Madison Collaborations

During my tenure at the University of Wisconsin we were engaged in technical collaborations with Mark McCahill's group at the University of Minnesota, researchers at Kyoto University, Ed Boyce at Boston University, Frank Wattenberg at the United States Military Academy, Maic Masuch and his students at the University of Magdeberg, and Rieko Kadobayashi Japanese National Institute for Information and Communications Technology. With my recent move to Duke, all of these collaborations continue and now also involve emerging efforts at Duke University.

A good bit of what continues to happen at UW-Madison is centered around the development of prototype applications built on Jasmine technology. There are now over thirty UW-Madison academic staff members with whom the UW-Madison Croquet team has been developing project plans with. They have produced a dozen proposals (intramural and extramural) for Croquet-based applications. Three of these have already been funded and development is presently under way. In 2005 alone, just under $250,000 in grants have been awarded for projects at UW that are centered around Croquet (that number does not include the significant ongoing financial support that the UW-Madison CIO's office provides for the project).

The technical work and the overall project management for UW-madison efforts been carried out by Howard Stearns (technical lead), Joshua Gargus, Jack Keel, Martin Scheutze (a graduate intern from the University of Magdeberg), and students from the programs of our collaborators within the School of Education.