Acknowledgments

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 initial and/or subsequent 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  

The following people have greatly contributed to the success of the Jikes RVM project by having served as core team members.

The Jikes RVM project sincerely thanks the following contributors 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
Chris Hoffmann 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 Ian Rogers Jeremy Singer
Stephen Smaldone Sunil Soman Darko Stefanovic Tom VanDrunen
Ian Warrington Mark Wielaard Yuval Yarom Lingli Zhang
Jisheng Zhao

Jikes RVM uses the class libraries produced by the GNU Classpath project.

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.

Contributors to the Jalapeño research project

Thanks to Codehaus and Sourceforge for providing hosting services.