THANKS!

Much of this software was developed at SAO by the HEAD Software R&D
group with the significant help of collaborators across the country.
The work at SAO was performed in large part under a grant from NASA's
Applied Information System Research Program (NAGW-3913), with
support from the AXAF Science Center (NAS8-39073).  

ASSIST, SAOtng, and XPA are embodiments of an evolving software
cooperation philosophy and practice we hope to bring to astronomy and
other disciplines.  They reflect our efforts to understand how
software systems (and people) can act in concert without sacrificing
their independence.

Eric Mandel

With special thanks to:

Alberto Accomazzi (SAO)			fits2gif, fits2ps
Mark S. Ackerman (UC Irvine)		AGS, ASSIST
Doug Mink (SAO)				wcslib
John Roll (SAO)				ASSIST, starbase
Dennis Schmidt (SAO)			SAOtng
Ralph Swick (X consortium, Inc.)	XPA
Doug Tody (NOAO)			IRAF, SAOtng
Alexey Vikhlinin (IKI)			SAOtng
Saleem Mukhtar (JPL)			SAOtng