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### Acknowledgements

Many people have 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 | Giles Anderson
Joel Andersson | Muthiah Annamalai | Marco Atzeri
Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke
Roman Belov | Karl Berry | David Billinghurst
Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz | Moritz Borgmann
Paul Boven | Richard Bovey | John Bradshaw
Marcus Brinkmann | Max Brister | Remy Bruno
Ansgar Burchard | Marco Caliari | Daniel Calvelo
John C. Campbell | Juan Pablo Carbajal | 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 | Jacob Dawid
Thomas D. Dean | Philippe Defert | Bill Denney
Fabian Deutsch | Christos Dimitrakakis | Vivek Dogra
David M. Doolin | Carnë Draug | Pascal A. Dupuis
John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Pieter Eendebak
Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg
Rolf Fabian | Gunnar Farnebäck | Stephen Fegan
Ramon Garcia Fernandez | Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
Brad Froehle | Castor Fu | Eduardo Gallestey
Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt | Driss Ghaddab
Nicolo Giorgetti | Michael D. Godfrey | Michael Goffioul
Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman
Brian Gough | Steffen Groot | Etienne Grossmann
David Grundberg | Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel
Patrick Häcker | William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Jaroslav Hajek
Benjamin Hall | Kim Hansen | Søren Hauberg
Dave Hawthorne | Daniel Heiserer | Martin Helm
Stefan Hepp | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso | Yozo Hida
Ryan Hinton | Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel
Richard Allan Holcombe | Tom Holroyd | David Hoover
Kurt Hornik | Christopher Hulbert | Cyril Humbert
John Hunt | Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin
Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming
Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Matthias Jüschke
Atsushi Kajita | Jarkko Kaleva | Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra | Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper
Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle
Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen | Alexander Klein
Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno
Kacper Kowalik | Daniel Kraft | Aravindh Krishnamoorthy
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 | Jyh-miin Lin | Timo Lindfors
Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert | David Livings
Sebastien Loisel | Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin
Emil Lucretiu | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol
Jens-Uwe Mager | Colin Macdonald | Rob Mahurin
Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | Axel Mathéi
Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka | Laurent Mazet
G. D. McBain | Alexander Mamonov | Christoph Mayer
Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Thorsten Meyer | Petr Mikulik
Mike Miller | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau
Kai P. Mueller | Hannes Müller | Victor Munoz
Iain Murray | Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal
Philip Nienhuis | Al Niessner | Rick Niles
Takuji Nishimura | Kai Noda | 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 | Elias Pipping
Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage
Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer
Francesco Potortì | Konstantinos Poulios | Jarno Rajahalme
James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey
Joshua Redstone | Lukas Reichlin | Michael Reifenberger
Anthony Richardson | Jason Riedy | E. Joshua Rigler
Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross
Fabio Rossi | Mark van Rossum | Joe Rothweiler
Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw
Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen
Radek Salac | Ben Sapp | Aleksej Saushev
Alois Schlögl | Michel D. Schmid | Julian Schnidder
Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | Ludwig Schwardt
Thomas L. Scofield | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Vanya Sergeev | Baylis Shanks | Andriy Shinkarchuck
Robert T. Short | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith
Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Peter L. Sondergaard
Joerg Specht | Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel
Richard Stallman | Russell Standish | Brett Stewart
Doug Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | Judd Storrs
Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen
Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | Matthew Tenny
Georg Thimm | Duncan Temple Lang | Kris Thielemans
Olaf Till | Christophe Tournery | Thomas Treichl
Karsten Trulsen | Frederick Umminger | Utkarsh Upadhyay
Daniel Wagenaar | Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren
James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova
Thomas Walter | Andreas Weber | Olaf Weber
Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring | Bob Weigel
Andreas Weingessel | Martin Weiser | Michael Weitzel
David Wells | Fook Fah Yap | Sean Young
Michael Zeising | Federico Zenith | Alex Zvoleff
Valentin Ortega-Clavero | Jacob Dawid | Júlio Hoffimann

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.