To a large extent MIEN is a one man show, perpetrated by me:

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 web site, and is helping me with the process of making sure that someone other than me can effectively write MIEN extension blocks

I will add contact information for these folks in a bit. It seems prudent to get their permission first...