- First name:
  Alexander

- Last name:
  Burger

- Email address:
  REMOVED

- Home page:
  http://www.software-lab.de

- Phone number(s): 
  +49 821 9907090

- Postal code:
  D-86462

- City:
  Langweid

- Country:
  Germany

- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  Software Lab. Alexander Burger
  7fach GmbH

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers?

  Y. Aoki, S. Tanahashi, A. Burger, H. Hattori and H. Wakoh
  "Development of a CG-animation system for sign language communication
  between different languages", IEEE Int. Conf. Information,
  Communications, and Signal Processing, pp.1668-1671, Singapore, Sep.  1997.
  Y. Aoki and A. Burger
  "An interactive computer-language system for producing CG sign
  language Animations", 1997 Joint Convention Record, The Hokkaido
  Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers,
  Japan, Kitami, Oct. 1997.
  Y. Aoki, R. Mitsumori, J. Li and A. Burger
  "Sign language communication between Japanese-Korean and Japanese-
  Portuguese using CG animation", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech,
  Signal Processing, pp.3765-3768, Seattle, May 1998.
  A. Hashimoto, J. Kim, Y. Aoki and A. Burger
  "A proposal of avatar language with Lifo for communication through
  linguistic barrier", IEEE Int. Conf. Electronics, Circuits, and
  Systems, Cyprus, Sep. 1999.
  A. Burger
  A Unifying Language for Database And User Interface Development
    http://software-lab.de/dbui.html
  A. Burger
  Keyword Searching System for Sound Database (Japanese)
    http://yons-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/~carrozzeria/h14/crypton/crypton01.pdf
  A. Burger
  A Radical Approach to Application Development
    www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~costanza/lisp-ecoop/submissions/Burger.pdf

- Have you developed or participated in the development of any Lisp-related programs or libraries?
  1982: StaffLisp (CP/M-68k, Idris, several Unixes) for Bug Inc., Sapporo, Japan
  1985: 8kLisp (CP/M, Z80)
  1988: Pico Lisp (Mac, DOS, SCO)
  1994: Lifo (Linux, Java) a Lisp with Forth syntax
  1999: Pico Lisp (Linux)
    http://www.software-lab.de/down.html

- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
  Linux

- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
  22

- Total number 
of years of programming experience:
  28

- Do you use Lisp:
  100% at work, study and hobby

- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
  Yes

- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth?
  Common Lisp is bloated

- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
  Yes

- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
  Yes, but not today

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
  In the future