A history of NIPY

Sometime around 2002, Jonthan Taylor started writing BrainSTAT, a Python

version of Keith Worsley's FmriSTAT package.

write a grant to build a new neuroimaging analysis package in Python. Soon

afterwards, they found that Jonathan had already started, and merged efforts.

At first we called this project *BrainPy*. Later we changed the name to NIPY.

In 2005, Jarrod, Matthew and Jonathan, along with Mark D'Esposito, Fernando

Perez, John Hunter, Jean-Baptiste Poline, and Tom Nichols, submitted the first

NIPY grant to the NIH. It was not successful.

In 2006, Jarrod and Mark submitted a second grant, based on the first. The

NIH gave us 3 years of funding for two programmers. We hired two programmers

in 2007 - Christopher Burns and Tom Waite - and began work on refactoring the

code.

Meanwhile, the team at Neurospin, Paris, started to refactor their FFF code to

work better with Python and NIPY. This work was by Alexis Roche, Bertrand

Thirion, and Benjamin Thyreau, with some help and advice from Fernando Perez.

In 2008, Fernando Perez and Matthew Brett started work full-time at the UC

Berkeley `Brain Imaging Center <http://bic.berkeley.edu/>`_. Matthew in

particular came to work on NIPY.