Acknowledgements
The Maestro team are grateful to the following people for their assistance on this project.
- Ray Arvidson, John Callas, and Steve Squyres
- generous support and unflagging advocacy throughout the development of the FIDO and MER adaptations of Maestro
- Dave Lavery and Michelle Viotti
- support of the robotics education/public outreach version of the software
- Samad Hayati, Dave Lavery, Richard Volpe, and the Mars Technology Program
- support of FIDO-MER field test operations using WITS and continued support of our technology development
- Paul Schenker and Homayoun Seraji
- leadership and support of our technology development
- Lucy Abramyan and Charles Bunton
- assistance in icon art, development and testing
- The MER Science Operations Support Team: Robert Anderson, Deborah Bass, Diana Blaney, Charles Budney, Joy Crisp, Albert Haldemann, Craig Leff
- support and QA testing
- Our beta testers: Ray Arvidson, Deborah Bass, Kiel Davis, Ken Herkenhoff, Craig Leff, Mike Malin, Elaina McCartney, Dick Morris, Curt Neibur, Jon Proton, Steve Ruff, Mike Sims, Mike Wolff
- valuable feedback and patience
- The Athena Science Team
- valuable feedback and suggestions
- John Graham
- managing this website
- San Diego State University
- enabling this project
- San Diego Super Computer Center
- hosting this website
- Alma Ong of Clearnoodle Studio
- responsible for the website's aesthetic and design
- Tom Croucher and Joe Geldart of Netalley Networks
- accessibility consulting and icon development on this website
- Michael Zeltner
- CSS development on this website
- Alan Runyan of RUNYAGA, LLC
- providing Plone, the framework for this website
- Nikolay Kim
- providing and supporting CMFBoard, the forum system on this website
- Sun Microsystems
- providing and supporting Java, Java3D, and Java Advanced Imaging technology
- Apple Computer
- supporting Java, Java3D, and Java Advanced Imaging technology for Macintosh
- All the developers who support the open source tools used in Maestro
- Castor, HSQLDB, JEP, MySQL, MySQL Connector/J, Skaringa, VRML97, Xerces/J, and Inno Setup
- The developers of Dirk's Java Toolkit
- their tree table and Gantt GUI components
- Bob Deen
- development of the JadeDisplay image viewing component
- Frank Hartman
- providing the MER rover model used in our 3D View
- Dan Maas and Steve Squyres
- creating the MER video and related graphics
- Nadia Schpachenko
- contributing her piano performance of Debussey's Estampe
Maestro was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.