Franz periodically distributes newsletters to its Semantic Technologies, and Common Lisp based Enterprise Development Tools mailing lists, providing information on related upcoming events and new software product developments. The latest newsletter is displayed below. Previous issues are listed in the Newsletter Archive.
Franz Tech Corner News
Allegro CL 9.0 - Call for Beta Testers
Allegro CL 9.0 should be ready for Beta testing early April,
2012. The major new feature in Allegro CL 9.0 is Symmetric
MultiProcessing (SMP). This allows separate Lisp threads to run on
separate hardware processors, potentially significantly reducing
execution time on multiprocessor machines. SMP is available on the
Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. It is not available on FreeBSD and
Solaris platforms. All platforms do have non-SMP versions of Allegro
CL 9.0.beta. Common Graphics, the IDE, and CLIM are only available on
the non-SMP versions of Allegro CL 9.0.
Users should be aware that programs which ran correctly in a non-SMP Lisp may produce incorrect results in an SMP Lisp unless issues like separate processes both modifying the value of the same variable are handled correctly. (Wrapping code with the without-interrupts macro protected variables from being modified by two processes at once in a non-SMP Lisp but this does not work in an SMP Lisp.) Although release 8.2 did not support SMP, operators designed to assist in SMP programming were implemented. This issue and the operators are discussed in the 8.2 version of smp.htm. That document (and its 9.0.beta update which will be available when 9.0.beta is released) is a good starting place for users interested in trying the SMP Lisp.
Webcast - Making Solr Search Smarter using RDF
Join us - Wednesday, March 28th at 10AM Pacific.
Solr has been widely adopted in the Enterprise because it offers powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, fuzzy search, stemming, ranking, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling and much more.
Despite Solr's many capabilities the product does not include the ability to perform semantic search in your files. For example, it does not let you perform queries or reasoning over the objects that are discovered in a document via Entity Extraction. For that you need to marry Solr with an RDF Database to create intelligent text documents. Several of our SemTech customer projects have found this augmentation of Solr with RDF to be a key feature for creating unique capabilities within their product offering.
In our webcast we'll show you some demos of applications that use Solr and an RDF Database to reason over text objects. We'll also provide a short tutorial on how to keep Solr in sync with the RDF Database.
SRI and Vulcan's Lisp Based Aura Project - A Textbook with Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
As part of Project Halo, Vulcan Inc.'s staged, long-range research
effort towards the development of a "Digital Aristotle", SRI has
developed AURA to allow subject matter experts (SMEs), for example,
biologists, physicists, and chemists, and scientific educators to
formulate knowledge and questions to query that knowledge, with an
ever-decreasing reliance on knowledge engineers. As part of this
effort, SRI have developed "Inquire: A Textbook with Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning".
For full details, see here
5th European Lisp Symposium
April 30th to May 1st - Univ of Zadar, Croatia
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
For additional information, see here
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International Lisp Conference - 2012
Kyoto, Japan - Oct. 21-24
The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2012 International Lisp Conference will be held in Kyoto, Japan at Miyakomesse from October 21st to 24th, 2012.
This year's program consists of tutorials at beginners' and advanced levels, prominent invited speakers from the Lisp communities, an excellent technical session, tours of Jidai-Matsuri: festival enjoyed by people of all ages, participating in its historical reenactment parade dressed in authentic costumes representing various periods, and characters in Japanese feudal history.
Practical Semantic Web - Applications, Common Lisp Edition
This new book is intended to be a practical guide for using RDF data in information processing, linked data, and semantic web applications using both the AllegroGraph commercial product and the Sesame open source project.
Training Schedule
BECOME ALLEGRO CERTIFIED - To obtain your Allegro CL
Certification enroll in our LIVE Program which offers developers an
opportunity to learn and improve their Lisp programming skills from
the comfort of their home or office while interacting with the Franz
instructor.
Lisp Programming Series Level I: Basic Lisp Essentials - April 10,
17, and 24
Lisp Programming Series Level II: Specialized Components of Lisp - May 8, 15, and 22
March, 2012
In this issue
- Allegro CL 9.0 - Call for Beta Testers
- Webcast - Making Solr Search Smarter using RDF
- SRI and Vulcan's Lisp Based Aura Project - A Textbook with Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- European Lisp Symposium - 2012
- International Lisp Conference - 2012
- Practical Semantic Web - Common Lisp Edition
- Training Schedule
Allegro CL 9.0 - Call for Beta Testers
Users should be aware that programs which ran correctly in a non-SMP Lisp may produce incorrect results in an SMP Lisp unless issues like separate processes both modifying the value of the same variable are handled correctly. (Wrapping code with the without-interrupts macro protected variables from being modified by two processes at once in a non-SMP Lisp but this does not work in an SMP Lisp.) Although release 8.2 did not support SMP, operators designed to assist in SMP programming were implemented. This issue and the operators are discussed in the 8.2 version of smp.htm. That document (and its 9.0.beta update which will be available when 9.0.beta is released) is a good starting place for users interested in trying the SMP Lisp.
There are also numerous other enhancements in
9.0.beta. Users interested in becoming beta testers should contact sales@franz.com for more
information.
Webcast - Making Solr Search Smarter using RDF
Solr has been widely adopted in the Enterprise because it offers powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, fuzzy search, stemming, ranking, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling and much more.
Despite Solr's many capabilities the product does not include the ability to perform semantic search in your files. For example, it does not let you perform queries or reasoning over the objects that are discovered in a document via Entity Extraction. For that you need to marry Solr with an RDF Database to create intelligent text documents. Several of our SemTech customer projects have found this augmentation of Solr with RDF to be a key feature for creating unique capabilities within their product offering.
In our webcast we'll show you some demos of applications that use Solr and an RDF Database to reason over text objects. We'll also provide a short tutorial on how to keep Solr in sync with the RDF Database.
Register for this webcast here.
.SRI and Vulcan's Lisp Based Aura Project - A Textbook with Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
For full details, see here
5th European Lisp Symposium
The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.
For additional information, see here
.International Lisp Conference - 2012
The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2012 International Lisp Conference will be held in Kyoto, Japan at Miyakomesse from October 21st to 24th, 2012.
This year's program consists of tutorials at beginners' and advanced levels, prominent invited speakers from the Lisp communities, an excellent technical session, tours of Jidai-Matsuri: festival enjoyed by people of all ages, participating in its historical reenactment parade dressed in authentic costumes representing various periods, and characters in Japanese feudal history.
For additional information, see here
Practical Semantic Web - Applications, Common Lisp Edition
This new book is intended to be a practical guide for using RDF data in information processing, linked data, and semantic web applications using both the AllegroGraph commercial product and the Sesame open source project.
For additional information and to purchase, see here.
Training Schedule
BECOME ALLEGRO CERTIFIED - To obtain your Allegro CL
Certification enroll in our LIVE Program which offers developers an
opportunity to learn and improve their Lisp programming skills from
the comfort of their home or office while interacting with the Franz
instructor.
Lisp Programming Series Level II: Specialized Components of Lisp - May 8, 15, and 22
For additional information and to register, see here.
