Credits
Simbrain has been developed by a team of contributors over many years. Thank you to everyone who has helped make this project possible!
Primary Contributors
Version 4.0
Yulin Li, Jeff Yoshimi, Zoë Tosi, Tim Shea
Version 3.0
Zoë Tosi, Jeff Yoshimi
Version 2.0
Michael Heuer, Zoë Tosi, James Matthew Watson, Jeff Yoshimi
Version 1.0
Other Coding Help
Kyle Baron, Ryan Bartley, Jensen Guo, Ashish Gupta, Scott Hotton, Eric Johnson, Jason Laurel, Lam Nguyen, Amanda Pandey, William Benjamin St. Claire, Mai Ngoc Thang, Jonathan Vickrey, Sharai Wilson
Pull Request Contributors
Akshaj C, Ariel Lavi, Austin Leonardo, Edmund Chao, Alfred Ornelas, Luis Cayetano, Oliver Coleman, Shane Doyle, Daisy Mayorga, Jasmine Lau, Ken Fukuyama, Shreya Shriram, Kanly Thao, Elijah Olson, Carlos Garcia Gomez, Devanshu Kumar, Jason Ferry, Dhaval Jani, Dmitri Lopez, David Hack
Art & Design
Elizabeth Reagh, David Fleischmann, Soraya Boza, Brian Nucum
Graphics adapted from: Creative Commons, Flaticon, Freepik, Kenney, Noun Project, Pixabay, Reiner's Tilesets, Tango Desktop, Wikimedia Commons
Special Thanks
Melissa Almeida, Ellis Cain, Saraching Chao, Rick Dale, Cheryl Evry, Ben Fried, Stephanie Gamino, Olivia Gawell, Alfredo Garcia, Carlos Garcia, Suzanne Garcia, Makenzy Gilbert, Yasemin Gokcen, Mariel Gonzales, Jim Gregoric, Alex Holcombe, Daniel Holman, Tyler Jones, Chris Kello, Simon Levy, Matthew Lloyd, Arianna Malakis, Armin Mayrhofer, Dave Noelle, Andrew Park, Dulce Pimentel-Hurlburt, Andrew Seal, Connor Pemberton, Megan Pemberton, Sergio Ponce De Leon, Maria Puglisi, Jeff Rodny, Veer Sahai, Eric Schwitzgebel, Michael Spivey, Ricardo Velasco, Robert Young, Brandon Zielinski, and members of the Piccolo users group and the Sun forums.
Many other students at and visitors to UC Merced have provided valuable feedback.
Tools & Libraries
This software uses various tools and libraries (some apply to older versions):
Development Tools
Developed using an open source YourKit license. YourKit supports open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler.
Funding & Grant Support
Supported by grants from the Hewlett Foundation (2005), UC Merced faculty research grants, the National Science Foundation (2016–2019): An Analysis of the Consequences of Cortical Structure on Computation (Award #1513779), and UC Online (2024).