From: ········@gmail.com
Subject: Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for April
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:10:21 +0000
Message-ID: <1144537821.133256.325780@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

And now for something completely different...

Many of us use Lisp night and day; however, few of us have Lisp
embedded in our clothing or monitoring our day-to-day actions. The
April lispvan meeting will discuss a project (actually, a series of
projects) that attempts to do exactly that!

Here's the "official" meeting notice:

Topic: Wearing Lisp
Presenter: Norman Jaffe
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue: Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver
Summary: Norm will discuss "wearable computers" and "wearable systems".
A series of subtopics to the presentation will be:

   1. Wearable systems versus wearable computers. "Doom on your waist"
as a poor model for what we want to do. Why not PAN? Human-human
communication via computer versus human-computer interaction.
Out-of-band presentation of emotional state.
   2. A brief history of my journey to wearable systems. "Bodymaps".
"Felt Histories". "Whisper I". "Whisper II". "Exhale". Stateless and
stateful systems. Extremely interactive systems.
   3. Small hardware platforms for wearable systems. Tiny Java systems.
Microcontrollers and PDAs. Very small Linux systems. Unusual interface
devices and techniques needed.
   4. Where I hope to go. Creating a physically tiny Lisp run-time
environment using off-the-shelf hardware and software. Adapting
biophysical interfaces to the hardware. Dedicated Lisp-based hardware.
"Wearing Lisp".

Mark your calendars and we'll see you on April 20th!

--
Bill Clementson

From: ········@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for April
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:57:57 +0000
Message-ID: <1145660277.419448.19370@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>

Hi all,

I have posted a summary of last night's lispvan meeting on my blog:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060421.html

Thanks again to Norman for giving the presentation!

Cheers,
Bill

········@gmail.com wrote:
> And now for something completely different...
>
> Many of us use Lisp night and day; however, few of us have Lisp
> embedded in our clothing or monitoring our day-to-day actions. The
> April lispvan meeting will discuss a project (actually, a series of
> projects) that attempts to do exactly that!
>
> Here's the "official" meeting notice:
>
> Topic: Wearing Lisp
> Presenter: Norman Jaffe
> Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006
> Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
> Venue: Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver
> Summary: Norm will discuss "wearable computers" and "wearable systems".
> A series of subtopics to the presentation will be:
>
>    1. Wearable systems versus wearable computers. "Doom on your waist"
> as a poor model for what we want to do. Why not PAN? Human-human
> communication via computer versus human-computer interaction.
> Out-of-band presentation of emotional state.
>    2. A brief history of my journey to wearable systems. "Bodymaps".
> "Felt Histories". "Whisper I". "Whisper II". "Exhale". Stateless and
> stateful systems. Extremely interactive systems.
>    3. Small hardware platforms for wearable systems. Tiny Java systems.
> Microcontrollers and PDAs. Very small Linux systems. Unusual interface
> devices and techniques needed.
>    4. Where I hope to go. Creating a physically tiny Lisp run-time
> environment using off-the-shelf hardware and software. Adapting
> biophysical interfaces to the hardware. Dedicated Lisp-based hardware.
> "Wearing Lisp".
>
> Mark your calendars and we'll see you on April 20th!
> 
> --
> Bill Clementson