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<name>Acknowledgements</name>
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  <md:created>2006/05/09 11:10:07.083 GMT-5</md:created>
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  <md:authorlist>
      <md:author id="ian">
      <md:firstname>Ian</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Barland</md:surname>
      <md:email>ian@cs.rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
  </md:authorlist>

  <md:maintainerlist>
    <md:maintainer id="ian">
      <md:firstname>Ian</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Barland</md:surname>
      <md:email>ian@cs.rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:maintainer>
  </md:maintainerlist>
  
  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>Acknowledgements</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Beseme</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>NSF</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>students</md:keyword>
  </md:keywordlist>

  <md:abstract>Acknowledgements for people and organizations who made the TeachLogic project possible.</md:abstract>
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<para id="para1">
The <link src="http://www.teachlogic.org/">TeachLogic Project</link>
is the work of many contributors,
and was made possible through an 
<link src="http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE">NSF CISE</link> 
grant.
Major contributors and grant Principle Investigators
are
<list id="list1">
<item>
Moshe Vardi, Rice University 
  
</item>
<item>
Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University
  
</item>
<item>
Ian Barland, Rice University 
</item>
<item>
Phokion Kolaitis, University of California at Santa Cruz 
  
</item>
<item>
John Greiner, Rice University
</item>
</list>
In addition, 
Paul Steckler
implemented
the Base module's 
<link src="http://www.teachlogic.org/WaterWorld">Waterworld game</link>.
</para>

<para id="para2">
Students who helped contribute to various TeachLogic modules 
include (chronologically)
<list id="list2">
<item>
Peggy Fidelman
</item>
<item>
Justin Garcia
</item>
<item>
Brian Cohen       
</item>
<item>
Sarah Trowbridge  
</item>
<item>
Bryan Cash        
</item>
<item>
Fuching “Jack” Chi
</item>
<item>
Ben McMahan
</item>
</list>




</para>


<para id="para3">
TeachLogic has also been influenced
by the <link src="http://www.cs.ou.edu/~beseme/">Beseme project</link>,
headed by
Rex Page
of Oklahoma University;
in particular the Base module 
owes both some overall structure and specific details to Beseme.
</para>

<para id="para4">
Janice Bordeaux,
from the Engineering Dean's office at Rice University,
assisted with developing classroom assessment tools.
</para>







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