Tim Daly, head of the Axiom Project, will address Lisp NYC, starting at 1900 hours, Tuesday 10 May 2005, in Trinity Lutheran Church, at Ninth Street and Avenue B on the Island of the Manahattoes.
See below my signature for meeting details and directions. Axiom is a large, serious, old growth computer algebra system. Axiom is free software and almost all of Axiom's source code has been converted to "literate code". Much of Axiom's base programming system is Lisp. >From http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/AboutAxiom: History Axiom has been in development since 1971. At that time, it was called Scratchpad. Scratchpad was a large, general purpose computer algebra system that was originally developed by IBM under the direction of Richard Jenks. The project started in 1971 and evolved slowly. Barry Trager was key to the technical direction of the project. Scratchpad developed over a 20 year stretch and was basically considered as a research platform for developing new ideas in computational mathematics. In the 1990s, as IBM's fortunes slid, the Scratchpad project was renamed to Axiom, sold to the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) in England and became a commercial system. As part of the Scratchpad project at IBM in Yorktown Tim Daly worked on all aspects of the system and eventually helped transfer the product to NAG. For a variety of reasons it never became a financial success and NAG withdrew it from the market in October, 2001. Open Source NAG agreed to release Axiom as free software, under this license. The basic motivation was that Axiom represents something different from other programs in a lot of ways. Primarily because of its foundation in mathematics the Axiom system will potentially be useful 30 years from now. In its current state it represents about 30 years and 300 man-years of research work. To strive to keep such a large collection of knowledge alive seems a worthwhile goal. Tim Daly on one of the central problems of computerdom: My goal isn't to solve physics/math problems. My goal is to build a system that will be used by computational mathematicians 30 years from now. Once this is the stated goal several things become clear. This is from a proper rant, to be found at http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2004/007453.html. For the official Lisp NYC announcement, including directions to the gathering place, see below. Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote what="official Lisp NYC announcement"> From: Heow Eide-Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03 May 2005 15:42:54 -0400 Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, May 10th from 7:00 to 9:00 at Trinity Lutheran Church. Timothy Daly, published author, academic researcher, open source programmer and lead developer of Axiom will be presenting about his role as the driving force behind Axiom. With over 70 developers and 200 researchers worldwide it can best be described as: Axiom is a general purpose Computer Algebra system. It is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms providing a very high level way to express abstract mathematical concepts. The Axiom Library defines over 1,000 strongly-typed mathematical domains and categories. Axiom consists of an interpreter and compiler, a browser, a graphical interface, and a new online wiki that allows users to create web pages that inline computations. Axiom is built upon Common Lisp. For more Axiom information: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom http://page.axiom-developer.org/ http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/ReduceWiki Directions to Trinity: Trinity Lutheran 602 E. 9th St. & Ave B., on Thomkins Square Park http://trinitylowereastside.org/ From N,R,Q,W (8th Street NYU Stop) and the 4,5 (Astor Street Stop): Walk East 4 blocks on St. Marks, cross Thomkins Square Park. From F&V (2nd Ave Stop): Walk E one or two blocks, turn north for 8 short blocks From L (1st Ave Stop): Walk E one block, turn sounth for 5 short blocks The M9 bus line drops you off at the doorstep and the M15 is near get off on St. Marks & 1st) To get there by car, take the FDR (East River Drive) to Houston then go NW till you're at 9th & B. Week-night parking isn't bad at all, but if you're paranoid about your Caddy or in a hurry, there is a parking garage on 9th between 1st and 3rd Ave. _______________________________________________ Lisp mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lispnyc.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/lisp </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs