Contributors to the PIA

Contents:

1. Outside Contributors
2. Core Group
3. Former Core Group Members

Outside Contributors

You, the developer community, are the people who are going to make the PIA a versatile and vibrant platform for web applications. Get your name in lights, right here.

Debra Herman

Translated all of the PIA's manuals from Technese into English.

Abraham Savitzky

Steve Savitzky would like to acknowledge the contribution of his late father, the original author of the Julian Day code in org.risource.util.Julian, which Steve translated (by way of C) from the original FORTRAN.

Core Group

Currently all of these people are working at Ricoh Innovations, Inc. Note that before November, 2000 RII was known as Ricoh Silicon Valley; that name has since been given to RII's manufacturing subsidiary.

Greg Wolff

Manager of the PIA group (where he can do the least harm) and one of the originators of the PIA concept.

Steve Savitzky <steve@rii.ricoh.com>

Chief Software Scientist at Ricoh Innovations, Inc.. Another originator of the PIA concept, Steve is the main architect of the PIA technology. His research interests include hypertext, object-oriented frameworks, and document-oriented computing; he has been playing working with computers for over 30 years.

Former Core Group Members

These people are former members of the core group. They have moved on to other projects, but their code lives on and their contributions are deeply appreciated.

Bill Softky

Senior Research Scientist. Bill's task was to make the PIA even more "user-friendly" through demos and new applications. His other research interests include unsupervised learning systems, algorithmic signal processing, and visual representation of complex information structures He has been playing with computers for 30 years.

Pamela Gage

... worked on the <text> tag and wrote the Demo application, but her biggest contribution was probably the PIA's release process, as described in her notes.

Rithy Roth

... wrote the earliest version of the web server engine, and his code is still the basis for org.risource.content, as well as many parts of org.risource.pia, including the Acceptor class.

Marko Balabanovic

Research scientist. When he was at RSV, Marko's research was in the area of human-computer interaction; interests include multimedia authoring and communication, storytelling and narrative, digital photography and information appliances.