Technical Papers

I have begun the process of converting all of my old technical papers, most of which were published originally in hardcopy, to HTML for web publication. An index of those papers is offered below.

I also have some non-technical publications (fiction, humor, etc.) not listed here.

The following changes has been recently made:

• The 4D Nucleome Data Portal as a resource for searching and visualizing curated nucleomics data (2022) is recently published by my team at Harvard (HMS/DBMI/Park Lab).

Here’s a hopefully-complete list of all my technical papers:

Date	Venue	Paper	Status	Published
May, 2022		“The 4D Nucleome Data Portal as a resource for searching and visualizing curated nucleomics data” (1 of 23 co-authors)	webbed	Nature Communications 13, 2365 (2022) “The 4D Nucleome Data Portal as a resource for searching and visualizing curated nucleomics data”)
Oct, 2008		Common Lisp: The Untold Story (Lisp50 @ OOPSLA’08)	webbed	Kent’s paper repository (HTML) & Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lisp (PDF) in the ACM Digital Library.
Dec, 2007		The Revised Maclisp Manual (Sunday Morning Edition)	webbed	http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/
Spring, 2001		“Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family”	webbed	Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2022: Advances in Exception Handling Techniques, edited by A.Romanovsky, C.Dony, J.L.Knudsen, & A.Tripathi.
April, 1997		Programming Language ISLISP (2nd of 2 Technical Editors)	web-accessible PDF, PS, & DVI	ISO/IEC 13816:1997(E) & www.islisp.info
May, 1996		The Common Lisp HyperSpecTM (authored HTML markup program)	webbed	LispWorks website (formerly Harlequin.com); won “Simpliciter” Award
August, 1995		“Ambitious Evaluation / A New Reading of an Old Issue”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. VIII, No. 2
December, 1994		American National Standard for Information Systems--Programming Language--Common Lisp (2nd of 2 Technical Editors)	hardcopy from ANSI & draft equivalent available by FTP	ANSI X3.226-1994 & Xerox PARC FTP site
December, 1994		“More Than Just Words / Lambda, the Ultimate Political Party”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. VII, No. 4 [Belorussian translation]
June, 1994		“Accelerating Hindsight / Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. VII, No. 1-2
December, 1993		“The Best of Intentions / EQUAL Rights--and Wrongs--in Lisp”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. VI, No. 4.
March, 1993		“What’s in a Name? / Uses and Abuses of Lispy Terminology”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. VI, No. 1
September, 1992		“dpANS Common Lisp / Don’t Judge a Spec by its Cover!”	webbed	Lisp Pointers, Pitman’s “P.S.” column, Vol. V, No. 3
March, 1990		“Exceptional Situations In Lisp”	webbed	First European Conference on the Practial Application of Lisp (EUROPAL) 1990; won “Best Paper” Award (supersedes 1985 WP)
December, 1988		Chapter 29 (Conditions) of Common Lisp, The Language, Second Edition	webbed	Digital Press & CMU website
June, 1988		“Technical Issues in the Separation of Function Cells and Value Cells” (1 of 2 co-authors)	webbed	Lisp and Symbolic Computation, Vol. 1, No. 1; a subset of X3J13/86-010.
March, 1988		“Nettoyage de Common Lisp” (1 of 2 co-authors)	unavailable	Enjeux, No. 88 (written in English, published in French)
March, 1988		“Common Lisp Condition System, Revision #18”	web-accessible plain text	X3J13 design document (There is a specific document number, but I’ll have to look it up sometime. --KMP)
February, 1988		“Support for Knowledge Aquisition in the Knowledge Engineer’s Assistant (KEATS)” (1 of 4 co-authors)	webbed	Expert Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1.
February, 1988		“Interactions in Lisp”	webbed	First International Workshop on Lisp Evolution and Standardization (IWoLES) (invited talk)
December, 1986		“KEATS: The Knowledge Engineer’s Assistant” (1 of 5 co-authors)	unavailable	Open University HCRL Tech Report 20
September, 1986		The Revised3 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (1 of 17 co-authors)	web-accessible PS and PDF (scanned)	MIT AI Memo 848a Other formats also available
February, 1985		“CREF: An Editing Facility for Managing Structured Text”	web-accessible PS and PDF (scanned)	MIT AI Memo 829 & Open University HCRL Tech Report 14 [PS] [PDF]
February, 1985		“Exceptional Situations in Lisp”	web-accessible PDF (scanned)	MIT AI Working paper 268 [Citation info] [PDF]
September, 1984		“The Description of Large Systems”	webbed paper and supporting documents	Annotated, updated paper (HTML) Excerpted supporting CL code (plain text) Original document (scanned):   MIT AI Memo 801 [PS] [PDF]
May, 1983		The Revised Maclisp Manual (Saturday Evening Edition)	hardcopy & later version webbed	MIT LCS Tech Report 295, the Saturday Evening Edition, was published in hardcopy in 1983; an updated Sunday Morning Edition was published to the web in 2007.
February, 1983		“Interfacing to the Programmer’s Apprentice”	web-accessible PDF (scanned)	MIT AI Working paper 244 [Citation info] [PDF]
August, 1980		“Special Forms in Lisp”	webbed	1980 Lisp Conference
June, 1979		“A FORTRAN→LISP Translator”	webbed	1979 Macsyma Users’ Conference

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