From: Raymond de Lacaze
Subject: International Lisp Conference 2003 (ILC 2003)
Date: 
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Association of Lisp Users (ALU)

INTERNATIONAL LISP CONFERENCE 2003


NEW YORK CITY

SUNDAY, OCT. 12th - WEDNESDAY, OCT, 15th


1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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CONFERENCE

This year's four-day conference will be multi-themed in nature
bringing together a rich diversity of knowledge and experience
from the fascinating communities of Common Lisp, Scheme,
Functional Languages, Financial Industry, Telecommunications
Industry, Intelligent Web Applications, Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics and Computational Biology all drawn from an international
pool of speakers. The diversity of themes, experience and languages
will provide a stimulating and enriching experience for everyone
present. The official language of the conference will be English.


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LOCATION

The conference will take place at the NEW YORKER HOTEL conveniently
located in midtown Manhattan, one block from Penn Station. The hotel
conference rate is $135 a night. We have secured the entire second floor
of the hotel for the conference, which includes two elegant ballrooms and
a large mezzanine area which will accomodate up two 30 exhibit booths
or tables. If you are interested in exhibiting at the conference please
contact:

Raymond de Lacaze: ········@alu.org

The hotel website is: http://www.newyorkerhotel.com/


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WEBSITE

The conference website will be announced shortly.


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PAPER TOPICS

Papers can be submitted in any of following categories:

Common Lisp
   - Language Design
   - Language Implementation
   - Comparative Language Analyses
   - Future Directions

SCHEME
   - Language Design
   - Language Implementation
   - Comparative Language Analyses
   - Future Directions

Functional Languages
   - ML, Dylan, Logo, Haskell, Smalltalk...
   - Language Design
   - Language Implementation
   - Extreme Programming

Financial Applications
   - Lisp & Financial Applications
   - Computational Issues in Financial Applications
   - Next-generation Financial Applications
   - Trading Agents

Telecommunication Applications
   - Lisp & Telecommunication Applications
   - Computational Issues in Telecommunications
   - Next-generation Telecommunication Applications

Intelligent Web Applications
   - Languages for Web Applications
   - The Sematic Web
   - XML, SOAP, WSDL...
   - Next-generation Web Applications

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
   - Languages for Robotics
   - Software Agents & Robots
   - Robotic Applications
   - Artificial Intelligence

Computational Biology
   - Lisp & Computational Biology
   - Current issues in Computational Biology


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors desiring to submit a full paper should declare their
intention by submitting a title and abstract of their paper
by June 15th, 2003. The actual paper submission dealine will
be August 15th 2003. The Program Committee will be annouced
shortly. Papers should be submitted in electronic form as a
PostScript or pdf file and should not exceed 12 pages in length.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published
in the conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted in
English. More information will be posted shortly and the
conference website should be checked frequently.

Please note that papers will need to follow a particular format
this year and a template will be made available on the website
shortly.

This year we plan to make the proceedings available at the
conference. For this reason no extensions will be made for paper
submission this year, so please note the submission deadlines.


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PAPER SUBMISSION

All papers should be submitted in electronic format to:

Raymond de Lacaze
e-mail: ········@alu.org


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SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Title & Abstract Dealine:  June 15th, 2003
Paper Submission Dealine:  August 15th, 2003


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MORE INFORMATION

Information such as pricing and schedule will be made available
shortly as will the website.

For more information contact:

Raymond de Lacaze
········@alu.org


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