Announcing the 40th Anniversary Conference of Lisp Users entitled
                    "Lisp in the Mainstream"

                            Sponsors

         Franz Inc., Harlequin Inc., Stanford University,
       and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI Lab,
      Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science


                         Sponsor Affiliate

                                   Autodesk Inc.


                       Additional Supporters 
         
                    Knowledge Technologies International, Inc.
                   Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.

WHEN?  

     November 15-18, 1998

WHERE? 

     Berkeley Marina Radisson Hotel, Berkeley, CA

WHY? 

* Receive information on the key role Lisp plays in the development of
mission-critical applications by businesses, research
institutions, academia and government developers throughout the world

* Network with Lisp developers who have built successful commercial
applications

* Learn how to make CL/CLOS work for you by attending one of our
tutorial sessions

* Student discounts available. See our web site for prices

Keynote Speakers
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Paul Graham
Producer of Yahoo Store
Yahoo, Inc.
Author of "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp"

John McCarthy
Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
One of the founders of Artificial Intellegence Research and
originator of LISP programming language


Tutorials (2 days)
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"Optimizing User Code in Allegro CL 5.0"

"Intermediate CLOS"

"Connecting Lisp to the world with ORBLink"

"Creating Intelligent Web Applications with Common Lisp Hypermedia
Server (CL-HTTP)"

"Persistent Lisp Objects"

"Using Allegro CL on Windows"

"Reality Bytes"

"Collaborative-Software Development with GBB"

Full abstracts are available at:

http://www.franz.com/lugm98/conference/courses/tutorials.html


Speakers/Presenters (2 days)
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Presentations by representatives from: GTE Internetworking
(powered by BBN), Junglee Corp., Franz Inc., Harlequin Inc., Autodesk
Inc., NationalResearch Council of Canada, DePaul University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Washington,
Cognitive Research Laboratory, and MORE!

Complete list available at:

http://www.franz.com/lugm98/conference/courses/speakers.html

Panel Discussions
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Lisp 2000 - "The Future of Lisp"
Moderator: Richard Gabriel

Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) - "How far can automation go in
designing KBE?"
Moderator: Dr. Sheng-Chaun Wu

Distributing Information Over the Web - "Why is CL good for this?
What does it give you that other languages don't?"
Moderator: Paul Graham

Complex Scheduling Systems - question TBA
Moderator: Howard Shrobe

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   * Allegro CL "Birds of a Feather" Monday, November 16th 6pm-8pm

   * Conference reception on Tuesday, November 17th 6pm-10pm 

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                  For more information visit: 

        http://www.franz.com/lugm98/conference/index.html 

        We look forward to seeing you at the conference!