CONTRIBUTORS
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added find_consts to NEWS and CONTRIBUTORS
     1 For the purposes of the license agreement in the file COPYRIGHT, a
     2 'contributor' is anybody who is listed in this file (CONTRIBUTORS) or
     3 who is listed as an author in one of the source files of this Isabelle
     4 distribution.
     5 
     6 
     7 Contributions to this Isabelle version
     8 --------------------------------------
     9 
    10 * February 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
    11   New find_consts command.
    12 
    13 * February 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
    14   "solves" criterion for find_theorems and auto_solve option
    15 
    16 * December 2008: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
    17   New locale implementation.
    18 
    19 * December 2008: Armin Heller, TUM and Alexander Krauss, TUM
    20   Method "sizechange" for advanced termination proofs.
    21 
    22 * November 2008: Timothy Bourke, NICTA
    23   Performance improvement (factor 50) for find_theorems.
    24 
    25 * 2008: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    26   Various extensions and restructurings in HOL, improvements
    27   in evaluation mechanisms, new module binding.ML for name bindings.
    28 
    29 * October 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
    30   ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of Posix
    31   processes.  Additional ATP wrappers, including remote SystemOnTPTP
    32   services.
    33 
    34 * August 2008: Fabian Immler, TUM
    35   Vampire wrapper script for remote SystemOnTPTP service.
    36 
    37 
    38 Contributions to Isabelle2008
    39 -----------------------------
    40 
    41 * 2007/2008:
    42   Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM
    43   HOL library improvements.
    44 
    45 * 2007/2008: Brian Huffman, PSU
    46   HOLCF library improvements.
    47 
    48 * 2007/2008: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
    49   HOL-Nominal package improvements.  
    50 
    51 * March 2008: Markus Reiter, TUM
    52   HOL/Library/RBT: red-black trees.
    53 
    54 * February 2008: Alexander Krauss, TUM and Florian Haftmann, TUM and
    55   Lukas Bulwahn, TUM and John Matthews, Galois:
    56   HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL: Haskell-style imperative data structures
    57   for HOL.
    58 
    59 * December 2007: Norbert Schirmer, Uni Saarbruecken
    60   Misc improvements of record package in HOL.
    61 
    62 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    63   Overloading and class instantiation target.
    64 
    65 * December 2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
    66   New version of primrec package for local theories.
    67 
    68 * December 2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
    69   Method "induction_scheme" in HOL.
    70 
    71 * November 2007: Peter Lammich, Uni Muenster
    72   HOL-Lattice: some more lemmas.
    73 
    74 
    75 Contributions to Isabelle2007
    76 -----------------------------
    77 
    78 * October 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM / Uni Saarbruecken
    79   State Spaces: The Locale Way (in HOL).
    80 
    81 * October 2007: Mark A. Hillebrand, DFKI
    82   Robust sub/superscripts in LaTeX document output.
    83 
    84 * August 2007: Jeremy Dawson, NICTA and Paul Graunke, Galois and Brian
    85     Huffman, PSU and Gerwin Klein, NICTA and John Matthews, Galois
    86   HOL-Word: a library for fixed-size machine words in Isabelle.
    87 
    88 * August 2007: Brian Huffman, PSU
    89   HOL/Library/Boolean_Algebra and HOL/Library/Numeral_Type.
    90 
    91 * June 2007: Amine Chaieb, TUM
    92   Semiring normalization and Groebner Bases.
    93   Support for dense linear orders.
    94 
    95 * June 2007: Joe Hurd, Oxford
    96   Metis theorem-prover.
    97 
    98 * 2007: Kong W. Susanto, Cambridge
    99   HOL: Metis prover integration.
   100 
   101 * 2007: Stefan Berghofer, TUM
   102   HOL: inductive predicates and sets.
   103 
   104 * 2007: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   105   HOL/record: misc improvements.
   106 
   107 * 2006/2007: Alexander Krauss, TUM
   108   HOL: function package and related theories on termination.
   109 
   110 * 2006/2007: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   111   Pure: generic code generator framework.
   112   Pure: class package.
   113   HOL: theory reorganization, code generator setup.
   114 
   115 * 2006/2007: Christian Urban, TUM and Stefan Berghofer, TUM and
   116     Julien Narboux, TUM
   117   HOL/Nominal package and related tools.
   118 
   119 * November 2006: Lukas Bulwahn, TUM
   120   HOL: method "lexicographic_order" for function package.
   121 
   122 * October 2006: Stefan Hohe, TUM
   123   HOL-Algebra: ideals and quotients over rings.
   124 
   125 * August 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   126   Experimental support for generic reflection and reification in HOL.
   127 
   128 * July 2006: Rafal Kolanski, NICTA
   129   Hex (0xFF) and binary (0b1011) numerals.
   130 
   131 * May 2006: Klaus Aehlig, LMU
   132   Command 'normal_form': normalization by evaluation.
   133 
   134 * May 2006: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   135   HOL-Complex: Ferrante and Rackoff Algorithm for linear real
   136   arithmetic.
   137 
   138 * February 2006: Benjamin Porter, NICTA
   139   HOL and HOL-Complex: generalised mean value theorem, continuum is
   140   not denumerable, harmonic and arithmetic series, and denumerability
   141   of rationals.
   142 
   143 * October 2005: Martin Wildmoser, TUM
   144   Sketch for Isar 'guess' element.
   145 
   146 
   147 Contributions to Isabelle2005
   148 -----------------------------
   149 
   150 * September 2005: Lukas Bulwahn and Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   151   HOL-Complex: Formalization of Taylor series.
   152 
   153 * September 2005: Stephan Merz, Alwen Tiu, QSL Loria
   154   Components for SAT solver method using zChaff.
   155 
   156 * September 2005: Ning Zhang and Christian Urban, LMU Munich
   157   A Chinese theory.
   158 
   159 * September 2005: Bernhard Haeupler, TUM
   160   Method comm_ring for proving equalities in commutative rings.
   161 
   162 * July/August 2005: Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University
   163   Various improvements of the HOL and HOL-Complex library.
   164 
   165 * July 2005: Florian Zuleger, Johannes Hoelzl, and Simon Funke, TUM
   166   Some structured proofs about completeness of real numbers.
   167 
   168 * May 2005: Rafal Kolanski and Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   169   Improved retrieval of facts from theory/proof context.
   170 
   171 * February 2005: Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh
   172   Improved subst method.
   173 
   174 * 2005: Brian Huffman, OGI
   175   Various improvements of HOLCF.
   176   Some improvements of the HOL-Complex library.
   177 
   178 * 2005: Claire Quigley and Jia Meng, University of Cambridge
   179   Some support for asynchronous communication with external provers
   180   (experimental).
   181 
   182 * 2005: Florian Haftmann, TUM
   183   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   184   Various ML combinators, notably linear functional transformations.
   185   Some cleanup of ML legacy.
   186   Additional antiquotations.
   187   Improved Isabelle web site.
   188 
   189 * 2004/2005: David Aspinall, University of Edinburgh
   190   Various elements of XML and PGIP based communication with user
   191   interfaces (experimental).
   192 
   193 * 2004/2005: Gerwin Klein, NICTA
   194   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   195   Improved Isabelle web site.
   196   Improved HTML presentation of theories.
   197 
   198 * 2004/2005: Clemens Ballarin, TUM
   199   Provers: tools for transitive relations and quasi orders.
   200   Improved version of locales, notably interpretation of locales.
   201   Improved version of HOL-Algebra.
   202 
   203 * 2004/2005: Amine Chaieb, TUM
   204   Improved version of HOL presburger method.
   205 
   206 * 2004/2005: Steven Obua, TUM
   207   Improved version of HOL/Import, support for HOL-Light.
   208   Improved version of HOL-Complex-Matrix.
   209   Pure/defs: more sophisticated checks on well-formedness of overloading.
   210   Pure/Tools: an experimental evaluator for lambda terms.
   211 
   212 * 2004/2005: Norbert Schirmer, TUM
   213   Contributions to document 'sugar'.
   214   Improved version of HOL/record.
   215 
   216 * 2004/2005: Sebastian Skalberg, TUM
   217   Improved version of HOL/Import.
   218   Some internal ML reorganizations.
   219 
   220 * 2004/2005: Tjark Weber, TUM
   221   SAT solver method using zChaff.
   222   Improved version of HOL/refute.