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Note to prospective employers: MCL consultants are independent professionals with MCL experience. Because MCL consultants are not employees of Digitool, Inc. we cannot be responsible for their performance or fees. We do, however, use our best efforts to qualify these consultants and monitor their activities to assure they provide quality service. In order to help us do that, we ask that you let us know if you retain the services of a party listed in this directory, and to appraise us of your satisfaction with their work.

We are working on a new and more feature full directory of MCL consultants and developers.

In the meantime, we are keeping the earlier consultants list available further below on this page.

Both listings are organized geographically, and in the case of the United States by state. Most of the consultants' practices cover a wider area than their immediate locale, so don't hesitate to contact ones who may be on the other side of the globe from you.

The information is this directory is subject to change without notice. If you have a comment or a question about it contact Digitool at info@digitool.com.

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   Consultant Name: Victoria Bryan Davies
     Business Name: Industrial Lisp and Magic
           Address: 11628 S. Warpaint Drive
  City, State, Zip: Phoenix, AZ 85044
           Country: USA
          Internet: vdavies@pobox.com
         Telephone: +1-480-759-8228
               Fax: 
         Expertise: I develop object models, custom interfaces, and 
                    maintainable software solutions for complex applications.
                    I can make data visible and add value to its presentation.
                    Seven years experience with MCL, 17 years with Common Lisp
                    and Lisp machine Lisps (TI, Symbolics, LMI), over 20 years
                    in programming.  Ten years experience in factory 
                    scheduling and activity-based costing, at Motorola and 
                    Texas Instruments.  Previous experience in applications 
                    including VLSI CAD (TI), expert systems tools 
                    (Intellicorp), and many others.

   Consultant Name: Will Ackel
     Business Name: 
           Address: 8795-G Gilman Drive
  City, State, Zip: La Jolla, CA  92037
           Country: USA
          Internet: willackel@aol.com
         Telephone: +1-619-453-1751
               Fax: 
         Expertise: Implementated in MCL (along with two other consultants)
                    NDS -- Apple's Network Design System, which uses a
                    graphical programming language to model, verify, and
                    simulate the performance of Local and Wide Area Networks.
                    Designed and implementated new programming tools to
                    support this project.  Also, Graphical User Interface
                    Program design and specification.  Macintosh programming
                    in C/C++.  Three-dimensional graphics.  Image Synthesis.
                    Ray Tracing.  Simulation.  Software project 
                    management.

   Consultant Name: Kari Dubbelman
     Business Name: TeraCons
           Address: PO Box 2125
  City, State, Zip: Cupertino, CA 95015-2125
           Country: USA
          Internet: kari@teracons.com
         AppleLink: TeraCons
         Telephone: +1-408-266-8241
               Fax: +1-408-267-2608
         Expertise: TeraCons provides MCL/CLOS, C/C++, UNIX (esp. A/UX), 
                    Macintosh, Client-Server, WWW/html/http, Genetic
                    Algorithms and Knowledge Representation consulting 
                    services.
 
                    Past projects include creating several generations of 
                    rulebased product configuration verification systems for 
                    Cisco Systems, Inc.  The last version of this system was 
                    written in MCL and used by sales agents with PowerBooks 
                    at customer's sites. It was then extended to operate as
                    a GUI front-end client to Cisco's order entry system.  
                    The TCP server for this front-end was also written by 
                    TeraCons using HP/Lucid lisp and C.
 
                    TeraCons has been in business since 1989.

   Consultant Name: Erann Gat 
     Business Name:   
           Address: 35 South Craig Avenue #5 
  City, State, Zip: Pasadena, CA 91107 
           Country: USA 
          Internet: gat@jpl.nasa.gov 
         Telephone: +1-818-306-6176 
               Fax: +1-818-306-6912
         Expertise: General MCL consulting and custom development, 
                    specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous 
                    Agents, and Robotics.  I have fourteen years of 
                    experience programming in Lisp, and eight years of 
                    experience in MCL.  I am the author of FPC, a floating-
                    point accelerator for MCL 1.3 and 2.0 which 
                    transparently speeds up floating point computations by 
                    up to an order of magnitude or more.  I am a member of 
                    the technical staff at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab, 
                    and an adjunct faculty member of the Caltech Mechanical 
                    Engineering Department.

   Consultant Name: Matthew A. Haines
     Business Name: 
           Address: 13900 Panay Way, D #903
  City, State, Zip: Marina del Rey, CA  90292
           Country: USA
          Internet: haines@isi.edu
         Telephone: +1-310-822-1511 x407
         Expertise: All aspects of Japanese on the Mac using Lisp. Past 
                    projects include a specialized word processor for 
                    Japanese to English translators and ongoing system 
                    integration and dictionary construction work for a 
                    large-scale, fully automatic Japanese to English 
                    machine translation program.  Read Japanese fluently 
                    and have extensive contacts with Japanese native 
                    speakers for accurate EJ translation.

   Consultant Name: Michael Travers
     Business Name: 
           Address: 39 Boston Av
  City, State, Zip: Somerville, MA 02144
           Country: USA
          Internet: mt@media.mit.edu
         Telephone: +1-617-625-6717
               Fax: 
         Expertise: Experienced in MCL development and interface design. 
                    I've been hacking Lisp for fifteen years, MCL for eight.  
                    My Lisp experience includes: interfacing MCL to the 
                    Mac's multimedia facilities including QuickTIme, MIDI, 
                    and the WWW; designing and implementing visual browsers 
                    and editors for a variety of AI knowledge base systems; 
                    developing network collaboration tools using text and 
                    video; building graphic programming environments for 
                    real-time animation and simulation.

   Consultant Name: Christopher J. Vogt
     Business Name: Kalantha, Inc.
           Address: 631 N. 164th Circle
  City, State, Zip: Omaha, NE  68118-2505
           Country: USA
          Internet: vogt@novia.net
         Telephone: +1-310-821-4661
               Fax: +1-310-821-4661
         Expertise: I have 16 years in the computer field, 5 of those years 
                    working at Symbolics on a variety of projects, the last 
                    6 years I have been consulting, most of it in Lisp.  My 
                    strengths lie not so much with the Macintosh, but with 
                    Lisp, and in the planning and developing of large scale 
                    projects, on time and on budget.

   Consultant Name: Steven L Mitchell
     Business Name: Carbon Based
           Address: PO Box 495
  City, State, Zip: Rosendale, NY, 12472
           Country: USA
          Internet: Wookye@aol.com
         Telephone: +1-914-658-7071
               Fax: +1-914-658-7072
         Expertise: Commercial MCL applications - 3 years
                    MCL alpha and beta tester - 10 years
                    Macintosh internals - 11 years
                    Macintosh shrink-wrapped applications - 4 years
                    Applications and computer technology consulting -15 
                    years

   Consultant Name: Ken Tilton
     Business Name: Missing Link Software
           Address: 10 Leonard Street, Suite #1C
  City, State, Zip: New York, NY  10013
           Country: USA
          Internet: missing@inch.com
         Telephone: 800-377-3945
               Fax: 212-431-3782
         Expertise: Twelve years experience in VAX/VMS consulting to the NYC 
                    business community (COBOL, Basic, C, DCL, RDB) and ten
                    years experience as a Macintosh software developer and
                    publisher, first in C and now in MCL (one year).  Business
                    consulting has involved both new development, database
                    design and the salvage and repair of many failed/
                    functionally-challenged applications.  Especially
                    interested in contracts to tackle otherwise intractable
                    problems in this most extraordinary language, Common Lisp,
                    or Prolog.  Currently half-way through complete rewrite of
                    my intelligent Algebra tutorial.  Have developed my own
                    framework (below the level of "window") and accidentally
                    invented a new datatype that will soon change the way we all
                    program.

   Consultant Name: Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing
     Business Name: Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information,
                 Nijmegen University; Institute for Logic, Language and
                 Computation, University of Amsterdam
           Address: NICI/KUN, P.O. Box 9104
  City, State, Zip: 6500 HE Nijmegen
           Country: Netherlands
          Internet: desain@nici.kun.nl, honing@fwi.uva.nl 
               WWW: http://mars.let.uva.nl/honing/welcome.html
         Telephone: +31-80-615885, +31-20-525 4698
               Fax: +31-80-615938
         Expertise: Extensive experience in LISP / CLOS / MCL development,
                    auditing, quality assesment, code lifting, courseware
                    and tutoring.

   Consultant Name: Peter Stone
     Business Name: 
           Address: Tob. A-Laan 307
  City, State, Zip: 1111 JX Diemen, Amsterdam
           Country: Netherlands
          Internet: psto@xs4all.nl
               WWW: http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic/symbolic/mainpage.html
         Telephone: +31-20-6957 880
               Fax: +31-20-6957 880
         Expertise: Extensive experience in developing standalone MCL 
                    applications. Aggressive approach on solving complex 
                    problems. Strengths in penetrating and expanding new 
                    areas. Designed expert shells, parsers, neural nets, 
                    user interfaces and non-linear systems.
 
                    Experience:
 
                    * Lisp Visualisation 
                    * QuickTime VR Applications
                    * Music Languages
                    * Fractals & Chaos Modelling
                    * Option Pricing Algorithms
 
                    Additional skills:
 
                    * Documentation
                    * Advertising
                    * WWW Programming & Navigation
 

   Consultant Name: Peter Paine
     Business Name: Abstract Science Ltd
           Address: The Old Vicarage
                    Upper Brents
  City, State, Zip: Faversham, Kent   ME13 7DR
           Country: UK
          Internet: (see web page)
               WWW: http://www.zetascope.fsnet.co.uk/peterpaine/
         Telephone: +44-1795-533968
               Fax: +44-1795-533968
         Expertise: Lisp expertise with 19 years experience designing and
                    writing Lisp applications using MCL, Genera,and Franz.
                    TECHNIQUES: Object Oriented representation, Data base,
                    Graphics, User interface, Knowledge based systems,
                    Prototyping, Networking, Optimization, Garbage free
                    programming, Simulation, Modelling, Emulation,
                    Hyper-text, HCI, WWW, Digital imaging,  ... DOMAINS:
                    Engineering, Petrophysics, Advertising, Architecture,
                    New media, Publishing, Requirements capture, Finance,
                    Risk assessment, ... TYPE OF WORK: Huge/tiny projects,
                    Sub-contract, Competitive tender, Person substitution,
                    Teleworking, Trouble shooting, Invention,

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