Graham I Cummins

gic@cns.montana.edu

I'm a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University. My website (which may have some information about MIEN or my use of it) is here.

Naturally, I received tremendous help from the use of other open source code. The total debt to the open source community is too long to catalog, so I must hope to pay it by releasing my own code under the GPL in hopes that I can pay it forward. The most dramatic examples are the Python language itself, the wxWidgets/wxPython project, and NumPy. Travis Oliphant, main developer for NumPy, has put so much effort towards scientific Python, including answering my own emails promptly and helping me to write Python/NumPy extensions in C, that I feel he deserves special mention (although he did not ever work directly on MIEN, and can't be blamed for its bugs).

I also have a number of colleagues who help to test and apply MIEN, and are beginning to contribute to the extension blocks. I will include a more complete list of these folks soon, but for now I will mention:

Gary Orser
who provides binary releases of MIEN, and contributed to the process of learning XML and applying it to scientific models.

Libbey White
who has worked on documentation and the website, and is helping me with the process of making sure that someone other than me can effectively write MIEN extension blocks.