Kent Pitman
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Kent M. Pitman is the President of HyperMeta, Inc. (http://www.hypermeta.com) and has been involved for many years in the design, implementation and use of Lisp and Scheme systems. He is often better known by his initials and login, KMP.
He was a technical contributor to X3J13, the ANSI subcommittee that standardized Common Lisp and contributed to the design of the programming language. He prepared the document that became ANSI Common Lisp, the Common Lisp HyperSpec (http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html) (a hypertext conversion of the standard), and the document that became ISO ISLISP. He is currently setting up a new organization for developing standards called Substandards (http://www.substandards.org).
Kent Pitman is also the author of Another Way Out (http://www.anotherwayout.com) a parody of the CBS Daytime series The Young and the Restless.
Further information and a list of publications can be found at his personal home page: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/index.html
He can often be found on the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. Many people value his contributions there because of his authoritative perspective on Common Lisp standardization, others decry his attitude towards open source Lisp implementations and Scheme.tr:Kent Pitman