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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).

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 | 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.