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

The primary Sponsors are Franz Inc., Harlequin & Stanford University,
            with Autodesk Inc. as a Sponsor Affiliate


WHEN?  

     November 15-18, 1998

WHERE? 

     Berkeley Marina Radisson Hotel, Berkeley, CA

WHY? 

* Network with Lisp developers who have built successful commercial
applications

* Receive information on the key role Lisp plays in the development of
mission-critical applications by  Fortune 500 companies, research
institutions, academia and government developers throughout the world
      
* Keynote speakers: Paul Graham, John McCarthy

*2 days of tutorials (titles include): "Optimizing User Code in
Allegro CL 5.0", "Advanced Features of CLOS", "Connecting Lisp to the
world with ORBLink", "Installing and Using the Hypermedia Web Server"
(CL-HTTP), "Persistent Lisp Objects" (Full abstracts will be available
on the conference web site)

(registration deadline for discounted admission is October 15, 1998)

*2 days of presentations with representatives from: GTE 
Internetworking (powered by BBN), Junglee Corp., Franz Inc., National 
Research Council of Canada, DePaul University, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, University of Washington, Cognitive Research 
Laboratory.

(registration deadline for discounted admission is October 15, 1998)

* Scheduled Panel topics: Future of Lisp, Knowledge Based Engineering 
(KBE), Distributing Information Over the Web, Scheduling Systems.

*A conference reception on Tuesday. November 17th 6pm-10pm 
           
*"Birds of a Feather" Monday November 16th 8pm-10pm. 
      
For more information visit: 

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

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!