Dr Jian-Chun Lu, Ms Noriko Asami, Ms Takako Asaoka, Ms Sandra Silcot, Jeffrey Friedl, Professor Jim Breen, Roland Cottin, Martin Gleeson, Dr Peter Ades, and Professor Glyn Rimmington. David Cavagnaro, professional photographer, the Photography Section of the Media Unit of Melbourne University, and Clive Blazey, Director of Diggers Seeds have donated copies of their valuable photographs. In response to requests, from 1998 onwards, each page published will have a list of acknowledgements relevant to that specific page. The reason being that the project spans many years while people move around evermore and do not necessarily keep in close contact. A few students who contributed in the early stage of development of the project have now reached the status of Dr. or Prof. whilst the names they have contributed have not yet made the transition database to internet.
Contributors therefore prefer to participate for a while and move on to other projects.
Most of the brain twisting work was done by yours truly Michel H. Porcher between 1988 and the present. Of course I could only have done it with the kind assistance of the numerous great people acknowledged throughout the on-line material. All beneficiaries of this work and I are indebted to this truly global and multi talented team. Unix servers Sparc stations and of course the Internet, the World Wide Web in particular, were vital to this project. The occasional PC was used to check for possible incompatibilities.