Bob Sault (while at UIUC 1987-1990) is the main architect of MIRIAD, 
largely based on his earlier design of the WERONG system (his thesis 
work at ATNF).

Many programmers contributed to MIRIAD, usually the source code refers
to 2 or 3 letter acronyms of their contributions. You can find a lookup
table of who they are in the file $MIR/cat/miriad.pgmrs.

