About / People

Why "Mandarax"?

If you are interested to know what Mandarax means, read "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Who We Are

The Mandarax Project is open for everybody. Everybody can contribute! This page lists all the people contributing to Mandarax. If you would like to get involved, please contact us.

Project Management Committee

Jens Dietrich Jens has a PhD in Computer Science, the thesis is on nonmonotonic reasoning ("Inference Frames"). He has designed and implemented Enterprise OO applications for more than 7 years using technologies such as Smalltalk and Java. Jens is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. Jens is the main person behind mandarax. He also developed Oryx, a set of graphical tools for mandarax.

Jochen Hiller Jochen is doing development using object-oriented technologies since the beginning of the 90ties. He develops mainly in C++, Smalltalk and Java. He is very keen on distributed object technologies like CORBA, EJB, etc. He worked together with Jens in some OO projects in Germany.


Alex Kozlenkov from the Department of Computing of the City University London did most of the work to implement cut (ResolutionInferenceEngine4). Together with Michael Schroeder, Alex is managing the Prova project.

Contributers

David Li, CTO of Digital Sesame contributed the ant build script.

Chen Jianbo from China Telecom Guangzhou R & D Center discovered and fixed several bugs in the inference engine and in the SQL integration package.


Hans-Henning Wiesner from Bauer & Partner discovered and fixed two bugs in the inference engine.


Wang Liangbin from Donghua University in Shanghai/China discovered and fixed bugs in the sql package (releasing connections in SQLFunctions).


Robert Searle from Platinum Architecture Group has written a mandarax tutorial.


Bastian Schenke from the BTU Cottbus contributed the R2ML interface for Take.