- First name: Thom 
  
- Last name: Goodsell 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 02474 
  
- City: Arlington 
  
- State or province: MA 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
	Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA, USA 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
	Robotics 
	Computer Vision 
	Planning 
	Software Engineering 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
	Conference paper on a system build in Lisp: 
		Goodsell, T. and N. S. Flann. "Mobility Planning for Omni-Directional 
Vehicles in Natural Terrains." SPIE Conference on Mobile Robots XIV,  
Boston, MA. September, 1999. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
	none that are publicly available 
  
- 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, maybe Dylan 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
	CMUCL, ACL, SBCL, OpenMCL 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
	OpenMCL, SBCL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
	Mac OS X, Linux 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
	2 active, 6 total 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
	C++ 8 years 
	Java 7 years 
	Python 3 years 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
	18 years (off and on) 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much): not yet 
  - for study (if so, how much): no 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much): yes, 1-2 hrs/week at most 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? no 
  If not, why not? not using it at work, not enough time for 
hobby work 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Being lost in the enormous and growing crowd of languages. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
no 
  
- 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