- First name:
Ora
 
- Last name:
Lassila
 
- Email address:
REMOVED
 
- Home page:
http://www.lassila.org/
 
- Postal code:
03049
 
- City:
Hollis
 
- State or province:
New Hampshire
 
- Country:
USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  (please supply the name and city for each organization):
Nokia Research Center (Burlington, MA, USA)
 
- Fields of interest
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
   medicine, bioinformatics):
Semantic Web, Mobile Computing, Knowledge Representation
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
 
1) Ora Lassila: "Taking the RDF Model Theory Out for a Spin", in: Ian
Horrocks & James Hendler (eds.): "The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002", Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 2342, pp.307-317, Springer Verlag, 2002
 
2) Ora Lassila: "Enabling Semantic Web Programming by Integrating RDF and
Common Lisp", Proceedings of the First Semantic Web Working Symposium
(SWWS'01), Stanford University, July 2001
 
3) Ora Lassila: "OZONE Temporal Constraint Propagator", Report
CMU-RI-TR-96-12, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996
 
4) Ora Lassila & Marcel Becker: "OZONE Distributed Communication Library",
Report CMU-RI-TR-96-11, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
1996
 
5) Ora Lassila: "PORK Object System Programmer's Guide", Report
CMU-RI-TR-95-12, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
 
6) Ora Lassila: "PowerGrapher Reference Manual - A Programmer's Guide to the
PowerGrapher Tree Visualization Toolkit", First Version, Report
HTKK-TKO-C56, Otaniemi (Finland), Department of Computer Science, Helsinki
University of Technology, 1992
 
7) Ora Lassila, Seppo Törmä & Markku Syrjänen: "Designing a Distributed
Frame System", in: Eero Hyvönen et al (eds.): New Directions in Artificial
Intelligence, Vol. 1, 183-192, Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference,
Espoo (Finland), Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, 1992; an earlier
version of this paper is [Lassila & Törmä 1991j]
 
8) Ora Lassila: "The Design and Implementation of a Frame System", Master's
Thesis, Otaniemi (Finland), Faculty of Technical Physics, Helsinki
University of Technology, 1992
 
9) Marja-Riitta Koivunen & Ora Lassila: "WimperActors: An Improved
Interactor Model", Report HTKK-TKO-B70, Otaniemi (Finland), Department of
Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology., 1991
 
10) Ora Lassila: "BEEF Reference Manual - A Programmer's Guide to the BEEF
Frame System", Second Version, Report HTKK-TKO-C46, Otaniemi (Finland),
Department of Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, 1991
 
11) Ora Lassila: "Frames or Objects, or Both?", Workshop Notes from the
Eight National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90):
Object-Oriented Programming in AI, Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.A.), July
1990; also published as report HTKK-TKO-B67, Otaniemi (Finland), Department
of Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, 1990
 
12) Ora Lassila: "BEEF: kompakti ohjelmointityökalu eli hybridikehittimet
ovat haitallisia" (BEEF: a Compact Programming Tool or Hybrid Development
Tools Considered Harmful, in Finnish), in: Markus Djupsund, Petri Salonen
and Markku Syrjänen (eds.), STeP-90, Finnish Artificial Intelligence
Symposium, Oulu (Finland), Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, 1990
 
13) Ora Lassila: "BEEF Reference Manual - A Programmer's Guide to the BEEF
Frame System", First Version. Report HTKK-TKO-C43, Otaniemi (Finland),
Department of Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, 1990
 
14) Ora Lassila: "Pieni on kaunista - BEEF: Työkalu olio-ohjelmointiin ja
mallittamiseen" (Small is Beautiful - BEEF: a Tool for Object-oriented
Programming and Modeling, in Finnish). Arpakannus 4/89, Helsinki (Finland),
Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society, 1989
 
15) Juha Hynynen and Ora Lassila: "On the Use of Object-Oriented Paradigm in
a Distributed Problem Solver", AI Communications 2(3): 142-151 (1989); an
earlier version of this paper is [Hynynen & Lassila 1989a]
 
16) Juha Hynynen and Ora Lassila: "On the Use of Object-Oriented Paradigm in
a Distributed Problem Solver", in: Hannu Jaakkola and Seppo Linnainmaa
(eds), Proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (SCAI'89), Tampere (Finland), 657-669; best paper award
 
17) Orri Erling, Pekka P. Pirinen and Ora Lassila: "The ALLL Environment -
Using Object-oriented Concepts in Lisp", Computers and Artificial
Intelligence, 5(3): 253-258 (1987); an earlier version of this paper is
[Erling et al 1984a]
 
18) Ora Lassila: "OLisp: Lazy Evaluation in a Small Purely Functional Lisp
System", in: Matti Karjalainen, Jouko Seppänen and Markku Tamminen (eds.),
STeP-86 Symposium Papers: Methodology, volume 2, Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Symposium, Otaniemi (Finland), Finnish Society of Information
Processing Science, 1986
 
19) Orri Erling and Ora Lassila: "Mikko Lisp, Making Common Lisp Viable on
Microcomputers", in: Matti Karjalainen, Jouko Seppänen and Markku Tamminen
(eds.), STeP-86 Symposium Papers: Methodology, volume 2, Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Symposium, Otaniemi (Finland), Finnish Society of Information
Processing Science, 1986
 
20) Ora Lassila: "OLisp, an Idealistic and Advanced System for Very Small
Computers", in: J. Katajainen, M. Penttonen and A.Salomaa (eds.),
Proceedings of the Second Finnish Summer School on Theoretical Computer
Science, Parainen (Finland), Department of Mathematical Sciences, University
of Turku, 1985
 
21) Orri Erling, Pekka P. Pirinen and Ora Lassila: "The ALLL Environment -
Using Object-oriented Concepts in Lisp", in: Eero Hyvönen, Jouko Seppänen
and Markku Syrjänen (eds.), STeP-84 Symposium Papers, Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Symposium, Otaniemi (Finland), Finnish Society of Information
Processing Science, 1984
 
(see http://www.lassila.org/publications/ for URLs etc.)
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
  if possible.
 
1) Wilbur: A Semantic Web Toolkit for Common Lisp
(http://wilbur-rdf.sourceforge.net/)
 
2) PORK: A frame system as a CLOS metaobject extension
 
3) SCAM: A lightweight frame system (KR for NASA Deep Space 1's on-board
planner)
 
4) BEEF: A frame system for Common Lisp
 
5) ES Common Lisp: A Common Lisp programming environment and compiler for
Windows (anno 1984, also known as "Mikko Lisp"; an actual commercial
product!)
 
6) OLisp: An almost purely functional language for Apple II
 
7) ALLL: An object-oriented variant of Lisp (before CLOS or Common Lisp; ran
on MS-DOS!)
 
8) various libraries (mostly for planning & scheduling)
 
9) multiple applications (too numerous to list, mostly research prototypes)
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
1) Common Lisp
2) Emacs Lisp
3) MacLisp
4) various "homebrew" dialects
 
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
  near future:
1) Common Lisp
2) occasional Emacs Lisp
 
- Lisp implementations you have used
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
1) Macintosh Common Lisp, Coral Common Lisp, OpenMCL
2) Allegro Common Lisp
3) Steel Bank Common Lisp
4) Lucid Common Lisp
5) TI Explorer Lisp
6) Symbolics Common Lisp
7) Kyoto Common Lisp
8) MacLisp
9) Franz Lisp
10) AutoLisp
11) various "homebrew" implementations
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
  in the near future:
1) MCL, OpenMCL
2) ACL
3) SBCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
1) MacOS
2) Linux x86
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
22
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):
1) C: 22
2) C++: 15
3) Java: 8
4) Python: 1
5) AppleScript: 10
6) Pascal: hmm...
+ cursory understanding of most current programming languages
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
27
 
- Do you use Lisp:
  - at work (if so, how much): daily
  - for study (if so, how much): some
  - as a hobby (if so, how much): some
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? sure
  If not, why not?
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
1) lack of competent programmers
2) old myths & fears
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
no
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
not at the moment
 
- 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
 
- 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)?