October 20, 2008: 50th
Birthday Celebration for Lisp at OOPSLA 2008
In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports
about his then ongoing effort for designing a new programming language
that would be especially suited for achieving artificial
intelligence. That report was the first one to use the name LISP for
this new programming language. 50 years later, Lisp is still in
use. The plans for one celebration of Lisp's 50th birthday to take
place have already been laid for OOPSLA this year. OOPSLA 2008 is an
excellent venue for such a celebration, because object-oriented
programming benefitted heavily from Lisp ideas and because OOPSLA 2008
takes place in October, exactly 50 years after the name Lisp has been
used publicly for the first time. There will be talks by John
McCarthy, Guy Steele, Richard Gabriel and Pascal Costanza, to name a
few, alongside other influential Lispers from the past five decades,
and plans to look at the next 50 years of Lisp.
OOPSLA 2008 will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, USA from
October 19 to October 23. More information can be found at http://oopsla.org
European Semantic Web Conference - Tenerife, June 1-5, 2008. Franz was a sponsor.
1st European Lisp Symposium - Bordeaux, France, May 22-23, 2008 . Franz was a sponsor.
Semantic Technologies Conference - San Jose, May 18-22, 2008. We gave 3 talks, sat on one panel, and released AllegroGraph 3.0.
European Common Lisp Meeting - Amsterdam, April 20, 2008. Franz was a sponsor.
The 2007 Semantic Technology Conference - May 20 - 24, 2007,
Franz was there with talks and exhibiting the new AllegroGraph version
2.0! See here.
2007 International Lisp Conference -
The venue will be Clare College in the historic centre of Cambridge, England.
The conference will run from April 1st to 4th, 2007,
ILC 07.
Japan Lisp Seminar - Join us November 20 - 22 for our annual
Lisp seminar in Tokyo, Japan. This year's speakers include Carl
Shapiro, Ralph Hodgson, Taiichi Yuasa, Shiro Kawai, Hisao Kuroda and
many more, Japan
Seminar.
European Common Lisp Meeting - April 30, 2006 - Edi Weitz and
Arthur Lemmens are proud to announce this year's
European Common
Lisp Meeting will be held in Hamburg, Germany. Please reserve the
weekend of April 29/30 in your agenda now!
Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music - Learn Lisp and create
your own composition and analysis software at this summer's
WACM, held
annually at UC Santa Cruz.
Semantic Web Conference - Visit our booth at the
2006
Semantic Technology Conference, March 6-9 in San Jose to learn
more about our RDF Triple Store solutions.
Japan Special Event - Join us November 17th and 18th for a
Special Event in Tokyo
covering practical applications using Common Lisp as well tutorials
for advanced and beginning users.
2005 International Lisp Conference - Join us June 19-22 for the
2005 ILC Conference at Stanford University. The
Call
for Contributions has been posted. You can also visit the
ALU Website for more
information.
European Lisp Meeting - Franz will be participating in the
upcoming European
Lisp Meeting organized by Edi Weitz and Arthur Lemmens. Join us
on April 24 in Amsterdam to hear Jans Aasman discuss several exciting
new products under development at Franz.
Web Services Seminar -
Join us on April 14th at 1PM PDT (California) to learn more about
"Lisp
and SOA Web Services for Today's Complex Problems."
Space is limited so contact us to
reserve your spot.
Japan February 2005 Seminar – Second session of The MOP
(Metaobject Protocol) in CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) lecture
series. We will review the second chapter of The Art fo the
Metaobject Protocl (written by Dr. Gregor Kiczales)
- Tokyo,
Japan - Thursday, February 3, 2005, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
SFOBUG Seminar Join us on February 1st at the
San Francisco OpenBSD Users
Group for a discussion on using Lisp for complex problems.
Accelerating Change - Join us November 5-7 at the 2004
Accelerating
Change conference to be held at Stanford University.
Japan November Seminar – The MOP (Metaobject Protocol) in
CLOS (Common Lisp Object System)
- Tokyo, Japan - Tuesday,
November 2, 2004, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan September Seminar – CLOS (Common Lisp Object System)
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, September 9, 2004, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Sheng-Chuan Wu, VP-Corporate Development, Franz Inc., will be
presenting "Lisp and Web Services for Information Sharing and
Knowledge Building" as a key note speaker at
PRICAI 2004 to be
held in Auckland, New Zealand, August 9-13.
Linux World Conference and Expo - Stop by our booth at
Linux World
August 3-5 in San Francisco and register for a chance to win an
Allegro CL license.
AAAI Conference - Join us July 25-29 at the 2004
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference to be held in San Jose,
California.
LUGoD Seminar - Join us July 6 at the
Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGoD) monthly meeting
for a discussion of Lisp based Web Services. Visit the
LUGoD website for more
details.
European Lisp Seminar - Franz will be presenting “Lisp
for Service Oriented Architecture Programs” at the
European Lisp and Scheme Workshop, June 13 in Oslo,
Norway.
Japan Special Event – 2-Day Seminar and Tutorials
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday & Friday, June 10 & 11, 2004, 10am to 6pm JST
Admission: Free!
ACCU Seminar - Join us May 11 at the
Association of C and
C++ Users (ACCU) monthly meeting for a discussion of Lisp based
Web Services. Visit the ACCU website for more details.
Japan April Seminar – Emacs Lisp Interface to Allegro CL
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, April 8, 2004, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan March Seminar – Web Application Server and Development
Framework.
- Tokyo, Japan - Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 10am to
12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan February Seminar – Building Web Services with Allegro
SOAP and WSDL.
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, February 5, 2004,
10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan January Seminar – Dynamic Web Application Server and
HTML/XML Parsers
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, January 8, 2004, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan December Seminar – SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, 10am to 12noon JST
Admission: Free!
Japan November Seminar – Web Application Server and
Development Framework.
- Tokyo, Japan - Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, 10am to 12 noon JST
Admission: Free!
