ILC 2009 - International Lisp Conference 2009

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Category ILC 2009

Deadline: December 09, 2008 | Date: March 22, 2009

Venue/Country: Massachusetts, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The International Lisp Conference 2009 will be taking place at M.I.T., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from March 22 to March 25, 2009. There will be papers, panel sessions, short talks, and a conference banquet.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2009

Lisp: The Next 50 Years

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

March 22-25, 2009

Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users

General Information:

The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2009

International Lisp Conference will be held in Cambridge,

Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sunday

through Wednesday, March 22-25, 2009. The emphasis will be on present

and future applications of technologies that have been or might soon

be associated with the Lisp programming language and/or related

languages and software.

We encourage submissions in diverse areas, including but not limited

to: language design and implementation, memory management, software

engineering, mathematical and scientific computing, artificial

intelligence, database processing and data mining, business

intelligence, performance analysis, parallel processing, quantum

computing, bioinformatics, telecommunications and networking, the

semantic web, music, domain-specific languages, and entertainment

technologies. ILC09 is not limited to topics discussed in previous

symposia. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may

communicate by electronic mail with the program chair prior to

submission.

Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution

as inventing a new one. We encourage the submission of "pearls":

elegant essays that illustrate an idea, for example by developing a

short program. (A pearl should be concise, instructive,

self-contained, and entertaining. Your pearl is likely to be rejected

if your readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if

too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is

inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing.)

There is no formal separation of categories and no need to explicitly

label pearls as such: all papers, whether pearl or otherwise, will be

judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty,

clarity, and elegance. Each paper should explain its contributions in

both general and technical terms, identifying what has been

accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with

previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers

understandable to a broad audience.

Alongside our usual four-day program of tutorials, prominent invited

speakers, and excellent technical sessions, this year we will also

consider demonstration sessions.

The official language of the conference is English. Further details

are available at the conference web site:

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

Technical Program:

Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are

invited for the following categories.

Papers: Technical papers of up to 15 pages that describe original

results ("research papers") or explain known ideas in new ways

("pearls").

Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 4 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.

Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 4 pages for discussions about

current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel members

who are willing to partake in a discussion.

Lightning talks: Abstracts of up to one page for talks to last

for no more than 5 minutes.

Important Dates:

Please send contributions before the submission deadline to the

program committee (ilc09-program-committee at alu.org).

Deadline for submissions: December 9, 2008

Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 9, 2009

Deadline for final paper submissions: February 9, 2009

Organizing Committee:

Conference Chair: Daniel Weinreb (ITA Software)

General correspondence: ilc09-organizing-committee at alu.org

Program Chair: Guy L. Steele Jr. (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)

Contact: ilc09-program-committee at alu.org

Local chair: Howard Shrobe (MIT)

Technical Program Committee:

Guy Steele (chair), Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Jerry Boetje, College of Charleston

William Clinger, Northeastern University

Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jeff Dalton, University of Edinburgh

Henry Lieberman, MIT

Tim McNerney, ITA Software

Julian Padget, University of Bath

Kent Pitman, HyperMeta Inc.

Christian Queinnec, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris

Jon L White, The Ginger Ice Cream Factory / ALU

David Wilkins, SRI

Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University