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SBCL's 20th Anniversary Workshop

SBCL was announced to the world in December 1999. To celebrate, there will be a workshop in Vienna at Bundesrechenzentrum, the Federal Computing Center of Austria on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th December 2019, with bonding and social activities taking place on Sunday 8th December. (There was a 10th anniversary workshop in London in 2009)

General information

Programme

The SBCL20 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 numerous flipcharts, 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.

the view from the BRZ: some blue sky

Speakers

Robert Smith: SBCL for Quantum Computing at Rigetti
Rigetti Computing develops quantum integrated circuits and quantum computers, and provides a compiler and virtual machine allowing users to experiment with quantum algorithms. I'll talk about using SBCL to build quantum computing tools, why I have been a long advocate of a port to the 64-bit POWER architecture, and offer thoughts on how Common Lisp can stay alive in the quantum computing future.
Douglas Katzman: SBCL, playing nice with Unix (finally)
Douglas Katzman works on SBCL as a member of the Google Flights team. I'll talk about memory management, signal handling, stack examination, binary file formats, and recent work in making SBCL behave more like a regular Unix executable, with benefits for interoperability and operating system support.
Charles Zhang: Experiences in porting SBCL to RISC-V
Charles Zhang is an undergraduate student with specialisms in Mathematics and Linguistics. I'll talk about my experience in taking the barest-bones start of a port of SBCL to a new architecture through to completion, discussing what was easy and what was surprisingly difficult.

Other contributions

Monday afternoon

Tuesday afternoon

Hallway track