Acknowledgments
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KnitScript is the result of collaborative research, development, and community support. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of individuals, institutions, and organizations that have made this project possible.

🏛️ Institutional Support
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Northeastern University
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**ACT Lab (Accessible Creative Technologies Laboratory)**
   The primary research group developing KnitScript and the broader knitting software ecosystem.

   - **Principal Investigator**: Dr. Megan Hofmann
   - **Research Focus**: Accessible design tools, creative technologies, human-computer interaction
   - **Lab Website**: `ACT Lab <https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/research/act-lab/>`_

**Khoury College of Computer Sciences**
   Providing institutional support, resources, and research infrastructure.

💰 Funding Acknowledgments
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
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This work has been supported by the following NSF grants:

**NSF Grant 2341880**: *HCC:SMALL:Tools for Programming and Designing Interactive Machine-Knitted Smart Textiles*
   - **Program**: Human-Centered Computing (HCC)
   - **Focus**: Development of accessible programming tools for smart textile design
   - **Duration**: 2023-2026
   - **Impact**: Primary funding for KnitScript language development and user interface design

**NSF Grant 2327137**: *Collaborative Research: HCC: Small: End-User Guided Search and Optimization for Accessible Product Customization and Design*
   - **Program**: Human-Centered Computing (HCC)
   - **Focus**: User-centered design tools and optimization frameworks
   - **Collaboration**: Multi-institution research partnership
   - **Duration**: 2023-2026
   - **Impact**: Support for accessibility features and user-centered design research

🔬 Technical Acknowledgments
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Open Source Dependencies
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KnitScript builds upon excellent open source software:

**parglare**
   - **Author**: Igor Dejanović
   - **Purpose**: LR/GLR parser generator used for KnitScript grammar
   - **License**: MIT License
   - **Repository**: `textX/parglare <https://github.com/textX/parglare>`_

**Python Ecosystem**
   - **Python Software Foundation**: For the Python programming language
   - **PyPI**: For package distribution infrastructure
   - **Sphinx**: For documentation generation framework
   - **pytest**: For testing framework and infrastructure

📝 Citation
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If you use KnitScript in academic research, please cite:

.. code-block:: bibtex

   @software{knitscript2025,
     title={KnitScript: A High-Level Programming Language for V-Bed Knitting Machines},
     author={[Hofmann, Megan]},
     year={2025},
     url={https://github.com/mhofmann-Khoury/knit_script},
     institution={Northeastern University ACT Lab}
   }