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Many people have contributed comments, suggestions, design ideas, questions (and answers), bug reports, and code to GBBopen, and we appreciate their time and effort. Acknowledgment of some of their contributions here does not necessarily imply that any individual or the organizations with which they are affiliated endorse GBBopen or this documentation. Disclaimers aside, GBBopen users thank each of you!
Douglas Crosher ported GBBopen to Scieneer CL. Gary King worked on the initial Digitool MCL and OpenMCL porting efforts. Christian Lynbech performed the initial CMUCL port. Sam Steingold initiated the CLISP port.
Questioners, bug reporters, capability demanders, and great idea suggesters include: Pascal Costanza, Matthew Danish, Michael Hannemann, Susan Lander, Attila Lendvai, Wendall Marvel, Clayton Morrison, Beryl Nelson, Zack Rubinstein, Earl Wagner, Paul Werkowski, and Huzaifa Zafar.
Franz Inc. and LispWorks Ltd. provided (and continue to provide) Common Lisp licenses and technical support to the Project. BBTech Corporation provided hardware and Internet resources.
Some early design work for GBBopen was supported by DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (IXO) under contract MDA-972-02-C-0028 to Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.
Other efforts using GBBopen that have indirectly led to contributed GBBopen improvements and enhancements include: research supported by the “Fusion Based Knowledge for the Future Force” ATO program and the “Advanced REsearch Solutions - Fused Intelligence with Speed and Trust” program at the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, Fort Monmouth, NJ, under contract W15P7T-05-C-P621; research on “Command & Control and Data Fusion Architectures” supported by DND Canada under contract W7701-4-2118; and research supported by the AFRL “Advanced Computing Architecture” program, under contract FA8750-05-1-0039.
GBBopen builds upon concepts and ideas that were explored and refined in the UMass Generic Blackboard system and the commercial GBB product. The following people made significant contributions to those systems:
| UMass Generic | GBB Product | ||
| Blackboard System | Tony Carrico | ||
| Dan Corkill | Dan Corkill | ||
| Kevin Gallagher | Raymond de Lacaze | ||
| Philip Johnson | Kevin Gallagher | ||
| Kelly Murray | Susan Lander | ||
| Zack Rubinstein | |||
| Suzanne Tromara | |||
The UMass Generic Blackboard Project received research support from The National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research, and Texas Instruments, Inc.
The GBBopen Project
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