Acknowledgements

The Cornell PREDATOR project has been developed over the last three years with the help and support of various people and organizations. Much of this activity has occured at the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. We are also especially grateful to Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan and Prof. Miron Livny at the University of Wisconsin for collaboration on the early phase of development, and to the SHORE project at the University of Wisconsin,

Project Funding

We appreciate the generous support of the following organizations:

The Microsoft Corporation for a research grant.
The National Science Foundation for a Career grant. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No:IIS 9702149. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation and the Intel Corporation for department-wide equipment grants.

Students at Cornell

The group of Spring '98: Zhiyuan Chen, Binquan Gu, Tobias Mayr, Mark Paskin, Brent Young.
The group of Fall '97: Binquan Gu, Mark Paskin, Lawrence Suen, Emre Tezel, Brent Young.
The group of Summer '97: Binquan Gu, Howard Mak, Mark Paskin, Lawrence Suen, Han Wang, Brent Young.
The group of Spring '97: Fabian Camargo, Ed Chao, Dave Koster, Chee-Keong Liau, Mark Paskin, Anil Sachdeva, Sunil Srivastava, Sandeep Tamhankar.
The CS537 class of Fall '96, who actually got some of their projects working despite a lack of documentation.

Third-Party Software

The SHORE Storage Manager from the University of Wisconsin
JClass Libraries for the Java GUI from the KL Group
Jpeg encoding and decoding software from the Independent JPEG Group.
The DOC++ documentation system from Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fur Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)
Initial code for image manipulation from the Rivl project at Cornell.
Initial code for geographic data types from the Sequoia project at Berkeley.

People and Organizations Outside Cornell

David DeWitt and Marvin Solomon : for making the SHORE storage manager available for our use.
Nancy Hall : for helping us understand and use the SHORE storage manager.
NASA : partial funding of initial work on this topic at Wisconsin.

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