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# URGENT Kent Pitman Live Interview 23 Hours
##Update
[Interview Archive](../../show/Kent-M-Pitman-Interview-Unreleased-Essay-CREF/)
## Prev:
Hi everyone - break from gamedev for computer science with historical notes. In 23 hours from me writing, I will be interviewing [Kent M. Pitman](https://www.nhplace.com/kent/) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Pitman)) whom took over chair of the ANSI Common Lisp committee as well as contributing its Condition System on our Lispy Gopher Climate weekly live podcast. The specific topic is Kent's summer initially creating the CREF editor at the Open University in England, as [written up back at the MIT AI lab in AI Memo AIM-829](https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5619).

CREF was a good-old-fashioned system that used tagging to build new particular answers out of fragments of dense, nonspecific technical dialogue. This included generating draft/textual sketches of new computer programs. If we wish really hard (and get enough attention) we can convince Kent to release his hardcopy preserved demo of normal CREF useage after the interview.

See [Kent's thread](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/114448798258976360) on the Mastodon.

### SDF Mastodon is inaccessible. /Please/ boost [Kent's thread](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/114448798258976360)
And [this blog announcement on this alt mastodon](https://me.dm/@screwlisp/114497838867542609) you might have seen. I will migrate to Hairylarry's mastodon for next week.

## Time and place
### Lisp format

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### In English
The live show is an mp3 stream at 000UTC Wednesday 14 March which is Tuesday night in America at [aNONradio](https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio), and the livechat takes place (dust off your tinyfugue / tintin++ / telnet client) in [LambdaMOO](https://lambda.moo.mud.org).

## Please do attend live
/PLEASE/ show up and engage with Kent (well, I will read your questions and comments to him live) particularly about his CREF. If you cannot make it live, please leave questions and comments in [Kent's thread on the Mastodon](https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/114448798258976360).

## Archive if you can't make it
There will be a higher-quality archive at [the show's peertube](https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos). (To be clear there are years of weekly live episodes, just not migrated to peertube yet) for people in Europe who cannot stay up all night to attend, like [Schroeder](https://alexschroeder.ch/) does.

## See everyone there!