Chapter 5
Acknowledgments

The Maestro team sincerely thanks everyone who supported the development of this software:

• Ray Arvidson, John Callas, and Steve Squyres for their generous support and unflagging advocacy throughout the development of the FIDO and MER adaptations
• Dave Lavery and Michelle Viotti for their support of the robotics education/public outreach version of the software
• Samad Hayati, Dave Lavery, Richard Volpe, and the Mars Technology Program for their support of FIDO-MER field test operations using Maestro and continued support of our technology development
• Paul Schenker and Homayoun Seraji for their leadership and support of our technology development
• Lucy Abramyan and Charles Bunton for their 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 for their support and QA testing
• Our beta testers for their valuable feedback and patience: 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
• The Athena Science Team for their valuable feedback and suggestions
• John Graham and San Diego State University for outstanding support and hosting of our website
• Sun Microsystems for providing and supporting Java, Java3D, and Java Advanced Imaging technology
• Apple Computer for 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
• The developers of Dirk’s Java Toolkit for their tree table and Gantt GUI components
• Bob Deen for the development of the JadeDisplay image viewing component
• Frank Hartman for providing the MER rover model used in our 3D View
• Dan Maas and Steve Squyres for creating the sensational MER video and related graphics