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Industry Applications using Lisp
"Live Lisp and prosper."
The following industrial Lisp users are grouped by industry. Each listed company is believed to use Lisp either for internal use in an industrial application or as the basis for an industrial product. Some Lisp vendors provide lists of successful customers as testimonials:
Activities in universities and research organizations are not generally listed here, nor are freely available tools?, libraries? and source code or individual Lisp consultants.
To create an exhaustive list would be a huge task. This listing represents only those we have stumbled across. To add, update or remove a listing, edit this page.
[ An impressive list, but it would be much more interesting if (where possible) additional links to technical information were included. paul graham's site would be a good place to start, but I imagine alain picard and others can also be leaned on to write more stuff. -- Daniel Barlow?]
Aerospace/Airlines
- Atraxis AG (other site)
- Knowledge-based systems for airline management(?).
Additional info:
- SAREX: A Lisp Application in Airline Fleet and Maintenance Management by Kun Sun (Proceedings of the Lisp User Group Meeting 1999)
- Boeing Simplified English Checker (BSEC)
- An application written entirely in Franz ACL. It checks aircraft maintenance documentation for compliance with AECMA Simplified English. The BSEC has been sold commercially since 1999.
- ITA Software
- Cheap airfare search engine
Additional info:
- Mercury Scheduling Systems Inc.
- Airline Operations Software.
Animation/Graphics
AI, Expert Systems and Knowledge Based Tools
- Brightware Corporation
- Knowledge-based systems.
- Charles River Analytics
- Intelligent systems.
- Cycorp
- General knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engines. Additional info:
- Cyntergy, LLC
- Process knowledge modeling, automated planning, real-time Web site
creation, intelligent communication.
Additional info:
- Genworks International
- Knowledge-based engineering and business development tools and
applications.
Additional info:
- Basic Lisp Techniques
- GWL - A Generative Language for Building Web Applications by David J. Cooper Jr, (Proceedings of the Lisp User Group Meeting 1999)
- Understanding Multi-state Generative Process Planning by David J. Cooper Jr, (Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary of Lisp--Lisp in the Mainstream Conference, 1998)
- Liberating Insight PLC
- Knowledge-based software solutions specializing in Enterprise Resource Management (ERM), Customer Relations Management (CRM) and Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE).
- Mark Watson
- Natural language processing tools.
Additional info:
- Mindmaker
- Knowledge-based systems, natural language processing, computer telephony and speech recognition, machine learning, intelligent agents.
- SRI International spin-off company
- Natural language extraction engine technology.
- A small startup in RTP, NC.
- Expert systems for the health care industry, using LispWorks in a multi-language environment.
Automotive
Computers and Computer Tools
- Algorithme
- Software development.
- Beta Nine BVBA
- Advanced software development and consultancy.
Additional info:
- GrammaTech, Inc.
- Software development tools (the user interface of Codesurfer was developed with STk).
- HyperMeta
- Lisp tools, consulting, Web design and hosting.
Computer Aided Design
- Design Power
- Software that makes automation of proposals and design documentation of custom products for the manufacturing, construction, plant design, and engineering industries.
- Fractal Concept
- Automated non destructive testing driving software, Internet applications.
Additional info:
- ICAD
- An Allegro Lisp based Knowledge Based Engineering / design automation system used by aerospace, automotive and others. ICAD's developers, Knowledge Technology International, was purchased by Dassault Systemes, the makers of CATIA and SolidWorks.
- OneSpace Modeling (formerly SolidDesigner)
- 3D CAD modeling software by CoCreate,
formerly part of HP. The original product name was SolidDesigner.
Additional info:
- Common Lisp as an Embedded Extension Language (HP Journal, October 1995)
- OneSpace Modeling FAQ list (also covers Lisp programming in OneSpace Modeling and provides sample code)
Consulting/Research
- Covasoft, Inc.
- E-business process execution management solutions.
- CIBER
- Management consulting and IT solutions for e-commerce.
- RavenPack International
- The company provides "strategic consulting services and technology
solutions for industry and government". Lisp is used for "new and
revolutionary data representations and processing systems for real-time
prediction and scenario modeling". Additional info:
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Databases
- Open Technologies Group
- Enterprise integration applications.
Defense/Weapons
Education and Training
- AgentSheets
- Simulation authoring tools for education and training.
Additional info:
- Cley Ltd
- Consultancy, training, applications and support.
Additional info:
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- ITS group of CIRCLE - Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
- Intelligent tutoring systems for learning physics.
Electronics
- Radar Systems Software
- Real-time applications.
- Simantix Systems
- System-level testbench generation and simulation environments for
functional verification.
Additional info:
- SoChipTest
- Chip design and analysis tools.
Energy
Finance
- American Express
- The company's Authorizer Assistant for credit card payments is a
Lisp-based application.
Additional info:
- Wisdom Technologies
- Financial optimization systems.
- Xigo
- Intelligent agents for trading applications.
- Netfonds ASA
- Norwegian online stock-trading service.
Government
- Point and Click Solutions, Inc.
- Custom software applications for corporate and government needs.
Groupware/Project Management
- daybyday
- daybyday Media GmbH is Europe's leading supplier for web-based PIMs. They use Lisp internally for benchmarking and prototyping, amongst other things.
Insurance Industry
- Meyerthole Radtke u. Siems
- Uses Lisp internally for actuarial data mining.
Internet/Web
- HotDispatch
- Buyer-driven marketplace for expertise and problem resolution.
- Memetrics
- Web marketing optimization experiment generator and automated analysis system.
- Yahoo! Store
- E-commerce.
Additional info:
Manufacturing
- BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of home appliances
- Integrated simulation systems for factory planning, logistics, SCM, and production planning.
- IC3D - Interactive Custom Clothes Company
- Mass customization for the apparel industry.
Additional info:
Mathematics
- Applicative Common Lisp from the University of Texas at Austin has been successfully used in a variety of industrial theorem proving applications from system modeling, through VLSI design formal verification, to Java virtual machine correctness proving (see documentation here).
Market Research
- 42 management consulting
- Uses Lisp internally for data mining (Win32 app) and visualization (Linux web app).
Medicine/Biotechnology
- MDL Information Systems, Inc (formerly Afferent Systems)
- Applications for the pharmaceutical drug discovery (see success story).
- Clinisys
- Clinical trials systems for the pharmaceutical industry.
- GB Software
- Psychiatric Content Analysis and Diagnosis (PCAD). Content analysis of transcribed verbal materials.
Music
- MRAC Publishing
- Music research and composition.
Additional info:
- NoteHeads
- Music notation software and services.
Publishing
- Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh - UK
- Formation: system for the layout of British Telecom's Yellow Pages
classified telephone directories.
Additional info:
- Formation: a Small, Fast, Production Application in Lisp by Gail Anderson (Proceedings of the 40th Anniversary of Lisp--Lisp in the Mainstream Conference, 1998)
- Intelligent Handbook
- Integrated publishing, SGML solutions, document management and text
repositories, text parsing and search, multilingual applications, advanced
user interfaces.
Additional info:
- "Using Lisp in a Distributed Document Management and Preparation Project" by Greger Lindell (Proceedings of the European Lisp User Group Meeting 1999)
Robotics
- S&K Automation and Robotics Division
- Intelligent automation and robotics.
Social Sciences
- Social Science Automation
- Profiler Plus -- general purpose text coding application. Version 5 is a full re-implementation, in lisp, by Nick Levine of Ravenbrook.
Telecommunications
- GTE Laboratories Inc.
- Diagnostic expert system for telecommunications circuits.
- Juniper Networks
- Switching routers for carriers and Internet providers.
Additional info:
- Joel Ray Holveck, a Juniper employee, briefly tells about his work
- Portus Group
- Interactive Voice Response systems (voicemail, call routing, tele-banking, customer support, web interfaces, etc.).
- Telenor ASA
- Norway's largest telecom and internet provider.
Additional info:
- The K2 System: Lisp at the Core of the ISP Business by Espen. J. Vestre (Proceedings of the European Lisp User Group Meeting 1999)
Other
- Allegro NFS for Windows
- A Lisp based NFS for Windows.
- Interhack Corporation
- Services for secure and private information infrastructure.
Additional info:
- Stargreen Box Office
- Independent ticket agency for pop and rock concerts in London UK.
Additional info:
- Travelocity
- Online services for airline tickets, hotels, cars, vacations and cruises.
Additional info:
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Re: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler[sic] (comp.lang.lisparticle)I've not heard about this anywhere else: sure it's not just the poster confusing Orbitz (ITA-driven) with Travelocity?
To my best knowledge, Travelocity is not using any Lisp-based search engine.
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- Watson
- Visual Information Analysis. An application written in LispWorks by Xanalys.
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