[NICE: The Nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel]

NICE Membership List

To facilitate collaboration among the members of NICE, our membership list is provided here. Our newest members are in an italic font. NICE board members are in a bold font. If a member provided information about their interests with their application it is listed in edited form on the line following their name.

  • Colin Adams (Preston, Lancashire, England)
    XML.
  • Cyril Adrian (Schiltigheim, France)
    Language specification, Eiffel libraries and applications, especially for the Free Software community.
  • Farhan Ahmed (PA, USA)
    C/C++, Java, Eiffel, Eclipse, PHP, Perl.
  • David Kreth Allen (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
    Interested in applying Eiffel to solve ordinary business problems. Hoping to develop classes to facilitate DataWarehousing applications in Eiffel.
  • Franck Arnaud (Cambridge, England)
  • Karine Arnout (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Volkan Arslan (Neu-Ulm, Germany)
    Language, library (OODBMS bindings for Eiffel)
  • Andreas Auras (Wiehl, Germany)
    Eiffel vendor.
  • Senthil Nathan Balaji (Chennai, India)
    Language specification.
  • Francois Barret (Golfe-Juan, France)
    To learn more about Eiffel and OO design and methods.
  • Thomas Beale (Mooloolah, Australia)
    Large systems engineering, ODBs, marketing, health informatics.
  • Achraf Belahbib (Morocco)
  • Wilfried Berger (London, England)
  • Marco Bernasconi (Salorino, Switzerland)
  • Eric Bezault (St. Trojan Les Bains, France)
  • Kolari S. Bhat (Brentwood, TN, USA)
  • Richard Bielak (Matawan, NJ, USA)
    Interested in developing open source Eiffel libraries.
  • Artur Biesiadowski (Gdansk, Poland)
    Language, library, integration with Java.
  • David Broadfoot (Brookvale, Australia)
  • Roger Browne (Lancaster, England)
    Compatibility.
  • Franck de Bruijn (So Paulo, Brazil)
  • Mark Bruscke (N. Caldwell, NJ, USA)
    Financial instruments (securities, derivatives), data modeling
  • Gerry Butler (South Yarra, Victoria, Australia)
    Library, language, OO design.
  • Ignacio Calvo (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
    Language and library.
  • Chana L. Campos (Austin, TX, USA)
    I am a Technical Architect who is interested in learning more about Eiffel and OO in general.
  • Robert W. Carter (Fort Hood, TX, USA)
    Web application development, Linux, object databases.
  • Michael Cavanaugh (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
    Language, library and cross-platform support.
  • David Carrigan (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
  • Wally Cash (Newport News, Virginia USA)
    To utilize Eiffel and Programming-By-Contract methodology to develop a portable retained mode graphics API and related technology on top of OpenGL.
  • Ali Cehreli (Mountain View, California, USA)
    Current C++ user...
  • Jorge Chong Chang (Guayaquil Guayas, Ecuador)
    SmallEiffel, gtk, BeOS, VisualEiffel, Concurrent Programming under Eiffel.
  • Rick Chapman (Brooklyn Park, MN, USA)
    I would like to help in any way that I can. I have been a software developer through software manager mostly for embedded medical systems. I feel that Eiffel is the best language for development and would like to promote Eiffel.
  • Nick Coghlan (Brisbane, Australia)
    Promotion of Eiffel as a fully-capable language that is supportive of disciplined software development, rather than detrimental to same.
  • Paul Cohen (Stockholm, Sweden)
    DbC, Eiffel compiler differences, interfacing with other languages (C), graphics, commercial development
  • Eric Yves Colin (Dusseldorf, Germany)
    Library and language.
  • Dominique Colnet (Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France)
    ELKS needs to be clean first.
  • Greg Compestine (Boulder, CO, USA)
    Language, libraries, education and promotion.
  • Yves Constantinidis (Paris, France)
    Software engineering.
  • Stephen Coombes (Bournemouth, Dorset, England)
    I am interested in programming in Eiffel. Having been introduced to Eiffel by a friend, I have found it to be the best programming language I have yet used.
  • Charles Corulli (Bellevue, WA, USA)
  • Jocelyn Coulmance (Puteaux, France)
  • Peter F. Cox (Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England)
    Language as independent software developer.
  • David Creelman (Marsfield, Australia)
    Graphics, animation, XML, Gtk (portable systems).
  • Paul G. Crismer (Embourg, Liege, Belgium)
    Portable libraries, business frameworks, persistence.
  • Jerel Crosland (Carpinteria, CA, USA)
    Developing applications using Eiffel.
  • Vincenzo D'Agostino (Roggiano Gravina, Cosenza, Italy)
    I'm Computer Science Engineering Student! I like very much Eiffel that I study now!
  • Niall Dalton (Cork, Ireland)
    I am interested in the language and library definition. I have a particular interest in concurrent extensions and execution of Eiffel.
  • Steven Davis (Lizella, GA, USA)
    Language, metrics, text processing, and especially number crunching.
  • Berend de Boer (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Want to submit a proposal.
  • Stijn Decneut (Leuven, Belgium)
    Libraries for Distributed systems and Multi Media. Standardization and widespread adoption of Eiffel.
  • Guido Dedene (Leuven, Belgium)
    Teaching Eiffel and Using Eiffel in research projects (e.g. MERODE).
  • Nev Delap (Brisbane, Australia)
    Promoting Eiffel and better OO implementations than C++, Java, and .Net push.
  • Veena Deshmukh (Maharashtra, India)
  • Edsko de Vries (Dublin, Ireland)
    I'm hoping to implement an Eiffel compiler for Kaino, a new all-OO operating system currently in development.
  • Ousmane Diallo (Dakar, Sénégal)
    Commercial development.
  • Otto Dominguez (Guatemala)
    Promoting Eiffel thru university courses.
  • Patrick Doyle (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    Language and library.
  • Bourg Drevet jp (La Ciotat, France)
    C++, Eiffel of course
  • Alan I. Duchan (Buffalo, NY, USA)
    Am planning to learn Eiffel.
  • Joachim Durchholz (Wiehl, Germany)
  • Mike Durian (Boulder, CO, USA)
  • Jose Goñi Echeverra (Madrid, Spain)
  • J. Scott Edwards (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
    I have been looking for a programming language that I liked for 20 years. Eiffel is the best that I've found.
  • John O. Edwards (Columbia, SC, USA)
  • Sven Ehrke (Schopfheim, Germany)
    Language and library.
  • Geoff Eldridge (Alexandria, Australia)
    Eiffel advocacy and acceptance by a larger cross section of developers.
  • Ian Elliott (New Brighton, England)
    Programming in Eiffel.
  • Oluwasola Matthew Enitan (Lagos, Nigeria)
    Engineering in computers, commercial developments, etc.
  • Kevin Ethridge (San Antonio, TX, USA)
    Interested in Eiffel for enterprise cross platform development.
  • Ed Falis (West Newton, MA, USA)
  • Jocelyn Fiat (Paris, France)
    I am interested in creation of components and libraries.
  • Guy Fokou (Eghezee, Belgium)
    Develop applications, provide training, promote Eiffel in Africa and in the Benelux, build libraries, promote Design by Contract.
  • Richard Gams (Columbus, OH, USA)
    Eiffel, C++, Prolog, Expert Medical Systems.
  • Rafael Garca-Prieto (Mexico City, Mexico)
    I want to promote Eiffel in my country and help in the creation of components and libraries.
  • Michael Garnett (South Bound Brook, NJ, USA)
    Language, concurrency, IDEs, platform-specific-tools, escaping the clutches of C++.
  • Hugh Gibbons (Dublin, Ireland)
  • James J. Goss (Pasadena, CA, USA)
    Languages, testing, QA, objects everywhere.
  • James Graves (Rolling Meadows, IL, USA)
    I would like to use Eiffel for future software projects.
  • Bryan Green (AR, USA)
    Literate programming, Number Theory, Compiler Theory, Large numbers, String theory (approximation algorithms).
  • Neil Groves (Paradise Island, Bahamas)
    I am particularly interested in Eiffel for .NET and for solutions (with and without .NET ) for Artificial Neural Networks and Market Analysis / Trading.
  • Keith Gunn (Orinda, CA, USA)
    Language use for custom-coded commercial applications.
  • Bikal Gurung (Melbourne, Australia)
    Computer graphics, Eiffel programming, library.
  • David Halfpenny (NSW, Australia)
    Lecturing first year computer science using this wonderful language. Interested in the library classes available and desirable for modern applications.
  • Yoav Hakman (Adi, Israel)
  • Clive Hayward (Kingston, Canada)
    Build high-quality software applications. Utilizing object-oriented methods and design patterns in scientific applications.
  • Brian E. Heilig (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
    Promoting Eiffel.
  • James Heliotis (Rochester, NY, USA)
    Education.
  • Darren Hiebert (Madison, AL, USA)
  • Charles Hixson (Oakland, CA, USA)
    Linux, AI, strategy and tutorial games, databases, cross-platform code.
  • Carsten Hoehne (Neustadt, Germany)
  • Kari Höijärvi (Klaukkala, Finland)
    Quality software.
  • Peter Horan (Geelong, Australia)
    Software engineering and development.
  • Darryl Houghton (Weymouth, Dorset, England)
    Learning computer programming.
  • Matt Howe (Wanneroo, Australia)
    Language specification. studying Eiffel programming language.
  • Jonah Lau Kung Hui (Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia)
    Language.
  • Stuart Hungerford (Canberra, Australia)
    Design patterns, DBC, XML, scripting.
  • Steve Hunter (Woodbridge, VA, USA)
    Python, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Components, SCOOP, BON.
  • Bob Hutchison (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    Use of Eiffel in scientific and web-based applications.
  • Sergei S. Ivanov (Reutov, Moscow region, Russian Federation)
    Particularly interested in language and libraries evolution.
  • Jean-Marc Jézéquel (Rennes, France)
    Everything about Eiffel
  • Jimmy Jack Johnson (Andrews AFB, MD, USA)
    Library and language
  • Kurt B. Kaiser (Ipswich, MA, USA)
    Language, BON development.
  • Ciaran Kennedy (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Saifi Khan (India)
    Information security specialist, security library development, formal verification techniques (Z).
  • Todd Edwin King (Salem, VA, USA)
    I am a professional software developer. I generally use C++ and VB in my work, but I try to apply the principles DBC and CQS in my projects. I am still in the stage of learning Eiffel as a language.
  • Joseph Kiniry (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
    Almost everything.
  • James A. Knighten (Galveston, TX, USA)
    Graphics, data acquisition, simulation, motion analysis.
  • Alexander Kogtenkov (Moscow, Russia)
    Development of Eiffel tools (compiler, workbench, run-time, etc.) and libraries, fixing holes in the language, cross-environment portability issues.
  • Mikko Koivunalho (Turku, Finland)
    Language, library, and portability.
  • Karl Kones (Liverpool, England)
    Medical applications and artificial intelligence.
  • Majkel Kretschmare (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany)
    Libraries.
  • Siva Kumar (Hyderabad, India)
  • Michel Langlois (Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada)
  • Siu Lau (TX, USA)
  • Andreas Leitner (Graz, Steiermark, Austria)
  • Martin Lightheart (Stone Mountain, GA, USA)
    I want to participate in the future of Eiffel.
  • Simon MacKintosh (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
    My main interest is in developing tools that will help developers build more reliable software.
  • Prakash Manghwani (USA)
    Engineering reusable, adaptive, and robust code for distributed real time embedded systems.
  • Dave Makalsky (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    IDEs (EDT, eiffel plugin for eclipse), etester - superior unit testing framework for eiffel, ERC - eiffel refinement calculus..
  • Eirik Mangseth (Haslum, Norway)
    Language, library
  • Phil Malin (Melbourne, Australia)
    OO analysis and design, Eiffel, AI, neural nets
  • Andrea Manna (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Keith Mantell (Winchester, Hampshire, England)
    Libraries (further standardization), x-platform, marketing
  • Francisco Marcos (Madrid, Spain, Spain)
    I want to promote Eiffel in Spain.
  • Dave E Martin (Ogden, UT, USA)
    portability in the language and libraries
  • David Massart (Brussels, Belgium)
    design by contract, teaching
  • Artur Matos (Maia, Portugal)
  • Glenn Maughan (Mordialloc, Australia)
    library, language
  • James McKim (Hartford, CT, USA)
  • Jason R. McVetta (Oberlin, OH, USA)
    Libraries and threading.
  • Mekio Yoo (Alta, Sweden)
    Image processing, radiology.
  • Pierre Metras (Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada)
  • Richard Mitchell (Seaford, England)
    Library.
  • Richard Mitchell (Brighton, East Sussex, England)
  • Tom Mitchell (Wauwatosa, WI, USA)
  • Peter Monks (Coogee, Australia)
    I'm particularly interested in moving from using Eiffel as a hobby only to using it at work. I guess that means I'm interested in advocacy and or available Eiffel positions!
  • Frieder Monninger (Braunfels, Germany)
    Library and marketing.
  • Tom Morrisette (West Easton, PA, USA)
    I'll let my actions speak for me. So far I've been very quiet.
  • Roman Movchan (Melbourne, Australia)
    Language specification, component/libraries, commercial development, formal methods, RAD tools.
  • Eric Nedervold (Mountain View, CA, USA)
  • Jon R. Nials (Bertram, TX, USA)
  • Jose Monserrat Neto (Lavras, MG, Brazil)
    Computer Science, Programming using Eiffel, Informatics.
  • Ghislain Ngantchaha Ngougue (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
  • Sebastian Niesen (Meerbusch, Germany)
  • Danilov Nikita (Moscow, Russia)
    Language.
  • Veli-Pekka Nousiainen (Espoo, Finland)
    ISE Eiffel Distributors, Eiffel Finland, representative as Product Manager, interested in marketing, programming, language standardization, etc.
  • Bill Nowlin (KS, USA)
    I would like to see Eiffel in commercial development. To pursue excellence in system development, we need better tools. Eiffel is that better tool!
  • Miguel Oliveira e Silva (Aveiro, Portugal)
    Programming language design, concurrency, and libraries.
  • La Vern R. Ogden (Sacramento, CA, USA)
    Language and libraries.
  • Clemens Oertel (Tuebingen, Germany)
    Client-server architectures, communication techniques, databases.
  • Mario Alberto Bastidas Ortiz (Culiacán, México)
    Language specification, syntax, objects.
  • Matthew Palensky (Omaha, NE, USA)
    Primary interests include formal methods, high performance web applications, object-oriented metrics, and patterns.
  • Douglas L. Pardee (Tampa, FL, USA)
  • Simon Parker (Dublin, Ireland)
  • Asif I. Pathan (Bangalore, India)
    Object-oriented design, formal methods.
  • Darin Peshev (CA, USA)
  • Robin Pike (Sunninghill, Berkshire, England)
    Software engineering techniques using OOA, OOD and OOP.
  • Miguel José Pinkas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Martin Poblacion (Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina)
    Networking, electronics, and language.
  • Graham Polley (Manchester, England)
    Formal methods, B-Method, Eiffel, Java, Visual Eiffel, JBuilder, Design by Contract, type hierarchy, genericity.
  • Ronald J. Prenot (Green Bay, WI, USA)
  • Weston M. Price (Nashua, NH, USA)
    I am full time software engineer consultant primarily interested in using Eiffel in component construction and OOA/OOD academic research.
  • Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. (Jakarta, Indonesia)
    Language specification, libraries, distributed computing, OO software development.
  • Christophe Pythoud (Ecublens, Ecublens)
  • Owen A. Reddecliffe (Shoreline, WA, USA) Interests: Language spec, algorithm development, application development, teaching (of OO in general, and the Eiffel language in particular), promotion and adoption in the medical/industrial/financial arena, personal use for natural language analysis, neural nets, statistical apps and mathematical modelling. (Currently use C++ for all the above, and find it is too timewasting, and is not a good vehicle for teaching OO.)
  • Hein Röhrig (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
  • Gerardo Rossel (Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Marcos Ruano (Palencia, Spain)
  • Dr. rer. nat. Michael Ryba (Stuttgart, Germany)
    Library, language, and environments.
  • Karl Sackett (Huntsville, AL, USA)
    Software engineering, libraries, real-time and embedded systems.
  • Dustin Sallings (Santa Clara, CA, USA)
    I like correct code.
  • Mark Sanchez (Las Palmas, Spain)
    Systems programming.
  • Ravi Shankar Sathish (Logan, UT, USA)
    I am currently doing a tool evaluation of ISE 4.5. I am writing a research paper to Strengthening solution Constructor based problem in Mixin.
  • Chris Saunders (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
    Library.
  • William Scarmardo (Bryan, TX, USA)
  • David Schwartz (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
  • Alexei Shestialtynov (Baden, Switzerland)
    Language, libraries, and marketing.
  • Sachin Shirodkar (Mumbai, India)
  • John W. Small (Great Falls, VA, USA)
    Currently program in C and C++ 15 yrs, Smalltalk 7 yrs, and Java.
  • Petr Smil (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Jonathan A. Smith (Evanston, IL, USA)
    Server-side programming in Eiffel for Flash/XML-based web applications in higher education. Natural language processing and simulation.
  • Raphael Simon (Goleta, CA, USA)
  • Manoj Singh (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India)
    Business development, Internet, E-commerce, software development.
  • Rabinder Srikijjaporn (Bangkok, Thailand)
    I just begin to study Eiffel but I have heard good things about this language.
  • Frank Stajano (Cambridge, England)
    Subset of building reliable software, cryptography and computer security, seeing Eiffel become popular, seeing its library converge on a standard
  • Emmanuel Stapf (Goleta, CA, USA)
    Everything.
  • Kenneth Stauffer (TX, USA)
    Parsing, OO techniques.
  • William R. Steinberg (Marietta, GA, USA)
  • Dr. Scott Steinman (Memphis, TN, USA)
    I m new to Eiffel, but I am interested in the language, its library, and the optimization of Eiffel programs.
  • William Stevens (OH, USA)
  • Damian Steward (Lewisham, Tasmania, Australia)
    Teaching beginners, libraries.
  • Slade Stewart (Roswell, GA, USA)
    Design-By-Contract in non-Eiffel languages.
  • Jeffrey L. Straszheim (Coral Springs, FL, USA)
    Currently I am interested in how Eiffel can benefit from the energetic development occurring within the Open Source community. To that end, I am presently working on a networking library, which is yet rather limited in its application and portability.
  • Jeffrey W. Stulin (Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)
  • Satpreet Singh Sudan (Chandigarh, Punjab, India)
    .NET integration, Eiffel COM, Vision
  • Robert Switzer (D-37073 Goettingen, Germany)
    Library and language.
  • Karl-Heinz Sylla (Sankt Augustin, Germany)
    Embedded systems, dynamic modeling, real-time systems, design patterns, language.
  • Chris Thomas (Brighton, E.Sussex, England)
    Language developments.
  • Steve Thompson (Berthoud, CO, USA)
  • Howard Thomson (Ashford, Middlesex, England)
    Database, user-interface (UI builders), and Eiffel IDEs.
  • Xu Yi Ting (Beijing, China)
    Language specification, libraries, O-O technologies, development.
  • Andrew V. Tischenko (Moscow, Russia)
  • Iizuka Tomio (Urawa, Saitama, Japan)
  • Guenter Troll (Lindau, Germany)
  • Javier Velilla (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Jason Voegele (Columbus, OH, USA)
    Language, library, and compilers.
  • Alexey Vyskubov (St.Petersburg, Russia)
  • Arno Wagner (Trier, Germany)
  • Kim Waldén (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Mark B. Wallace (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
    Zero-defect software; promoting Eiffel.
  • Robert Warren (London, England)
    Learning Eiffel.
  • Gordon Webster (Boston, MA, USA)
    Object-oriented development of biologically-inspired, parallel computational algorithms to address complex problems in biomolecular imaging and proteomics.
  • Jim Weirich (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
    I've been using SmallEiffel for a over a year. I teach OO.
  • Kevin Wells (Auckland, New Zealand)
    Library and language.
  • Ed Wilkinson (Canberra, Australia)
    I am a very impressed newbie, for what it's worth, from the Unix/C camp.
  • Simon Willcocks (London, England)
    Language.
  • Peter E. Williams (Denver, CO, USA)
  • Peter Williams (Glebe, Australia)
    Commercial development, Open Source development, formal methods, IDEs.
  • Neil Wilson (Halifax, England)
    Helping out if I still can...
  • Ulrich Windl (Regensburg, Germany)
    Library, tools, GUI applications, language interfaces.
  • Mick Wood (Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England)
    I am, with several colleagues, currently using Eiffel as a first programming language on a number of different courses. About 250 students per year.
  • Mark Woodrow (Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England)
  • Steven M. Wurster (Ardsley, PA, USA)
  • Brian Win Yan (TX, USA)
    Language specification, libraries, IDEs, commercial development.
  • Wei Yi (Tianjin, China)
    Libraries and commercial development.
  • Olivier Zendra (Villers-Lès-Nancy, France)
    SmallEiffel, the GNU Eiffel compiler team member.
  • Christoph Zenger (Adelaide, Australia)
    I am a researcher in Programming Languages.
  • Alan Zimmerman (Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa)
    SmallEiffel.
  • Hans Zwakenberg (Willich, Germany)
    Library development, 3D-Graphics (Nurbs?).
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What's New
Mar 31, 2006
International Eiffel Contest 2005 results available.
Oct 31, 2005
Entries closed for International Eiffel Contest 2005.
May 9, 2005
NICE board will organize International Eiffel Contest 2005.
Feb 6, 2004
International Eiffel Contest 2003 results available.

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NICE Board 2005
  • Chair: Joseph Kiniry
  • Secretary: Franck Arnaud
  • Treasurer: Frieder Monninger
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