˙- First name:
 
Nestor
 
- Last name:
 
Rychtyckyj
 
- Email address:
 
REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s):
 
(313) 322-6744
 
- Postal code:
 
48101
 
- City:
 
Dearborn
 
- State or province:
 
Michigan
 
- Country:
 
USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
 (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
 
- Fields of interest
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
  medicine, bioinformatics):
 
knowledge-based systems, natural language processing, evolutionary computation,
knowledge representation, manufacturing, ergonomics
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
 
I have written papers describing LISP-based applications:
 
·Rychtyckyj, Nestor (2004), "Ergonomics Analysis for Vehicle Assembly Using Artificial 
Intelligence" to be presented at the 16th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial 
Intelligence, July 25-29, San Jose, CA.
 
·Rychtyckyj, N., (1999), "DLMS: Ten Years of AI for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning", AAAI-99/
IAAI-99 Proceedings, Orlando, FL, July 18-22, 1999, pp. 821-828, AAAI Press. 
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
 if possible.
 
- 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):
 
Lispworks
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
 in the near future:
 
Lispworks
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
HP-UX, Linux
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
20 
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
 number of years and the name of the language):
 
C/C++ 10 
Cobol 5 
Pl/I 5
Prolog 5
Smalltalk 2 
 
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
20+ years
 
- Do you use Lisp:
 - at work (if so, how much)
 - for study (if so, how much)
 - as a hobby (if so, how much)
 
use LISP at Ford 30-40 hours a week
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 If not, why not?
 
Difficult to convince management that LISP is a viable alternative; hard to
find or train people proficient in LISP
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
Perception; LISP is not perceived to be in the mainstream
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
 
NO
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
 
Possibly in the future
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
 If so, where and how often?
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
 
NO, but I would be interested
 
- 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)?