Browse Development Team
- Software Developers:
- Alan Richmond
- Alan was the original author of Browse. He wrote the initial
version as a port of the BROWSE command-line interface, and
continued prototype development until leaving in mid-1995.
- John Kressel
- John took over after Alan left, and added a feature that assesses
the capability of the individual browsers so the we could serve
different flavors of HTML to the public. He also added the
'Override Parameters Display' feature and fixed some bugs.
John first introduced Browse development to formal configuration
management procedures, CVS, and wrote the original automated
testing scripts.
- Edward J. Sabol
- Ed took over from John in April 1996 when John became the HEASARC
webmaster. The first version of Browse that Ed released was
version 3.2.3. See the
version history for details. Ed did an extensive rewrite of
most of Browse.
- Saima Zobair
- Saima took over from Ed in June 1997. Browse version 4.0.1 was
Saima's first release.
- Guiding Forces:
- Dr. Nicholas E. White
- Nick is the head of the X-ray Astrophysics Branch and also the
head of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics' Office of
Guest Investigator Programs. As such, he has been the driving
force behind Browse and its progenitor, the BROWSE command-line
interface.
- Sherri Calvo
- Sherri is the Technical Director for the HEASARC, and leads
the HEASARC WWW and database development teams. She was very
involved with the design of the metabase that the HEASARC DBMS
relies upon and has given considerable feedback on such issues as
the Browse user interface and other design decisions.
- Tom McGlynn