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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Rob Mahurin | Ricardo Marranita
Orestes Mas | Makoto Matsumoto | Tatsuro Matsuoka
Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | Alexander Mamonov
Christoph Mayer | Júlio Hoffimann Mendes | Thorsten Meyer
Petr Mikulik | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau
Kai P. Mueller | Hannes Müller | Victor Munoz
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 | 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 | 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

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.