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-The Gambit Project was founded in the mid-1980s by Richard McKelvey at
-the California Institute of Technology. The original implementation
-was written in BASIC, with a simple graphical interface. This code was
-ported to C around 1990 with the help of Bruce Bell, and was
-distributed publicly as version 0.13 in 1991 and 1992.
 
-
-The principal developers of Gambit have been:
-
-* [Theodore Turocy](http://www.gambit-project.org/turocy),
-  University of East Anglia: director.
-
-* Richard D. McKelvey, California Institute of Technology:
-  project founder.
-
-* Andrew McLennan, University of Queensland: co-PI during main
-  development, developer and maintainer of polynomial-based algorithms
-  for equilibrium computation.
+Gambit traces its origins to programs written to analyze games
+in the mid-1980s by **Richard McKelvey** at the California Institute of Technology.
+Originally written in BASIC, with a simple graphical interface, it was ported to
+C and the Borland Graphics Interface around 1990 with the help of **Bruce Bell**, and was
+distributed publicly for the first time as version 0.13 in 1991 and 1992.
+The earliest mention of Gambit in a journal article is in
+Wilson, Robert (1992), Computing simply stable equilibria, *Econometrica* 60(5): 1039-1070.
 
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+Gambit was developed into a full-fledged package between 1994 and 1996, supported by a
+**US National Science Foundation** grant to McKelvey and **Andrew McLennan** (then at
+University of Minnesota), with **Theodore Turocy** joining the project in 1993 as
+principal developer.  Gambit was re-written in C++, and became fully cross-platform,
+with a graphical interface based on [wxWidgets](http://www.wxwidgets.org) (called wxWindows at the time), and
+a custom scripting language (since superseded by the PyGambit Python package).
 
-Much of the development of the main Gambit codebase took place in
-1994-1996, under a grant from the National Science Foundation to the
-California Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota
-(McKelvey and McLennan, principal investigators).
-
-Others contributing to the development and distribution of Gambit
-include:
-
-* Bernhard von Stengel provided advice on implementation of
-  sequence form code, and contributed clique code
-
-* Eugene Grayver developed the first version of the
-  graphical user interface.
-
-* Gary Wu implemented an early scripting language interface for
-  Gambit (since superseded by the Python API).
-
-* Stephen Kunath and Alessandro Andrioni did extensive work to create
-  the first release of the Python API.
-
-* From Gambit 14, Gambit contains support for Action Graph Games
-  [Jiang11]_.  This has been contributed by Navin Bhat, Albert Jiang,
-  Kevin Leyton-Brown, and David Thompson, with funding support
-  provided by a University Graduate Fellowship of the University
-  of British Columbia, the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a
-  Google Research Award to Leyton-Brown.
+Version 0.94 of Gambit was released in
+the late summer of 1994, version 0.96 followed in 1999, and version
+0.97 in 2002.  Many students at Caltech and Minnesota
+made contributions programming, testing, and/or documenting Gambit.
+These include, alphabetically, **Anand Chelian**, **Matthew
+Derer**, **Nelson Escobar**, **Ben Freeman**, **Eugene Grayver** (graphical interface),
+**Todd Kaplan**, **Geoff Matters**,
+**Brian Trotter**, **Michael Vanier**, **Roberto Weber**, and **Gary Wu** (command language).
+
+**Bernhard von Stengel** (London School of Economics) has made
+significant contributions in the implementation of the
+sequence form methods for two-player extensive games, and for
+contributing his "clique" code for identification of equilibrium
+components in two-player strategic games.
 
+Gambit has participated in **Google Summer of Code** in 2011 and 2012.
+Early versions of what is now PyGambit were developed with GSoC support
+through the projects of **Alessandro Andrioni** and **Stephen Kunath**.
 
+Gambit's support for Action Graph Games was contributed by
+**Navin Bhat**, **Albert Jiang**, **Kevin Leyton-Brown**, and **David Thompson**, with funding support
+provided by a University Graduate Fellowship of the University of British Columbia,
+the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a Google Research Award to Leyton-Brown.
 
-A major step in the evolution of Gambit took place with the awarding
-of the NSF grants in 1994, with McKelvey and Andrew McLennan as
-principal investigators, and [Theodore Turocy](http://www.gambit-project.org/turocy) as the head programmer.
-The grants sponsored a complete rewrite of Gambit in C++. The
-graphical interface was made portable across platforms through the use
-of the [wxWidgets library](http://www.wxwidgets.org). Version 0.94 of Gambit was released in
-the late summer of 1994, version 0.96 followed in 1999, and version
-0.97 in 2002. During this time, many students at Caltech and Minnesota
-contributed to the effort by programming, testing, and/or documenting.
-These include, alphabetically, Bruce Bell, Anand Chelian, Matthew
-Derer, Nelson Escobar, Ben Freeman, Eugene Grayver, Todd Kaplan, Geoff
-Matters, Brian Trotter, Michael Vanier, Roberto Weber, and Gary Wu.
+The project has been led by Turocy since 2002, with **Rahul Savani** officially joining as co-lead in 2023.
 
-Over the same period, Bernhard von Stengel, of the London School of
-Economics, made significant contributions in the implementation of the
-sequence form methods for two-player extensive games, and for
-contributing his "clique" code for identification of equilibrium
-components in two-player strategic games, as well as other advice
-regarding Gambit's implementation and architecture.
+Gambit has received core support since 2023 from the **Alan Turing Institute** as part of the
+**"Automated analysis of strategic interactions"** project.
 
-Development since the mid-2000s has focused on two objectives. First,
-the graphical interface was reimplemented and modernized, with the
-goal of following good interaction design principles, especially in
-regards to easing the learning curve for users new to Gambit and new
-to game theory.  Second, the internal architecture of Gambit was
-refactored to increase interoperability between the tools provided by
-Gambit and those written independently.
 
-Gambit is proud to have participated in the Google Summer of Code
-program in the summers of 2011 and 2012 as a mentoring organization.
-The Python API, which became part of Gambit from Gambit 13, was
-developed during these summers, thanks in particular to the work
-of Stephen Kunath and Alessandro Andrioni.