- First name: Bradford 
  
- Last name: Miller 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
  
- Phone number(s): 401 842-3578 
  
- Postal code: 02882 
  
- City: Narragansett, RI 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
 (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth RI 
  
- Fields of interest 
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Computational Linguistics (Mixed  
Initiative Discourse-based Multi Modal Dialogue Systems), Planning,  
Plan Recognition, Knowledge Representation, Temporal Reasoning, Rule  
Induction, Cognitive Systems, Intelligent Agents 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Nothing recent, except for documentation on the packages below (the  
readme files will indicate where the documentation can be downloaded  
from). 
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 if possible. 
  
CL-LIB  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/cl-lib-latest.tar.gz) 
RHET  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/rhet-21-31.tar.gz) 
RPRS  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/rprs-3-3.tar.gz) 
TEMPOS  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/tempos-3-12.tar.gz) 
Timegraph-II  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/tg-ii-1.tar.gz) 
Timelogic  (ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/packages/knowledge-tools/timelogic-5-1.tar.gz) 
  
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Scheme (a long time ago), Zetalisp, Franz lisp, 
MacLisp,  Interlisp, Emacs Lisp, others I can't even recall 
  
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
 near future: 
  
Common Lisp 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
Lispworks (Mac, Linux), Franz's Allegro Common Lisp, Macintosh Common  
Lisp, CLisp, TI Explorer CL, Symbolics CL, Symbolics Zetalisp, Vax  
Franz Lisp, PDP-10 MacLisp, Xerox Interlisp (Dandylion) 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
 in the near future: 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp, Linux Lispworks 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mac, Linux 
  
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
Over 20 years 
  
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
 - at work (if so, how much) 
  
Yes, currently very little 
  
 - for study (if so, how much) 
 - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
Yes, currently modestly 
  
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
No 
 If not, why not? 
Job has changed over the years from primarily being a researcher 
and  developer to consultant and architect. I write proposals and do 
a lot  of systems architecture (how various things will work 
together), and  not so much detailed design and implementation 
anymore. I miss it, but  the high level work is fun too. If I can 
get funding for some of the  outstanding proposals, I might be able 
to do more Lisp work to support  them. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Lisp takes a special state of mind and maturity to appreciate. Most  
hack and slash programmers are not now and probably never will be  
there. There's also a lot of corporate resistance to languages like  
Lisp because they are harder to wrap management metrics around. 
There's  a lot of CMMI type infrastructure (Rational Rose, etc.) that 
would need  to be developed to account for lisp instead of just C++ 
and Java. If  Rational Rose doesn't connect to it, it just isn't 
considered. We have  hundreds if not thousands of programmers that 
are producing artifacts  that have to be tested very carefully, 
various defect containment and  other statistical mechanisms used to 
insure to our customer that the  system will work at a given level 
of reliability. The methodologies to  do that just don't exist for 
lisp based programming, and until they  appear... 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
To the extent I have time, sure 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
I think we are, but probably not so much to do lisp programming - 
again  if someone groks Lisp, they'll probably make a great 
architect, but  will mostly be dealing with UML and/or Use cases all 
day. But  occasional opportunities to participate in funded research 
does come  along, and that's still a good place to use Lisp. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
No 
 If so, where and how often? 
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
Yes, to the extent there is minimal time/financial commitment. A  
Boston-based meeting would be fine, for instance.