Acknowledgments
Core Development Team
The Jikes RVM core team is responsible for creating or applying the improvements that go into the releases of Jikes RVM. The core team is:
- Steve Blackburn, Australian National University (Jikes RVM steering committee)
- Michael Bond, UT Austin
- Perry Cheng, IBM Research
- Peter Donald, La Trobe University
- Daniel Frampton, Australian National University
- Robin Garner, Australian National University
- David Grove, IBM Research (Jikes RVM steering committee)
- Michael Hind, IBM Research (Jikes RVM steering committee)
- Andrew John Hughes, University of Sheffield
- J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts
- Ian Rogers, University of Manchester
- Kris Venstermans, University of Ghent
Past Core Team Members
The following people have greatly contributed to the success of the Jikes RVM project by
having served as core team members:
- Steve Augart
- Julian Dolby, IBM Research
- Stephen Fink
- Matthias Hauswirth, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Chris Hoffmann, University of Massachussetts
- Feng Qian, McGill University
- Peter F. Sweeney, IBM Research
Contributions From Jikes RVM Community
The Jikes RVM project sincerely thanks the following people who have made contributions to the system:
- Eddie Aftandilian
- Steven Augart
- Michael Baer
- Greg Borota
- Shane Brewer
- Brian D. Carlstrom
- Peter Donald
- Philippe Faes
- Chapman Flack
- Daniel Frampton
- Robin Garner
- Georgios Gousios
- Andrew Gray
- Jungwoo Ha
- Matthias Hauswirth
- Matthew Hertz
- Mark Hindess
- Chris Hoffmann
- Kenneth Hoste
- Xianglong Huang
- Richard Jones
- Garrett Kolpin
- Christos-Efthymois Kotselidis
- Sergiy Kyrylkov
- Alan Lawrence
- Kien Le
- Han Lee
- John Leuner
- Lukas Loehrer
- Avery Moon
- J. Eliot B. Moss
- Elias Naur
- Anders Biehl Norgaard
- Jeff Palm
- Filip Pizlo
- Tuan Phan
- Aleksey Shipilev
- Jeremy Singer
- Stephen Smaldone
- Sunil Soman
- Darko Stefanovic
- Tom VanDrunen
- Ian Warrington
- Mark Wielaard
- Yuval Yarom
- Lingli Zhang
- Jisheng Zhao
Software Used by Jikes RVM
Jikes RVM uses either the class libraries produced by the GNU Classpath project or Apache Harmony.
Thanks to David R. Hanson,Christoper W. Fraser, and Todd Proebsting for making available the iburg tool, which we've enhanced for use in Jikes RVM.
Thanks to Codehaus and Sourceforge for providing hosting services.
The Jalapeño Research Project
Jikes RVM was independently developed as part of the Jalapeño research project at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The following IBM Research employees, academic visitors, and student co-ops contributed to the early releases of Jikes RVM:
- Bowen Alpern
- Anthony Cocchi
- Han Lee
- Janice Shepherd
- Matthew Arnold
- Julian Dolby
- Derek Lieber
- Manu Sridharan
- Dick Attanasio
- Tracy Ferguson
- Mark Mergen
- Peter F. Sweeney
- David Bacon
- Stephen Fink
- Ton Ngo
- Martin Trapp
- John J. Barton
- Eugene Gluzberg
- Jeff Palm
- Kris Venstermans
- Steve Blackburn
- David Grove
- Igor Pechtchanski
- John Whaley
- Rastislav Bodik
- Michael Hind
- Vivek Sarkar
- Maria Butrico
- Dave Hovemeyer
- Mauricio Serrano
- Perry Cheng
- Susan Hummel
- Arvin Shepherd
- Jong-Deok Choi
- Sergiy Kyrylkov
- Stephen Smith