Mailing lists

The following mailing lists are available for those interested in the use and further development of Gambit:

gambit-announce@lists.sourceforge.net: Announcement-only mailing list for notifications of new releases of Gambit.
gambit-users@lists.sourceforge.net: General discussion forum for teaching and research users of Gambit.
gambit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Discussion for those interested in devleoping or extending Gambit, or using Gambit source code in other applications.

Contacting the developers

Here is how you can contact us for more information, to report bugs, to suggest features, or to report problems with this site:

By email

You can email us at gambit (at) econmail (dot) tamu (dot) edu. If you are reporting a bug, please include the following information:

Version number of Gambit
Details of your system (operating system)
Affected programs
Steps to reproduce the problem (if possible).

Providing as much information as possible will help us identify and eliminate the problem quickly.

By regular mail

If you should need to contact us by physical mail, please address correspondence to:

The Gambit Project
c/o Theodore Turocy
Department of Economics
4228 TAMU
College Station TX 77843

Developers

The principal developers of Gambit are:

Theodore Turocy, Texas A&M University: Current primary maintainer and developer.
Richard D. McKelvey, California Institute of Technology: project founder.
Andrew McLennan, University of Minnesota: co-PI during main development, developer and maintainer of polynomial-based algorithms for equilibrium computation.

Much of the development of the main Gambit codebase took place in 1994-1996, under a grant from the National Science Foundation to the California Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota (McKelvey and McLennan, principal investigators), which we gratefully acknowledge.

Additional contributors

Others contributing to the development and distribution of Gambit:

Bernhard von Stengel: Provided advice on implementation of sequence form code, and contributed clique code
Paul Johnson maintains the RPM packages.

Past participants

The development of Gambit has been aided in the past by:

Eugene Grayver: development of the first version of the graphical user interface frontend and of the PXI plotting program.
Gary Wu: implementation work on the command language

Many other students at Caltech and the University of Minnesota have helped over the years with the project; their contributions are acknowledged in the documentation.