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### Acknowledgements

Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out in various other ways (listed alphabetically).

Andy Adler | Joel Andersson | Muthiah Annamalai
Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke
Karl Berry | David Billinghurst | Don Bindner
Jakub Bogusz | Marcus Brinkmann | Remy Bruno
Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell
Jean-Francois Cardoso | Joao Cardoso | Larrie Carr
David Castelow | Vincent Cautaerts | Clinton Chee
Albert Chin-A-Young | J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel
Michael Creel | Jeff Cunningham | Martin Dalecki
Jorge Barros de Abreu | Philippe Defert | Bill Denney
David M. Doolin | Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton
Dirk Eddelbuettel | Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen
Peter Ekberg | Rolf Fabian | Stephen Fegan
Ramon Garcia Fernandez | Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
Castor Fu | Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi
Klaus Gebhardt | Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti
Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles
Keith Goodman | Etienne Grossmann | Peter Gustafson
Kai Habel | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen | Soren Hauberg | Daniel Heiserer
Yozo Hida | Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel
Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | David Hoover
Kurt Hornik | Christopher Hulbert | Cyril Humbert
Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin | Geoff Jacobsen
Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming | Steven G. Johnson
Heikki Junes | Atsushi Kajita | Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra | Joel Keay | Mumit Khan
Paul Kienzle | Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen
Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno
Oyvind Kristiansen | Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann
Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch
Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | David Livings
Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | Hoxide Ma
James Macnicol | Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita
Orestes Mas | Makoto Matsumoto | Laurent Mazet
G. D. McBain | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau
Kai P. Mueller | Victor Munoz | Carmen Navarrete
Todd Neal | Al Niessner | Rick Niles
Takuji Nishimura | Eric Norum | Michael O'Brien
Thorsten Ohl | Arno Onken | Luis F. Ortiz
Scott Pakin | Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier
Per Persson | Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga
Nicholas Piper | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage
Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer
Francesco Potorti | James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond
Balint Reczey | Michael Reifenberger | Petter Risholm
Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum
Kevin Ruland | Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela
Juhani Saastamoinen | Ben Sapp | Alois Schloegl
Michel D. Schmid | Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert
Ludwig Schwardt | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Baylis Shanks | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith
Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Joerg Specht
Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel | Richard Stallman
Russell Standish | Doug Stewart | Thomas Stuart
Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang
Olaf Till | Thomas Treichl | Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt
Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova | Thomas Walter
Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | Bob Weigel
Andreas Weingessel | Michael Weitzel | Fook Fah Yap
Michael Zeising | Federico Zenith | Alex Zvoleff

Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:

- The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, and CTS-8957123.
- The industrial members of the Texas-Wisconsin Modeling and Control Consortium (TWMCC).
- The Paul A. Elfers Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their External Research Program.
- Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant.
- International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering.
- Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the development of this software.
- The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an Academic Development Funds grant.
- The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078.
- Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas.
- John A. Turner, Group Leader, Continuum Dynamics (CCS-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, for registering the octave.org domain name.
- James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
- Richard Stallman, for writing GNU.

This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and used to produce Octave.