Acknowledgements

• Sponsors
• Influences

Sponsors

Principal funding for the Ptolemy project comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF award number CCR-00225610), the State of California Micro Program, and Chess (the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems), which receives support from NSF and the following companies: Agilent, DGIST, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Infineon, Microsoft, and Toyota. Major prior funding was received from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Influences

The Ptolemy Project has had long standing interactions with a number of research groups that have profoundly influenced our work. We mention a few of these:

• Prof. Tom Henzinger and his group at EPFL, Switzerland.
• Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and the Metropolis team at Berkeley and PARADES, Rome, Italy.
• Profs. Wolfgang Pree and Christoph Kirsch and the MoDECS project in Salzburg, Austria.
• Agilent, particularly Agilent Labs and the EESof division and Agilent Labs.
• Hewlett-Packard Labs.
• Prof. Gul Agha at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the entire Actor Computing community.
• David Barton, Perry Alexander, and the Rosetta team.
• Albert Benveniste, Gerard Berry, and the entire synchronous language community.
• The group of Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland.
• The group of Prof. Fernand Boeri, Universite de Nice, France.
• Cadence, and particularly the SPW, BOSS, and VCC groups.
• The group of Hugo De Man, IMEC, Belgium.
• Jack Dennis, Arvind, and the whole dataflow architecture community.
• The group of Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany.
• The groups of Tom Henzinger, Kurt Keutzer, David Messerschmitt, Richard Newton, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, all at UC Berkeley.
• Prof. Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea.
• David Harel, Amir Pnueli, and the whole Statecharts community.
• The group of Paul Hudak, Yale University.
• The group of Gilles Kahn, INRIA, France.
• The group of David Kaplan, Naval Research Labs.
• The group of Dr. Ir. Rudy Lauwereins, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
• The group of Prof. Luciano Lavagno Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
• The Math Works, particularly the Simulink team.
• The group of Prof. Heinrich Meyr, Aachen University of Technology.
• Philips, and particularly Kees Vissers and the video signal processing group.
• The group of Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University.
• Structured Software Systems, and particularly Tom Lane.
• Synopsys, and particularly Joe Buck and the El Greco project.
• Thales (formerly Thomson-CSF), and particularly Ed Willink and Xavier Warzee.
• The group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lothar Thiele, ETH, Switzerland.