### 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 | Drew Abbot | Andy Adler
Adam H. Aitkenhead | Giles Anderson | Joel Andersson
Lachlan Andrew | Pedro Angelo | Muthiah Annamalai
Markus Appel | Branden Archer | Willem Atsma
Marco Atzeri | Shai Ayal | Roger Banks
Ben Barrowes | Alexander Barth | David Bateman
Heinz Bauschke | Julien Bect | Stefan Beller
Roman Belov | Markus Bergholz | Karl Berry
David Billinghurst | Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz
Moritz Borgmann | Paul Boven | Richard Bovey
John Bradshaw | Marcus Brinkmann | Max Brister
Remy Bruno | Clemens Buchacher | 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
Catalin Codreanu | J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel
Michael Creel | Richard Crozier | Jeff Cunningham
Martin Dalecki | Jacob Dawid | Jorge Barros de Abreu
Carlo de Falco | Thomas D. Dean | Philippe Defert
Bill Denney | Fabian Deutsch | Christos Dimitrakakis
Pantxo Diribarne | Vivek Dogra | John Donoghue
David M. Doolin | CarnÃ« Draug | Pascal A. Dupuis
John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Pieter Eendebak
Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg
Edmund Grimley Evans | Rolf Fabian | Gunnar FarnebÃ¤ck
Massimiliano Fasi | Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez
Torsten Finke | Colin Foster | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias
Brad Froehle | Castor Fu | Eduardo Gallestey
Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt | Driss Ghaddab
Eugenio Gianniti | Nicolo Giorgetti | Arun Giridhar
Michael D. Godfrey | Michael Goffioul | Glenn Golden
Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman | Brian Gough
Michael C. Grant | Steffen Groot | Etienne Grossmann
David Grundberg | Kyle Guinn | Vaibhav Gupta
Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel | Patrick HÃ¤cker
William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Jaroslav Hajek | Benjamin Hall
Kim Hansen | SÃ¸ren Hauberg | Dave Hawthorne
Daniel Heiserer | Martin Helm | Stefan Hepp
Martin Hepperle | Jordi GutiÃ©rrez 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
Allan Jacobs | Geoff Jacobsen | Vytautas JanÄauskas
Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming | Steven G. Johnson
Heikki Junes | Matthias JÃ¼schke | Atsushi Kajita
Jarkko Kaleva | Avinoam Kalma | Mohamed Kamoun
Lute Kamstra | Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper
Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle
Aaron A. King | Erik Kjellson | Arno J. Klaassen
Alexander Klein | Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit
Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik | Daniel Kraft
Nir Krakauer | Aravindh Krishnamoorthy | Oyvind Kristiansen
Artem Krosheninnikov | Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann
Ilya Kurdyukov | Tetsuro Kurita | Philipp Kutin
Miroslaw Kwasniak | Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch
Claude Lacoursiere | Walter Landry | Bill Lash
Dirk Laurie | Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch
Johannes Leuschner | Thorsten Liebig | Jyh-miin Lin
Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner | Ross Lippert
David Livings | Sebastien Loisel | Erik de Castro Lopo
Massimo Lorenzin | Emil Lucretiu | Yi-Hong Lyu
Hoxide Ma | Colin Macdonald | James Macnicol
Jens-Uwe Mager | Stefan Mahr | Rob Mahurin
Alexander Mamonov | Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas
Axel MathÃ©i | Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka
Christoph Mayer | Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain
Ronald van der Meer | JÃºlio Hoffimann Mendes | Ed Meyer
Thorsten Meyer | Stefan Miereis | Petr Mikulik
Mike Miller | Serviscope Minor | Stefan Monnier
Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller | Armin MÃ¼ller
Hannes MÃ¼ller | Victor Munoz | PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
Iain Murray | Carmen Navarrete | Todd Neal
Philip Nienhuis | Al Niessner | Felipe G. Nievinski
Rick Niles | Takuji Nishimura | Kai Noda
Patrick Noffke | Eric Norum | Krzesimir Nowak
Michael O’Brien | Peter O’Gorman | Thorsten Ohl
Kai T. Ohlhus | Arno Onken | Valentin Ortega-Clavero
Luis F. Ortiz | Carl Osterwisch | Janne Olavi PaanajÃ¤rvi
Scott Pakin | JosÃ© Luis GarcÃa Pallero | Jason Alan Palmer
Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | Rolando Pereira
Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson
Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper | Elias Pipping
Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Sergey Plotnikov
Tom Poage | Nathan Podlich | Orion Poplawski
Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | Francesco PotortÃ¬
Konstantinos Poulios | Jarno Rajahalme | Eduardo Ramos
Pooja Rao | James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond
Balint Reczey | Joshua Redstone | Lukas Reichlin
Michael Reifenberger | Jens Restemeier | Anthony Richardson
Jason Riedy | E. Joshua Rigler | Sander van Rijn
Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts | Dmitry Roshchin
Peter Rosin | Andrew Ross | Fabio Rossi
Mark van Rossum | Joe Rothweiler | David RÃ¶rich
Kevin Ruland | Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw
Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen
Radek Salac | Mike Sander | Ben Sapp
Aleksej Saushev | Alois SchlÃ¶gl | Michel D. Schmid
Julian Schnidder | Sebastian Schoeps | Nicol N. Schraudolph
Sebastian Schubert | Lasse Schuirmann | Ludwig Schwardt
Thomas L. Scofield | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov
Vanya Sergeev | Marko Seric | Ahsan Ali Shahid
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 | David Spies
Richard Stallman | Russell Standish | Brett Stewart
Doug Stewart | Jonathan Stickel | Judd Storrs
Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen
Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | Falk TannhÃ¤user
Duncan Temple Lang | Matthew Tenny | Kris Thielemans
Georg Thimm | Corey Thomasson | Olaf Till
Christophe Tournery | Thomas Treichl | Karsten Trulsen
David Turner | Frederick Umminger | Utkarsh Upadhyay
Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | James R. Van Zandt
Risto Vanhanen | Gregory Vanuxem | Mihas Varantsou
Ivana Varekova | SÃ©bastien Villemot | Marco Vitetta
Daniel Wagenaar | Thomas Walter | Andreas Weber
Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | Rik Wehbring
Bob Weigel | Andreas Weingessel | Martin Weiser
Michael Weitzel | David Wells | Joachim Wiesemann
Fook Fah Yap | Sean Young | Johannes Zarl
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.