The following people at Cornell University provided content and assistance for Digital Library of Kinematics. Please note that information about individuals may have changed since the publication of this Explore Cornell feature.

John M. Saylor is the Principal Investigator for the NSF funded K-MODDL project. He has been the Director of the Engineering and Computer Science Library at Cornell University since 1988. He has been involved in many digital library efforts including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Synthesis Coalition from 1990-1995 and was co-Principal Investigator of Cornell University's portion of the core integration grant from NSF to build the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) from 2000 through September 2002. Currently he is on 80 percent leave from the Engineering and Computer Science Library while serving as Director of Collection Development for the NSDL through September 2004.

David Henderson is a Co-Principal Investigator on the K-MODDL project. He has been a professor in Cornell's Department of Mathematics and the graduate Field of Mathematics since 1966, and since 1970 has been a faculty member in the Graduate Field of Education. Henderson's research interests span geometry, infinite-dimensional topology, and educational mathematics. Henderson has directed Master's and PhD theses in both mathematics and education. In the mid-1980's Henderson initiated an in-service program, which has involved him directly with area mathematics teachers for the past 17 years. Henderson also collaborated in developing and staffing the program now known as Cornell Teacher Education. Henderson has written three textbooks (two of them with Daina Taimina) used extensively in mathematics courses for pre-service teachers. Henderson will work with Daina Taimina to develop learning modules for the undergraduate, high school, and middle school levels in mathematics.

Hod Lipson is a Co-Principal Investigator on the K-MODDL project. He has been studying AI, robotics, evolution, and design automation for several years. His recent achievement in fully automated design and manufacture (the GOLEM project) was first to demonstrate physically working machines synthesized by self-organization processes. Lipson was previously a Research Scientist at Brandeis Computer Science and a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department. He has broad industrial experience in mechanical, electronic and software design, as well as publications across a wide range of technologies in AI, learning, and Artificial Life.

Professor Moon is a Co-Principal Investigator on the K-MODDL project and Curator of Cornell’s Reuleaux Collection. He is an internationally recognized expert on applied dynamics and has written widely on the history as well as the scientific and pedagogical utility of the Reuleaux mechanisms. Moon has recently received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany to support his research at the archive of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany's premier science and technology museum. In Germany he has obtained photographs of kinematic models similar to Reuleaux's, as well as valuable documents related to the history of the Reuleaux collection. Professor Moon wrote most of the text that appears in this gallery. You can download Professor Moon's research paper, "Franz Reuleaux: Contributions to 19th C. Kinematics and Theory of Machines" from the Related Sites page.

Kizer Walker is Project Manager for K-MODDL. Walker received his M.L.S. from Syracuse University in 2001 and was hired as Digital Projects Librarian for Cornell’s Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences Libraries in November of that year. He currently shares operational responsibility for the design, implementation, and management of two major international scholarly communications projects in mathematics on which Cornell University Library is a key collaborator. Walker holds a Ph.D. in German Studies from Cornell University (1999).

Daina Taimina has been on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia, from 1977 to 1996 and Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University from 1997 to 2002. Taimina also has seven years experience as a secondary school teacher. Taimina holds PhDs in Theoretical Computer Science and in Mathematics. Since 1985, Taimina has organized numerous workshops for teachers in both Latvia and the United States. In addition, she has developed curricular materials that have been compiled into two resource books for mathematics teachers. Taimina has collaborated with Henderson on two geometry textbooks, two encyclopedia articles, and an article in the Mathematical Intelligencer about creating models for use in the teaching of non-Euclidean geometry. With Henderson, Taimina will take the lead role in the design of the K-MODDL learning modules for the undergraduate, high school, and middle school levels in mathematics.

Ron Rice is a Web Designer/Programmer in D-LIT (Digital Library and Information Technologies), Cornell University Library. He has more than 15 years of media production experience, spanning graphic design, photography, radio, film and the Web. He studied Photography and Graphic Design (BA '90) and Film (MFA '93) then began designing for the Web in 1994. Ron has developed large-scale Web applications for clients such as JPMorganChase, Time Warner, John Deere, State Farm, Siemens, Cambridge University (UK), and the University of North Carolina. His expertise includes requirements analysis, user interface design, usability engineering, database design, and programming. In January 2003, Ron accepted a position at Cornell, where his artistic background and web programming skills are applied to digital library initiatives.

Kristina Buhrman joined the Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences Libraries in 1999 as a web designer and programmer. She is the webmaster for four library websites, and advises on several others. Buhrman holds a B.A. from Cornell University in linguistics and cognitive studies.

Donald Bartel holds a joint appointment as a professor at the Cornell College of Engineering and as a senior scientist in the Department of Biomechanics of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, the orthopaedic affiliate of Cornell University Medical College. Bartel teaches a course in machine design for mechanical engineers and is helping to develop a teaching module for this course based on the Reuleaux Collection.

Further Acknowledgements
Most of the text in this Explore Cornell feature was written by Francis C. Moon, Curator of Cornell's Reuleaux Collection. You can download Professor Moon's research paper, "Franz Reuleaux: Contributions to 19th C. Kinematics and Theory of Machines" from the Related Sites page.

Unless otherwise noted, the still images of the Reuleaux models in this gallery were photographed by Jon Reis of Ithaca, New York (www.jonreis.com).

Carol Terrizzi is communication director for Cornell University's core integration technical effort to build a National Science Digital Library. Research interests include design and development of portals, user interfaces, and communication tools for the NSDL. Her background is in art direction, marketing, and production for publications and web media with a specialization in applied digital imaging. Carol provides aesthetic design advice to the K-MODDL team.