Credits - Causality Workbench

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The causality workbench project is supported by the National Science Fundation under Grant N0 ECCS-0725746. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Project team:
Constantin F. Aliferis (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee),
Gregory F. Cooper (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania),
André Elisseeff (IBM Research, Switzerland),
Jean-Philippe Pellet (IBM Research, Switzerland),
Alexander Statnikov (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee),
Peter Spirtes (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania).

Coordinator:
Isabelle Guyon
Clopinet Enterprises
955, Creston Road,
Berkeley, CA 94708, U.S.A.
Tel/Fax: (510) 524 6211
causality @ clopinet . com
The web site design of Steve Gunn (University of Southampton, UK), formerly used for the NIPS2003 feature selection challenge, was adapted and improved by Olivier Guyon (MisterP.net, France). We are thankful to Thomas Fuchs (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) for administering the computer resources.
The advisors, beta-testers, and other contributors to the project are very gratefully acknowledged:
Hans Bitter (Roche Palo Alto, California),
Alexander Borisov (Intel, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia),
Marc Boullé (France Télecom, France),
Nicolas Brodu (Unitersité de Renne, France),
Joachim Buhmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland),
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela (Microsoft Research, UK),
Gavin Cawley (University of East Anglia, UK),
Gideon Dror (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel),
Patrik Hoyer (University of Helsinki, Finland),
Amir Reza Saffari Azar (Graz University of Technology, Austria),
Richard Scheines (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania),
Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen, The Netherlands),
Joerg Wichard (Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany).
We are very grateful to the people and institutions who provided datasets for our challenges, including:
SIDO: The DTP AIDS Antiviral Screen program of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI).
CINA: The census bureau and Ronny Kohavi and Barry Becker who extracted the data.
CYTO: Karens Sachs and her co-authors (Stanford University).
SIGNET: Jerry W. Jenkins and Abhishek Soni (CFD Research, Alabama, USA).