### 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 | Marco Atzeri
Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | Ben Barrowes
Alexander Barth | David Bateman | Heinz Bauschke
Julien Bect | 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 | 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 | 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 | Mats Jansson | Cai Jianming
Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | Matthias JÃ¼schke
Atsushi Kajita | Jarkko Kaleva | 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
Tetsuro Kurita | Philipp Kutin | Miroslaw Kwasniak
Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch | Claude Lacoursiere
Walter Landry | Bill Lash | Dirk Laurie
Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch | Thorsten Liebig
Jyh-miin Lin | Timo Lindfors | Benjamin Lindner
Ross Lippert | David Livings | Sebastien Loisel
Erik de Castro Lopo | Massimo Lorenzin | Emil Lucretiu
Hoxide Ma | Colin Macdonald | James Macnicol
Jens-Uwe Mager | 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
Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau | Kai P. Mueller
Hannes MÃ¼ller | Victor Munoz | 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
Jason Alan Palmer | Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier
Per Persson | Primozz Peterlin | Jim Peterson
Danilo Piazzalunga | Nicholas Piper | Elias Pipping
Robert Platt | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Sergey Plotnikov
Tom Poage | 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 | Peter Rosin | Andrew Ross
Fabio Rossi | Mark van Rossum | Joe Rothweiler
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 | Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert
Lasse Schuirmann | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.