
                                   People

   The SmartEiffel Team

   The SmartEiffel Team is an informal group of people in the [1]LORIA
   lab of Nancy, France, gathered around the development of new
   compilation techniques for object-oriented languages and their
   implementation in SmartEiffel, The GNU Eiffel compiler.

   [o]
   [2]Dominique COLNET
          Professor at the University of Nancy 2. Leader of the
          SmartEiffel project.

   Dominique COLNET is the one who initiated the SmartEiffel project in
   Summer 1994. His goal was to create an inexpensive, bug-free advanced
   Eiffel compiler, unlike those already available on the market.
   He has been the head of this project as well as its key designer and
   implementator since then. (See the [3]history page for more
   information on the chronology of the SmartEiffel project).
   [o]
   Suzanne COLLIN
          Assistant Professor at the University Henri Poincaré of Nancy.

   Suzanne COLLIN has been working on SmartEiffel from the very
   beginning, taking a major part in conceptual and design discussions
   and decisions.
   She also provided the invaluable point of view of a user of
   object-oriented languages working in the field of image processing and
   augmented reality.
   She also gave Dominique three beautiful chilren :)
   [o]
   [4]Olivier ZENDRA
          Researcher at INRIA-Lorraine / LORIA. Got his PhD "Translation
          and global optimization in class languages" working on the
          SmartEiffel project.

   He started working during most of his spare time with Dominique on
   SmallEiffel in late 1994 - early 1995. He had many important
   conceptual and technical discussions with Dominique about languages,
   typing, ANSI C, Java bytecode, garbage collection, etc. and worked on
   the first bootstrap. He also tries to maintain the SmartEiffel Web
   site. He joined the ECOO research team in late 1997 to work almost
   full-time for his PhD on SmallEiffel, which he got with highest honors
   in late 2000.
   [o]
   Philippe RIBET
          Developper on the SmartEiffel project.

   He started working on SmallEiffel before the first public release and
   never stop to use and debug the compiler (mainly the library). He made
   the first port on non-UNIX system: MS-DOS. He joined the SmallEiffel
   team in summer 2001, working full-time on the project. The main aim is
   to developp the graphic library. He worked on other aspects like SCOOP
   for example.

   Former but Still Active Team Members

   [o]
   Philippe COUCAUD
          Master Thesis about garbage collection in OO languages.
          Currently working in industry.

   After being a student of Dominique, and in charge of the
   Macintosh-ready versions of SmallEiffel during his free-time since
   1996, Philippe joined the SmallEiffel team of the ECOO research team
   between February and September 1998 for his Master thesis. He worked
   more especially on the garbage collector.

   Other Contributors

   Many people have contributed to SmartEiffel, The GNU Eiffel Compiler.

   The first of them, in chronological order, are the computer science
   students of the University Henri Poincaré of Nancy, France. They
   tested and benchmarked it, providing very useful information in the
   early days of SmartEiffel.

   Then, many people, either working in computer engineering or computer
   science, or simply users working in various academic and business
   fields, took part in the process of improving SmartEiffel. Since it
   became The GNU Eiffel Compiler, in early 1998, even more people are
   helping its development.

   We want to thank all these people who help us in this great adventure.
   Although it is not possible to mention them all, here is a short
   [5]list of the most important contributors.

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             Copyright © Dominique COLNET and Suzanne COLLIN -
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                Last modified: Sat Oct 26 19:35:46 CEST 2002
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References

   1. http://www.loria.fr/
   2. http://www.loria.fr/~colnet
   3. file://localhost/home/colnet/misc/HISTORY.html
   4. http://www.loria.fr/~zendra
   5. file://localhost/home/colnet/misc/THANKS.html
   6. mailto:SmartEiffel@loria.fr
   7. http://v1.nedstatbasic.net/stats?ABrwaAGnb7Qqzb1bbWK0dJuyN30w
