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### Acknowledgements

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

Ben Abbott | 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 | Moritz Borgmann
Richard Bovey | 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 | Carsten Clark | J. D. Cole
Martin Costabel | Michael Creel | Jeff Cunningham
Martin Dalecki | Jorge Barros de Abreu | Carlo de Falco
Thomas D. Dean | 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 | Brian Gough | Steffen Groot
Etienne Grossmann | Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel
William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen | Soren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne
Daniel Heiserer | Martin Helm | Yozo Hida
Ryan Hinton | 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 | Jarkko Kaleva
Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra | Thomas Kasper
Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle
Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth
Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno | Oyvind Kristiansen
Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann | Tetsuro Kurita
Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch
Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert
David Livings | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin
Emil Lucretiu | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol
Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas
Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Laurent Mazet
G. D. McBain | Christoph Mayer | Thorsten Meyer
Petr Mikulik | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau
Kai P. Mueller | Victor Munoz | Carmen Navarrete
Todd Neal | Al Niessner | Rick Niles
Takuji Nishimura | Eric Norum | Krzesimir Nowak
Michael O'Brien | Peter O'Gorman | Thorsten Ohl
Arno Onken | Luis F. Ortiz | Scott Pakin
Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | Per Persson
Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga
Nicholas Piper | Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser
Tom Poage | Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp
Jef Poskanzer | Francesco Potorti | James B. Rawlings
Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey | Michael Reifenberger
Jason Riedy | Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts
Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | Kevin Ruland
Ryan Rusaw | Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela
Juhani Saastamoinen | Radek Salac | Ben Sapp
Alois Schloegl | Michel D. Schmid | Julian Schnidder
Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | Ludwig Schwardt
Thomas L. Scofield | 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 | Jonathan Stickel
Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen
Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang
Kris Thielemans | Olaf Till | Thomas Treichl
Frederick Umminger | Utkarsh Upadhyay | Stefan van der Walt
Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem
Ivana Varekova | Thomas Walter | Olaf Weber
Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring | 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 United States Department of Energy, through grant number DE-FG02-04ER25635.
- Ashok Krishnamurthy, David Hudak, Juan Carlos Chaves, and Stanley C. Ahalt of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
- The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, CTS-8957123, and CNS-0540147.
- 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 to produce Octave.