Chapters * Title * Contents * Introduction * Place * System * Design * Using * Future * Bibliography
Sections
* Contents * Acknowledgments * Biographies
Acknowledgments
One person may have written MarketPlace, but a host of people were necessary to bring it to reality. My advisor, Mitchel
Resnick gave me room to follow my interests and provided invaluable ideas and feedback. Reader Ted Parson served as a sage and
discerning guide to the world of economics and policy. Reader Mitch Kapor provided a useful, if sometimes daunting, real-world
perspective on changing the real world. All three provided critical evidence that somebody smart cared about what I was up
to.
My fellow graduate students in the Epistemology and Learning group put up with MarketPlace when it was an unstable,
exasperating prototype and with me when I started to resemble one. Rick Borovoy, Aaron Brandes, Amy Bruckman, David Cavallo,
Michele Evard, Paula Hooper, Fred Martin and David Shaffer all made E&L a fascinating place. Undergrad members of the group
Andy Begel, Jon Heiner, Owen Johnson, and Trevor Stricker took valuable time away from what they were supposed to be doing to
help debug my project. Undergrad Ken Miller both helped debug and did a great job on the MarketPlace icons.
Michelle Shaw and her enthusiastic crew of participants in the initial pilot study made user-testing fun. Carlo Malley helped
me deal with the ever-anarchic student-run MIT summer school.
Quasar Knowledge Systems loaned me a copy of their capable Smalltalk development environment and provided quick answers for all
my technical questions.
Michele Evard and Randy Sargent were terrific office-mates.
This work is dedicated to my family--Dan, Margarete, Alex, Rima, Lina, Saribek and Richard. My interest in learning I got from
their example. My interest in policy I got from all those endless political arguments around the dinner table.
Greg Kimberly/gregkimb@gak.com