I have opened the question of the project's status to Graeme directly and asked, (I hope nicely enough), for a response to the post I made in the EON - Official Project Forum.

Did any one else read their September paper?
http://theory.cm.utexas.edu/henkelma...u08_114104.pdf

Some of it was above a layperson like myself, of course, but I could understand enough of it for it to be rewarding to see such positive results come from the effort.