Thank you. I'm starting to see a trend in the advice here... I think that's a good thing.

My programming experience consists of being able to squint at C++ and at Ruby. (I've done some rudimentary stuff in both, as well as some C derivatives like Matlab.) I am not the go-to person for creating the interface to the web app or whatever, but I'm very good at providing input specs for the person who is, and apparently have a knack for asking the right questions.

Boo on Corvi's lab losing funding. Can you think of any other sexy researchers I should contact? I'm spitting distance from UW, in particular, but would happily work with people remotely as well.