bulk_extractor is a group effort from many authors and contributors, including:

Simson L. Garfinkel <slgarfin@nps.edu>  (overall design)
Bruce Allen <bdallen@nps.edu>           (BEViewer, exif analyzer, windows prefetch rewrite, hashdb scanner)
Alex Eubanks <endeavor@rainbowsandpwnies.com>  (pe and ELF scanners)
Luis E. Garcia II <legarcia@nps.edu>    (Initial windows prefetch implementation)
Michael Shick <mfshick@nps.edu>         (odds and ends)

LIFT was developed by CMU under contract to the Department of Defense. The team members were:
  Siddharth Gopal <sgopall@cs.cmu.edu>
  Yiming Yang <yiming@cs.cmu.edu>
  Konstantin Salomatin <ksalomat@cs.cmu.edu>
  Jaime Carbonell <jgc@cs.cmu.edu>
