General talk about software patterns

[Pascal Costanza <pc AT p-cos.net>]

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|                 INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2007                 |
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|        Clare College, Cambridge, England  -  April 1-4, 2007       |
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  In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN
  Sponsored by The Association of Lisp Users

  General Information:

    The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2007
    International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge, England
    at Clare College from April 1st to 4th, 2007.

    This year's program consists of tutorials at beginners' and
    advanced levels, prominent invited speakers from the Lisp and
    Scheme communities, an excellent technical session, tours of
    Central Cambridge, Anglesey Abbey and Ely, and a quintessential
    English experience: a traditional dinner served in the college's
    Great Hall. The advance registration deadline is March 11th.

    The ILC'07 programming contest is also still running until
    March 3rd. For more details, see
    http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/contest

  Schedule:
  http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/schedule

  Saturday, March 31st

    Optional tour of Cambridge
    http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tours#city

  Sunday, April 1st

    Tutorials and workshops
    http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tutorials

    - Ernst van Waning, Extended Tutorial: Common Lisp in One Day
    - Pascal Costanza, Context-oriented Programming in Common Lisp
    - Richard Brooksby, Improve your Lisp using the Memory Pool System
    - Duane Rettig, Optimizing and Debugging Programs in Allegro CL

  Monday, April 2nd

    Invited presentations
    http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/speakers

    - Christian Queinnec, Teaching CS to undergraduates at UPMC
    - Michael Sperber,
      It's All about Being Right: Lessons from the R6RS Process
    - Herbert Stoyan, Lisp: Themes and History

    Presentations of accepted papers

  Tuesday, April 3rd

    Invited presentations

    - Jans Aasman, Scalable Lisp Applications
    - Ralf Moeller, Building a Commercial OWL Reasoner with Lisp
    - Manuel Serrano,
      HOP: An Environment for Developing Web 2.0 Applications

    Presentations of accepted papers
    Annual meeting of the Association of Lisp Users
    Conference banquet

  Wednesday, April 4th

    Invited presentations

    - Richard Jones, Dynamic Memory Management
    - John Mallery, Lisp/CL-HTTP

    Presentations of accepted papers

  Thursday, April 5th

    Optional tour of Anglesey Abbey and Ely
    http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2007/tours#ely

  Conference Registration:

    Conference registration is now open. Simply visit
    http://international-lisp-conference.org/2007/registration

    The advance registration deadline is March 11th. You can get
    further discounts as an ACM/SIGPLAN and/or ALU member.

    Registration includes: access to all events, morning and afternoon
    teas / coffees, self-service lunch, banquet (Tuesday April 3rd),
    proceedings and hopefully a conference t-shirt. Accomodation is
    available in Clare College's "Memorial Court".

    http://international-lisp-conference.org/2007/venue#accomodation

    Credit cards and PayPal are accepted, as are cheques (sterling or
    US dollars) and international bank transfers.

  Organizing Committee:

    Co-Chairs: Carl Shapiro (SRI International)
               Pascal Costanza (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

    Members: Rusty Johnson (ALU)
             Peter Lindahl (ALU)

    Program Chair: JonL White (The Ginger Ice Cream Factory / ALU)

    Contact: ilc07-program-committee at alu.org

    Local chair: Nick Levine (Ravenbrook / ALU)

    General correspondence: ilc07-organizing-committee at alu.org

  Mailing Lists:

    General conference announcements are made on a very occasional
    basis to the low-volume mailing list ilc07-announce.

    http://www.alu.org/mailman/listinfo/ilc07-announce

    If you're thinking of participating in ILC 2007, you should
    either  join this list or take an occasional look at the archives.

    http://www.alu.org/pipermail/ilc07-announce


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Pascal Costanza, 
mailto:pc AT p-cos.net,
 http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium