# About MG

MG is a public domain indexing and retrieval system for text, images, and textual images. MG is covered by a GNU public licence.

MG is available for ftp here

## Developers

The MG system is an embodiment of ideas developed primarily by:

- Tim C. Bell, University of Canterbury;
- Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne;
- Ian Witten, University of Waikato; and
- Justin Zobel, RMIT.

## Programmers

The bulk of the programming work has been undertaken by:

- Stuart Inglis, University of Waikato;
- Craig Nevill-Manning, University of Waikato;
- Neil Sharman, University of Melbourne; and
- Tim Shimmin, Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute (CITRI).

A full list of contributors appears here.

## Institutional Support

The MG project has been supported by the following organisations:

- The Australian Research Council;
- CITRI, Melbourne;
- The University of Calgary, Canada;
- The University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
- The University of Melbourne, Australia;
- RMIT, Australia; and
- The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

## Backpointer

If you didn't just come from there, the MG home page is accessible here.