Boston Lisp Meeting: Thursday 2012-10-04 François-René Rideau on LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has a transformative experience

                             Boston Lisp Meeting:
                              Thursday 2012-10-04
François-René Rideau on LIL: CLOS reaches higher order, sheds identity and has
                          a transformative experience

                    http://fare.livejournal.com/169101.html

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+Center,+Vassar+Street,+Cambridge,+MA

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

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