17.2. Contributors

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If there is an error in the list, please contact Jack Morgan

• Tim Bell - International Field Guide, co-organiser
• Peter Denning - International Field Guide, co-organiser
• Jack Morgan - Editor and Technical Lead
• Heidi Newton - Writer for Artificial Intelligence, Complexity and Tractability
• Janina Voigt - Writer for Software Engineering
• Ian Witten, writer and advisor
• Jon Rutherford - Writer for Software Engineering
• Wal Irwin - Advisor for Software Engineering
• Peter Andreae - Advisor for Artificial Intelligence, Complexity and Tractability
• Walter Guttmann - Advisor for Formal Languages
• David Thompson - Interactive games and Writer for Computer Vision
• Rhem Munro- Interactive games and Writer for Computer Graphics
• Sumant Murugesh - Research
• Ben Gibson - Interactive games and related material
• Linda Pettigrew - Formal languages material
• Joshua Scott - Computer Graphics material: Bresenham’s methods
• Michael Bell (Orange Studio) - Video production
• Patrick Baker, Jenny Baker, Neil Leslie - NZ teachers providing advisory role
• Dr Mukundan - Advisor for Computer Graphics & Vision
• Richard Green - Advisor for Computer Vision
• DongSeong Kim - Advisor for networking/security
• Mike Fellows, co-authored CS unplugged (source material)
• Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, co-author of a Chinese version of “Unplugged” (source material)
• Renate Thies and Jan Vahrenhold (Münster University, Germany), advisors
• Anthony Robins - advisor
• Shadi Ibrahim - advisor
• Paul Curzon - CS4FN material
• Quintin Cutts - “Computing Science Inside” material
• Paul Matthews (IITP) - advisor
• Calvin Lin, Bradley Beth - The University of Texas at Austin “Thriving in our Digital World” project
• Brad Miller and David Ranum - advisors for authoring tools - our web system is based on their books at Runestone Interactive.

17.2.1. Acknowledgements

This project has grown out of a partnership for an international field guide to computing. In the CSSE department, it grew from the CS Unplugged project (csunplugged.org) and the CS resource guides (nzacditt.org.nz/resources). At the at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, it grew from a project called “Field Guide to the Science of Computing” (csfieldguide.org) and the Great Principles of Computing project (greatprinciples.org), both led by Peter Denning.

Funding for this online textbook has been provided by Google Inc. In addition, countless hours of volunteer time have been contributed by those listed above. Tim Bell prepared an initial draft of this material while visiting Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, whom we thank for providing an excellent environment for writing. The project is based at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; other authors are at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Cambridge University, UK.

Partial funding for the US field guide project was provided by the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0938809.