Jikes Contributions

This page exists to recognize the efforts and contributions to the Jikes Project.

Jikes Project Core Team as of 12 October 1999:

Contributor Activities
Philippe Charles Assistant Programmer.
Ken Coar Token lab rat.
Michael Ernst Language specification, testing.
Glenn Kasten Language specification, testing.
Neil Boyd Martin Language specification, testing.
Roly Perera Language specification, testing.
Dave Shields Strict adherence to whatever needs to be strictly adhered to.
Vadim Zaliva Programming, Lord of the Builds and Patches.

Name: Philippe Charles
Email: charles@watson.ibm.com
URL: Jikes Project, http://ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
Organization: IBM Research Division
Occupation: Research Staff Member
Location: Hawthorne, NY, USA
Contributions: Co-author original version.

Name: Ken Coar
email: Ken.Coar@Golux.Com
URL: http://Golux.Com/~coar/
Organization: Apache Software Foundation and IBM Corporation
Occupation: Web development
Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Contributions: Open-source project support, CVS mirrors, mailing lists.

Name: Michael Ernst
Email: mernst@cs.washington.edu
URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/
Organization: University of Washington
Occupation: Ph.D. student
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Contributions: Language specification, testing

Name: Glenn Kasten
email: gkasten@best.com
URL: http://www.auco.com/
Occupation:Consultant
Location: San Mateo, CA, USA
Contributions: Language specification, testing

Name: Neil Boyd Martin
email: neilm@plumhall.demon.co.uk
URL: http://www.plumhall.demon.co.uk/
Organization: Plum Hall Europe Limited.
Occupation: Scotsman, Director of Plum Hall Europe Ltd.
Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
Comments: Good Days: Java Test Suite Author, Bad Days: ISO 9001 Auditor, Other Days: Programming Language Trainer
Contributions: Language specification, testing

Name: Roly Perera
email: roly.perera@ergnosis.com
URL: http://www.ergnosis.com
Organization: Ergnosis Ltd.
Occupation: Director
Location: Bristol, U.K.
Contributions: Language specification issues, testing

Name: Dave Shields
Email: shields@watson.ibm.com
URL: Jikes Project, http://ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
Organization: IBM Research Division
Occupation: Research Staff Member
Location: Hawthorne, NY, USA
Contributions: Co-author original version.

Name: Vadim Zaliva
Email: lord@crocodile.org
URL: http://www.crocodile.org
Organization: Crocodile Group
Occupation: Programmer
Location: Fremont, CA, USA
Contributions: Jack of all trades.


Jikes Project Contributors

(None have yet been named.)


Assistance interpreting the Java language specification, testing:

Name: Peter Bertelsen
email: pmb@dina.kvl.dk
URL:http://www.dina.dk/~pmb
Organization: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
Occupation: Ph.D. student
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contributions: JVM specification issues


Special thanks to:

Jennifer Shields, for her design of the Jikes "Handshake" Masthead.

Lou Grinzo, for permission to adapt some material from an article he wrote for an article about Jikes, for use in the "What is Jikes" section of jikes.html.ZZ