ÿþ- First name: Frank

 

- Last name: Klassner

 

- Email address:  REMOVED

 

- Phone number(s): 610-519-5671

 

- Postal code: 19085

 

- City: Villanova

 

- State or province: PA

 

- Country: USA

 

- Organization(s) you work for or study at

  (please supply the name and city for each organization):

 

    Dept. of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, 

    Villanova, PA.

 

- Fields of interest

  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,

   medicine, bioinformatics):

 

   Robotics, Adaptive Digital Signal Processing, Virtual Reality

 

 

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply

  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).

 

    # Klassner, F. "A Tool for Integrating Lisp and 

      Robotics in AI Agents Courses," AAAI 2004 Spring 

      Symposium Series Report, Stanford, CA. March 22-24, 2004.

 

    # Klassner, F. "Enhancing Lisp Instruction with RCXLisp 

      and Robotics," Proceedings of 35th SIGCSE Technical 

      Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2004), 

      Norfolk, VA. March 3-6, 2004.

 

    # Klassner, F. "Lego MindStorms and Lisp: Perfect Together?" 

      Proceedings of 1st International Lisp Users Conference, 

      San Francisco, CA. October 27-30, 2002.

 

 

    # Lesser, V., Nawab, S. H., and Klassner, F., "IPUS: An 

      Architecture for the Integrated Processing and Understanding

      of Signals," Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 77, 

      (1-2) 1995. pp 129-171.  (not directly Lisp related, but

      the entire system was done in Lisp).

 

 

- Have you developed or participated in the development of any

  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,

  if possible.

 

    http://robotics.csc.villanova.edu (visit RCXLisp links)

 

 

- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):

    Common Lisp,  TI Explorer Lisp.

 

 

- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the

  near future:  Common Lisp, RCXLisp

 

- Lisp implementations you have used

  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):

    Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp, MCL

 

- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use

  in the near future:

    Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp, MCL

 

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

    Windows XP, Mac OS X

 

- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 12 years

 

- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the

  number of years and the name of the language):

     C: 15 years

     Java: 5 years

     C++: 1 year

 

- Total number of years of programming experience: 16 years

 

- Do you use Lisp:

  - at work (if so, how much)  50% of my projects

  - for study (if so, how much)  10%

  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 0%

 

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

  If not, why not?

 

- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what

  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?  

 

   Yes. Lisp needs two new standards.  The first is for multithreading,

   and the second is for USB/COM/FireWire port communication.

 

 

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

   Perhaps, but only for contract work.

 

 

- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?

    No.

 

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?

  If so, where and how often? 

No, except for the ILUC conference

 

  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 

Sure.

 

- Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in

  this questionnaire (please supply their names and email-addresses

  if you do)?

 

 

- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp

  (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?