SBCL's 10th Anniversary Workshop

SBCL was announced to the world in December 1999. To celebrate, there will be a workshop at Goldsmiths, University of London on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th December 2009.

Post-Workshop Materials

Keynote Talks

Nick Levine's talk [audio slides]
Martin Cracauer's talk [audio]

Roundtable

The state of the whiteboard at the end of the Roundtable session:

Lightning Talks

Monday Afternoon
Christophe Rhodes	Unicode status
Martin Kielhorn	Controlling a microscope with Lisp
James Y. Knight	An LLVM backend [cl-llvm branch README]
Juho Snellman	Calling functions with unboxed arguments
Nikodemus Siivola	SBCL Computer Graphics Algebra [code]
Paul V. Khuong	Multi-word Compare-and-Swap [code]
Tuesday Morning
Rudi Schlatte	org-mode
David Lichteblau	Dynamic space relocation
Juho Snellman	Faster aref/(setf aref) on non-simple non-displaced arrays [patch branch]
David Lichteblau	Incremental allocation for dynamic space
Attila Lendvai	The stefil test framework [project page]
David Lichteblau	Using C++ from Lisp [CommonQt cl-smoke]
Levente Mészáros	Partial evaluation for CL [code]
Tuesday Afternoon
Christophe Rhodes	Subclassable structures [repository]
Thomas Burdick	Block compilation
David Lichteblau	Hemlock
Attila Lendvai & Levente Mészáros	Persistence [cl-rdbms cl-perec]

Programme

The SBCL10 workshop is intended to give a space and time so that interested parties can discuss ideas, hear other peoples' use cases and desires, and work on blue-sky design in collaboration. There will be a few more extended talks to serve as motivation, but most of the workshop will be held in rooms with ample whiteboard space, network connections, and access to caffeinated beverages. Towards the end of each day, all participants will be invited to give lightning talks on anything that they have worked on during that time, or any other topic of interest.

Schedule

Time	Activity	Venue
Monday 14th December
09:30–10:00	Registration and Coffee	Ground Floor, BPB
10:00–10:15	Welcome	BPB Lecture Theatre
10:15–11:00	SBCL Outside The Box	BPB Lecture Theatre
11:00–11:45	Coffee	BPB Rooms 3/4
11:45–12:30	SBCL at ITA Software	BPB Lecture Theatre
12:30–14:00	Lunch and self-organization
14:00–17:00	Hacking, Whiteboarding, BOFs	BPB Rooms 3/4
17:00–17:30	Lightning Talks	BPB Lecture Theatre
19:00–	Dinner	Meze Mangal, London, SE4 1XF
Tuesday 15th December
Morning	Hacking	BPB Rooms 3/4
Late Morning	Lightning Talks	BPB Lecture Theatre
Noon	Lunch
Afternoon	Hacking	BPB Rooms 3/4
Early Evening	Lightning Talks and Roundtable	BPB Lecture Theatre
Evening	Drinks	Royal Albert, London SE14 6TJ

Speakers

Nick Levine: SBCL Outside The Box: Writing a new Lisp book, particularly one which deals with the realities of implementations and their capabilities, is both a pleasure and a challenge. In this talk I'll discuss the particular trials and tribulations I've been through in the chapters using SBCL as the Lisp implementation, and try to identify areas where my life could have been made easier.
Martin Cracauer: SBCL at ITA Software: ITA Software makes extensive use of Common Lisp, including SBCL, in both mature products and projects in development. I'll discuss the uses and abuses of SBCL in the corporate environment, with reference to the things it makes easy for us and those it makes unreasonably difficult.

Registration

Register intent to attend the workshop by e-mailing Christophe Rhodes before November 14th 2009. There will be no charge for attending the workshop; light lunches will be provided free of charge. Details of the arrangements for evening meals will be made available in due course.

Confirmed attendees

Daniel Barlow*
Thomas Burdick*
Martin Cracauer*
Jamie Forth
Andreas Fuchs*
Gurpreet Grewal
Paul V. Khuong*
Martin Kielhorn
James Y. Knight*
Attila Lendvai*
Nick Levine*
Richard Lewis
David Lichteblau*
Eric Marsden*
Gábor Melis*
Levente Mészáros*
Inês Ochoa*
Luís Oliveira* [blog]
Christophe Rhodes* [blog]
Rudi Schlatte*
Nikodemus Siivola*
Juho Snellman*

* Confirmed for Monday Dinner