Who is behind all this?
The PI of this project is Professor Mireille (Mimi) Boutin. The other professors involve are Yung-Hsiang Lu and Aman Yadav.
The student development team is constantly evolving.
The initial development work was done in the Summer of 2007 in collaboration with Katie Bouman (now at U. of Michigan). Katie remained on the project until the end of Summer 2008, participating in outreach activities and helping to create the kiwi instructinal video.
Dennis Snell, an undergraduate student in ECE at Purdue, was instrumental in developing the first version of the kiwi using the zope software in Fall 2008 and concretely defining the project. He also orchestrated the migration to mediaWiki in Spring 2008.
Deen King-Smith, a PhD student in ECE, took a leading role in the project in Spring 2008. William Ehlhardt, an undergraduate student in ECE, attacked some information management challenges in the Summer of 2008. He is also the one who designed the kiwi mascot and he is the voice on the kiwi instructional video. Stephen Rudolph, a masters student in ECE, took the lead of the project in the Summer 2008 and is currently organizing the migration to the new server.
