!! Contributors Sean Halle, Open Source Research Institute -- [[mailto:seanhalle@yahoo.com|contact]]-- seanhalle at yahoo dot com ->Sean developed VMS during his dissertation work at INRIA in Saclay and Paris. The work was supported in part by the TeraFlux project. Albert Cohen, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, and INRIA, Roquencourt -- [[mailto:albert.cohen@inria.fr|contact]] ->Albert is widely recognized for his work on compilers and architecture enhancements including seminal work on the polyhedral loop optimization method. Merten Sach, Technical University Berlin -- [[mailto:msach@tu-berlin.de|contact]] Nina Engelhardt, Technical University Berlin