Credits
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Copyright 2011-2021 University of Lausanne, Switzerland

PiAnoS 4 was funded in part by a grant from the `National Institude of Justice <http://www.nij.gov/>`_. 

	National Institute of Justice – Office of Justice Program
	
	Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines Solicitation # SL000909 Award 2010-DN-BX-K267
	
	`Improving the Understanding and the Reliability of the Concept of "Sufficiency" in Friction ridge Examination`

**Development:**
	- First developper: Thibault Genessay (UNIL) (2011-2013)
	- Developper: Marco De Donno (UNIL) (2013-2021)

**Scientific committee:**
	- Christophe Champod (UNIL)
	- Cédric Neumann (Penn State University, US)
	- Glenn Langenburg (UNIL)

If you are using PiAnoS
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For teaching, research, etc. acknowledgments are very welcome!

History
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Previous releases (1, 2 and 3.x) were the work of

	- Julien Furrer (1-2)
	- Romain Voisard (1-2)
	- Christophe Champod (1-3)
	- Thibault Genessay (3.x)

We would like to acknowledge early contributors to the previous versions of PiAnoS, namely:

	- the `University of Lausanne <http://www.unil.ch>`_, through the `Fonds d'Innovation Pédagogique`, awarded [#f1]_ in 2007 (version 1)
	- the `Technical Support Working Group <http://www.tswg.gov/>`_ and the `National Institute of Justice <http://www.nij.gov/>`_, sponsors of the project `A TOPOLOGICAL MODEL FOR THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE ASSESSMENT OF PARTIAL FINGERPRINTS` [#f2]_ (version 2)
	- the (now defunct) Forensic Science Service of the United Kingdom (version 3)
	

3rd-party contributors
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PiAnoS was built using many third-party software libraries, programs and tools. The following list of contributors is not exhaustive - please see the :doc:`license` page for complete licensing information about the components that are embedded into the PiAnoS releases.

	- Libraries that ship with PiAnoS
		- `John Resig and the jQuery team <http://jquery.com>`_ 
		- `The jQuery UI team <http://jqueryui.com>`_ 
		- `Michael Bostock and the Data Driven Documents (D3) team <http://d3js.org>`_ 
	- Programs that PiAnoS relies on
		- `The PHP Group <http://www.php.net>`_
		- `The PostgreSQL Global Development Group <http://www.postgresql.org>`_
		- `Guido van Rossum and the Python Software Foundation <http://www.python.org>`_
		- `The Apache Software Foundation <http://httpd.apache.org>`_
	- Art
		- `Silk Icons set, by Mark James <http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/>`_
	- Misc. helpful resources
		- `The StackOverflow community <http://stackoverflow.com>`_

	
.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#f1] PiAnoS: Picture Annotation System (2007), un système en ligne transdisciplinaire d'annotation d'images à des fins pédagogiques. En partenariat avec le RISET, Université de Lausanne
.. [#f2] Contract number: “NIJ / TSWG contract: IS-FE-2478 - W91CRB-06-C-5005”
