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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 | 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
Christos Dimitrakakis | David M. Doolin | Pascal A. Dupuis
John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | 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 | 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 | Teemu Ikonen | Alan W. Irwin
Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming
Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Atsushi Kajita
Jarkko Kaleva | Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra
Fotios Kasolis | Thomas Kasper | Joel Keay
Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | Aaron A. King
Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth | Heine Kolltveit
Ken Kouno | Kacper Kowalik | 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 | Alexander Mamonov | 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 | 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
Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage
Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer
Francesco Potorti | Konstantinos Poulios | James B. Rawlings
Eric S. Raymond | Balint Reczey | Michael Reifenberger
Jason Riedy | Petter Risholm | Matthew W. Roberts
Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | Kevin Ruland
Kristian Rumberg | Ryan Rusaw | Olli Saarela
Toni Saarela | Juhani Saastamoinen | Radek Salac
Ben Sapp | Aleksej Saushev | 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 | Judd Storrs
Thomas Stuart | Ivan Sutoris | John Swensen
Daisuke Takago | Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm
Duncan Temple Lang | Kris Thielemans | Olaf Till
Christophe Tournery | 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.