Research Organizations

This listing is far from complete, and you are encouraged to update it or add new entries. It is intended to provide recognition to currently active research projects. The fruits of successfully completed activities might be listed as available tools or Industry Applications.

Artificial Intelligence

Auckland University of Technology, Institute for Information Technology Research

Natural language research.

Additional info:

• LISP Job on NLP (comp.lang.lisp article)

Institute of Information Technology Research, School of Information Technology, AUT

Speech and language research.

NASA Ames Research Center, Cognition Laboratory

Human-system modeling technology.

Nokia Research Center

Common Lisp is being used for Semantic Web research.

Additional info:

• Wilbur Toolkit for Semantic Web Programming
• Nokia - Semantic Web

Space Telescope Science Institute

Observation preparation, planning and scheduling systems for the Hubble Space telescope.

Additional info:

• COSI: Adding Constraints to the object-oriented paradigm by Gary Curtis and Mark Giuliano (Proceedings of the Lisp User Group Meeting 1999)

Biology

New York University Courant Bioinformatics Group

Tools for the manipulation and analysis of DNA sequence data, for use in an environment for the planning, running and reporting of biological experiments.

Children's Hospital Informatics Program

Several web-based and stand-alone programs for bioinformatics, most of which are written in Common Lisp.

Center for Computational Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

We invent tools and provide services (web-based and other) for the analysis and interpretation of high throughput molecular biology data, expecially gene expression arrays and mass spec proteomics. Most of our tools are written in Common Lisp. We have what we consider to be the world's best lisp hardware environment, a 16 processor IBM p690 with 64GB (yes, GB) of RAM, running a 64 bit version of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp. There is more common lisp bioinformatics work done by our collaborators in Dr. Shah's lab

Additional info:

• Re: Lisp Machines vs. Commercial Lisps ??? (comp.lang.lisp article describing the hardware/software setup and its costs)

Defense

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Lisp is used at the Human Research and Engineering Directorate. In April 2003 there were job opportunities for Lisp programmers.

High-Performance Computing

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Cluster Research Group

Cluster monitoring system (Supermon) uses data representation and wire-protocol based on LISP S-Expressions.

Physics and Astronomy

CERN

The CERN Common Lisp Users Group facilitates and promotes the use of Common Lisp at CERN.

Space Telescope Science Institute

Planning and scheduling software for the Hubble Space Telescope and other astronomical observatories.

Additional info:

• Spike: Lisp scheduling software suitable for ground- and space-based observatories
• APT: end-user observation planning GUI with Lisp backend

Music

Common Lisp Music

A csound like Lisp package for sound synthesis.

David Cope

SARA and Soucerer are MCL based packages to do music analysis and algorithmic music synthesis.

David Copes is offering a two week Workshop in Algorithmic Music Composition from June 23 to July 11, 2003.

Music Mind Machine research group (University of Nijmegen and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Research about the computational modeling of music.