dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but
not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript,
Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, SKILL, HOP etc.

This year's focus will be directed towards integrated solutions,
including mobile computing. We especially invite submissions in the
following areas:

  * Pervasive computing
  * Interoperability
  * Portability
  * Implementation challenges/tradeoffs for embedded/mobile platforms
  * Language support for mobile toolkits and frameworks
  * Language support for distribution
  * Language support for reliability, availability, and serviceability
  * Mobile IDEs
  * Mobile applications

Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not
limited to:

  * Language design and implementation
  * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
  * Applications (especially commercial)
  * Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming
  * Domain-specific languages
  * Programming paradigms and environments
  * Efficient parallel and concurrent computation
  * Language support for managing both manual and automatic GC
  * Theorem proving
  * Scientific computing
  * Data mining
  * Semantic web


Technical Programme:

Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are
invited for the following categories:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 10 pages that describe original
  results.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
  tools, libraries and applications.

  Workshops: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for groups of people who intend
  to work on a focused topic for half a day.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for in-depth presentations about
  topics of special interest for 1 to 2 hours.

  Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for discussions about
  current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel member
  who are willing to partake in a discussion.

The conference will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
registered on-site every day.

For inquiries about any other kind of participation (commercial
exhibits, advertising, prizes, book signing etc.), please see the
contacts below.


Important Dates:

 - May    18, 2014: Submission deadline
 - June   09, 2014: Notification of acceptance
 - June   29, 2014: Final Papers due
 - August 14, 2014: Conference


All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.

Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following
address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilc14


Organizing Committee:

General Chair:   Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
Programme Chair: Didier Verna (EPITA Research lab, Paris, France)
Local chair:     Marc Feeley (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

Programme Committee:
to be announced


Contacts:

  * General Questions: ilc14-organizing-committee at alu.org
  * Programme Committee: ilc14 at easychair.org


For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org

Saturday, November 30 2013

7th European Lisp Symposium, May 5-6 2014, IRCAM, Paris, France

ELS 2014 is finally settled. I have the pleasure to welcome Kent Pitman as the Programme Chair, and Gérard Assayag as a co Local Chair ! The symposium is going to be held at IRCAM, a French institute for research on music and acoustics, so I hope there's going to be a lot of Lisp & music talks!

		 ELS'14 - 7th European Lisp Symposium
			 IRCAM, Paris, France

			    May 5-6, 2014

	       http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/


The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The 7th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about
novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- Language design and implementation
- Language integration, inter-operation and deployment
- Development methodologies, support and environments
- Educational approaches and perspectives
- Experience reports and case studies

Please note that IRCAM, the conference venue, is a French institute
for research on music and acoustics. Submissions relating Lisp to
music or other acoustical matters will hence be particularly welcome,
although given no heightened favor during the review process.

We invite submissions in the following forms:

  Papers: Technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
    results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

  Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of
    tools, libraries, and applications.

  Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations about
    topics of special interest for at least 90 minutes and up to 180
    minutes.

  The symposium will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be
  registered on-site every day.

All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines
and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more
information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and
http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998.


Important dates:

 - TODAY:       Mark your calendar. Start planning now!
 - 09 Mar 2014: Submission deadline
 - 31 Mar 2014: Notification of acceptance
 - 21 Apr 2014: Final Papers due
 - 05 May 2014: Symposium. Join us there!


Program Committee:

  Chair:
    Kent Pitman, Hypermeta Inc., U.S.A.

  Local Organizers:
    Didier Verna, EPITA Research Lab, France
    Gérard Assayag, IRCAM, France

  Members:
    To be announced later


Search Keywords:

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European Lisp Symposium '14, 7th ELS, 7th European Lisp Symposium,
European Lisp Conference 2014, European Lisp Conference '14


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