- First name: 	Marco 
  
- Last name: 	Antoniotti 
  
- Email address: 
  
- Home page: 	http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~marcoxa 
  
- Phone number(s): +1 - 212 - 998 3488 
  
- Postal code: 	07302 
  
- City: 	Jersey City 
  
- Country: 	USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
New York University, New York, USA 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
bioinformatics 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
M. Antoniotti, Two Bioinformatics Applications of Common Lisp, ILC 2002 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
Yes. CLOCC, ILISP 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Common Lisp, Scheme 
  
- 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, ACL, Corman, MCL, CMUCL, ECL, KCL, Ibuki, Lucid 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
Lispworks, ACL, Corman, MCL, CMUCL, ECL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
20 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much)  75% 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
No 
  If not, why not? 
Resistance of colleagues and lack of portable UIs 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Yes.  Lack of standardization effort. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Yes. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
It is not contrary. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
Yes 
  
  If so, where and how often? 
ILC 2002, ILC 2003, several New York local lisp groups meetings. 
  
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
Yes.