- First name: Clayton
 
- Last name: Morrison
 
- Email address: REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s): (310) 448-8430
 
- Postal code: 90292
 
- City: Marina del Rey
 
- State or province: CA
 
- Country: USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
   (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey
 
- Fields of interest
   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
    medicine, bioinformatics):
 
cognitive development, machine learning, statistics, language acquisition
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
   bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
   Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
   if possible.
 
Currently developing COLAB, a lisp web application that incorporates
a large scale simulator (the Hats Simulator, Common Lisp), a blackboard
system (AIID, based on gbbopen in Common Lisp) and Trellis 
(http://trellis.semanticweb.org/). More information on Hats and AIID is
found at http://eksl.cs.umass.edu/hats/
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
 
Common Lisp
 
- 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):
 
Macintosh Common Lisp, OpenMCL
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
   in the near future:
 
Macintosh Common Lisp, OpenMCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
Mac OS X
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
4
 
- Do you use Lisp:
   - at work (if so, how much) constantly
   - for study (if so, how much) constantly
   - as a hobby (if so, how much) constantly
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? Yes (but need more time in the day)
   If not, why not?
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
More portability
A need for more libraries (but this is being addressed and there is a growing body
useful and readily available code).
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? I have a Lisp-related job.
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? Yes (depending on funding)
 
- 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