Acknowledgments

Rob Clayton wrote the original parameter fetching program named getpar. After I split his getpar into getch and hetch, Stew Levin finished the library properly, doing far more than I can recount. The cube main program utilities were written and debugged by many people, spanning over a decade. The manual pages were mostly written by Stew Levin, Rick Ottolini, and for vplot, Joe Dellinger. Rob Clayton and Dave Hale designed vplot, but Joe Dellinger gave it sustained life by setting it in a device independent form and incorporating many important features. I prototyped saw and sat and Biondo Biondi completed them. Dave Nichols contributed to sat and provided vital maintainence functions and introduced cake. In 1991, Benoit du Boullay at the French Petroleum Institute took a copy of the entire library with the goal of merging in some of the work done in France. We expect to see that new version back at Stanford by mid 1991 and plan to continue growing from there.

You haven't read anything here about science, nothing but management--just the kind of trivia that often prevents outstanding theoreticians from doing outstanding applied work. So I acknowledge Rick Ottolini. My envy of his ability to assemble prototype code of a new idea before the rest of us finished talking about it led me to begin this all from his ``ricklib''.