News and Status Reports

May 2025 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

On May 28, 2025 Eleanor Young presented “The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System” at the 2025 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industry Summit (CCECE). The paper by Young et al. was accepted for publication.

A preprint of the paper and the slides of the talk are available. Please post questions, inquiries or your thoughts on the paper to one of our social media sites.

2024 Annual Report released

The 2024 Medley Interlisp Annual Report has been released. Another year of progress.

Larry Masinter at aNONradio in December 2024

On December 18, 2024 Larry Masinter was a guest of the Lispy Gopher Climate radio show at aNONradio. The recording of the episode is available.

Medley LOOPS Volume I on Hacker News

In October of 2024 the book Medley LOOPS: The Basic System by Stephen Kaisler made it to the front page of Hacker News, where it generated an interesting discussion on early Lisp object systems and the syntax and internals of LOOPS.

Medley LOOPS Volume I

In October of 2024 the Medley Interlisp Project published the book Medley LOOPS: The Basic System by Stephen Kaisler. This is Volume I of the Medley LOOPS series on the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System, an object extension of Interlisp.

May 2024 European Lisp Symposium

On May 6, 2024 Andrew Sengul gave the remote talk “The Medley Interlisp Revival” at the European Lisp Symposium 2024 and you can read the paper. The video recording is available here.

2023 Annual Report released

The 2023 Medley Interlisp Annual Report was released.

November 2023 Computer Conservation Society event

On November 16, 2023 Steve Kaisler gave the talk “Software Archaeology: The Medley Interlisp Modernisation Project” at a Computer Conservation Society event in London and the recording is available here.

March 2023 Bay Area Lisp Meeting

An overview of the Medley Interlisp project was presented at the March Bay Area Lisp Meeting. The following recording provides an introduction to the work being undertaken by the Medley project.

2022 Annual Report released

The 2022 Medley Interlisp Annual Report was released.

2021 Annual Report released

We released the 2021 Medley Interlisp Annual Report on the first year of the Medley Interlisp Project.