Acknowledgements

IST 501 is especially indebted to Steve Sawyer and Mary Beth Rosson of the Pennsylvania State University for their IST 501 course development and Robert Allen for use of his unpublished text.  Lee Giles gratefully acknowledges the many online resources used in this course plus those from Steve Sawyer and Mary Beth Rosson. In particular he would very much like to acknowledge the use of online presentation material from:

Robert Allen, Drexel U.
William Arms, Cornell U.

Elias Awad, U. of Virginia

Sadia Afroz, Arizona State U.

Shaaron Ainsworth, U. of Nottingham

Pierre Baldi, UCI
Michael Batty, University College London
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International U.

Rik Belew, UCSD

Ken Birman, Cornell U.
Guy Blelloch, CMU
Andrei Broder, Yahoo

David Brogan, U. of Virginia

Costas Busch, RPI

Rui Carvalho, University College London
Thomas Cover, Stanford U.
Marc Davis, UC Berkeley

James P. Evans, UNC
Gary Flake, Microsoft

Paolo Frasconi, Firenze
George Furnas, U. of Michigan
Yike Guo, Imperial College

Ian Gent, St. Andrew

Wolfgang Glänzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Eric Glover, Teoma

Andy Gravell, U. of Southampton

Jim Gray, Microsoft
John Greiner, Rice U.

David Grossman, IIT
Hui Han, Yahoo
Stevan Harnad, U. of Southampton

Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley

Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology

K-Y Hui, Aberdeen
Christian Jacob, U. of Calgary

Nathalie Japkowicz, U. of Ottawa

Judy Johnson, Yahoo

Pete Johnston, U. of Bath
R.V. Jones, Harvard U.
Michael Kearns, U. of Pennsylvania

Bob Krovetz

Franz Kurfess, Cal Poly

Sandy Kutin, U. of Chicago

John Lafferty, CMU

Ray Larson, UC Berkeley

Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford U.

Steve Lawrence, Google

Dik Lee, HKUST
Carl Lagoze, Cornell U.
Michael Littman, Princeton U.

H. Liu, Arizona State U.

Peter Lyman, UC Berkeley
Chris Manning, Stanford

Jim Martin, U. of Colorado

Tom Mitchell, CMU
James Moody, Ohio State U.

Anna Naguary, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Nelson, Old Dominion U.
Paolo Parjanian, USC

Jan Pederson, Altavista
Yun Peng, UMBC
Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo

David Reed, Creighton U.

Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State U.
Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley

Mark Sapossnek, Boston U.

Steve Sawyer, Penn State U.
Hinrich Schulte, Stuttgart
David Smith, Georgia Tech
Padhraic Smyth, UCI
Sargur Srihari, SUNY Buffalo

Eleni Stroulia, U of Alberta
Peter Suber, Earlham College

Panayiotis Tsaparas, U. of Helsinki
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, U. of Southampton

Hal Varian, UC Berkeley
Tina Wakolbinger, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
Scott White, UCI