The Cilk project is led by Prof. Charles E. Leiserson of the MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science and has been funded in part by DARPA
Grant F30602-97-1-0270.

The current maintainer of Cilk is Matteo Frigo <athena@fftw.org>, who
is responsible for the Cilk-5.3 release.

Cilk-5.3 is the product of the effort of many people over many years.
The following people contributed code, example programs, and/or
documentation to the Cilk-5.3 system:

Guang-Ien Cheng
Don Dailey
Mingdong Feng
Matteo Frigo
Charles E. Leiserson
Phil Lisiecki
Alberto Medina
Harald Prokop
Keith H. Randall
Bin Song
Andy Stark
Volker Strumpen

The cilk2c translator is derived from the c2c program written by

Eric A. Brewer
Robert Miller
Michael D. Noakes

In turn, c2c uses the ANSI C grammar and lexer written by

James A. Roskind

These people have worked on previous versions of Cilk:

Robert D. Blumofe
Michael Halbherr
Christopher F. Joerg
Bradley C. Kuszmaul
Howard Lu
Robert Miller
Aske Plaat
Richard Tauriello
Daricha Techopitayakul
Yuli Zhou