- First name: Robert
 
- Last name: Hawkins
 
- Email address: REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s): 410-338-4386
 
- Postal code: 21218
 
- City: Baltimore
 
- State or province: MD
 
- Country: USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  Space Telescope Science Institute
 
- Fields of interest
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
   medicine, bioinformatics): Scheduling, AI
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
 
   Report on Programming Languages,  John Michael Adams
   http://www.ess.stsci.edu/psdb/public/papers/psflang-report.pdf
 
   On Spike, using Lisp, but not directly about Lisp:
 
   "Observation Scheduling Scheme for the Subaru Telescope", Toshiyuki Sasaki 
   (Subaru/NAOJ), George Kosugi (Subaru/NAOJ), Jun A. Kawai (Fujitsu America), 
   Toyoaki Kusumoto (Fujitsu America), Norikazu Koura (Fujitsu America), Rob 
   Hawkins, Laurence Kramer, Anthony P. Krueger, and Glenn Miller submitted to 
   the 2000 Conference on Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return
 
   http://www.ess.stsci.edu/psdb/papers-and-meetings/papers.html
 
   "The Evolution of the FUSE Spike Long Range Planning System"
   H.M. Calvani, A.F. Berman, W.P. Blair, J.R. Caplingera, M.N. Englanda, B.A.   
   Roberts, R. Hawkins, N. Ferdous, T. Krueger. Presented at the International 
   Workshop on Planning and Scheduling For Space, Darmstadt Germany, June 2004
 
   "Observation scheduling tools for Subaru Telescope" Toshiyuki Sasaki, George 
   Kosugi, Rob Hawkins, Jun A. Kawai, Toyoaki Kusumoto, presented at SPIE 
   2004, Glasgow, Scotland.
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
  if possible.
  I develop and support Spike for HST and for external customers including
  Spitzer, Chandra, FUSE and Subaru. The external Spike web page is here:
  http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/spike/
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
  CL, Scheme
 
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
  near future: CL
 
- Lisp implementations you have used
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): ACL
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
  in the near future: ACL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: Solaris, Windows, 
  Linux, OSX
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: ~18 intermittent (intro to scheme),
  5 continuous.
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):
  Java: 3
  Smalltalk: 9
  C(and variants) intermittent use over ~17 years
  Fortran: 3
  COBOL: 3
  Pascal: 3
  BASIC: >25 (also intermittent..)
 
- Total number of years of programming experience: >25
 
- Do you use Lisp:
  - at work (if so, how much) yes. Usually 100% of the time. Currently ~25-50% 
  as I am developing a Java front end for Spike.
  - for study (if so, how much) none
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) little
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? Yes and no..
  If not, why not? as above
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? Perceived cost (of developers, 
  licensing in comparison to IDEs), interface development (though tying with 
  Java has become a much more palatable option in the past 2 years or so..)
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? I have one and 
  am happy where I am ;)
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? In the future.
 
- 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)? Somebody already did ;)
 
- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp
  (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)? None at this time.